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1 James Joyce ULYSSES
2 F. Scott Fitzgerald THE GREAT GATSBY
3 Vladimir Nabokov LOLITA
4 George Orwell 1984
5 William Faulkner THE SOUND AND THE FURY
6 John Steinbeck THE GRAPES OF WRATH
7 Aldous Huxley BRAVE NEW WORLD
8 Joseph Heller CATCH-22
9 Virginia Woolf TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
10 James Joyce A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
11 J.D. Salinger THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
12 William Golding LORD OF THE FLIES
13 Ralph Ellison INVISIBLE MAN
14 William Faulkner AS I LAY DYING
15 Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD
16 Harper Lee TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
17 George Orwell ANIMAL FARM
18 Kurt Vonnegut SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
19 Toni Morrison BELOVED
20 E.M. Forster A PASSAGE TO INDIA
21 J.R.R. Tolkien THE LORD OF THE RINGS
22 Henry James PORTRAIT OF A LADY
23 Ernest Hemingway THE SUN ALSO RISES
24 William Faulkner ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
25 Miguel De Cervantes DON QUIXOTE
26 Jane Austen EMMA
27 Jack London THE CALL OF THE WILD
28 Malcolm Lowry UNDER THE VOLCANO
29 Virginia Woolf MRS. DALLOWAY
30 Joseph Conrad NOSTROMO
31 Henry Fielding TOM JONES
32 Joseph Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS
33 Herman Melville MOBY DICK
34 Margaret Mitchell GONE WITH THE WIND
35 D.H. Lawrence SONS AND LOVERS
36 Ford Madox Ford THE GOOD SOLDIER
37 Richard Wright NATIVE SON
38 Gustave Flaubert MADAME BOVARY
39 Leo Tolstoy ANNA KARENINA
40 Mark Twain HUCKLEBERRY FINN
41 Laurence Sterne TRISTRAM SHANDY
42 John Dos Passos U.S.A. (TRILOGY)
43 D.H. Lawrence WOMEN IN LOVE
44 Ernest Hemingway A FAREWELL TO ARMS
William Makepeace
45 VANITY FAIR
Thackeray
46 Ayn Rand THE FOUNTAINHEAD
47 Henry James THE AMBASSADORS
48 Marcel Proust IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME
49 Emily Brontë WUTHERING HEIGHTS
50 Anthony Burgess A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
51 Theodore Dreiser AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
52 Thomas Pynchon GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
53 Samuel Richardson CLARISSA
54 Carson McCullers THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
55 Stendhal THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA
56 Robert Penn Warren ALL THE KING’S MEN
57 Nathaniel Hawthorne THE SCARLET LETTER
58 James Baldwin GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
59 Charles Dickens DAVID COPPERFIELD
60 Charlotte Brontë JANE EYRE
61 E.B. White CHARLOTTE’S WEB
62 Chinua Achebe THINGS FALL APART
63 Henry Miller TROPIC OF CANCER
64 Robert Graves I, CLAUDIUS
65 F. Scott Fitzgerald TENDER IS THE NIGHT
66 D.H. Lawrence THE RAINBOW
Gabriel Garcia
67 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Marquez
68 William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST
69 Franz Kafka THE TRIAL
70 Daniel Defoe ROBINSON CRUSOE
71 Henry James THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
72 E.M. Forster HOWARDS END
73 George Eliot DANIEL DERONDA
74 Ayn Rand ATLAS SHRUGGED
75 Edith Wharton THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
76 Evelyn Waugh BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
77 Samuel Beckett MALONE DIES
78 Walker Percy THE MOVIEGOER
79 Flannery O’Connor WISE BLOOD
80 Zora Neale Hurston THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
81 John Irving THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
82 Leo Tolstoy WAR AND PEACE
83 Willa Cather MY ANTONIA
84 Toni Morrison SONG OF SOLOMON
85 Günter Grass THE TIN DRUM
86 Ken Kesey ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
87 George Eliot MIDDLEMARCH
88 Mary Shelley FRANKENSTEIN
89 John Bunyan PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
90 John Steinbeck OF MICE AND MEN
91 Charles Dickens BLEAK HOUSE
92 Douglas Adams THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
93 John Fowles THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN
94 L. Ron Hubbard BATTLEFIELD EARTH
95 Alexandre Dumas THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
96 Frank Herbert DUNE
97 Jonathan Swift GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
98 Alice Walker THE COLOR PURPLE
99 Charles Dickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS
100 Ayn Rand ANTHEM
301 Orhan Pamuk MY NAME IS RED

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