1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read
Before you Die

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This list, in reverse chronological order comes from the book of the same name by Peter Boxall. It is not i
be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It's a starting point, not th
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Title First Name

2000s
1 Never Let Me Go Kazuo
2 Saturday Ian
3 On Beauty Zadie
4 Slow Man J.M.
5 Adjunct: An Undigest Peter
6 The Sea John
7 The Red Queen Margaret
8 The Plot Against America Philip
9 The Master Colm
10 Vanishing Point David
11 The Lambs of London Peter
12 Dining on Stones Iain
13 Cloud Atlas David
14 Drop City T. Coraghessan
15 The Colour Rose
16 Thursbitch Alan
17 The Light of Day Graham
18 What I Loved Siri
19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark
20 Islands Dan
21 Elizabeth Costello J.M.
22 London Orbital Iain
23 Family Matters Rohinton
24 Fingersmith Sarah
25 The Double José
26 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran
27 Unless Carol
28 Kafka on the Shore Haruki
29 The Story of Lucy Gault William
30 That They May Face the Rising Sun John
31 In the Forest Edna
32 Shroud John
33 Middlesex Jeffrey
34 Youth J.M.
35 Dead Air Iain
36 Nowhere Man Aleksandar
37 The Book of Illusions Paul
38 Gabriel’s Gift Hanif
39 Austerlitz W.G.
40 Platform Michael
41 Schooling Heather
42 Atonement Ian
43 The Corrections Jonathan
44 Don’t Move Margaret
45 The Body Artist Don
46 Fury Salman
47 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie
48 Choke Chuck
49 Life of Pi Yann
50 The Feast of the Goat Mario
51 An Obedient Father Akhil
52 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo
53 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail
54 White Teeth Zadie
55 The Heart of Redness Zakes
56 Under the Skin Michel
57 Ignorance Milan
58 Nineteen Seventy Seven David
59 Celestial Harmonies Péter
60 City of God E.L.
61 How the Dead Live Will
62 The Human Stain Philip
63 The Blind Assassin Margaret
64 After the Quake Haruki
65 Small Remedies Shashi
66 Super-Cannes J.G.
67 House of Leaves Mark Z.
68 Blonde Joyce
69 Pastoralia George
1900s
70 Timbuktu Paul
71 The Romantics Pankaj
72 Cryptonomicon Neal
73 As If I Am Not There Slavenka
74 Everything You Need A.L.
75 Fear and Trembling Amélie
76 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman
77 Disgrace J.M.
78 Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki
79 Elementary Particles Michel
80 Intimacy Hanif
81 Amsterdam Ian
82 Cloudsplitter Russell
83 All Souls Day Cees
84 The Talk of the Town Ardal
85 Tipping the Velvet Sarah
86 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara
87 Glamorama Bret Easton
88 Another World Pat
89 The Hours Michael
90 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo
91 Mason & Dixon Thomas
92 The God of Small Things Arundhati
93 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur
94 Great Apes Will
95 Enduring Love Ian
96 Underworld Don
97 Jack Maggs Peter
98 The Life of Insects Victor
99 American Pastoral Philip
100 The Untouchable John
101 Silk Alessandro
102 Cocaine Nights J.G.
103 Hallucinating Foucault Patricia
104 Fugitive Pieces Anne
105 The Ghost Road Pat
106 Forever a Stranger Hella
107 Infinite Jest David Foster
108 The Clay Machine-Gun Victor
109 Alias Grace Margaret
110 The Unconsoled Kazuo
111 Morvern Callar Alan
112 The Information Martin
113 The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman
114 Sabbath’s Theater Philip
115 The Rings of Saturn W.G.
116 The Reader Bernhard
117 A Fine Balance Rohinton
118 Love’s Work Gillian
119 The End of the Story Lydia
120 Mr. Vertigo Paul
121 The Folding Star Alan
122 Whatever Michel
123 Land Park
124 The Master of Petersburg J.M.
125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki
126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony Antonio
127 City Sister Silver Jàchym
128 How Late It Was, How Late James
129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis
130 Felicia’s Journey William
131 Disappearance David
132 The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe
133 The Shipping News E. Annie
134 Trainspotting Irvine
135 Birdsong Sebastian
136 Looking for the Possible Dance A.L.
137 Operation Shylock Philip
138 Complicity Iain
139 On Love Alain
140 What a Carve Up! Jonathan
141 A Suitable Boy Vikram
142 The Stone Diaries Carol
143 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey
144 The House of Doctor Dee Peter
145 The Robber Bride Margaret
146 The Emigrants W.G.
147 The Secret History Donna
148 Life is a Caravanserai Emine
149 The Discovery of Heaven Harry
150 A Heart So White Javier
151 Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice
152 Indigo Marina
153 The Crow Road Iain
154 Written on the Body Jeanette
155 Jazz Toni
156 The English Patient Michael
157 Smilla’s Sense of Snow Peter
158 The Butcher Boy Patrick
159 Black Water Joyce
160 The Heather Blazing Colm
161 Asphodel Hilda
162 Black Dogs Ian
163 Hideous Kinky Esther
164 Arcadia Jim
165 Wild Swans Jung
166 American Psycho Bret Easton
167 Time’s Arrow Martin
168 Mao II Don
169 Typical Padgett
170 Regeneration Pat
171 Downriver Iain
172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis
173 Wise Children Angela
174 Get Shorty Elmore
175 Amongst Women John
176 Vineland Thomas
177 Vertigo W.G.
178 Stone Junction Jim
179 The Music of Chance Paul
180 The Things They Carried Tim
181 A Home at the End of the World Michael
182 Like Life Lorrie
183 Possession A.S.
184 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif
185 The Midnight Examiner William
186 A Disaffection James
187 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette
188 Moon Palace Paul
189 Billy Bathgate E.L.
190 Remains of the Day Kazuo
191 The Melancholy of Resistance László
192 The Temple of My Familiar Alice
193 The Trick is to Keep Breathing Janice
194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon José
195 Like Water for Chocolate Laura
196 A Prayer for Owen Meany John
197 London Fields Martin
198 The Book of Evidence John
199 Cat’s Eye Margaret
200 Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto
201 The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund
202 Wittgenstein’s Mistress David
203 The Satanic Verses Salman
204 The Swimming-Pool Library Alan
205 Oscar and Lucinda Peter
206 Libra Don
207 The Player of Games Iain M.
208 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi
209 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas
210 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Douglas
211 The Radiant Way Margaret
212 The Afternoon of a Writer Peter
213 The Black Dahlia James
214 The Passion Jeanette
215 The Pigeon Patrick
216 The Child in Time Ian
217 Cigarettes Harry
218 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom
219 The New York Trilogy Paul
220 World’s End T. Coraghessan
221 Enigma of Arrival V.S.
222 The Taebek Mountains Jo
223 Beloved Toni
224 Anagrams Lorrie
225 Matigari Ngugi wa
226 Marya Joyce
227 Watchmen Alan/David
228 The Old Devils Kingsley
229 Lost Language of Cranes David
230 An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo
231 Extinction Thomas
232 Foe J.M.
233 The Drowned and the Saved Primo
234 Reasons to Live Amy
235 The Parable of the Blind Gert
236 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel
237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette
238 The Cider House Rules John
239 A Maggot John
240 Less Than Zero Bret Easton
241 Contact Carl
242 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret
243 Perfume Patrick
244 Old Masters Thomas
245 White Noise Don
246 Queer William
247 Hawksmoor Peter
248 Legend David
249 Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad
250 The Bus Conductor Hines James
251 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José
252 The Lover Marguerite
253 Empire of the Sun J.G.
254 The Wasp Factory Iain
255 Nights at the Circus Angela
256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan
257 Blood and Guts in High School Kathy
258 Neuromancer William
259 Flaubert’s Parrot Julian
260 Money: A Suicide Note Martin
261 Shame Salman
