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1 Never Let Me Go Kazuo2 Saturday Ian3 On Beauty Zadie4 Slow Man J.M.5 Adjunct: An Undigest Peter6 The Sea John7 The Red Queen Margaret8 The Plot Against America Philip9 The Master Colm

10 Vanishing Point David11 The Lambs of London Peter12 Dining on Stones Iain13 Cloud Atlas David14 Drop City T. Coraghessan15 The Colour Rose16 Thursbitch Alan17 The Light of Day Graham18 What I Loved Siri19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark20 Islands Dan21 Elizabeth Costello J.M.22 London Orbital Iain23 Family Matters Rohinton24 Fingersmith Sarah25 The Double José26 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran27 Unless Carol

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1001 Books You Must ReadBefore you Die

This list, in reverse chronological order comes from the book of the same name by Peter Boxall. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It's a starting point, not the Final Answer!

28 Kafka on the Shore Haruki29 The Story of Lucy Gault William30 That They May Face the Rising Sun John31 In the Forest Edna32 Shroud John33 Middlesex Jeffrey34 Youth J.M.35 Dead Air Iain36 Nowhere Man Aleksandar37 The Book of Illusions Paul38 Gabriel’s Gift Hanif39 Austerlitz W.G.40 Platform Michael41 Schooling Heather42 Atonement Ian43 The Corrections Jonathan44 Don’t Move Margaret45 The Body Artist Don46 Fury Salman47 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie48 Choke Chuck49 Life of Pi Yann50 The Feast of the Goat Mario51 An Obedient Father Akhil52 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo53 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail54 White Teeth Zadie55 The Heart of Redness Zakes56 Under the Skin Michel57 Ignorance Milan58 Nineteen Seventy Seven David59 Celestial Harmonies Péter60 City of God E.L.61 How the Dead Live Will62 The Human Stain Philip63 The Blind Assassin Margaret64 After the Quake Haruki65 Small Remedies Shashi66 Super-Cannes J.G.67 House of Leaves Mark Z.68 Blonde Joyce69 Pastoralia George

1900s70 Timbuktu Paul71 The Romantics Pankaj72 Cryptonomicon Neal73 As If I Am Not There Slavenka74 Everything You Need A.L.75 Fear and Trembling Amélie76 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman77 Disgrace J.M.78 Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki79 Elementary Particles Michel80 Intimacy Hanif

81 Amsterdam Ian82 Cloudsplitter Russell83 All Souls Day Cees84 The Talk of the Town Ardal85 Tipping the Velvet Sarah86 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara87 Glamorama Bret Easton88 Another World Pat89 The Hours Michael90 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo91 Mason & Dixon Thomas92 The God of Small Things Arundhati93 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur94 Great Apes Will95 Enduring Love Ian96 Underworld Don97 Jack Maggs Peter98 The Life of Insects Victor99 American Pastoral Philip

100 The Untouchable John101 Silk Alessandro102 Cocaine Nights J.G.103 Hallucinating Foucault Patricia104 Fugitive Pieces Anne105 The Ghost Road Pat106 Forever a Stranger Hella107 Infinite Jest David Foster108 The Clay Machine-Gun Victor109 Alias Grace Margaret110 The Unconsoled Kazuo111 Morvern Callar Alan112 The Information Martin113 The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman114 Sabbath’s Theater Philip115 The Rings of Saturn W.G.116 The Reader Bernhard117 A Fine Balance Rohinton118 Love’s Work Gillian119 The End of the Story Lydia120 Mr. Vertigo Paul121 The Folding Star Alan122 Whatever Michel123 Land Park124 The Master of Petersburg J.M.125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony Antonio127 City Sister Silver Jàchym128 How Late It Was, How Late James129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis130 Felicia’s Journey William131 Disappearance David132 The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe133 The Shipping News E. Annie134 Trainspotting Irvine

