Library Patrons Pick Their Favorite English Language Novels

Alcott, Louisa May:  Little Women  
Amis, Kingsley:  Lucky Jim
Archer, Jeffrey:  As the Crow Flies
Atwood, Margaret:  Cat’s eye
Atwood, Margaret:  The Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane:  Pride and Prejudice
Banks, Lynn Reid:  The Indian in the Cupboard
Bronte, Charlotte:  Jane Eyre*
Bronte, Emily:  Wuthering Heights*
Cather, Willa:  My Antonia
Conrad, Joseph:  Heart of Darkness
Dahl, Roald:  The BFG
Dreiser, Theodore:  An American Tragedy
DuMaurier, Daphne:  Rebecca*
Evans, Nicholas:  The Horse Whisperer
Faulk, Anne D:  Holding Out
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:  The Great Gatsby
Heller, Joseph:  Catch-22*
Hesse, Hermann:  Siddhartha
Hemingway, Ernest:  The Old Man and the Sea
Irving, John:  A Prayer for Owen Meany 
Irving, John:  The World According to Garp
Isaacs, Susan:  Almost Paradise
Jacques, Brian:  Mattimeo
Joyce, James:  Ulysses
King, Stephen:  The Stand*
Kingsolver, Barbara:  The Bean Trees
Lee, Harper:  To Kill a Mockingbird*  
L’Engle, Madeleine:  A Wrinkle in Time*
Lewis, C.S.:   The Last Battle
Lopez, Barry:  Crow and Weasel
Mitchell, Margaret:  Gone With the Wind*
Moberg, Vilhelm:  The Emigrants
Nabokov, Vladimir:  Lolita
Pilcher, Rosamunde:  The Shell Seekers
Rice, Anne:  The Witching Hour
Sheldon, Sidney:  Master of the Game
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft:  Frankenstein
Shields, Carol:  The Stone Diaries
Smith, Robert Kimmel:  Jane’s House
Styron, William:  Sophie’s Choice
Tartt, Donna:  Secret History
Tolkien, J.R.R.:  The Hobbit  
Tyler, Anne:  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Wallace, David Foster:  Infinite Jest
White, E.B.:  Stuart Little

* = received more than one vote