262 Worstward Ho Samuel
263 Fools of Fortune William
264 La Brava Elmore
265 Waterland Graham
266 The Life and Times of Michael K J.M.
267 The Diary of Jane Somers Doris
268 The Piano Teacher Elfriede
269 The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo
270 If Not Now, When? Primo
271 A Boy’s Own Story Edmund
272 The Color Purple Alice
273 Wittgenstein’s Nephew Thomas
274 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo
275 Schindler’s Ark Thomas
276 The House of the Spirits Isabel
277 The Newton Letter John
278 On the Black Hill Bruce
279 Concrete Thomas
280 The Names Don
281 Rabbit is Rich John
282 Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair
283 The Comfort of Strangers Ian
284 July’s People Nadine
285 Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid
286 Broken April Ismail
287 Waiting for the Barbarians J.M.
288 Midnight’s Children Salman
289 Rites of Passage William
290 Rituals Cees
291 Confederacy of Dunces John
292 City Primeval Elmore
293 The Name of the Rose Umberto
294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan
295 Smiley’s People John
296 Shikasta Doris
297 A Bend in the River V.S.
298 Burger’s Daughter Nadine
299 The Safety Net Heinrich
300 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italo
301 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas
302 The Cement Garden Ian
303 The World According to Garp John
304 Life: A User’s Manual Georges
305 The Sea, The Sea Iris
306 The Singapore Grip J.G.
307 Yes Thomas
308 The Virgin in the Garden A.S.
309 In the Heart of the Country J.M.
310 The Passion of New Eve Angela
311 Delta of Venus Anaïs
312 The Shining Stephen
313 Dispatches Michael
314 Petals of Blood Ngugi wa
315 Song of Solomon Toni
316 The Hour of the Star Clarice
317 The Left-Handed Woman Peter
318 Ratner’s Star Don
319 The Public Burning Robert
320 Interview With the Vampire Anne
321 Cutter and Bone Newton
322 Amateurs Donald
323 Patterns of Childhood Christa
324 Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel
325 W, or the Memory of childhood Georges
326 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony
327 Grimus Salman
328 The Dead Father Donald
329 Fateless Imre
330 Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard
331 High Rise J.G.
332 Humboldt’s Gift Saul
333 Dead Babies Martin
334 Correction Thomas
335 Ragtime E.L.
336 The Fan Man William
337 Dusklands J.M.
338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Heinrich
339 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John
340 Breakfast of Champions Kurt
341 Fear of Flying Erica
342 A Question of Power Bessie
343 The Siege of Krishnapur J.G.
344 The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo
345 Crash J.G.
346 The Honorary Consul Graham
347 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas
348 The Black Prince Iris
349 Sula Toni
350 Invisible Cities Italo
351 The Breast Philip
352 The Summer Book Tove
353 G John
354 Surfacing Margaret
355 House Mother Normal B.S.
356 In A Free State V.S.
357 The Book of Daniel E.L.
358 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S.
359 Group Portrait With Lady Heinrich
360 The Wild Boys William
361 Rabbit Redux John
362 The Sea of Fertility Yukio
363 The Driver’s Seat Muriel
364 The Ogre Michael
365 The Bluest Eye Toni
366 Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter
367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya
368 Mercier et Camier Samuel
369 Troubles J.G.
370 Jahrestage Uwe
371 The Atrocity Exhibition J.G.
372 Tent of Miracles Jorge
373 Pricksongs and Descants Robert
374 Blind Man With a Pistol Chester
375 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt
376 The French Lieutenant’s Woman John
377 The Green Man Kingsley
378 Portnoy’s Complaint Philip
379 The Godfather Mario
380 Ada Vladimir
381 Them Joyce
382 A Void/Avoid Georges
383 Eva Trout Elizabeth
384 Myra Breckinridge Gore
385 The Nice and the Good Iris
386 Belle du Seigneur Albert
387 Cancer Ward Aleksandr
388 The First Circle Aleksandr
389 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C.
390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K.
391 Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm
392 The German Lesson Siegfried
393 In Watermelon Sugar Richard
394 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry
395 The Quest for Christa T. Christa
396 Chocky John
397 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom
398 The Cubs and Other Stories Mario
399 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel
400 The Master and Margarita Mikhail
401 Pilgrimage Dorothy
402 The Joke Milan
403 No Laughing Matter Angus
404 The Third Policeman Flann
405 A Man Asleep Georges
406 The Birds Fall Down Rebecca
407 Trawl B.S.
408 In Cold Blood Truman
409 The Magus John
410 The Vice-Consul Marguerite
411 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean
412 Giles Goat-Boy John
413 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas
414 Things Georges
415 The River Between Ngugi wa
416 August is a Wicked Month Edna
417 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt
418 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery
419 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice
420 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken
421 Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald
422 Albert Angelo B.S.
423 Arrow of God Chinua
424 The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Marguerite
425 Herzog Saul
426 V. Thomas
427 Cat’s Cradle Kurt
428 The Graduate Charles
429 Manon des Sources Marcel
430 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John
431 The Girls of Slender Means Muriel
432 Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony
433 The Bell Jar Sylvia
434 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr
435 The Collector John
436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken
437 A Clockwork Orange Anthony
438 Pale Fire Vladimir
439 The Drowned World J.G.
440 The Golden Notebook Doris
441 Labyrinths Jorge Luis
442 Girl With Green Eyes Edna
443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio
444 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert
445 Franny and Zooey J.D.
446 A Severed Head Iris
447 Faces in the Water Janet
448 Solaris Stanislaw
449 Cat and Mouse Günter
450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel
451 Catch-22 Joseph
452 The Violent Bear it Away Flannery
453 How It Is Samuel
454 Our Ancestors Italo
455 The Country Girls Edna
456 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper
457 Rabbit, Run John
458 Promise at Dawn Romain
459 Cider With Rosie Laurie
460 Billy Liar Keith
461 Naked Lunch William
462 The Tin Drum Günter
463 Absolute Beginners Colin
464 Henderson the Rain King Saul
465 Memento Mori Muriel
466 Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich
467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman
468 The Leopard Giuseppe
469 Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Kenzaburo
470 A Town Like Alice Nevil
471 The Bitter Glass Eilís
472 Things Fall Apart Chinua
473 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan
474 Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Paul
475 Borstal Boy Brendan
476 The End of the Road John
477 The Once and Future King T.H.
478 The Bell Iris
479 Jealousy Alain
480 Voss Patrick
481 The Midwich Cuckoos John
482 Blue Noon Georges
483 Homo Faber Max
484 On the Road Jack
485 Pnin Vladimir
486 Doctor Zhivago Boris
487 The Wonderful “O” James
488 Justine Lawrence
489 Giovanni’s Room James
490 The Lonely Londoners Sam
491 The Roots of Heaven Romain
492 Seize the Day Saul
493 The Floating Opera John
494 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R.
495 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia
496 Lolita Vladimir
497 A World of Love Elizabeth
498 The Trusting and the Maimed James
499 The Quiet American Graham
500 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos
501 The Recognitions William
502 The Ragazzi Pier Paulo
503 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise
504 I’m Not Stiller Max
505 Self Condemned Wyndham
506 The Story of O Pauline
