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48 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 8 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
74 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 8 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac 7 Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
73 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 7 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
64 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 6 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
69 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 6 Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
109 The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 6 No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
180 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 6 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
24 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll 5 Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No
45 Ulysses James Joyce 5 Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes
66 Lord of the Flies William Golding 5 Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes
121 The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck 5 No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
181 1984 George Orwell 5 No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
18 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 4 Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No
21 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 4 Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes
46 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 4 Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes No
47 A Passage to India EM Forster 4 Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No
53 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 4 Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes
71 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 4 Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes No
72 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark 4 Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No
76 One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez 4 Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No
101 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 4 No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No
132 Animal Farm George Orwell 4 No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes
145 Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4 No Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes
192 Beloved Toni Morrison 4 No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
206 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 4 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
221 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 4 No No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
251 The Stranger Albert Camus 4 No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
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1 Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes 3 Yes No No No No No Yes Yes

3 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 3 Yes No No No No No Yes Yes
10 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 3 Yes No No No No No Yes Yes
14 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 3 Yes Yes No No No No No Yes
16 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 3 Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
17 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 3 Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
25 Little Women Louisa M Alcott 3 Yes Yes No Yes No No No No
38 The Call of the Wild Jack London 3 Yes No No No Yes No No Yes
40 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 3 Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
54 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 3 Yes No No No Yes No Yes No
56 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 3 Yes No No No No Yes Yes No
65 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 3 Yes No No No No Yes Yes No
82 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo CalviNo 3 Yes No No Yes No No Yes No
83 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 3 Yes No No No Yes No Yes No
85 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 3 Yes No No Yes No Yes No No
97 Atonement Ian McEwan 3 Yes No No No No Yes Yes No
102 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 3 No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
103 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Douglas
GalaxyAdams 3 No Yes No Yes No No Yes No
110 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 3 No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
119 Middlemarch George Eliot 3 No Yes No Yes No No Yes No
131 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 3 No Yes No No Yes Yes No No
140 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 3 No Yes No Yes No No Yes No
219 PortNoy's Complaint Philip Roth 3 No No Yes No Yes Yes No No
223 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 3 No No Yes Yes Yes No No No
234 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 3 No No Yes Yes No No Yes No
252 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 3 No No Yes No Yes Yes No No
263 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 3 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
271 White Noise Don DeLillo 3 No No No Yes No Yes No Yes
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273 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers 3 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
278 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 3 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
292 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 3 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
301 I, CLAUDIUS Robert Graves 3 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
346 GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINJames Baldwin 3 No No No No Yes Yes Yes No
349 A DANCE TO THE MUSICAnthonyOF TIMEPowell 3 No No No No Yes Yes Yes No
353 TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller 3 No No No No Yes Yes No Yes
384 WIDE SARGASSO SEA Jean Rhys 3 No No No No Yes Yes Yes No
385 UNDER THE NET Iris Murdoch 3 No No No No Yes Yes Yes No
4 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
5 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
6 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
7 Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
9 Emma Jane Austen 2 Yes Yes No No No No No No
20 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 Yes No No Yes No No No No
22 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
23 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 2 Yes Yes No No No No No No
30 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
32 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
Robert
and Louis
Mr Hyde
Stevenson 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
34 The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde 2 Yes No No No No No No Yes
39 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 2 Yes No No No Yes No No No
41 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
42 The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence 2 Yes No No No Yes No No No
43 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 2 Yes No No No Yes No No No
49 The Trial Franz Kafka 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
52 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 2 Yes No No No Yes No No No
59 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 2 Yes Yes No No No No No No
63 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 2 Yes No Yes No No No No No
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70 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No