135 Birdsong Sebastian136 Looking for the Possible Dance A.L.137 Operation Shylock Philip138 Complicity Iain139 On Love Alain140 What a Carve Up! Jonathan141 A Suitable Boy Vikram142 The Stone Diaries Carol143 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey144 The House of Doctor Dee Peter145 The Robber Bride Margaret146 The Emigrants W.G.147 The Secret History Donna148 Life is a Caravanserai Emine149 The Discovery of Heaven Harry150 A Heart So White Javier151 Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice152 Indigo Marina153 The Crow Road Iain154 Written on the Body Jeanette155 Jazz Toni156 The English Patient Michael157 Smilla’s Sense of Snow Peter158 The Butcher Boy Patrick159 Black Water Joyce160 The Heather Blazing Colm161 Asphodel Hilda162 Black Dogs Ian163 Hideous Kinky Esther164 Arcadia Jim165 Wild Swans Jung166 American Psycho Bret Easton167 Time’s Arrow Martin168 Mao II Don169 Typical Padgett170 Regeneration Pat171 Downriver Iain172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis173 Wise Children Angela174 Get Shorty Elmore175 Amongst Women John176 Vineland Thomas177 Vertigo W.G.178 Stone Junction Jim179 The Music of Chance Paul180 The Things They Carried Tim181 A Home at the End of the World Michael182 Like Life Lorrie183 Possession A.S.184 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif185 The Midnight Examiner William186 A Disaffection James187 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette188 Moon Palace Paul

189 Billy Bathgate E.L.190 Remains of the Day Kazuo191 The Melancholy of Resistance László192 The Temple of My Familiar Alice193 The Trick is to Keep Breathing Janice194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon José195 Like Water for Chocolate Laura196 A Prayer for Owen Meany John197 London Fields Martin198 The Book of Evidence John199 Cat’s Eye Margaret200 Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto201 The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund202 Wittgenstein’s Mistress David203 The Satanic Verses Salman204 The Swimming-Pool Library Alan205 Oscar and Lucinda Peter206 Libra Don207 The Player of Games Iain M.208 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi209 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas210 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Douglas211 The Radiant Way Margaret212 The Afternoon of a Writer Peter213 The Black Dahlia James214 The Passion Jeanette215 The Pigeon Patrick216 The Child in Time Ian217 Cigarettes Harry218 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom219 The New York Trilogy Paul220 World’s End T. Coraghessan221 Enigma of Arrival V.S.222 The Taebek Mountains Jo223 Beloved Toni224 Anagrams Lorrie225 Matigari Ngugi wa226 Marya Joyce227 Watchmen Alan/David228 The Old Devils Kingsley229 Lost Language of Cranes David230 An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo231 Extinction Thomas232 Foe J.M.233 The Drowned and the Saved Primo234 Reasons to Live Amy235 The Parable of the Blind Gert236 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette238 The Cider House Rules John239 A Maggot John240 Less Than Zero Bret Easton241 Contact Carl242 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret

243 Perfume Patrick244 Old Masters Thomas245 White Noise Don246 Queer William247 Hawksmoor Peter248 Legend David249 Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad250 The Bus Conductor Hines James251 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José252 The Lover Marguerite253 Empire of the Sun J.G.254 The Wasp Factory Iain255 Nights at the Circus Angela256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan257 Blood and Guts in High School Kathy258 Neuromancer William259 Flaubert’s Parrot Julian260 Money: A Suicide Note Martin261 Shame Salman262 Worstward Ho Samuel263 Fools of Fortune William264 La Brava Elmore265 Waterland Graham266 The Life and Times of Michael K J.M.267 The Diary of Jane Somers Doris268 The Piano Teacher Elfriede269 The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo270 If Not Now, When? Primo271 A Boy’s Own Story Edmund272 The Color Purple Alice273 Wittgenstein’s Nephew Thomas274 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo275 Schindler’s Ark Thomas276 The House of the Spirits Isabel277 The Newton Letter John278 On the Black Hill Bruce279 Concrete Thomas280 The Names Don281 Rabbit is Rich John282 Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair283 The Comfort of Strangers Ian284 July’s People Nadine285 Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid286 Broken April Ismail287 Waiting for the Barbarians J.M.288 Midnight’s Children Salman289 Rites of Passage William290 Rituals Cees291 Confederacy of Dunces John292 City Primeval Elmore293 The Name of the Rose Umberto294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan295 Smiley’s People John296 Shikasta Doris