507 A Ghost at Noon Alberto
508 Lord of the Flies William
509 Under the Net Iris
510 The Go-Between L.P.
511 The Long Goodbye Raymond
512 The Unnamable Samuel
513 Watt Samuel
514 Lucky Jim Kingsley
515 Junkie William
516 The Adventures of Augie March Saul
517 Go Tell It on the Mountain James
518 Casino Royale Ian
519 The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich
520 Invisible Man Ralph
521 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest
522 Wise Blood Flannery
523 The Killer Inside Me Jim
524 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite
525 Malone Dies Samuel
526 Day of the Triffids John
527 Foundation Isaac
528 The Opposing Shore Julien
529 The Catcher in the Rye J.D.
530 The Rebel Albert
531 Molloy Samuel
532 The End of the Affair Graham
533 The Abbot C Georges
534 The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio
535 The Third Man Graham
536 The 13 Clocks James
537 Gormenghast Mervyn
538 The Grass is Singing Doris
539 I, Robot Isaac
540 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare
541 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Simon
542 Love in a Cold Climate Nancy
543 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor
544 The Heat of the Day Elizabeth
545 Kingdom of This World Alejo
546 The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson
547 Nineteen Eighty-Four George
548 All About H. Hatterr G.V.
549 Disobedience Alberto
550 Death Sentence Maurice
551 The Heart of the Matter Graham
552 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan
553 Doctor Faustus Thomas
554 The Victim Saul
555 Exercises in Style Raymond
556 If This Is a Man Primo
557 Under the Volcano Malcolm
558 The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo
559 The Plague Albert
560 Back Henry
561 Titus Groan Mervyn
562 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo
563 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn
564 Animal Farm George
565 Cannery Row John
566 The Pursuit of Love Nancy
567 Loving Henry
568 Arcanum 17 André
569 Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo
570 The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset
571 Transit Anna
572 Ficciones Jorge Luis
573 Dangling Man Saul
574 The Little Prince Antoine
575 Caught Henry
576 The Glass Bead Game Herman
577 Embers Sandor
578 Go Down, Moses William
579 The Outsider Albert
580 In Sicily Elio
581 The Poor Mouth Flann
582 The Living and the Dead Patrick
583 Hangover Square Patrick
584 Between the Acts Virginia
585 The Hamlet William
586 Farewell My Lovely Raymond
587 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest
588 Native Son Richard
589 The Power and the Glory Graham
590 The Tartar Steppe Dino
591 Party Going Henry
592 The Grapes of Wrath John
593 Finnegans Wake James
594 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann
595 Coming Up for Air George
596 Goodbye to Berlin Christopher
597 Tropic of Capricorn Henry
598 Good Morning, Midnight Jean
599 The Big Sleep Raymond
600 After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie
601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred
602 Nausea Jean-Paul
603 Rebecca Daphne
604 Cause for Alarm Eric
605 Brighton Rock Graham
606 U.S.A. John
607 Murphy Samuel
608 Of Mice and Men John
609 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora
610 The Hobbit J.R.R.
611 The Years Virginia
612 In Parenthesis David
613 The Revenge for Love Wyndham
614 Out of Africa Isak
615 To Have and Have Not Ernest
616 Summer Will Show Sylvia
617 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous
618 The Thinking Reed Rebecca
619 Gone With the Wind Margaret
620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George
621 Wild Harbour Ian
622 Absalom, Absalom! William
623 At the Mountains of Madness H.P.
624 Nightwood Djuna
625 Independent People Halldór
626 Auto-da-Fé Elias
627 The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher
628 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace
629 The House in Paris Elizabeth
630 England Made Me Graham
631 Burmese Days George
632 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L.
633 Threepenny Novel Bertolt
634 Novel With Cocaine M.
635 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M.
636 Tropic of Cancer Henry
637 A Handful of Dust Evelyn
638 Tender is the Night F. Scott
639 Thank You, Jeeves P.G.
640 Call it Sleep Henry
641 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael
642 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L.
643 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude
644 Testament of Youth Vera
645 A Day Off Storm
646 The Man Without Qualities Robert
647 A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis
648 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand
649 Brave New World Aldous
650 Cold Comfort Farm Stella
651 To the North Elizabeth
652 The Thin Man Dashiell
653 The Radetzky March Joseph
654 The Waves Virginia
655 The Glass Key Dashiell
656 Cakes and Ale W. Somerset
657 The Apes of God Wyndham
658 Her Privates We Frederic
659 Vile Bodies Evelyn
660 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell
661 Hebdomeros Giorgio
662 Passing Nella
663 A Farewell to Arms Ernest
664 Red Harvest Dashiell
665 Living Henry
666 The Time of Indifference Alberto
667 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria
668 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred
669 The Last September Elizabeth
670 Harriet Hume Rebecca
671 The Sound and the Fury William
672 Les Enfants Terribles Jean
673 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas
674 Story of the Eye Georges
675 Orlando Virginia
676 Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H.
677 The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe
678 The Childermass Wyndham
679 Quartet Jean
680 Decline and Fall Evelyn
681 Quicksand Nella
682 Parade’s End Ford Madox
683 Nadja André
684 Steppenwolf Herman
685 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel
686 To The Lighthouse Virginia
687 Tarka the Otter Henry
688 Amerika Franz
689 The Sun Also Rises Ernest
690 Blindness Henry
691 The Castle Franz
692 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav
693 The Plumed Serpent D.H.
694 One, None and a Hundred Thousand Luigi
695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha
696 The Making of Americans Gertrude
697 Manhattan Transfer John
698 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia
699 The Great Gatsby F. Scott
700 The Counterfeiters André
701 The Trial Franz
702 The Artamonov Business Maxim
703 The Professor’s House Willa
704 Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman
705 The Green Hat Michael
706 The Magic Mountain Thomas
707 We Yevgeny
708 A Passage to India E.M.
709 The Devil in the Flesh Raymond
710 Zeno’s Conscience Italo
711 Cane Jean
712 Antic Hay Aldous
713 Amok Stefan
714 The Garden Party Katherine
715 The Enormous Room E.E.
716 Jacob’s Room Virginia
717 Siddhartha Herman
718 The Glimpses of the Moon Edith
719 Life and Death of Harriett Frean May
720 The Last Days of Humanity Karl
721 Aaron’s Rod D.H.
722 Babbitt Sinclair
723 Ulysses James
724 The Fox D.H.
725 Crome Yellow Aldous
726 The Age of Innocence Edith
727 Main Street Sinclair
728 Women in Love D.H.
729 Night and Day Virginia
730 Tarr Wyndham
731 The Return of the Soldier Rebecca
732 The Shadow Line Joseph
733 Summer Edith
734 Growth of the Soil Knut
735 Bunner Sisters Edith
736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James
737 Under Fire Henri
738 Rashomon Akutagawa
739 The Good Soldier Ford Madox
740 The Voyage Out Virginia
741 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset
742 The Rainbow D.H.
743 The Thirty-Nine Steps John
744 Kokoro Natsume
745 Locus Solus Raymond
746 Rosshalde Herman
747 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar
748 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert
749 Sons and Lovers D.H.
750 Death in Venice Thomas
751 The Charwoman’s Daughter James
752 Ethan Frome Edith
753 Fantômas Marcel/Pierre
754 Howards End E.M.
755 Impressions of Africa Raymond
756 Three Lives Gertrude
757 Martin Eden Jack
758 Strait is the Gate André
759 Tono-Bungay H.G.