75 Herzog Saul Bellow 2 Yes No No No No Yes No No
78 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
79 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 2 Yes No No Yes No No No No
88 The BFG Roald Dahl 2 Yes Yes No No No No No No
90 Money Martin Amis 2 Yes No No No No Yes No No
92 Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
94 Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie 2 Yes No No Yes No No No No
99 American Pastoral Philip Roth 2 Yes No No No No Yes No No
100 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2 Yes No No No No No Yes No
113 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 2 No Yes No No No Yes No No
117 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 2 No Yes No No No No No Yes
118 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 2 No Yes No No No No Yes No
120 A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving 2 No Yes No Yes No No No No
124 Charlie And The Chocolate Roald
FactoryDahl 2 No Yes Yes No No No No No
125 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 2 No Yes No No No No No Yes
128 Dune Frank Herbert 2 No Yes Yes No No No No No
130 Watership Down Richard Adams 2 No Yes No Yes No No No No
152 The Magus John Fowles 2 No Yes No No Yes No No No
153 Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
2 No Yes No Yes No No No No
160 The Secret History Donna Tartt 2 No Yes Yes No No No No No
169 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 2 No Yes No No No No Yes No
177 Love In The Time Of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez 2 No Yes Yes No No No No No
186 A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 2 No No Yes Yes No No No No
190 Are You There, God? It's me,
Judy
Margaret
Blume 2 No No Yes No No Yes No No
216 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 2 No No Yes No Yes No No No
224 The Amazing Adventures ofMichael
KavalierChabon
and Clay 2 No No Yes Yes No No No No
225 The Autobiography of Malcolm
Malcolm
X X and Alex Haley 2 No No Yes No No No No Yes
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227 The Brief Wondrous Life ofJuNot

OscarDiaz
Wao 2 No No Yes Yes No No No No
229 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2 No No Yes No No Yes No No
241 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 2 No No Yes No No No No Yes
245 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 2 No No Yes Yes No No No No
255 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
Haruki
A Novel
Murakami 2 No No Yes Yes No No No No
265 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
266 The Master and Margarita Mikhail
(PenguinBulgakov
Classics) 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
277 The Histories Herodotus 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
280 Their Eyes Were WatchingZora
God Neale Hurston 2 No No No Yes No Yes No No
283 Cannery Row John Steinbeck 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
287 Watchmen Alan Moore 2 No No No Yes No Yes No No
295 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
310 The Unbearable Lightness Milan
of Being
Kundera 2 No No No Yes No No Yes No
314 Hamlet William Shakespeare 2 No No No Yes No No No Yes
315 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 2 No No No Yes No Yes No No
321 Les Miserables Victor Hugo 2 No No No Yes No No Yes No
328 UNDER THE VOLCANo Malcolm Lowry 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
330 AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYTheodore Dreiser 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
331 NATIVE SON Richard Wright 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
333 APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA John O’Hara 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
342 A HANDFUL OF DUST Evelyn Waugh 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
343 ALL THE KING’S MEN Robert Penn Warren 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
344 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS Thornton
REY Wilder 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
347 THE HEART OF THE MATTER Graham Greene 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
348 DELIVERANCE James Dickey 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
354 THE NAKED AND THE DEAD Norman Mailer 2 No No No No Yes No No Yes
355 LIGHT IN AUGUST William Faulkner 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
356 THE MALTESE FALCON Dashiell Hammett 2 No No No No Yes No No Yes
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359 THE MOVIEGOER Walker Percy 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No

360 DEATH COMES FOR THEWilla ARCHBISHOP
Cather 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
361 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY James Jones 2 No No No No Yes No No Yes
363 A CLOCKWORK ORANGEAnthony Burgess 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
364 HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad 2 No No No No Yes No Yes No
366 THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Edith Wharton 2 No No No No Yes No Yes No
369 A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS V.S. Naipaul 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
370 THE DAY OF THE LOCUST Nathanael West 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
371 A FAREWELL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway 2 No No No No Yes No No Yes
375 THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE Saul Bellow
MARCH 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
377 THE DEATH OF THE HEART Elizabeth Bowen 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
379 RAGTIME E.L. Doctorow 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
381 LOVING Henry Green 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
387 THE SHELTERING SKY Paul Bowles 2 No No No No Yes Yes No No
395 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 2 No No No No No Yes No Yes
403 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 2 No No No No No Yes Yes No
437 All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Remarque 2 No No No No No No Yes Yes
2 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1 Yes No No No No No No No
8 Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos 1 Yes No No No No No No No
11 Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1 Yes No No No No No No No
12 The Black Sheep HoNoré De Balzac 1 Yes No No No No No No No
13 The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal 1 Yes No No No No No No No
15 Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 1 Yes No No No No No No No
19 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1 Yes No No No No No No No
26 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1 Yes No No No No No No No
27 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1 Yes No No No No No No No
28 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1 Yes No No No No No No No
29 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 Yes No No No No No No No
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31 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1 Yes No No No No No No No

