Branch 100 Books

We're building our book collection so that we can open the lending portion of the library by Sept 27. Our members specifically recommended the 100 books and authors below because they thought other people in the neighborhood would like them. (The first 4 titles/authors got multiple votes.) If you would like to donate any of these titles, please contact us at librarybranch@gmail.com. Thanks!

1. Thomas the Train (2)
2. Harry Potter books (2)
3. The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho (2)
4. Judy Blume books (2)
5. International policy books
6. Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
7. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
8. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
10. Go Dog Go!
11. Books about: robots, treehouses, Cob building, minerals
12. Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
13. Time and Again, Jack Finney
14. Curious George books
15. Los Tres Cerditos
16. 1984, George Orwell
17.  Girl with a Pearl Earring
18. Dreams of My Father, Barack Obama
19. Horton Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss
20. kids books about science—planets, seeds, castles, cooking
21. Jitterbug Perfume, ss
22. Introduction to Human Services (textbook)
23. Bloody Jack, L.A Meyers
24. The Seer & the Sword, Victoria Hanley
25. Eoin Colfer books
26. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
27. The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
28. Graphic novels: Drawn & Quarterly; Watchmen; Spiderman
29. Roald Dahl books
30. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
31. The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren
32. Phineas & Ferb
33. Spongebob books
34. Walter Mosley books
35. Foxfire, Joyce Carol Oates
36. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Fannie Flagg
37. The Chosen, Chaim Potok
38. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
39. Michael Moore books
40. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Jeff Chang
41. Jacqueline Woodson books
42. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
43. Whistle for Willy, Ezra Jack Keats
44. Jack London books
45. Jack Kerouac books
46. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
47. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams, xx
48. The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah
49. Romance novels
50. Victoria Holt books
51. Baby Beluga
52. Artemis Fowl series
53. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
54. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
55. Chuck Klosterman books
56. James Baldwin books
57. Wole Soyinka books
58. Ann Rand books
59. Ralph Ellison books
60. Monica Ali books
61. design magazines
62. Kam Khao children’s book
63. Douglas Adams books
64. Tom Clancy books
65. Haruki Murakami books
66. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
67. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
68. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
69. A Short History of Women
70. Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
71. Forged by Fire, Sharon Draper
72. Tears by a Tiger
73. Judy Blume books
74. David Sedaris books
75. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
76. Sandra Boynton books
77. magazines (New Yorker, Brain, Child)
78. I’m Down
79. Simple Justice
80. The Prophet, Paulo Coelho
81. Board Books
82. Edwidge Danticat books
83. The Known World, Edward P. Jones [DONATED--thank you!]
84. Bridget Jones’s Diary
85. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
86. The Little Mermaid
87. Little Red Riding Hood
88. Native Son, Richard Wright
89. The Magic Tree House
90. The Diary of Anne Frank
91. Redemption, Emma Farry
92. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
93. Nostalgia, Mircea Cartarescu
94. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
95. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff
96. International Publics
97. Arjun Appadurai books
98. Howard Zinn books
99.  Goosebumps
100. Damien, Herman Hesse