760 The Inferno Henri
761 A Room With a View E.M.
762 The Iron Heel Jack
763 The Old Wives’ Tale Arnold
764 The House on the Borderland Arnold
765 Mother Maxim
766 The Secret Agent Joseph
767 The Jungle Upton
768 Young Törless Robert
769 The Forsyte Sage John
770 The House of Mirth Edith
771 Professor Unrat Heinrich
772 Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M.
773 Nostromo Joseph
774 Hadrian the Seventh Frederick
775 The Golden Bowl Henry
776 The Ambassadors Henry
777 The Riddle of the Sands Erskine
778 The Immoralist André
779 The Wings of the Dove Henry
780 Heart of Darkness Joseph
781 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan
782 Buddenbrooks Thomas
783 Kim Rudyard
784 Sister Carrie Theodore
785 Lord Jim Joseph
1800s
786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
787 The Stechlin Theodore
788 The Awakening Kate
789 The Turn of the Screw Henry
790 The War of the Worlds H.G.
791 The Invisible Man H.G.
792 What Maisie Knew Henry
793 Fruits of the Earth André
794 Dracula Bram
795 Quo Vadis Henryk
796 The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G.
797 The Time Machine H.G.
798 Effi Briest Theodore
799 Jude the Obscure Thomas
800 The Real Charlotte
801 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte
802 Born in Exile George
803 Diary of a Nobody George & Weedon
804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan
805 News from Nowhere William
806 New Grub Street George
807 Gösta Berling’s Saga Selma
808 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas
809 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar
810 The Kreutzer Sonata Leo
811 La Bête Humaine Émile
812 By the Open Sea August
813 Hunger Knut
814 The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis
815 Pierre and Jean Guy
816 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito
817 The People of Hemsö August
818 The Woodlanders Thomas
819 She H.
820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis
821 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas
822 Kidnapped Robert Louis
823 King Solomon’s Mines H.
824 Germinal Émile
825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark
826 Bel-Ami Guy
827 Marius the Epicurean Walter
828 Against the Grain Joris-Karl
829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo
830 A Woman’s Life Guy
831 Treasure Island Robert Louis
832 The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni
833 The Portrait of a Lady Henry
834 Bouvard and Pécuchet Gustave
835 Ben-Hur Lew
836 Nana Émile
837 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor
838 The Red Room August
839 Return of the Native Thomas
840 Anna Karenina Leo
841 Drunkard Émile
842 Virgin Soil Ivan
843 Daniel Deronda George
844 The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas
845 The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave
846 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas
847 The Enchanted Wanderer Nicolai
848 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules
849 In a Glass Darkly Sheridan
850 The Devils Fyodor
851 Erewhon Samuel
852 Spring Torrents Ivan
853 Middlemarch George
854 Through the Looking Glass Lewis
855 King Lear of the Steppes Ivan
856 He Knew He Was Right Anthony
857 War and Peace Leo
858 Sentimental Education Gustave
859 Phineas Finn Anthony
860 Maldoror Comte
861 The Idiot Fyodor
862 The Moonstone Wilkie
863 Little Women Louisa May
864 Thérèse Raquin Émile
865 The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony
866 Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules
867 Crime and Punishment Fyodor
868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis
869 Our Mutual Friend Charles
870 Uncle Silas Sheridan
871 Notes from the Underground Fyodor
872 The Water-Babies Charles
873 Les Misérables Victor
874 Fathers and Sons Ivan
875 Silas Marner George
876 Great Expectations Charles
877 On the Eve Ivan
878 Castle Richmond Anthony
879 The Mill on the Floss George
880 The Woman in White Wilkie
881 The Marble Faun Nathaniel
882 Max Havelaar
883 A Tale of Two Cities Charles
884 Oblomovka Ivan
885 Adam Bede George
886 Madame Bovary Gustave
887 North and South Elizabeth
888 Hard Times Charles
889 Walden Henry David
890 Bleak House Charles
891 Villette Charlotte
892 Cranford Elizabeth
893 Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely Harriet
894 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel
895 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel
896 Moby-Dick Herman
897 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel
898 David Copperfield Charles
899 Shirley Charlotte
900 Mary Barton Elizabeth
901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne
902 Wuthering Heights Emily
903 Agnes Grey Anne
904 Jane Eyre Charlotte
905 Vanity Fair William Makepeace
906 The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre
907 La Reine Margot Alexandre
908 The Three Musketeers Alexandre
909 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan
910 Martin Chuzzlewit Charles
911 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan
912 Lost Illusions Honoré
913 A Christmas Carol Charles
914 Dead Souls Nikolay
915 The Charterhouse of Parma
916 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan
917 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles
918 Oliver Twist Charles
919 The Nose Nikolay
920 Le Père Goriot Honoré
921 Eugénie Grandet Honoré
922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor
923 The Red and the Black
924 The Betrothed Alessandro
925 Last of the Mohicans James
926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James
927 The Albigenses Charles Robert
928 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert
929 The Monastery Sir Walter
930 Ivanhoe Sir Walter
931 Frankenstein Mary
932 Northanger Abbey Jane
933 Persuasion Jane
934 Ormond Maria
935 Rob Roy Sir Walter
936 Emma Jane
937 Mansfield Park Jane
938 Pride and Prejudice Jane
939 The Absentee Maria
940 Sense and Sensibility Jane
941 Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von
942 Castle Rackrent Maria
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944 The Nun Denis
945 Camilla Fanny
946 The Monk M.G.
947 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von
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949 The Interesting Narrative Olaudah
950 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William
951 Justine Marquis
952 Vathek William
953 The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis
954 Cecilia Fanny
955 Confessions Jean-Jacques
956 Dangerous Liaisons Pierre
957 Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques
958 Evelina Fanny
959 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von
960 Humphrey Clinker Tobias George
961 The Man of Feeling Henry
962 A Sentimental Journey Laurence
963 Tristram Shandy Laurence
964 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver
965 The Castle of Otranto Horace
966 Émile; or, On Education Jean-Jacques
967 Rameau’s Nephew Denis
968 Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques
969 Rasselas Samuel
970 Candide
971 The Female Quixote Charlotte
972 Amelia Henry
973 Peregrine Pickle Tobias George
974 Fanny Hill John
975 Tom Jones Henry
976 Roderick Random Tobias George
977 Clarissa Samuel
978 Pamela Samuel
979 Jacques the Fatalist Denis
980 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus J.
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982 A Modest Proposal Jonathan
983 Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan
984 Roxana Daniel
985 Moll Flanders Daniel
986 Love in Excess Eliza
987 Robinson Crusoe Daniel
988 A Tale of a Tub Jonathan
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992 Don Quixote Miguel
993 The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas
994 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John
995 Gargantua and Pantagruel Françoise
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997 The Golden Ass Lucius
998 Aithiopika
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder
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Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather
A Death in the Family