33 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1 Yes No No No No No No No
35 The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 1 Yes No No No No No No No
36 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1 Yes No No No No No No No
37 The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers 1 Yes No No No No No No No
44 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1 Yes No No No No No No No
50 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1 Yes No No No No No No No
51 Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1 Yes No No No No No No No
55 USA John Dos Passos 1 Yes No No No No No No No
57 The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 1 Yes No No No No No No No
58 The Plague Albert Camus 1 Yes No No No No No No No
60 Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 1 Yes No No No No No No No
61 Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 1 Yes No No No No No No No
62 Wise Blood Flannery O'ConNor 1 Yes No No No No No No No
67 The Quiet American Graham Greene 1 Yes No No No No No No No
77 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor 1 Yes No No No No No No No
80 The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge 1 Yes No No No No No No No
81 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1 Yes No No No No No No No
84 Waiting for the BarbariansJ.M. Coetzee 1 Yes No No No No No No No
86 Lanark Alasdair Gray 1 Yes No No No No No No No
87 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1 Yes No No No No No No No
89 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1 Yes No No No No No No No
91 An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro 1 Yes No No No No No No No
93 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera 1 Yes No No No No No No No
95 La Confidential James Ellroy 1 Yes No No No No No No No
96 Wise Children Angela Carter 1 Yes No No No No No No No
98 Northern Lights Philip Pullman 1 Yes No No No No No No No
104 Harry Potter and the GobletJKof Rowling
Fire 1 No Yes No No No No No No
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105 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne 1 No Yes No No No No No No

106 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe 1 No Yes No No No No No No
107 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1 No Yes No No No No No No
108 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1 No Yes No No No No No No
111 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres 1 No Yes No No No No No No
112 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1 No Yes No No No No No No
114 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's
JK Rowling
Stone 1 No Yes No No No No No No
115 Harry Potter And The Chamber
JK Rowling
Of Secrets 1 No Yes No No No No No No
116 Harry Potter And The Prisoner
JK Rowling
Of Azkaban 1 No Yes No No No No No No
122 The Story Of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson 1 No Yes No No No No No No
123 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
126 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 1 No Yes No No No No No No
127 Persuasion Jane Austen 1 No Yes No No No No No No
129 Anne Of Green Gables LM Montgomery 1 No Yes No No No No No No
133 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1 No Yes No No No No No No
134 Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1 No Yes No No No No No No
135 Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1 No Yes No No No No No No
136 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1 No Yes No No No No No No
137 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
138 Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck 1 No Yes No No No No No No
139 The Stand Stephen King 1 No Yes No No No No No No
141 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1 No Yes No No No No No No
142 Swallows And Amazons Arthur Ransome 1 No Yes No No No No No No
143 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1 No Yes No No No No No No
144 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 1 No Yes No No No No No No
146 Noughts And Crosses Malorie Blackman 1 No Yes No No No No No No
147 Memoirs Of A Geisha Arthur Golden 1 No Yes No No No No No No
148 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1 No Yes No No No No No No
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149 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCollough 1 No Yes No No No No No No

