Hello, Grisham -- So Long, Hemingway?
According to a recent Washington Post Article, The Fairfax County Library in Virginia is tossing out books! Classics by such authors as Virgil, Aristotle, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway have not been checked out in the last two years, so they are being "weeded" out of the collection! The Library's new software provides a list of all the books that have been untouched in the last 2 years, and the plan is to move them out to make room for more popular works.
Below is a list of their most recent victims:
The Works of Aristotle, Aristotle
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, Maya Angelou
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Aeneid, Virgil
(Special thanks to Jon Swift )
Below is a list of their most recent victims:
The Works of Aristotle, Aristotle
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, Maya Angelou
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Aeneid, Virgil
(Special thanks to Jon Swift )
4 comments:
Oh my! I'd like to see if I could get there or purchase them for clearance rate!
I wonder what the library considers "more popular" titles? It's sad to see "To Kill A Mockingbird" on that list. One of my favorite books, as well as movies.
Won't it be ironic when "Farenheit 451" doesn't make the cut?
This is appalling. I certainly hope they are planning on selling these books. Throwing them out should be a crime.
An librarian that discards "To Kill A Mockingbird" should be dragged out into the street and shot.
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