Along with classics, thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months.
Books on the Chopping Block in Fairfax
The following books have been weeded from the shelves of various branches of the Fairfax County Public Library system or haven't been checked out in 24 months and could be discarded.
The Works of Aristotle Aristotle
Sexual Politics Kate Millett
The Great Philosophers Karl Jaspers
Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter
William Faulkner (George Mason Regional)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy (George Mason Regional)
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
Writings Gertrude Stein
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Great Issues in American History
Richard Hofstadter
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
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
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