150 Mort Terry Pratchett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
151 The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton 1 No Yes No No No No No No
154 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
155 Perfume Patrick Süskind 1 No Yes No No No No No No
156 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell 1 No Yes No No No No No No
157 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
158 Matilda Roald Dahl 1 No Yes No No No No No No
159 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1 No Yes No No No No No No
161 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1 No Yes No No No No No No
162 Double Act Jacqueline Wilson 1 No Yes No No No No No No
163 The Twits Roald Dahl 1 No Yes No No No No No No
164 I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith 1 No Yes No No No No No No
165 Holes Louis Sachar 1 No Yes No No No No No No
166 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1 No Yes No No No No No No
167 The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1 No Yes No No No No No No
168 Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson 1 No Yes No No No No No No
170 Magician Raymond E Feist 1 No Yes No No No No No No
171 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1 No Yes No No No No No No
172 The Clan Of The Cave Bear Jean M Auel 1 No Yes No No No No No No
173 The Colour Of Magic Terry Pratchett 1 No Yes No No No No No No
174 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1 No Yes No No No No No No
175 Katherine Anya Seton 1 No Yes No No No No No No
176 Kane And Abel Jeffrey Archer 1 No Yes No No No No No No
178 Girls In Love Jacqueline Wilson 1 No Yes No No No No No No
179 The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 1 No Yes No No No No No No
182 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 1 No No Yes No No No No No
183 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Dave EggersGenius 1 No No Yes No No No No No
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184 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 1 No No Yes No No No No No

185 A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony
#1: The
Snicket
Bad Beginning: The
1 Short-Lived
No No Edition
Yes No No No No No
187 Alice Munro: Selected Stories
Alice Munro 1 No No Yes No No No No No
188 All the President's Men Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein1 No No Yes No No No No No
189 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt 1 No No Yes No No No No No
191 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 1 No No Yes No No No No No
193 Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe,
Christopher
Superathletes,
McDougall
and the Greatest
1 No Race the
No World Has Never
Yes No Seen No No No No
194 Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 1 No No Yes No No No No No
195 Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese 1 No No Yes No No No No No
196 Daring Greatly: How the Courage
Brene Brown
to Be Vulnerable Transforms
1 No the Way
No We Live,
Yes Love,No
Parent, and
No LeadNo No No
197 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book Jeff
1 Kinney 1 No No Yes No No No No No
198 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1 No No Yes No No No No No
199 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
Hunter A S.
Savage
Thompson
Journey to the Heart
1 No of theNo
AmericanYesDreamNo No No No No
200 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 1 No No Yes No No No No No
201 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1 No No Yes No No No No No
202 Guns, Germs, and Steel: TheJared
Fates
M.ofDiamond
Human Societies 1 No No Yes No No No No No
203 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
J.K. Rowling
Stone 1 No No Yes No No No No No
204 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1 No No Yes No No No No No
205 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1 No No Yes No No No No No
207 Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Chris
Kid onWare
Earth 1 No No Yes No No No No No
208 Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain 1 No No Yes No No No No No
209 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 1 No No Yes No No No No No
210 Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder 1 No No Yes No No No No No
211 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich 1 No No Yes No No No No No
212 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl 1 No No Yes No No No No No
213 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 1 No No Yes No No No No No
214 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 1 No No Yes No No No No No
215 Moneyball Michael Lewis 1 No No Yes No No No No No
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217 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 1 No No Yes No No No No No

