Marie Sklodowska-Curie Professional Women's Association

A story of love and science between Polish-born Marie and her husband Pierre who discovered new elements that impacted the world.

Joyce M. Pilsner

Although I certainly knew "the story," the writing was so powerful that it had me in its grip till the last page.

The Aronson Russo Family

Journalistic non-fiction at its best: the epic failure of Vietnam as portrayed in the tragic life of John Paul Vann.

Myra Shapiro

I was what was called a sickly child, in bed often, and someone gave me this book of poems which somehow (especially "The Swing") lifted me.

Madeline Balmaceda

There is no other novel that portrays the oddest characters in the oddest settings than this posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Donna Slawsky

A profound mind and consciousness training for learning to choose love over fear.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schneider

Agee's anguish and pain at his father's death is powerfully captured in this book for all time.

Sandy Booklan

An inspiring epic novel about life in India that shows how the ability to adapt and change can overcome great adversity.

Amy Estersohn

This is the last book my grandmother, a lifelong reader, ever read. It entertained and comforted her through pain.

Carolyn Black and Art Hightower

This book inspired us to bring back Christmas pageants to our small Episcopal parish to encourage our youth to always participate in activities despite your fears.

Chris Howe

Amazingly complex but still infinitely readable.

Christopher S. Dann

Silent Spring suonded the alarm, but A Sand Country Almanac taught the course of ecological conservation.

John. W. Easterbrook

Leopold evokes the pleasures of our daily interactions with the biotic community, as well as our responsibility to protect its diversity.

Omit my name

I read it in my teens and it changed how I thought about living and loving.

Jan Whitman Ogden

This brilliant tale taught me about the depths of loyalty and true sacrifice.

Elie Gamburg

An amazing combination of history, science and philosophy opens a new way forward for all three.

Frances Edwards

The courage and endurance of the human spirit

Jean Passanante

This book pulled me in with its attention to detail and terrific characterization, allowed me to identify with a another imaginative little girl who loved books, and started my love affair with New York.

Lisa Chambers

Because it's the most beautifully written American novel in which we learn the past isn't dead, it isn't even past.

Ekaterina Sukhanova

Getting me interested in the relationship between language and reality at an early age.

Edward and Linda Roesner

Best anti-war novel ever!

Shellie Sclan

New York embodies Berman's illuminating vision of modernity as a continuous cycle of destruction and creation.

Paul Murray

An excellent canonical critic for the common man.

Roberta Schneiderman

This comprehensive study--less than 250 pages--details the gradual coming together of the daring but also the disparate views of the founders, and how they forged a government that was the first of its kind and yet designed to serve a future land and society.

Doris M. kling

Reading Gandhi's autobiography in college changed the rest of my life as it has changed the lives of many others.

Cheryl Wolf

It speaks to the power, intelligence, and resilience of children.

Mr. Kevin Curley

The diary of a young Jewish woman in Amsterdam at the outset of World War II, who ultimately died at Westbork, spoke eloquently to our search for God and peace with one another.

Richard Yoder

The crown jewel of the greatest detective story writer of all.

Claire Ianno

Reading this book was a great experience.

Suzanne DeVito

One of the best books about the West written by one of America's greatest authors.

Judith and Alan Appelbaum

Because it illuminates the complexities of marriage and other mysterious relationships between human beings.

Helen Tannenbaum

Her amazing intelligence, insightfulness, and optimism in the face of the most horrific circumstances made me appreciate every day of life.

Alannah E. Leonini

To honor my grandparents who had no money, but took me to the public library to borrow this book as a birthday gift.

Mr. Ed Kirtz

My introduction to Kapu?ci?ski stunned me - as did his gift in capturing a scene and a mood and a time through the subtleties of details.

Mr. Robert Poulson

As a college student in the 60s, I believedt hat all threats to freedom came from the political right; but this book taught me that opposition can come from anywhere on the political spectrum.

