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Originally Posted by Child
I would strongly recommend you follow Lalwende's good advice and dig the copies out of your own personal bookshelves.
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Lalwende prefers short books - I've tried to get her to tackle War & Peace & Don Quixote, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is out of the question, & even John Crowley's Little, Big isn't on her reading list!
(none of which are on the librarians list btw), so its not all one sided!
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Lord of the Rings does look a bit out of place in this company. That doesn't surprise me. Often on such committee picks, snuck in among the various titles, you can identify books that are there for a totally different reason. Simply put, the people who made the list had read the book and dearly loved it. It made a personal impact on their life.
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I'm not sure why you think LotR is 'out of place' on the list. Even the ones I haven't read I'm familiar with the themes of, having seen adaptations, or read synopses of, & I'd say LotR deals with many of the same issues/questions. Does it really not 'belong', & how do we know that all the others are there for different reasons?