218 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 1 No No Yes No No No No No
220 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1 No No Yes No No No No No
222 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 1 No No Yes No No No No No
226 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 1 No No Yes No No No No No
228 The Color of Water James McBride 1 No No Yes No No No No No
230 The Devil in the White City:Erik
Murder,
LarsonMagic, and Madness 1atNo
the Fair No
that Changed
Yes America
No No No No No
231 The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank 1 No No Yes No No No No No
232 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 1 No No Yes No No No No No
233 The Giver Lois Lowry 1 No No Yes No No No No No
235 The House At Pooh CornerA. A. Milne 1 No No Yes No No No No No
236 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 1 No No Yes No No No No No
237 The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Rebecca
Lacks
Skloot 1 No No Yes No No No No No
238 The Liars' Club: A Memoir Mary Karr 1 No No Yes No No No No No
239 The Lightning Thief (PercyRick
Jackson
Riordan
and the Olympians, Book
1 No1) No Yes No No No No No
240 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1 No No Yes No No No No No
242 The Looming Tower: Al-QaedaLawrence
and the
Wright
Road to 9/11 1 No No Yes No No No No No
243 The Man Who Mistook HisOliverWife For
Sacks
A Hat: And Other Clinical
1 No Tales No Yes No No No No No
244 The Omnivore's Dilemma: Michael
A NaturalPollan
History of Four Meals1 No No Yes No No No No No
246 The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver 1 No No Yes No No No No No
247 The Power Broker: Robert Robert
Moses andA. Caro
the Fall of New York1 No No Yes No No No No No
248 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1 No No Yes No No No No No
249 The Road Cormac McCarthy 1 No No Yes No No No No No
250 The Shining Stephen King 1 No No Yes No No No No No
253 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 1 No No Yes No No No No No
254 The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle 1 No No Yes No No No No No
256 The World According to GarpJohn Irving 1 No No Yes No No No No No
257 The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion 1 No No Yes No No No No No
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258 Unbroken: A World War IILaura

Story Hillenbrand
of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
1 No No Yes No No No No No
259 Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann 1 No No Yes No No No No No
260 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1 No No Yes No No No No No
261 Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak 1 No No Yes No No No No No
262 Breakfast of Champions: AKurt
Novel Vonnegut 1 No No No Yes No No No No
264 Ficciones (English Translation)
Jorge Luis Borges 1 No No No Yes No No No No
267 Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
Joan Essays
Didion(FSG Classics) 1 No No No Yes No No No No
268 Harry Potter Boxed Set J.K. Rowling 1 No No No Yes No No No No
269 Dubliners James Joyce 1 No No No Yes No No No No
270 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 1 No No No Yes No No No No
272 Mountains Beyond Mountains:TracyThe
Kidder
Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer,
1 Noa Man No
Who WouldNo Cure Yes
the World
No(Random
No HouseNoReader'sNoCircle
274 A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1 No No No Yes No No No No
275 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1 No No No Yes No No No No
276 Cat’s Cradle Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut 1 No No No Yes No No No No
279 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1 No No No Yes No No No No
281 Dealing with Dragons: ThePatricia
Enchanted
C. Wrede
Forest Chronicles, Book
1 No One No No Yes No No No No
282 The Bell Jar (P.S.) Sylvia Plath 1 No No No Yes No No No No
284 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and Haruki
the End
Murakami
of the World: A Novel (VintageNo
1 No International)
No Yes No No No No
285 Raise High the Roof Beam,J.Carpenters
D. Salingerand Seymour: An Introduction
1 No No No Yes No No No No
286 Shadow & Claw: The First Half
GeneofWolfe
‘The Book of the New Sun’1 No No No Yes No No No No
288 The Complete Stories Flannery O'ConNor 1 No No No Yes No No No No
289 Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf 1 No No No Yes No No No No
290 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1 No No No Yes No No No No
291 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1 No No No Yes No No No No
293 Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive
Anne Frank Editon 1 No No No Yes No No No No
294 The Chronicles of Narnia: The
C.S.Magician's
Lewis Nephew/The Lion, the Witch
1 No No and the
NoWardrobe/The
Yes Horse
No and
NoHis Boy/Prince
No Caspian/The
No Voyage
296 ENormous Changes at the Last
GraceMinute
Paley 1 No No No Yes No No No No
297 You Shall KNow Our VelocityDave Eggers 1 No No No Yes No No No No
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298 BaudoliNo Umberto Eco 1 No No No Yes No No No No