M. E. Roye-Taheri

During World War II, as a little girl, this book took me on a magic carpet to a mythical and fantastic land of tales.

Ms. Jackie Bain

It opened my eyes to the world of art history at an early age.

Joeann Cabrese

My interpretation of art is something that forces us to ask questions that challenge our assumed idealogical positions and this novel presents these challenges through careful juxtapositions of strong characters that stand the test of time.

Peter Seymour

Inspired me to understand the meaning of unselfish nobility in the context of a stirring tale of adventure.

Lotte Blaustein

Beautiful illustrations show how someone a little different from others can be accepted for his/her special qualities and talents.

Norbert Klause

It?s quite a good story, like DosPassos Manhattan transfer. I love this "Berlin-narrative".

El Loh

Social criticism, mythology, violence, technology, fantasy and vivid, ambiguous characters all rolled into one compelling package.

Mr. Marvin Mondlin

This is the first and, until now, the only book written about the trade of such lasting importance to libraries and scholars concerned with such matters.

Dr. A. Robert Neurath

Clifford Jackson

This book strengthened my belief that technology has a dark side and that it will change the future world for the worse.

Ingrid F. Maughan

The novel was so good, it became a great movie.

Leslie Shalom

How to use emotional pain for spiritual growth.

John M. Polcari

At a young age, the book gave new meaning to my understanding of the adage that there are many sides to the same story.

Ms. Mari Langer

A penetrating account of childhood and immigrant experience.

Margaret and David Kaplan

A story about what may come fom our technology if it advances too far beyond our humanity - a must read for all aspirinf science and engineering students!

Ann Duddy-Accetta

In high school, I read Catch-22 - this book showed me that when satire is done well, it pushes comedy to a level to invoke meaning; a truly sublime experience.

Elaine Desimone

This famous children's book shows that friendship can be found in many places and is very "special" and enduring.

Carole Klein

Aroused interest in prehistoric history.

Mr. Michael Dischiavi

Claude and Camille is a superb example of what historical fiction should be.

John Athanasourelis

This is a breeathtaking, amazingly structured work of genius.

Judith Barrett

Her novel opened a door to an American experience I needed to see.

Milton Horowitz

Here is a cornucopia of the history of Judaism, Christianity and related culture found, I think, nowhere else in one book.

Estelle Abrahamson

A story of revenge which was a favorite of my childhood.

Eileen Glickstein

A wonderful 12 volume series that can be read again and again.

Jeff Gerecke

Captures the darkness and humor on the fringes of the American Dream.

Mrs. Marilyn Paul

Every library should be lucky enough to have a kitten like Dewey deposited in their return book slot. He brought joy to all he met in the library.

Rosalind Guaraldo

One of the greatest mathematical achievements of all time.

Dr. Alexandra Sununu

The only book which made me laugh out loud and cry real tears as it forever changed how I see the world and my fellow man.

J. Maxfield

As a teenager, discovering this book was my entree into a whole new world; one set on a distant planet, but one where a misunderstood girl, like me, was valued and appreciated for what it was that set her apart - her love of music.

Dianne Richards

A wonderful book with a strong, young female character - this should be higher on required reading lists to encourage girls that they can be whoever they want to be.

Helen M. Kline

He led me to become a vegetarian.

Lilian Alvarez Arellano

This was the beginning of Mexican literature, as well as of educational thought and social critique, a novel that studies with a watchful and empathetic eye the ways and language of the Mexican people.

Kathryn Havemann

Of all the extraordinary and inspiring books I've read, this book about an 8-year-old girl wishing for a best friend, fending off schoolyard bullies, and embarrassed by her mother's rules, is the only one I kept taking out of the library to read over and over again.

Robin Tzannes

Every time I read it, I learn something new about myself.

Caleb Kelly

This book inspired me to strive for greatness even in the face of overwhelming odds

Rhoda Barnat

When I read Issac Bashevis Singer I hear the voice of my grandmother once again.