297 A Bend in the River V.S.298 Burger’s Daughter Nadine299 The Safety Net Heinrich300 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italo301 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas302 The Cement Garden Ian303 The World According to Garp John304 Life: A User’s Manual Georges305 The Sea, The Sea Iris306 The Singapore Grip J.G.307 Yes Thomas308 The Virgin in the Garden A.S.309 In the Heart of the Country J.M.310 The Passion of New Eve Angela311 Delta of Venus Anaïs312 The Shining Stephen313 Dispatches Michael314 Petals of Blood Ngugi wa315 Song of Solomon Toni316 The Hour of the Star Clarice317 The Left-Handed Woman Peter318 Ratner’s Star Don319 The Public Burning Robert320 Interview With the Vampire Anne321 Cutter and Bone Newton322 Amateurs Donald323 Patterns of Childhood Christa324 Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel325 W, or the Memory of childhood Georges326 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony327 Grimus Salman328 The Dead Father Donald329 Fateless Imre330 Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard331 High Rise J.G.332 Humboldt’s Gift Saul333 Dead Babies Martin334 Correction Thomas335 Ragtime E.L.336 The Fan Man William337 Dusklands J.M.338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Heinrich339 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John340 Breakfast of Champions Kurt341 Fear of Flying Erica342 A Question of Power Bessie343 The Siege of Krishnapur J.G.344 The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo345 Crash J.G.346 The Honorary Consul Graham347 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas348 The Black Prince Iris349 Sula Toni350 Invisible Cities Italo

351 The Breast Philip352 The Summer Book Tove353 G John354 Surfacing Margaret355 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 Heinrich360 The Wild Boys William361 Rabbit Redux John362 The Sea of Fertility Yukio363 The Driver’s Seat Muriel364 The Ogre Michael365 The Bluest Eye Toni366 Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya368 Mercier et Camier Samuel369 Troubles J.G.370 Jahrestage Uwe371 The Atrocity Exhibition J.G.372 Tent of Miracles Jorge373 Pricksongs and Descants Robert374 Blind Man With a Pistol Chester375 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt376 The French Lieutenant’s Woman John377 The Green Man Kingsley378 Portnoy’s Complaint Philip379 The Godfather Mario380 Ada Vladimir381 Them Joyce382 A Void/Avoid Georges383 Eva Trout Elizabeth384 Myra Breckinridge Gore385 The Nice and the Good Iris386 Belle du Seigneur Albert387 Cancer Ward Aleksandr388 The First Circle Aleksandr389 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 Malcolm392 The German Lesson Siegfried393 In Watermelon Sugar Richard394 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry395 The Quest for Christa T. Christa396 Chocky John397 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom398 The Cubs and Other Stories Mario399 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel400 The Master and Margarita Mikhail401 Pilgrimage Dorothy402 The Joke Milan403 No Laughing Matter Angus404 The Third Policeman Flann