299 Been Down So Long It Looks Richard
Like UpFarina
to Me (Twentieth-Century
1 No Classics)
No No Yes No No No No
300 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1 No No No Yes No No No No
302 In Our Time Ernest Hemingway 1 No No No Yes No No No No
303 Jayber Crow: A Novel Wendell Berry 1 No No No Yes No No No No
304 Little, Big John Crowley 1 No No No Yes No No No No
305 Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book Dennis
of theTedlock
Dawn of Life 1 No No No Yes No No No No
306 The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin 1 No No No Yes No No No No
307 The Merry Adventures of Robin
Howard Hood
Pyle 1 No No No Yes No No No No
308 The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1 No No No Yes No No No No
309 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch 1 No No No Yes No No No No
311 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1 No No No Yes No No No No
312 Nine Stories J.D. Salinger 1 No No No Yes No No No No
313 Drown JuNot Diaz 1 No No No Yes No No No No
316 The Blue Sword Robin McKinley 1 No No No Yes No No No No
317 The Odyssey Homer 1 No No No Yes No No No No
318 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 1 No No No Yes No No No No
319 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 1 No No No Yes No No No No
320 A People’s History of the United
Howard States:
Zinn1492 to Present 1 No No No Yes No No No No
322 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1 No No No Yes No No No No
323 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 1 No No No Yes No No No No
324 Leaves of Grass: The First (1855)
Walt Whitman
Edition (Penguin Classics)
1 No No No Yes No No No No
325 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST James ASJoyce
A YOUNG MAN 1 No No No No Yes No No No
326 DARKNESS AT NoON Arthur Koestler 1 No No No No Yes No No No
327 SONS AND LOVERS D.H. Lawrence 1 No No No No Yes No No No
329 THE WAY OF ALL FLESHSamuel Butler 1 No No No No Yes No No No
332 HENDERSON THE RAIN KING Saul Bellow 1 No No No No Yes No No No
334 U.S.A.(trilogy) John Dos Passos 1 No No No No Yes No No No
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335 WINESBURG, OHIO Sherwood Anderson 1 No No No No Yes No No No

336 THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Henry James 1 No No No No Yes No No No
337 THE AMBASSADORS Henry James 1 No No No No Yes No No No
338 TENDER IS THE NIGHT F. Scott Fitzgerald 1 No No No No Yes No No No
339 THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY
James T. Farrell 1 No No No No Yes No No No
340 THE GOLDEN BOWL Henry James 1 No No No No Yes No No No
341 SISTER CARRIE Theodore Dreiser 1 No No No No Yes No No No
345 HOWARDS END E.M. Forster 1 No No No No Yes No No No
350 POINT COUNTER POINT Aldous Huxley 1 No No No No Yes No No No
351 THE SECRET AGENT Joseph Conrad 1 No No No No Yes No No No
352 WOMEN IN LOVE D.H. Lawrence 1 No No No No Yes No No No
357 PARADE’S END Ford Madox Ford 1 No No No No Yes No No No
358 ZULEIKA DOBSON Max Beerbohm 1 No No No No Yes No No No
362 THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES
John Cheever 1 No No No No Yes No No No
365 MAIN STREET Sinclair Lewis 1 No No No No Yes No No No
367 THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
Lawrence Durell 1 No No No No Yes No No No
368 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
Richard Hughes 1 No No No No Yes No No No
372 FINNEGANS WAKE James Joyce 1 No No No No Yes No No No
373 KIM Rudyard Kipling 1 No No No No Yes No No No
374 A ROOM WITH A VIEW E.M. Forster 1 No No No No Yes No No No
376 ANGLE OF REPOSE Wallace Stegner 1 No No No No Yes No No No
378 LORD JIM Joseph Conrad 1 No No No No Yes No No No
380 THE OLD WIVES’ TALE ArNold Bennett 1 No No No No Yes No No No
382 TOBACCO ROAD Erskine Caldwell 1 No No No No Yes No No No
383 IRONWEED William Kennedy 1 No No No No Yes No No No
386 SOPHIE’S CHOICE William Styron 1 No No No No Yes No No No
388 THE POSTMAN ALWAYS James
RINGSM. TWICE
Cain 1 No No No No Yes No No No
389 THE GINGER MAN J.P. Donleavy 1 No No No No Yes No No No
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390 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSBooth Tarkington 1 No No No No Yes No No No