Lisa Feder-Feitel

A quintessential New York City book by a woman whose sure voice, spot-on sense of humor, and deep understanding of human nature inspired--and continues to inspire--me to be a better observer and appreciate my history, heritage, present and future.

Diomedes Despues Dalde

It contains humanities, imaginations and truths individually set for life and beyond; with hunches like the complex minds but stays subdued within the amorality of our hearts.

Shannon Webb

As a teenager, Cowgirls gave voice to the restlessness I felt in my small town and the wonder I had for what lay outside it.

Julia Schwartz

For all the Bostonians who waited until next year and are now in NYC - you are not alone!

John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler

Biography of my great-great grandfather, John Bigelow, who was the creative force behind the creation of the NY Public Library.

Rebecca Salzer

A book that teaches me something new each time I read it

John K. Li, M.D.

40th Anniversary of the founding of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

Rashmi Kudesia

Poems to inspire and uplift the soul.

Alice D. Kaplan

Gift From the Sea taught me the value and importance of reflection - of separating from time to time from the pressures of everyday life.

Pamela Pantages

A true epic that allowed me as a 13-year old to create the imagery in my head of Scarlett's Twelve Oaks barbeque dress, Rhett's kiss as he left to join the fighting & the burning of Atlanta long before I ever saw the movie.

Karen Morely-Westcott

His life spanned a century; his love for Gracie almost as long; the lived the American dream and came into our homes and hearts on the radio and then tv.

Tricia Vulliez

An excellent account of negotiations past and present that help in understanding history and politics.

Susan Susman

Considering history, anthropology, metallurgy, agriculture, climate and more, this book reverses our assumptions in a can't-put-this-down format.

Rosalie Shields

Delighted 3 generations in my family to learn to read.

Priscilla H. Hoffman

The story and setting were so warm with a perfect ending.

Joan Malin

Before computers, Allen conveyed an encyclopedic passion for the Fletcher Henderson band with 1,000 pages of documentation on its music. There has still been no greater tribute to such artistry.

Ms. Elizabeth A. Jones

An exceptional illustration of the period in which James grew up and his life and death in England.

Cathy Small

I got this book at the public library one weekend in high school because I thought I wanted to be a designer - and I have been one for 26 years.

Eugene Ross, Sr.

One lord, one faith, one baptism, one god and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Marcia Goldstein

Girls were portrayed on an unusual light for grown-up 1950s girls.

Roz Rosenbluth

It showed me how beautiful the English Language can be.

Marie Vogliano

It erminds me of our family get togethers and I love the illustrations.

Juanita Shell-Peterson

It is captivating, historical, and inspiring to read - a true learning experience.

Betsy McCully

Buber made me aware of how modern human's alienation from nature and our fellow human beings arises out of a profound detachment and depersonalization rooted in our language.

Barbara Gerber Krasner and Seymour Krasner

This is a beautifully written novel with an encyclopedic scope relating a personal narrative in the broader social context of early twentieth century events.

Judith Martin

The tales are rendered with beautiful clarity, intelligence and wit and never fail to delight.

Joshua Cole

This book is lifechanging.

Christine and Henry Beechhold

Lewis was prescient; but it has happened here.

Christine Halem

This book was a gentle introduction to feminism that statted me on a long journey in that subject.

Charlotte Oestreicher Ganberg

Little Jane had only herself to rely on in a hostile environment, yet she overcame her obstacles and grew up to be an independent young woman. We should all have her strength and tenacity.

Hilary Johnson

An unforgettable heroine, hero, and love story.

Ms. Ruth T. Benanav

If ever we forget, someone will repeat the genocide.

Mrs. Giovanna Suhl

This - the first book my soon-to-be husband gave me to read many years ago - is as much about the sense of time and the sense for life as it is about a band of Inuit living joyously in the darkest Arctic.

