19. The Hobbit 40. The Little Prince “BEST BOOKS J.R.R. Tolkien Antoine de Saint-Exupery OF THE CENTURY” 20. Number the Stars Lois Lowry 41. The World According to Garp 21. Slaughterhouse-Five John Irving Kurt Vonnegut 42. A Farewell to Arms 22. Ulysses Ernest Hemingway James Joyce 43. The Fountainhead 23. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ayn Rand Ernest Hemingway 44. Hatchet 24. Harold and the Purple Gary Paulsen Crayon Crockett Johnson 45. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe 25. Invisible Man C.S. Lewis Ralph Ellison 46. Lolita 26. The Lord of the Rings Vladimir Nabokov Northport-East Northport Public Library Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien 47. Of Human Bondage 1999 W. Somerset Maugham Main Reading Room 27. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery 48. The Sound and the Fury In the spring of 1999, the Library Trustees commissioned William Faulkner Northport sculptor George W. Hart to create The Millennium 28. Beloved Bookball. This complex spherical arrangement of 60 Toni Morrison 49. Where the Red Fern Grows interlocking books is suspended from the ceiling of the Wilson Rawls 29. Where the Sidewalk Main Reading Room of the Northport Library. Each book Ends 50. An American Tragedy is engraved with the title and author of one of the “Best Shel Silverstein Theodore Dreiser Books of the Century” as selected by community members. This unique and beautiful work of art was funded, in 30. Charlie and the 51. Brave New World Chocolate Factory Aldous Huxley part, through generous donations from community residents Roald Dahl whose names are engraved on a plaque in Northport’s 52. The Call of the Wild Main Reading Room. 31. I Know Why the Caged Jack London Bird Sings Maya Angelou 53. Heart of Darkness 1. The Catcher in the Rye 10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joseph Conrad J.D. Salinger Betty Smith 32. The Jungle Upton Sinclair 54. Lord of the Flies 2. To Kill a Mockingbird 11. The Godfather William Golding Harper Lee Mario Puzo 33. 1984 George Orwell 55. Night 3. The Great Gatsby 12. Harry Potter & the Elie Wiesel F. Scott Fitzgerald Sorcerer’s Stone 34. On the Road J.K. Rowling Jack Kerouac 56. One Flew Over the 4. Gone with the Wind Cuckoo’s Nest Margaret Mitchell 13. Angela’s Ashes 35. The Outsiders Ken Kesey Frank McCourt S.E. Hinton 5. The Grapes of Wrath 57. The Wizard of Oz John Steinbeck 14. Catch-22 36. Silent Spring L. Frank Baum Joseph Heller Rachel Carson 6. Charlotte’s Web 58. Fahrenheit 451 E.B. White 15. Green Eggs & Ham 37. The Stand Ray Bradbury Dr. Seuss Stephen King 7. The Cat in the Hat 59. Mary Poppins Dr. Seuss 16. The Sun Also Rises 38. A Wrinkle in Time P.L. Travers Ernest Hemingway Madeleine L’Engle 8. Of Mice and Men 60. Morris’s Disappearing Bag John Steinbeck 17. Winnie the Pooh 39. Anne Frank: The Diary Rosemary Wells A.A. Milne of a Young Girl 9. One Hundred Years Anne Frank 18. The Giving Tree of Solitude KH 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Shel Silverstein www.nenpl.org continued on back