391 The Assistant Bernard Malamud 1 No No No No No Yes No No
392 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1 No No No No No Yes No No
393 The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood 1 No No No No No Yes No No
394 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 1 No No No No No Yes No No
396 Call It Sleep Henry Roth 1 No No No No No Yes No No
397 The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron 1 No No No No No Yes No No
398 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1 No No No No No Yes No No
399 A Death in the Family James Agee 1 No No No No No Yes No No
400 Dog Soldiers Robert Stone 1 No No No No No Yes No No
401 Falconer John Cheever 1 No No No No No Yes No No
402 The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles 1 No No No No No Yes No No
404 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1 No No No No No Yes No No
405 The Lion, The Witch and the
C.S.
Wardrobe
Lewis 1 No No No No No Yes No No
406 The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead 1 No No No No No Yes No No
407 Naked Lunch Virginia Woolf 1 No No No No No Yes No No
408 Neuromancer William Gibson 1 No No No No No Yes No No
409 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 1 No No No No No Yes No No
410 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
KenNest
Kesey 1 No No No No No Yes No No
411 The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski 1 No No No No No Yes No No
412 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 1 No No No No No Yes No No
413 Possession A.S. Byatt 1 No No No No No Yes No No
414 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1 No No No No No Yes No No
415 Rabbit, Run John Updike 1 No No No No No Yes No No
416 The Recognitions William Gaddis 1 No No No No No Yes No No
417 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1 No No No No No Yes No No
418 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 1 No No No No No Yes No No
419 SNow Crash Neal Stephenson 1 No No No No No Yes No No
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420 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1 No No No No No Yes No No

421 The Sportswriter Richard Ford 1 No No No No No Yes No No
422 The Spy Who Came in From John
the le
Cold
Carre 1 No No No No No Yes No No
423 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1 No No No No No Yes No No
424 White Teeth Zadie Smith 1 No No No No No Yes No No
425 The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1 No No No No No No Yes No
426 One Thousand and One Nights ANon 1 No No No No No No Yes No
427 The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1 No No No No No No Yes No
428 The Tale of Genji Lady Murasaki 1 No No No No No No Yes No
429 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1 No No No No No No Yes No
430 Old Goriot HoNoré de Balzac 1 No No No No No No Yes No
431 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1 No No No No No No Yes No
432 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1 No No No No No No Yes No
433 Germinal Emile Zola 1 No No No No No No Yes No
434 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1 No No No No No No Yes No
435 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee 1 No No No No No No Yes No
436 Waiting for the Mahatma RK Narayan 1 No No No No No No Yes No
438 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler 1 No No No No No No Yes No
439 The Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin 1 No No No No No No Yes No
440 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1 No No No No No No Yes No
441 Crash JG Ballard 1 No No No No No No Yes No
442 Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1 No No No No No No Yes No
443 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1 No No No No No No Yes No
444 My Name Is Red Orhan Pamuk 1 No No No No No No Yes No
445 London Fields Martin Amis 1 No No No No No No Yes No
446 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1 No No No No No No Yes No
447 The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse 1 No No No No No No Yes No
448 Underworld Don DeLillo 1 No No No No No No Yes No
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449 The Voyeur Alain Robbe-Grillet 1 No No No No No No Yes No

