On Every Bookshelf

• Our list of books we believe everyone should have on their shelves
• Sorted by section and then author

• sponsored by the American Library Association
• sorted by decade

• sponsored by the American Library Association
• sorted by decade

• sponsored by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)

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• Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian writer and statesman

• Illustrator and author Leo Lionni (1910-1999)

• British poet Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Peter Pan creator Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish novelist and playwright
• New Jersey-born William Pène du Bois (1916-1993), author of Newbery Award winner The Twenty-One Balloons
• British novelist and Watership Down author Richard Adams (b.1920)

• Nonsense poet Edward Lear (1812-1888)

• Oz creator L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
• Children's writer Norma Fox Mazer (b.1931)
• YA writer Paul Zindel (b.1936)

• Kids' author Bruce Coville (b.1950)

• Sometime NM kids' author Gary Paulsen (b.1939)

• Manhattan-born (lives in Ireland) adult and young adult fantasy/sci-fi writer Diane Duane (b.1952)

• French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

• Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

• Sherlock Holmes' alter ego, Scottish-born physician, novelist, historian, and general odd-ball Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• Los Angeles-born Newbery Medal winner Scott O'Dell (1898-1989)
• Prolific children's author Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)

• Boston-born transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• Godfather of the Western mystery, UNM professor, writer and journalist Tony Hillerman (1925-2008)

• The name is. . . Ian Fleming (1908-1964), also the under-recognized author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car

• Prolific British essayist, literary critic, novelist, and poet, and short-story writer, and creator of detective Father Brown, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
• British (born in India) novelist T. H. White (1906-1964), best known for his Arthurian legend novels
• New Jersey native Andrew Clements (b.1949), children's book writer

• American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

• English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
• Texas novelist Larry McMurtry (b.1936)

• Andalusian poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
• The best busy children's author ever Richard Scarry (1919-1994)

• Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
• Prolific children's author Cynthia Rylant (b.1954)

• American poet & civil rights promoter Nikki Giovanni (b.1943)

• Russian science writer Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979)
• Iconic children's author Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)

• South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard (b.1932)

• Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), author of the well-known children's story The Water Babies and one of the few clergymen of his time to accept Darwin's theory of evolution
• Heidi author Johanna Spyri (1829-1901)
• Holocaust victime Anne Frank (1929-1945)

• Irish poet & folklorist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

• Creator of the beloved Redwall series, Brian Jacques (1939-2011)

• Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938)

• Caldecott medalist Chris Van Allsburg (b.1949)

• Exiled Indian writer Salman Rushdie (b.1947)

• Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first important African-American novelist

• Existentialist philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

• English romantic novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

• British futurist George Orwell (1903-1950)
• Massachusetts children's book illustrator Eric Carle (b.1929)

• Writer & humanitarian Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

• Swiss 'Father of the Romanticism' and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

• French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

• Popular American children's author and illustrator David McPhail (b.1940)

• American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

• Missouri-born science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)
• Native American novelist Louise Erdrich (b.1954)

• French poet and fable-writer Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

• New England writer E. B. White (1899-1985)

• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer and Transcendentalist
• Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner

• Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

• Rhode Island-born, New Mexico author Cormac McCarthy (b.1933)

• The great Papa Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

• New Mexico writer John Nichols (b.1940)
• Chicago-born mystery writer and creator of Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

• Three Musketeers creator Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

• Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• British novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

• British children's author Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

• Emily Bronte (1818-1848), whose only novel was Wuthering Heights

• The inimitable J. K. Rowling (b.1965), without whom we would have no bookstore!