Of course, I couldn’t leave
a 20 Books List alone. I had to make a follow-up list of close candidates.
Sprawling novels, cultural touchstones, multi-volume tomes, assorted anthologies,
and reference books. I’ll probably make a third list of ten or so especially outré
entries of books rare and unusual. Such lists are ultimately useless, but
fascinating to me.
1. The Annotated Dracula
2. The Adventures of Langdon
St. Ives
3. A Treasury of the Familiar
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson
5. Collected Fictions
6. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
7. Walt Disney’s Story Land
8. The Selected Writings of
Lafcadio Hearn
9. One Hundred Years of
Solitude
10. The Pickwick Papers
11. The Annotated Wind in the
Willows
12. Tristram Shandy
13. Little, Big
14. The Annotated Hobbit
15. An Encyclopedia of Fairies
16. Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable
17. Magic Mirrors
18. Mere Christianity
19. The Pyrates
20. The Essential Man-Thing
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