James Agee
The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
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Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles
The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain

James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby

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A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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The Heart of the Matter

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Housekeeping
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A House for Mr. Biswas

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Invisible Man
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Light in August
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Money
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Native Son
Richard Wright
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984
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On the Road
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird

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Pale Fire
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A Passage to India
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Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Possession
A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth
The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
U-W
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net

Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhy
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Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart

Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Ch
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Oth
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
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Thucydides: History.
Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds.
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Illness, Accident, Grief

A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir
Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving Chair
Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Kenny Fries, Body, Remember
Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Evan Handler, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time
Roger Kamenetz, Terre Infirma
Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother
Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
Natalie Kusz, Road Song
Mindy Lewis, Life Inside
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief
Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life
Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction
Patricia Stacey, The Boy Who Loved Windows
William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (how not to write a memoir)
Family & Relationships

Laurie Alberts, Fault Line
Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmother’s Story
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate
Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel
Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family
Francine Cournos, City of One
John Daniel, Looking After: A Son’s Memoir
Patty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Nora Eisenberg, The War at Home
Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land
Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter
Dorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My Inheritance
Gail Hosking Gilberg, Snake’s Daughter: The Roads in and Out of War
Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments
Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
Susan Jacoby, Half-Jew
Bret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers: The Men in My Family
Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings
Karen McElmurray, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey
Valerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
Molly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by Piece
Sandra Scofield, Occasions of Sin
Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Jim Toner, Serendib
Bruce Weigl, The Circle of Hanh
John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
Geoffrey Wolff, The Duke of Deception
Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Childhood & Coming of Age

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Phyllis Barber, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir
Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth
Jerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of Belorusse
J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Frank Conroy, Stop-Time
Faith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global
James Ellroy, My Dark Places
Alexandra Fuller: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Henry Louis Gates, Colored People
Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education
Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Life
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation
June Jordan, Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive
Ilan Stevens, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
Richard Wright, Black Boy
Place, Nature, Science

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
Susanne Antonetta (Suzanne Paola), Body Toxic; A Mind Apart
Kim Barnes, Hungry for the World
Rick Bass, Winter
Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its Family
Joanna Burger, The Parrot Who Owns Me
Franklin Burroughs, Billy Watson’s Croker Sack
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Teaching a Stone to Talk
Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North
Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Space
J. H. Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World
Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles
Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai’i
Marcy Houle, Prairie Keepers
Cynthia Huntington, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod
Theresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse Home
William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time
Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in Northern Landscape
Nancy Lord, Beluga Days
Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It
Michael Martone, The Flatness and Other Landscapes
Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence
John McPhee, Coming into the Country
Harry Middleton, The Earth is Enough
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
John Price, Not Just Any Land: A Personal & Literary Journey into the American Grasslands
Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
Dana Sachs, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
Alix Kates Shulman, Drinking the Rain
Mark Spragg, When the River Changes Direction
Robert Stepto, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
New Journalism, Immersion, History, Social, Political, Religious, Spiritual,
Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
Ricardo Ainslie, Long Dark Road (about the James Byrd racially inspired murder)
Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Mark Curtis Anderson, Jesus Sound Explosion
Victoria Armour-Hileman, Singing to the Dead: A Missioner’s Life Among Refugees from Burma
Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days
Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage
Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy
C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Dalton Conley, Honky
Rosemary Daniell, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Beverly Donofrio, Looking for Mary (Or, The Blessed Mother and Me)
Gretel Ehrlich, Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journey of an American Buddhist
Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
William Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart
Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock
Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler
Jim Harrison, Off to the Side
Tom Hayden, Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
John Hersey, Hiroshima
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Eva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm
Kazuko Kuramoto, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonialist
Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren and House
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Anne Lamont, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Boys
Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over
Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song
Nancy Mairs, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
Pablo Neruda, Memoirs
Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
Tillie Olsen, Silences
Mary Rose O’Reilley, Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Natalia Rachel Singer, Scraping by in the Big Eighties
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Susan Tiberghien, Circling to the Center: One Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer
Studs Terkel, Working
Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc.
Experimental Forms
David B., Epileptic
Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni
Elias Canetti, The Agony of Files: Notes and Notations
E. M. Cioran, All Gall is Divided
Inga Clendinnen, Tiger’s Eye
Dennis and Vicki Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (husband-wife collaboration)
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Robin Hemley, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
Brian Lennon, City, An Essay
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Pat Mora, House of Houses
Donald Morrill, The Untouched Minutes
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; Embroideries
W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants; The Rings of Saturn
Bob Shacochis, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II (A Survivor’s Tale)
Lawrence Sutin, A Postcard Memoir
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Peter Trachtenberg, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh
Personal Essay & Anthologies

Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a Child
Brenda Miller, Season of the Body
Becky Bradway, ed., In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland
Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life
Bernard Cooper, Maps to Anywhere
Charles D’Ambrosio, Orphans
Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey
The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction
M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends
Patricia Foster, Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography & Self-Discovery
Daniel Francis, ed., Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction
Ian Frazier, On the Rez
Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
William Gass, On Being Blue
Albert Goldbarth, Many Circles
Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level
Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove
Emily Hiestand, Angela the Upside-down Girl
Pico Iyer, Falling off the Map
Judith Kitchen, Distance and Direction; Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn
Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body
Rasunah Marsden, Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-fiction
Brenda Miller, Season of the Body
Naomi Shihab Nye, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places
Cynthia Ozick, Fame & Folly, Quarrel & Quandry, and Metaphor & Memory
Molly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy)
Scott Russel Sanders, Staying Put
Marjorie Sandor, The Night Gardener
Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Shields, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
Gerald Stern, What I Can’t Bear Losing
Michael Steinberg, Still Pitching
Ira Sukrungruang, Scoot Over Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology
Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping
Robert Vivian, Cold Snap as Yearning
Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia
E. B. White, One Man’s Meat
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Humor
Stephen Akey, College
Robert Benchley, Benchley Beside Himself
Dinty Moore, The Accidental Buddhist
S. J. Perelman, Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman
David Sedaris, Naked
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
Journals & Letters

Genevieve Jurgensen, The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss
Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season
Jean Rhys, The Letters of Jean Rhys, Selected & Edited by Francis Wyndham & Diana Melly
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne and Letters to a Young Poet
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between
Anne Truitt, Prospect: The Journal of an Artist
Occupational Memoirs
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher
Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide
Robert Cowser, Dream Season: A Professor Joins America’s Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team
Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue
Ben Hamper, Rivethead
Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking
Susan Neville: Iconography: A Writer’s Meditation
Danielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Louise Rafkin, Other People’s Dirt: A Housecleaner’s Curious Adventures
Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table
Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife
Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain
On and About Writing (not just nonfiction)

Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)
Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art
Gayle Brandeis, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write
J. O. Cofer, Marilyn Kallet, eds., Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of Survival
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Rosemary Daniell, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives
Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer’s Guide
Jon Franklin, Writing for Story
Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark
Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction
Philip Gerard, Carolyn Forche, ed., Writing Creative Nonfiction
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story
Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories (memoir & craft)
Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction
Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay
Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out
Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola, Tell it Slant
Dinty Moore, The Truth of the Matter
Joyce Carol Oates, First Person Singular
Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs
Michael Steinberg (ed.), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
Mimi Schwartz, Writing True
Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse: Ideas & Inspirations for Writing
William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Literary Journals specifically for Nonfiction

Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (http://msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre/ )
Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org)
River Teeth, Department of English, Ashland University, Ashland, OH 44805
Brevity (750 words or less--www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brevity.html)
Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com)
Double-Take/Points of Entry (www.pointsofentry.org)
Seneca Review (lyric essays), Hobart-William Smith College, Geneva, NY 14456
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Diana Melly
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Change Women’s Lives
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#1 Misérables, les (1862) Victor Hugo
#2 Brothers Karamazov, the (1879) Fyodor Dostoevsky
#3 Storm of Swords, a (2000) George R.R. Martin
#4 Clash of Kings, a (1998) George R.R. Martin
#5 Ender's Game (1985) Orson Scott Card
#6 Count of Monte Cristo, the (1845) Alexandre Dumas (pere)
#7 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the (1994) Haruki Murakami
#8 Game of Thrones, a (1996) George R.R. Martin
#9 Lord of the Rings, the (1954) J.R.R. Tolkien
#10 Watchmen (1987) Alan Moore
#11 Crime and Punishment (1866) Fyodor Dostoevsky
#12 To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee
#13 One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel García Márquez
#14 Return of the King, the (1955) J.R.R. Tolkien
#15 Hyperion (1989) Dan Simmons
#16 Memories of Ice (2001) Steven Erikson
#17 Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
#18 Deadhouse Gates (2000) Steven Erikson
#19 Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller
#20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Ken Kesey
#21 Two Towers, the (1954) J.R.R. Tolkien
#22 Prayer for Owen Meany, a (1989) John Irving
#23 Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen
#24 Fellowship of the Ring, the (1954) J.R.R. Tolkien
#25 Neutronium Alchemist, the (1997) Peter F. Hamilton
#26 Snow Crash (1992) Neal Stephenson
#27 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
#28 Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the (1966) Robert A. Heinlein
#29 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the (1979) Douglas Adams
#30 Watership Down (1972) Richard Adams
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9.01 47
8.89 217
8.79 228
8.75 426
8.72 63
8.72 41
8.69 279
8.69 69
8.6 64
8.58 120
8.57 202
8.56 123
8.56 448
8.54 134
8.52 45
8.5 306
8.47 48
8.47 173
8.46 60
8.45 431
8.44 40
8.44 107
8.43 482
8.43 41
8.43 151
8.42 381
8.41 79
8.4 478
8.4 110
Nonfiction
The Accidental Masterpiece Michael Kimmelman

Almost There Nuala O'Faolain
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain
An Ordinary Man Paul Rusesabagina
Another Country Mary Pipher
Another Place at the Table Kathy Harrison
Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered Emily Fox Gordon
Armed Madhouse Greg Palast
La Bâtarde Violette Leduc
Basilica R. A. Scotti
Big Green Purse Diane MacEachern
Black, White, and Jewish Rebecca Walker
A Border Passage Leila Ahmed
Boswell's Presumptuous Task Adam Sisman
C'est la Vie Suzy Gershman
Chasing the Flame Samantha Power
Cherry Mary Karr
The City of Falling Angels John Berendt
The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris
Collapse Jared Diamond
The Color of Water James McBride
The Confessions Of an Economic Hitman John Perkins
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Jacki Lyden
The Disappearing Girl Lisa Machoian
Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt
Expecting Adam Martha Beck
Fast Girls Emily White
Fat Girl Judith Moore
Flower Children Maxine Swann
Freeing the Soul From Fear Robert Sardello
From Binge to Blackout Chris Volkmann and Toren Volkmann
Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel
Geographies of Home Loida Maritza Perez
Get to Work Linda R. Hirshman
The Ghost Map Steven Johnson
The Girls Who Went Away Ann Fessler
The Golden Road Caille Millner
The Growing Seasons Samuel Hynes
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo Paula Huntley
In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick
The House of Mondavi Julia Flynn Siler
The How of Happiness Sonja Lyubomirsky
Land of a Thousand Hills Rosamond Halsey Carr
The Last Days of Socrates Plato
The Liars' Club Mary Karr
Listening Is an Act of Love Dave Isay
The Lost Night Rachel Howard
Loving Men More, Needing Men Less Judith Sills
Mad in Pursuit Violette Leduc
Martha Washington Patricia Brady
Mary, Called Magdalene Margaret George
The Measure of Our Days Jerome Groopman, M.D.
The Mistress's Daughter A.M. Homes
Motiba's Tattoos Mira Kamdar
My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness Patricia Raybon
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass
A New Earth Eckhart Tolle
The Opposite of Fate Amy Tan
The Pact Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Liza Frazier Page
Persian Girls Nahid Rachlin
Picasso's War Russell Martin
A Place in the Country Laura Shaine Cunningham
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli
Prozac Diary Lauren Slater
Raising Fences Michael Datcher
The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang
Reading Judas Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King
Secret Daughter June Cross
Seductress Betsy Prioleau
Self-Made Man Norah Vincent
Should You Leave? Peter D. Kramer, M.D.
Smashed Koren Zailckas
Something to Declare Julia Alvarez
The Speckled Monster Jennifer Lee Carrell
Still Life with Chickens Catherine Goldhammer
The Story of My Life Giacomo Casanova
Strangers in the House Raja Shehadeh
Sword and Blossom Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Through the Burning Steppe Elena Kozhina
Too Close to the Falls Catherine Gildiner
Walking a Literary Labyrinth Nancy M. Malone
Without a Net Michelle Kennedy
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother Kim Chernin
The Women's Wheel of Life Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
1. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams
2. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James
3. UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington
4. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Virginia Woolf
5. SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson
6. SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot
7. THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson
8. SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov
9. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE by H. L. Mencken
10. THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY by John Maynard Keynes
11. THE LIVES OF A CELL by Lewis Thomas
12. THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner
13. BLACK BOY by Richard Wright
14. ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
15. THE CIVIL WAR by Shelby Foote
16. THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara Tuchman
17. THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND by Isaiah Berlin
18. THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN by Reinhold Niebuhr
19. NOTES OF A NATIVE SON by James Baldwin
20. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS by Gertrude Stein
21. THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by William Strunk and E. B. White
22. AN AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal
23. PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
24. THE MISMEASURE OF MAN by Stephen Jay Gould
25. THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP by Meyer Howard Abrams
26. THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE by Peter B. Medawar
27. THE ANTS by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
28. A THEORY OF JUSTICE by John Rawls
29. ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich
30. THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS by E. P. Thompson
31. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois
32. PRINCIPIA ETHICA by G. E. Moore
33. PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION by John Dewey
34. ON GROWTH AND FORM by D'Arcy Thompson
35. IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein
36. THE AGE OF JACKSON, Arthur Schlesinger by Jr.
37. THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes
38. BLACK LAMB and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
39. AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by W. B. Yeats
40. SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA by Joseph Needham
41. GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves
42. HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell
43. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN by Mark Twain
44. CHILDREN OF CRISIS by Robert Coles
45. A STUDY OF HISTORY by Arnold J. Toynbee
46. THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith
47. PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson
48. THE GREAT BRIDGE by David McCullough
49. PATRIOTIC GORE by Edmund Wilson
50. SAMUEL JOHNSON by Walter Jackson Bate
51. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
52. THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe
53. EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey
54. WORKING by Studs Terkel
55. DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron
56. THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION by Lionel Trilling
57. THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill
58. OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen
59. JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME by Dumas Malone
60. IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN by William Carlos Williams
61. CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner
62. THE HOUSE OF MORGAN by Ron Chernow
63. THE SWEET SCIENCE by A. J. Liebling
64. THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES by Karl Popper
65. THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates
66. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by R. H. Tawney
67. A PREFACE TO MORALS by Walter Lippmann
68. THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence
69. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn
70. THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Vann Woodward
71. THE RISE OF THE WEST by William H. McNeill
72. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels
73. JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
74. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith
75. THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell
76. THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford
77. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by James M. McPherson
78. WHY WE CAN'T WAIT by Martin Luther King by Jr.
79. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris
80. STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY by Erwin Panofsky
81. THE FACE OF BATTLE by John Keegan
82. THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND by George Dangerfield
83. VERMEER by Lawrence Gowing
84. A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan
85. WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham
86. THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff
87. A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
88. SIX EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman
89. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard
90. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James George Frazer
91. SHADOW AND ACT by Ralph Ellison
92. THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro
93. THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION by Richard Hofstadter
94. THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams
95. THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE by Herbert Croly
96. IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
97. THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm
98. THE TAMING OF CHANCE by Ian Hacking
99. OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS by Anne Lamott
100. MELBOURNE by Lord David Cecil
1. THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by AYN RAND
2. DIANETICS:THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH by L. RON HUBBARD
3. OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND by LEONARD PEIKOFF
4. 101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION by CLAIRE WOLFE
5. THE GOD OF THE MACHINE by ISABEL PATERSON
6. AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE by MICHAEL PAXTON
7. THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE by JULIAN SIMON
8. ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON by HENRY HAZLITT
9. SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
10. MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME by JOHN R. LOTT
11. PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL by BRUCE WISEMAN
12. FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by G. HANCOCK
13. CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING
14. FREE TO CHOOSE by MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN
15. AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF YOU DO by PETER MCWILLIAMS
16. THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by F. A. HAYEK
17. FREEDOM IN CHAINS by JAMES BOVARD
18. AMERICA'S GREAT DEPRESSION by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
19. THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by JOHN T. FLYNN
20. THE TRUE BELIEVER by ERIC HOFFER
21. VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS by THOMAS WEST
22. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by CARL L. BECKER
23. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS by AARON T. BECK
24. DEATH by GOVERNMENT by R. J. RUMMEL
25. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF
26. LONGITUDE by DAVA SOBEL
27. ORDINARILY SACRED by LYNDA SEXSON
28. SPEAK, MEMORY by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
29. THE ART OF MEMORY by FRANCES YATES
30. DUMBING US DOWN by JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
31. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by JAMES FRAZER
32. UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE
33. A MODERN PROPHET by HAROLD KLEMP
34. THE FLUTE OF GOD by PAUL TWITCHELL
35. REAL PRESENCES by GEORGE STEINER
36. OUT OF AFRICA by ISAK DINESEN
37. WAYS OF SEEING by JOHN BERGER
38. THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA'S CAMPUSES
39. PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD C
40. STORMING HEAVEN by JAY STEVENS
41. THE TEXAN by C. S. BARRIOS
42. HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by GEORGE ORWELL
43. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM JAMES
44. HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS by DARRELL HUFF
45. BUT IS IT TRUE? by AARON WILDAVSKY
46. A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
47. ANATOMY OF CRITICISM by NORTHROP FRYE
48. THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS by HENRY GRADY WEAVER
49. MODERN TIMES by PAUL JOHNSON
50. MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS by IRVING STONE
51. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by HENRY ADAMS
52. THE GREAT BRIDGE by DAVID MCCULLOUGH
53. AMERICAN GAY by STEPHEN O. MURRAY
54. THE DOUBLE HELIX by JAMES D. WATSON
55. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by FRANK KERMODE
56. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by ELAINE PAGELS
57. EROS THE BITTERSWEET by ANNE CARSON
58. THE WESTERN CANON by HAROLD BLOOM
59. THE WHITE GODDESS by ROBERT GRAVES
60. HEALING OUR WORLD by MARY RUWART
61. SILENT SPRING by RACHEL CARSON
62. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by ANNIE DILLARD
63. SEXUAL PERSONAE by CAMILLE PAGLIA
64. THINK AND GROW RICH by NAPOLEON HILL
65. A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN by DAVID KELLEY
66. DOORS OF PERCEPTION by ALDOUS HUXLEY
67. THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM by ROSE WILDER LANE
68. MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT by WALTER WILLIAMS
69. LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER by DAVID BOAZ
70. BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE by WILLIAM MADDOX AND STUART LILIE
71. A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES
72. PARLIAMENT OF WHORES by P. J. O'ROURKE
73. SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA'S FAMILIES
74. THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES by VIRGINIA POSTREL
75. THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by WILLIAM STRUNK AND E. B. WHITE
76. ORIENTALISM by EDWARD SAID
77. ECOTERROR by RON ARNOLD
78. WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK by HARRY BROWNE
79. OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. EDWARDS DEMING
80. NOT OUT OF AFRICA by MARY LEFKOWITZ
81. THE END OF RACISM by DINESH D'SOUZA
82. BEHIND THE MASK by IAN BURUMA
83. IN A DARK WOOD by ALSTON CHASE
84. PRIVATE PARTS by HOWARD STERN
85. THE TELEPHONE BOOK by AVITAL RONELL
86. THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE by GARY HART
87. WAKING AND DREAMING by JOSEPH HART
88. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD by LANA CANTRELL
89. RADICAL SON by DAVID HOROWITZ
90. UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN by SUSAN SONTAG
91. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X
92. A FEELING FOR BOOKS by JANICE RADWAY
93. THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
94. THE JOB by WILLIAM BURROUGHS
95. SILENT INTERVIEWS by SAMUEL R. DELANY
96. SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS by MIKE ROYKO
97. RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS by MICHAEL NOVACK
98. REVERSE ANGLE by JOHN SIMON
99. PLACING MOVIES by JONATHON ROSENBAUM
100. RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING by PATRICK J BUCHANAN
H HUMAN BEING by TIBOR MACHAN
N, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by STEPHEN E. AMBROSE
CA'S CAMPUSES by ALAN CHARLES KORS