405 A Man Asleep Georges406 The Birds Fall Down Rebecca407 Trawl B.S.408 In Cold Blood Truman409 The Magus John410 The Vice-Consul Marguerite411 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean412 Giles Goat-Boy John413 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas414 Things Georges415 The River Between Ngugi wa416 August is a Wicked Month Edna417 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt418 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery419 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice420 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken421 Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald422 Albert Angelo B.S.423 Arrow of God Chinua424 The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Marguerite425 Herzog Saul426 V. Thomas427 Cat’s Cradle Kurt428 The Graduate Charles429 Manon des Sources Marcel430 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John431 The Girls of Slender Means Muriel432 Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony433 The Bell Jar Sylvia434 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr435 The Collector John436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken437 A Clockwork Orange Anthony438 Pale Fire Vladimir439 The Drowned World J.G.440 The Golden Notebook Doris441 Labyrinths Jorge Luis442 Girl With Green Eyes Edna443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio444 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert445 Franny and Zooey J.D.446 A Severed Head Iris447 Faces in the Water Janet448 Solaris Stanislaw449 Cat and Mouse Günter450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel451 Catch-22 Joseph452 The Violent Bear it Away Flannery453 How It Is Samuel454 Our Ancestors Italo455 The Country Girls Edna456 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper457 Rabbit, Run John458 Promise at Dawn Romain

459 Cider With Rosie Laurie460 Billy Liar Keith461 Naked Lunch William462 The Tin Drum Günter463 Absolute Beginners Colin464 Henderson the Rain King Saul465 Memento Mori Muriel466 Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman468 The Leopard Giuseppe469 Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Kenzaburo470 A Town Like Alice Nevil471 The Bitter Glass Eilís472 Things Fall Apart Chinua473 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan474 Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Paul475 Borstal Boy Brendan476 The End of the Road John477 The Once and Future King T.H.478 The Bell Iris479 Jealousy Alain480 Voss Patrick481 The Midwich Cuckoos John482 Blue Noon Georges483 Homo Faber Max484 On the Road Jack485 Pnin Vladimir486 Doctor Zhivago Boris487 The Wonderful “O” James488 Justine Lawrence489 Giovanni’s Room James490 The Lonely Londoners Sam491 The Roots of Heaven Romain492 Seize the Day Saul493 The Floating Opera John494 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R.495 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia496 Lolita Vladimir497 A World of Love Elizabeth498 The Trusting and the Maimed James499 The Quiet American Graham500 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos501 The Recognitions William502 The Ragazzi Pier Paulo503 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise504 I’m Not Stiller Max505 Self Condemned Wyndham506 The Story of O Pauline507 A Ghost at Noon Alberto508 Lord of the Flies William509 Under the Net Iris510 The Go-Between L.P.511 The Long Goodbye Raymond512 The Unnamable Samuel

513 Watt Samuel514 Lucky Jim Kingsley515 Junkie William516 The Adventures of Augie March Saul517 Go Tell It on the Mountain James518 Casino Royale Ian519 The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich520 Invisible Man Ralph521 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest522 Wise Blood Flannery523 The Killer Inside Me Jim524 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite525 Malone Dies Samuel526 Day of the Triffids John527 Foundation Isaac528 The Opposing Shore Julien529 The Catcher in the Rye J.D.530 The Rebel Albert531 Molloy Samuel532 The End of the Affair Graham533 The Abbot C Georges534 The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio535 The Third Man Graham536 The 13 Clocks James537 Gormenghast Mervyn538 The Grass is Singing Doris539 I, Robot Isaac540 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare541 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Simon542 Love in a Cold Climate Nancy543 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor544 The Heat of the Day Elizabeth545 Kingdom of This World Alejo546 The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson547 Nineteen Eighty-Four George548 All About H. Hatterr G.V.549 Disobedience Alberto550 Death Sentence Maurice551 The Heart of the Matter Graham552 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan553 Doctor Faustus Thomas554 The Victim Saul555 Exercises in Style Raymond556 If This Is a Man Primo557 Under the Volcano Malcolm558 The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo559 The Plague Albert560 Back Henry561 Titus Groan Mervyn562 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo563 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn564 Animal Farm George565 Cannery Row John566 The Pursuit of Love Nancy

