{"id":337,"date":"2011-09-26T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/imperial\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:32:28","slug":"the-before-you-die-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/imperial\/book-lists\/the-before-you-die-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cBefore You Die\u201d List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The “Before You Die” List<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/span><\/td>\nTwain<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/span><\/td>\nCarroll<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna Karenina<\/span><\/td>\nTolstoy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anne of Green Gables<\/span><\/td>\nMontgomery<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Bible<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black Beauty<\/span><\/td>\nSewell<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black Stallion<\/span><\/td>\nFarley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blue Highways<\/span><\/td>\nWm. Least Heat Moon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Brothers Karamazov<\/span><\/td>\nDostoyevsky\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catcher In the Rye<\/span><\/td>\nSalinger<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Call of the Wild<\/span><\/td>\nLondon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Collected Works of William Shakespeare<\/span><\/td>\nShakespeare<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/td>\nPoe<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Confederacy of Dunces<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charlotte’s Web<\/span><\/td>\nWhite<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crime and Punishment<\/span><\/td>\nDostoyevsky<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cry the Beloved Country<\/span><\/td>\nPaton<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Death of a Salesman<\/span><\/td>\nMiller<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diary of a Young Giri<\/span><\/td>\nFrank<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Don Quixote<\/span><\/td>\nCervantes<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emma<\/span><\/td>\nAusten<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Feminine Mystique<\/span><\/td>\nFrieden<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gift From the Sea<\/span><\/td>\nLindbergh<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gone With the Wind<\/span><\/td>\nMitchell<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grapes of Wrath<\/span><\/td>\nSteinbeck<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Green Eggs and Ham<\/span><\/td>\nSeuss, Dr.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Great Expectations<\/span><\/td>\nDickens<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Great Gatsby<\/span><\/td>\nFitzgerald<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Gulag Archipelago<\/span><\/td>\nSolzhenitsyn<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Hobbit<\/span><\/td>\nToikien<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The House at Pooh Corner<\/span><\/td>\nMilne<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Invisible Man<\/span><\/td>\nEllison<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jane Eyre<\/span><\/td>\nBronte<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeeves<\/span><\/td>\nWodehouse<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Koran<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Little Prince<\/span><\/td>\nAntoine de St. Exupery<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loiita<\/span><\/td>\nNabokov<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lonesome Dove<\/span><\/td>\nMcMurtry<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lord of the Flies<\/span><\/td>\nGolding<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/td>\nTolkien<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madame Bovary<\/span><\/td>\nFlaubert<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moby Dick<\/span><\/td>\nMelville<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle<\/span><\/td>\nMacDonald<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My Antonia<\/span><\/td>\nCather<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mythology<\/span><\/td>\nEdith Hamilton<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Narnia Chronides<\/span><\/td>\nLewis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Of Mice and Men<\/span><\/td>\nSteinbeck<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oh, the Places You’ll Go<\/span><\/td>\nSeuss, Dr.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Old Man and the Sea<\/span><\/td>\nHemingway<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Once and Future King<\/span><\/td>\nWhite<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/span><\/td>\nMarquez<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Pan<\/span><\/td>\nBarrie<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/td>\nAusten<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The –<\/sup><\/span>Rabbit<\/span>–<\/sup><\/span> Quartet<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\nUpdike<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Road Less Travelled<\/span><\/td>\nPeck<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Sand County Almanac<\/span><\/td>\nLeopold<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Scarlet Letter<\/span><\/td>\nHawthorne<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Screwtape Letters<\/span><\/td>\nLewis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secret Garden<\/span><\/td>\nBurnett<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sense and Sensibility<\/span><\/td>\nAusten<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siddhartha<\/span><\/td>\nHesse<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Sun Also Rises<\/span><\/td>\nHemingway<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Sound and the Fury<\/span><\/td>\nFaulkner<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman<\/span><\/td>\nFeynman<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
To Kill a Mockingbird<\/span><\/td>\nLee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Travels with Charlie<\/span><\/td>\nSteinbeck<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ulysses<\/span><\/td>\nJoyce<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walden<\/span><\/td>\nThoreau<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
War and Peace<\/span><\/td>\nTolstoy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Washington Square<\/span><\/td>\nJames<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Wasteland<\/span><\/td>\nEliot<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wind in the Willows<\/span><\/td>\nGrahame<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winnie-the-Pooh<\/span><\/td>\nMilne<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Wrinkle in Time<\/span><\/td>\nL’Engle<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/span><\/td>\nBaum<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wuthering Heights<\/span><\/td>\nBronte<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Yearling<\/span><\/td>\nRawlings<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
* Will Manley, the author of The Truth about Reference Librarians (McFarland, 1996), has compiled this list of books that everyone should read before he\/she dies. Manley invited readers of Booklist magazine, in which his column ‘The Manley Arts” appears, to submit the titles of “the five most rewarding books you have read in your lifetime” (Booklist, vol. 96 No. 9\/10, 1\/1\/2000 and 1\/15\/2000). This list is a compilation of the top winners. Manley notes that the Bible and The Collected Works of William Shakespeare were the two most often mentioned in the submissions; almost 65 % of the letter-writers included at least one children’s title; and 17 % listed J.R.R. Tolkien, right behind God and Shakespeare. If you haven’t read each title on the list, it’s time to get busy!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Before You Die” List \u00a0 \u00a0 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll Anna Karenina Tolstoy Anne of Green Gables Montgomery The Bible \u00a0 Black Beauty Sewell Black Stallion Farley Blue Highways Wm. Least Heat Moon The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky\u00a0 Catcher In the Rye Salinger The \u2026<\/p>\n

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