LT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by JAMES V. DE LONG
UART LILIE
TRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL
FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James 3. Joyce
BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkie
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner 6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. CATCH-22 7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler 8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence 9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler 12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. 1984 by George Orwell 13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgeral
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser 16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers 17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison 19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright 20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow 21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pyncho
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara 22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbe
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos 23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonneg
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson 24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitc
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster 25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James 26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James 27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald 28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell 29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford 30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James 32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddiso
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser 33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh 34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren 36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkne
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder 37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset M
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster 38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin 39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene 40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey 42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony 43.
Powell
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley 44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway 45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad 46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad 47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence 48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence 49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer 51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GAL
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth 52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atw
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Bur
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett 56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford 57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOU
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton 58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm 59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather 61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones 62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever 63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingw
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COME
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis 68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton 69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell 70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes 71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul 72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West 73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MA
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh 75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce 77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling 78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster 79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner 82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilto
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul 83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlei
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen 84. IT by Stephen King
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad 85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow 86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett 87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Hein
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
89. LOVING by Henry Green 89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie 90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell 91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Heming
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy 92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles 93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys 94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch 95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron 96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy 99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington 100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rush
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INGBIRD by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
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by L. Ron Hubbard 9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
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SBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
LICE by Nevil Shute 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
ORLD by Aldous Huxley 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
N THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
by George Orwell 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
NBOW by Thomas Pynchon 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
WRATH by John Steinbeck 22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
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LIES by William Golding 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute 27. Native Son by Richard Wright
OWEN MEANY by John Irving 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Stephen King 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
EUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
ni Morrison 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
ROBOROS by E.R. Eddison 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
D THE FURY by William Faulkner 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
mir Nabokov 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Charles de Lint 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
ALOM! by William Faulkner 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
DAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
Flannery O'Connor 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
LCANO by Malcolm Lowry 39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
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KNESS by Joseph Conrad 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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REAM by Charles de Lint 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
OUSE by Virginia Woolf 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
R by Walker Percy 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
les de Lint 50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
ER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas
51. My Adams
Antonia by Willa Cather
A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
52. Howards End by E.M. Forster
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AN by Cormac McCarthy 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
by Nevil Shute 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN 57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
by Charles de Lint 58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
by Orson Scott Card 59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
UNTRY by Charles de Lint 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
IONS by William Gaddis 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
OPERS by Robert Heinlein 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RISES by Ernest Hemingway 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
CORDING TO GARP by John Irving64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
CKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
G by William Faulkner 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
CER by Henry Miller 68. Light in August by William Faulkner
N by Ralph Ellison 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
E by Terri Windling 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
John Fowles 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
O SUMMER by Robert Heinlein 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
RT OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE 73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Robert Graves 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
HE WILD by Jack London 75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
BIRDS by Flann O'Brien 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
1 by Ray Bradbury 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
by Sinclair Lewis 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
WN by Richard Adams 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
by William S. Burroughs 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
RES by Laurell K. Hamilton 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
ASTERS by Robert Heinlein 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
y Robert Heinlein 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
E GALAXY by Robert Heinlein 87. The Bostonians by Henry James
EVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
ST by William Faulkner 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
R THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
O ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
NG SKY by Paul Bowles 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Willa Cather 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Charles de Lint 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
mac McCarthy 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
D by Robert Holdstock 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
ichard Bach 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
MAN by Robertson Davies 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
VERSES by Salman Rushdie 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
101 Great Books
Recommended for College-Bound Readers
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Author Title
-- Beowulf
Achebe, Things Fall
Chinua Apart
Agee, A Death in
James the Family
Austen, Pride and
Jane Prejudice
Go Tell It
Baldwin, on the
James Mountain
Beckett, Waiting for
Samuel Godot
The
Adventure
Bellow, s of Augie
Saul March
Brontë,
Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Wuthering
Emily Heights
Camus, The
Albert Stranger
Death
Comes for
the
Cather, Archbisho
Willa p
The
Chaucer, Canterbur
Geoffrey y Tales
The
Chekhov, Cherry
Anton Orchard
Chopin, The
Kate Awakening
Conrad, Heart of
Joseph Darkness
Cooper, The Last
James of the
Fenimore Mohicans
The Red
Crane, Badge of
Stephen Courage
Dante Inferno
de
Cervantes, Don
Miguel Quixote
Defoe, Robinson
Daniel Crusoe
Dickens, A Tale of
Charles Two Cities
Crime and
Dostoyevs Punishmen
ky, Fyodor t
Narrative
of the Life
of
Douglass, Frederick
Frederick Douglass
An
Dreiser, American
Theodore Tragedy
The Three
Dumas, Musketeer
Alexandre s
Eliot, The Mill on