Dorothy Bass

This book introduced me to a fascinating litle known (to America) phase of history known as the Great Game -- the cold war between Great Britain and Russian for the control of Central Asia in the 19th century, and inspired me to travel to India, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Ms. Vera L. Silverman

A great insight into war.

Bettina L. Hollis

This amusing and endearing story about Jesus (and his best friend Biff) put humanity back in religion and made me feel closer (than years of church school) to God.

Ms. Alba Carter

Latin American and United States politics.

Peter Cott

"It's odd that what is really the humblest of great books began - in its first form - with the startling egotism: 'I celebrate myself.'" - Whitman

Ms. Ira Edwards

I was struck by the author's integrity and her capacioty for forgiveness of her family's killer.

Hilda L. Jaffe

Winifred T. Hall

It inspired me to attend the University of Chicago, which was life-changing.

Barbara D. Seiger

Faulkner is the writer who has most affected my creative life.

Diana Perez

As a child, this book provided me with countless good memories and hope that whatever I was going through would get better.

Dr. Ellen Ferranti

My Mom, Dee, gave me this book as a child and fostered my lifelong love of the NYC libraries.

Heather Wood

After reading for the first time when I was eight, this book is the reason I became a reader.

Carrie Kancilia

Lolita is the book I have read the most times and with the greatest and most consistent affection. Each page is musical perfection.

Mr. Herman Benson

Gave me the helpful illusion that the world could fairly easily be made a far more decent and just place.

Jose Nicolas and Esteban Ramos

I became a father for the first time at age 46. This book inspires the great love that my son and I have for each other.

Melissa Farrell

To enlighten people about the plight of the mentally ill in this country going back centuries.

Ms. Beth Goehring

Even though the Paris setting very exotic to a little girl from Chicago, Madeline and her schoolmates' antics proved little girls are the same the world over.

Yilin Shen

This book changed my perspective on life and was one of the first that opened the joy and rewards of reading to me.

Bryant Hayes

This is an astonishing and inspirational physical and spiritual adventure.

Donna R. Barnes

Presenting six amusing, entertaining, informative vignettes of medieval characters from Bodo the Peasant to Marco Polo, Powers mined the "kitchens of history" for a page-turner.

Deborah Washburn

Middlemarch showed me that individuals can have a positive impact on others and their communities if they struggle to cultivate mental, moral, and emotional clarity.

Peter S. Cox

Man's struggle to dominate and control the forces of nature.

Mrs. Robert G. Schuur

I chose this book because it was my first experience of having something taught by a teacher who loved it, and that made me love it too.

Athena Shapiro

This is one of the books my mother read out loud with my sister and I which we loved - we got it from the NYPL - it is not for sale in the US any more.

Seymour Simon

I became passionate about penguins when I first read this book as a child and when I wrote my own children's book about PENGUINS I hoped children growing up these days would be similarly delighted.

Dan Icolari

Expanded my idea of what fiction could do, or aspire to do.

Ms. Susan Wilson Bynum

Such a fun way to get perspective on what you were supposed to do.

Le Lieu Browne

Life and experience of a war correspondent during late 20th century.

Jessica and Jose

Because my mom always helps me.

Barry L. Gross

It taught me that, because life is finite, every day is a precious gift.

Dr. Margery A. Crumpacker

A poignant and sensitive autobiography of a fascinating 18th century author whose life and career were stofled by the aristocratic mores of the time. She was one of three women writers whose work I examined with great interest at the New York Public Library for my 1997 dissertation on the struggle of contravene authority.

Dr. Carl Mazza

Taught me about alienation and feeling alone among others. I became a social worker and later professor partially because of Native Son

Arlene Bessenoff

This book helped me decide, at an early age, that I wanted to work with words (and I subsequently became an editor); ironically, I now live on Roosevelt Island, the scene of Nellie's groundbreaking article.

Roger Blaugh

Introduced me by my sister-in-law in 1972, the New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne launched me into a lifetime of spectacular food experiences that I shared with friends and family over the decades that followed and which I still regard as the easiest to read and fundamental cookbook of the hundreds that I have acquired since.

