I noticed the same thing, that people are who and what they are and very few of them are Objectivist ideologues. It is all in whom you ask. The mayor recommended Billy Budd and Catcher in the Rye. Maus got two mentions. Was that what you meant by a "victim study" or were you thinking of Toni Morrison?
Heather Murren, co-founder and chairman of the board, Nevada Cancer Institute: "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott; "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand; "The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade" by William J. Bennett.
Allyson O'Brien, reference librarian, Gibson branch, Henderson Libraries: "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck; "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.
Pride and Prejudice (2); Great Gatsby (2); Catch-22 (2);
Catcher in the Rye (3).
9/11 Commission Report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
American West as Living Space (essays) by Wallace Stegner
Annabel Lee, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1: Pox Party by M.T. Anderson.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses,Crossing andCities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Citadel by A.J. Cronin
Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume series by Shelby Foote
Color Purple by Alice Walker
Death of a Salesman (play) by Arthur Miller
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Educated Child: A Parent's Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade by William J. Bennett.
Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
God's Silence by Franz Wright.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins.
Grapes of Wrath andOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (essays) by George Steiner
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Katherine by Anya Seton.
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and A Death in the Family by James Agee
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a short story collection by Sherman Alexie
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Macbeth (play) by William Shakespeare
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, a two-volume graphic novel series by Art Spiegelman.
Mitch Rapp series of espionage novels by Vince Flynn:Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by William Bratton with Peter Knobler
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss.
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder.
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Pearl by John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Selected Poems by James Tate
Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Slouching Towards Bethlehem essays by Joan Didion
Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality by Belden C. Lane
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Twilight Saga series (Twilight,New Moon andEclipse) by Stephenie Meyer.
Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Waiting for the Barbarians andDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 5/20, 8:46pm)
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