George the Floss
Ellison, Invisible
Ralph Man
Emerson,
Ralph Selected
Waldo Essays
Faulkner, As I Lay
William Dying
The Sound
Faulkner, and the
William Fury
Fielding,
Henry Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, The Great
F. Scott Gatsby
Flaubert, Madame
Gustave Bovary
Ford, Ford The Good
Madox Soldier
Goethe,
Johann
Wolfgang
von Faust
Golding, Lord of the
William Flies
Tess of
the
Hardy, d'Urbervill
Thomas es
The
Hawthorne Scarlet
, Nathaniel Letter
Heller,
Joseph Catch 22
Hemingwa A Farewell
y, Ernest to Arms
Homer The Iliad
The
Homer Odyssey
The
Hunchback
Hugo, of Notre
Victor Dame
Their Eyes
Were
Hurston, Watching
Zora Neale God
Huxley, Brave New
Aldous World
Ibsen, A Doll's
Henrik House
The
James, Portrait of
Henry a Lady
The Turn
James, of the
Henry Screw
A Portrait
of the
Artist as a
Joyce, Young
James Man
The
Kafka, Metamorp
Franz hosis
Kingston, The
Maxine Woman
Hong Warrior
To Kill a
Lee, Mockingbir
Harper d
Lewis,
Sinclair Babbitt
London, The Call of

Jack the Wild
Mann, The Magic
Thomas Mountain
One
Marquez, Hundred
Gabriel Years of
García Solitude
Bartleby
Melville, the
Herman Scrivener
Melville,
Herman Moby Dick
Miller, The
Arthur Crucible
Morrison,
Toni Beloved
A Good
Man is
O'Connor, Hard to
Flannery Find
Long Day's
O'Neill, Journey
Eugene into Night
Orwell, Animal
George Farm
Pasternak, Doctor
Boris Zhivago
Plath, The Bell
Sylvia Jar
Poe, Edgar Selected

Allan Tales
Proust, Swann's
Marcel Way
Pynchon, The Crying

Thomas of Lot 49
All Quiet
Remarque, on the
Erich Western
Maria Front
Rostand, Cyrano de
Edmond Bergerac
Roth, Call It
Henry Sleep
The
Salinger, Catcher in
J.D. the Rye
Shakespea
re, William Hamlet
Shakespea
re, William Macbeth
A
Midsumme
Shakespea r Night's
re, William Dream
Shakespea Romeo
re, William and Juliet
Shaw,
George
Bernard Pygmalion
Shelley, Frankenst
Mary ein
Silko,
Leslie
Marmon Ceremony
One Day
Solzhenits in the Life
yn, of Ivan
Alexander Denisovich
Sophocles Antigone
Oedipus
Sophocles Rex
The
Steinbeck, Grapes of
John Wrath
Stevenson
, Robert Treasure
Louis Island
Stowe, Uncle
Harriet Tom's
Beecher Cabin
Swift, Gulliver's
Jonathan Travels
Thackeray
, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau,
Henry
David Walden
Tolstoy, War and
Leo Peace
Turgenev, Fathers
Ivan and Sons
The
Adventure
s of
Twain, Huckleberr
Mark y Finn
Voltaire Candide
Vonnegut, Slaughterh
Kurt Jr. ouse-Five
Walker, The Color
Alice Purple
Wharton, The House
Edith of Mirth
Welty, Collected
Eudora Stories
Whitman, Leaves of
Walt Grass
The
Picture of
Wilde, Dorian
Oscar Gray
Williams, The Glass
Tennessee Menagerie
Woolf, To the
Virginia Lighthouse
Wright,
Richard Native Son
Readers
nselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.
g your many options.
Kids
Books for All Ages
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
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The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
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Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
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The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
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All the King's Men

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

The Berlin Stories

The Big Sleep

The Blind Assassin

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Catcher in the Rye

The Crying of Lot 49

A Dance to the Music of Time

The Day of the Locust

Death Comes for the Archbishop

A Death in the Family

The Death of the Heart

The French Lieutenant's Woman

The Golden Notebook

Go Tell it on the Mountain

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

The Heart of the Matter

A House for Mr. Biswas

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings

The Man Who Loved Children

The Painted Bird

The Power and the Glory

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sound and the Fury

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

The Sun Also Rises

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Things Fall Apart

Under the Net

Under the Volcano

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wednesday May 8, 2002

Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart

; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov

he Sound and the Fury

Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera

; The Castle Bohemia

he Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds.

Aristotle: Ethics, Politics.

St. Augustine: Confessions.

St. Thomas: Treatise on Law.

Machiavelli: The Prince.

Locke: Of Civil Government.

Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Madison et al: Federalist Papers.

Smith: The Wealth of Nations.

Marx: Communist Manifesto.

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