In loving memory of Arnold Apelson

This masterpiece of human insights into a lovable and flawed human being inspires tolerance and love.

Leonard Greenberg

I think it is the best novel ever written!

Jean Bennett

It has changed my life: made me more generous.

Julie Zuckerbraun

A perfect book to share - a mystery in a foreign place, learning about a culture.

Mr. John F. Leary

The judicial branch and the Supreme Court is the least understood branch of the government and must act as an effective check on the other two branches.

Ms. Margarita Fazzolari

This is a book about how Cemi found paradise in poetry.

Timothy Sternberg

A rare, quiet set of human and intimate little gems of stories.

Sean Rooney

My current e-book - fun and beautifully done.

Marlene Litwin

This magnificent book is about the very best and the very worst in human beings.

Mark Anderson

A mind opening bible of permaculture; practical, sustainable philosophy and design approaches to living life in harmony with nature.

Mr. Wallace D. Merserau

This book tells the surprisingly frank story of the life of an extraordinary American in a most interesting way.

Julia (Kaufman) Cassuto, Mark Cassuto and children in memory of Theodore T. Kaufman.

In the book "One Hundred Plays for Children," My father, Theodore Kaufman, wrote one play, "Piffle It's Only a Sniffle." Page 151.

Miss Dorothy A. Brockoff

Brilliant writer and botanist.

Gerald Fritz

Best description of bureucracy ever!

Linda Morano

The world of finance has always intrigued me.

Michael Lindgren

Proof that grandeur and pain can be found in the most ordinary of lives, this novel opened my eyes to the possibilities of fiction.

Rachel Fremmer

This book (and the series of which it is a part) inspired my daughter to learn to read!

Dr. Gretchen R. Besser

Encompasses all the great human questions - love, society, art, music, literature, and the unhalting passage of time.

John Carne

Given to me in 1978 by a dear friend...made me realize the beauty and endless possibilities of the life in front of me.

John Tribelli

A unique, humorously ridiculous story framed in extraordinary use of the English language.

Lisa Katcher

My favorite poetry book.

Nancy Dunnan

Happy Mother's Day Nancy love Jeff, Barb and families

M. Carol Leber

Incredible poetry.

Ms. Soleil Nathwani

Because it showed me the value of being peaceful when life flows against the current of your desires.

Meg Davidson

My earliest memories of the joy of reading are captured in this book.

James Cross Giblin

This historical story of a boy in a Quaker school in pioneer Pennsylvania nourished a love of history that I've pursued in my own books for children.

Raymond Lynn

Forgive, Remember, Don't Dwell.

William Keogan

Provides hilarious insight into the world of academia.

Marianne E. Muggenburg

I like it because it taught me to see beauty in simple things.

Susan Kagan

This sensitive novella by one of America's finest writers both captures a picture of the American midwest in the early twentieth century and tells a beautiful and tragic story.

Maria Eugenia Murillo

Every single day she inspires me to be an independent woman in a man's world.

Geraldine Mc Allister

For the simple beauty of McGahern's writing and his perfect description of happiness.

Rosana Koundakjian

It's a multilingual poetry book

Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. Calise

It teaches that life is a journey on which we face obstacles, need friends, overcome htred, and can't pray a lie.

Edwin Roman

A math story book is a unique way to interest students in geometry.

Krista Jansen

Even in just the first chapter, The Alienist forever changed the way I enjoyed reading books.

Denise Levine

In memory of my beloved husband, Dr. Ed Levine, a great baseball fan and lover of stats!

Carolyn Reimers

This is an enjoyable mystery that is fast paced and interesting.

Ms. Betty C. Listello

A reminder of a better time.

Doris Bergman

It took me so far out of my life - it expanded my literary world at age 18.

Kellie Miller

Because it taught me to be an individual.

Ms. Diana Trebbi

It had a profound impact on my life.