450 Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre 1 No No No No No No Yes No
451 The Rabbit books John Updike 1 No No No No No No Yes No
452 The Adventures of Huckleberry
MarkFinn
Twain 1 No No No No No No Yes No
453 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle 1 No No No No No No Yes No
454 The Warden Anthony Trollope 1 No No No No No No Yes No
455 Suite Francaise Irène Némirovsky 1 No No No No No No Yes No
456 Life: a User’s Manual Georges Perec 1 No No No No No No Yes No
457 Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell 1 No No No No No No Yes No
458 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1 No No No No No No Yes No
459 The War of the Worlds HG Wells 1 No No No No No No Yes No
460 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1 No No No No No No Yes No
461 The Code of the Woosters PG Wodehouse 1 No No No No No No Yes No
462 Disgrace JM Coetzee 1 No No No No No No Yes No
463 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1 No No No No No No No Yes
464 The Republic Plato 1 No No No No No No No Yes
465 Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 No No No No No No No Yes
466 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1 No No No No No No No Yes
467 How To Win Friends And Influence
Dale Carnegie
People 1 No No No No No No No Yes
468 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris 1 No No No No No No No Yes
469 Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 1 No No No No No No No Yes
470 Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac 1 No No No No No No No Yes
471 The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer 1 No No No No No No No Yes
472 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1 No No No No No No No Yes
473 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1 No No No No No No No Yes
474 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1 No No No No No No No Yes
475 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1 No No No No No No No Yes
476 ANother Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins 1 No No No No No No No Yes
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477 The Young Man’s Guide William Alcott 1 No No No No No No No Yes

478 Seek: Reports from the Edges
Denis
of America
Johnson& Beyond 1 No No No No No No No Yes
479 Steppenwolf Herman Hesse 1 No No No No No No No Yes
480 The Book of Deeds of ArmsChristine
and of Chivalry
De Pizan 1 No No No No No No No Yes
481 The Art of Warfare Sun Tzu 1 No No No No No No No Yes
482 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 1 No No No No No No No Yes
483 The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 1 No No No No No No No Yes
484 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1 No No No No No No No Yes
485 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1 No No No No No No No Yes
486 The Thin Red Line James Jones 1 No No No No No No No Yes
487 Adventures of HuckleberryMark
Finn Twain 1 No No No No No No No Yes
488 The Politics Aristotle 1 No No No No No No No Yes
489 First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook 1 No No No No No No No Yes
490 CyraNo de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1 No No No No No No No Yes
491 The Crisis Winston Churchill 1 No No No No No No No Yes
492 Hatchet Gary Paulsen 1 No No No No No No No Yes
493 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 No No No No No No No Yes
494 Beyond Good and Evil Freidrich Nietzsche 1 No No No No No No No Yes
495 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay,1and
No JamesNo
MadisonNo No No No No Yes
496 Essential Manners for MenPeter Post 1 No No No No No No No Yes
497 The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn 1 No No No No No No No Yes
498 A Separate Peace John KNowles 1 No No No No No No No Yes
499 The Pearl John Steinbeck 1 No No No No No No No Yes
500 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1 No No No No No No No Yes
501 Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco 1 No No No No No No No Yes
502 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1 No No No No No No No Yes
503 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 1 No No No No No No No Yes
504 Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose 1 No No No No No No No Yes
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505 Paradise Lost John Milton 1 No No No No No No No Yes

506 American Boys’ Handy Book 1 No No No No No No No Yes
507 Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer 1 No No No No No No No Yes
508 King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard 1 No No No No No No No Yes
509 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 No No No No No No No Yes
510 A River Runs Through It Norman F. Maclean 1 No No No No No No No Yes
511 The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells 1 No No No No No No No Yes
512 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 1 No No No No No No No Yes
513 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1 No No No No No No No Yes
514 Lives of the Noble Greeks and
Plutarch
Romans 1 No No No No No No No Yes
515 The Strenuous Life Theodore Roosevelt 1 No No No No No No No Yes
516 The Bible 1 No No No No No No No Yes
517 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1 No No No No No No No Yes
518 The Dangerous Book for BoysConn and Hal Iggulden 1 No No No No No No No Yes
519 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1 No No No No No No No Yes
520 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1 No No No No No No No Yes
521 The Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner 1 No No No No No No No Yes
522 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Robert
Maintenance
Pirsig 1 No No No No No No No Yes
523 Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 No No No No No No No Yes