567 Loving Henry568 Arcanum 17 André569 Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo570 The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset571 Transit Anna572 Ficciones Jorge Luis573 Dangling Man Saul574 The Little Prince Antoine575 Caught Henry576 The Glass Bead Game Herman577 Embers Sandor578 Go Down, Moses William579 The Outsider Albert580 In Sicily Elio581 The Poor Mouth Flann582 The Living and the Dead Patrick583 Hangover Square Patrick584 Between the Acts Virginia585 The Hamlet William586 Farewell My Lovely Raymond587 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest588 Native Son Richard589 The Power and the Glory Graham590 The Tartar Steppe Dino591 Party Going Henry592 The Grapes of Wrath John593 Finnegans Wake James594 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann595 Coming Up for Air George596 Goodbye to Berlin Christopher597 Tropic of Capricorn Henry598 Good Morning, Midnight Jean599 The Big Sleep Raymond600 After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred602 Nausea Jean-Paul603 Rebecca Daphne604 Cause for Alarm Eric605 Brighton Rock Graham606 U.S.A. John607 Murphy Samuel608 Of Mice and Men John609 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora610 The Hobbit J.R.R.611 The Years Virginia612 In Parenthesis David613 The Revenge for Love Wyndham614 Out of Africa Isak615 To Have and Have Not Ernest616 Summer Will Show Sylvia617 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous618 The Thinking Reed Rebecca619 Gone With the Wind Margaret620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George

621 Wild Harbour Ian622 Absalom, Absalom! William623 At the Mountains of Madness H.P.624 Nightwood Djuna625 Independent People Halldór626 Auto-da-Fé Elias627 The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher628 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace629 The House in Paris Elizabeth630 England Made Me Graham631 Burmese Days George632 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L.633 Threepenny Novel Bertolt634 Novel With Cocaine M.635 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M.636 Tropic of Cancer Henry637 A Handful of Dust Evelyn638 Tender is the Night F. Scott639 Thank You, Jeeves P.G.640 Call it Sleep Henry641 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael642 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L.643 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude644 Testament of Youth Vera645 A Day Off Storm646 The Man Without Qualities Robert647 A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis648 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand649 Brave New World Aldous650 Cold Comfort Farm Stella651 To the North Elizabeth652 The Thin Man Dashiell653 The Radetzky March Joseph654 The Waves Virginia655 The Glass Key Dashiell656 Cakes and Ale W. Somerset657 The Apes of God Wyndham658 Her Privates We Frederic659 Vile Bodies Evelyn660 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell661 Hebdomeros Giorgio662 Passing Nella663 A Farewell to Arms Ernest664 Red Harvest Dashiell665 Living Henry666 The Time of Indifference Alberto667 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria668 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred669 The Last September Elizabeth670 Harriet Hume Rebecca671 The Sound and the Fury William672 Les Enfants Terribles Jean673 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas674 Story of the Eye Georges

675 Orlando Virginia676 Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H.677 The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe678 The Childermass Wyndham679 Quartet Jean680 Decline and Fall Evelyn681 Quicksand Nella682 Parade’s End Ford Madox683 Nadja André684 Steppenwolf Herman685 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel686 To The Lighthouse Virginia687 Tarka the Otter Henry688 Amerika Franz689 The Sun Also Rises Ernest690 Blindness Henry691 The Castle Franz692 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav693 The Plumed Serpent D.H.694 One, None and a Hundred Thousand Luigi695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha696 The Making of Americans Gertrude697 Manhattan Transfer John698 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia699 The Great Gatsby F. Scott700 The Counterfeiters André701 The Trial Franz702 The Artamonov Business Maxim703 The Professor’s House Willa704 Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman705 The Green Hat Michael706 The Magic Mountain Thomas707 We Yevgeny708 A Passage to India E.M.709 The Devil in the Flesh Raymond710 Zeno’s Conscience Italo711 Cane Jean712 Antic Hay Aldous713 Amok Stefan714 The Garden Party Katherine715 The Enormous Room E.E.716 Jacob’s Room Virginia717 Siddhartha Herman718 The Glimpses of the Moon Edith719 Life and Death of Harriett Frean May720 The Last Days of Humanity Karl721 Aaron’s Rod D.H.722 Babbitt Sinclair723 Ulysses James724 The Fox D.H.725 Crome Yellow Aldous726 The Age of Innocence Edith727 Main Street Sinclair728 Women in Love D.H.

