Town of Ogden, New York
Established 1817
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Spencerport, NY 14559
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Top Ten Recommended Books from Ogden Readers

Every once in awhile, library staff put out surveys asking our users to name ten books they'd recommend to other readers. Some of those Top Ten lists are reproduced below. Happy reading!

Phil Koyoumjian
  1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  2. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
  3. The Queen's Confession by Victoria Holt
  4. Peter the Great by Robert Massie
  5. The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  7. The Last Romantic by Hannah Pakula
  8. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
  9. The Golden Bees by Theo Aronson
  10. Alexandra: the Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson

Kate Vreeland

  1. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  2. Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  3. Feeding Christine by Barbara Chepaitis
  4. The Elm Creek Quilters novels by Jennifer Chiaverini
  5. Paula by Isabel Allende
  6. The Mitford series by Jan Karon
  7. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
  8. Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
  9. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  10. What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg

Amanda Vargas

  1. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
  2. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
  3. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  4. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
  5. Angus, Things & Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
  6. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
  7. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel by Louise Rennison
  8. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants by Louise Rennison
  9. Speak by Laure Halse Anderson
  10. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Jim Cain

  1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  2. Trusintg Soul, or any poetry by Brian Andreas, Story People
  3. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
  4. All I really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
  5. Everything Douglas Adams ever wrote!
  6. Sphere and Timeline by Michael Crichton
  7. Thunderhead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  8. The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem

Kate Boggs

  1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  3. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  4. Educating Esme: the Diary of a First Year Teacher by Esme Codell
  5. The Outdoor Girl series by Laura Lee Hope
  6. Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
  7. N or M? by Agatha Christie
  8. Beauty by Robin McKinley
  9. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
  10. Alices Adventure sin Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Marcy Brado

  1. Nancy Drew series
  2. Babysitter Club series
  3. American Girl series
  4. History Mysteries series
  5. Patsy's Discovery
  6. My America series
  7. Dear America series
  8. MaryKate & Ashley series
  9. My America - Home at Last
  10. Mandy series


JJ Liebow

  1. Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  2. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  4. The Truth About the Helinski Roccamatios by Yann Martel
  5. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
  6. Angels and Demons Dan Brown
  7. The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
  8. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  9. Lenin by Robert Service
  10. Horray for Diffendooferday by Dr. Seuss