1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
2. The Catalogue of Rare Books Not for Sale by John Donne
3. Tik-Tok by John Sladek
4. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
6. The Cemetery of Lost Books in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. The Citadel Library in A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
8. Peter Kien’s books in Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
9. Night Lamp by Jack Vance
10. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/top-10-libraries-in-fiction-jrr-tolkien-borges-game-of-thrones>

The associations between 4 and 5 will be fleshed out in future posts by
me.

The Niffenegger piques my interest in light of my enjoyment of her non-
linear, debut novel: _The Time Traveler's Wife_.

Danke,

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On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 8:57:19 PM UTC-5, Don wrote:
> 1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
> 2. The Catalogue of Rare Books Not for Sale by John Donne
> 3. Tik-Tok by John Sladek
> 4. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
> 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
> 6. The Cemetery of Lost Books in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
> 7. The Citadel Library in A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
> 8. Peter Kien’s books in Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
> 9. Night Lamp by Jack Vance
> 10. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
>
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/top-10-libraries-in-fiction-jrr-tolkien-borges-game-of-thrones>
>
> The associations between 4 and 5 will be fleshed out in future posts by
> me.
>
> The Niffenegger piques my interest in light of my enjoyment of her non-
> linear, debut novel: _The Time Traveler's Wife_.

The Library of Ankh-Morpork University is missing.

Pt

On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 1:29:43 PM UTC+11, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 8:57:19 PM UTC-5, Don wrote:
> > 1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
> > 2. The Catalogue of Rare Books Not for Sale by John Donne
> > 3. Tik-Tok by John Sladek
> > 4. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
> > 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
> > 6. The Cemetery of Lost Books in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
> > 7. The Citadel Library in A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
> > 8. Peter Kien’s books in Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
> > 9. Night Lamp by Jack Vance
> > 10. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
> >
> > <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/top-10-libraries-in-fiction-jrr-tolkien-borges-game-of-thrones>
> >
> > The associations between 4 and 5 will be fleshed out in future posts by
> > me.
> >
> > The Niffenegger piques my interest in light of my enjoyment of her non-
> > linear, debut novel: _The Time Traveler's Wife_.
> The Library of Ankh-Morpork University is missing.

As is Morpheus' Library in "The Sandman" which contains every book never written. In one panel, a number of the books within it are shown, including Tolkien's "The Lost Road" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Journey Behind the Moon."

-Moriarty

In article <20231203b@crcomp.net>, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

> 1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
> 2. The Catalogue of Rare Books Not for Sale by John Donne
> 3. Tik-Tok by John Sladek
> 4. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
> 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
> 6. The Cemetery of Lost Books in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz
> Zafón
> 7. The Citadel Library in A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
> 8. Peter Kien’s books in Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
> 9. Night Lamp by Jack Vance
> 10. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
>
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/top-10-libraries-in-fiction-jrr
> -tolkien-borges-game-of-thrones>
>

I would add the Beast's library in Robin McKinley's _Beauty_. IIRC
(which I might not), the conversation when Beauty was shown the library
was:

"I didn't know that there were that many books in the world."

"Actually, most of them haven't been written yet."

"Kipling? Is that a name?"

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In article <061dd101-17e7-4589-be15-da9b2afb6ffan@googlegroups.com>,
Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
>On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 1:29:43 PM UTC+11, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 8:57:19 PM UTC-5, Don wrote:
>> > 1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
>> > 2. The Catalogue of Rare Books Not for Sale by John Donne
>> > 3. Tik-Tok by John Sladek
>> > 4. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
>> > 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
>> > 6. The Cemetery of Lost Books in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos
>Ruiz Zafón
>> > 7. The Citadel Library in A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
>> > 8. Peter Kien’s books in Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
>> > 9. Night Lamp by Jack Vance
>> > 10. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
>> >
>> >
><https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/top-10-libraries-in-fiction-jrr-tolkien-borges-game-of-thrones>
>> >
>> > The associations between 4 and 5 will be fleshed out in future posts by
>> > me.
>> >
>> > The Niffenegger piques my interest in light of my enjoyment of her non-
>> > linear, debut novel: _The Time Traveler's Wife_.
>> The Library of Ankh-Morpork University is missing.
>
>As is Morpheus' Library in "The Sandman" which contains every book never
>written. In one panel, a number of the books within it are shown,
>including Tolkien's "The Lost Road" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Journey
>Behind the Moon."
>
>-Moriarty

We had a similiar library in _Hell On High_. IIRC, the librarian's name
might even have been Lucian.
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