I have been working with South Florida books for many years and often thought of a way to
evaluate which books were the most important. Then I realized that many books have
bibliographies. I made a file combining the bibliographies of many books and arranged
the books mentioned in the order of most cited. This is the result:
a
list of the books
most often cited in bibliographies.
This list favors books relating to history, biography, and the natural sciences. There
are no novels here or cookbooks or poetry or true crime or gardening books. The bookshelf
pictured here holds fifteen books. Douglas' Everglades would be the first book on the
next shelf.