729 Night and Day Virginia730 Tarr Wyndham731 The Return of the Soldier Rebecca732 The Shadow Line Joseph733 Summer Edith734 Growth of the Soil Knut735 Bunner Sisters Edith736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James737 Under Fire Henri738 Rashomon Akutagawa739 The Good Soldier Ford Madox740 The Voyage Out Virginia741 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset742 The Rainbow D.H.743 The Thirty-Nine Steps John744 Kokoro Natsume745 Locus Solus Raymond746 Rosshalde Herman747 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar748 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert749 Sons and Lovers D.H.750 Death in Venice Thomas751 The Charwoman’s Daughter James752 Ethan Frome Edith753 Fantômas Marcel/Pierre754 Howards End E.M.755 Impressions of Africa Raymond756 Three Lives Gertrude757 Martin Eden Jack758 Strait is the Gate André759 Tono-Bungay H.G.760 The Inferno Henri761 A Room With a View E.M.762 The Iron Heel Jack763 The Old Wives’ Tale Arnold764 The House on the Borderland Arnold765 Mother Maxim766 The Secret Agent Joseph767 The Jungle Upton768 Young Törless Robert769 The Forsyte Sage John770 The House of Mirth Edith771 Professor Unrat Heinrich772 Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M.773 Nostromo Joseph774 Hadrian the Seventh Frederick775 The Golden Bowl Henry776 The Ambassadors Henry777 The Riddle of the Sands Erskine778 The Immoralist André779 The Wings of the Dove Henry780 Heart of Darkness Joseph781 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan782 Buddenbrooks Thomas

783 Kim Rudyard784 Sister Carrie Theodore785 Lord Jim Joseph

1800s786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 787 The Stechlin Theodore788 The Awakening Kate789 The Turn of the Screw Henry790 The War of the Worlds H.G.791 The Invisible Man H.G.792 What Maisie Knew Henry793 Fruits of the Earth André794 Dracula Bram795 Quo Vadis Henryk796 The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G.797 The Time Machine H.G.798 Effi Briest Theodore799 Jude the Obscure Thomas800 The Real Charlotte 801 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte802 Born in Exile George803 Diary of a Nobody George & Weedon804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan805 News from Nowhere William806 New Grub Street George807 Gösta Berling’s Saga Selma808 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas809 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar810 The Kreutzer Sonata Leo811 La Bête Humaine Émile812 By the Open Sea August813 Hunger Knut814 The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis815 Pierre and Jean Guy816 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito817 The People of Hemsö August818 The Woodlanders Thomas819 She H.820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis821 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas822 Kidnapped Robert Louis823 King Solomon’s Mines H.824 Germinal Émile825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark826 Bel-Ami Guy827 Marius the Epicurean Walter828 Against the Grain Joris-Karl829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo830 A Woman’s Life Guy831 Treasure Island Robert Louis832 The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni833 The Portrait of a Lady Henry834 Bouvard and Pécuchet Gustave835 Ben-Hur Lew

836 Nana Émile837 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor838 The Red Room August839 Return of the Native Thomas840 Anna Karenina Leo841 Drunkard Émile842 Virgin Soil Ivan843 Daniel Deronda George844 The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas845 The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave846 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas847 The Enchanted Wanderer Nicolai848 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules849 In a Glass Darkly Sheridan850 The Devils Fyodor851 Erewhon Samuel852 Spring Torrents Ivan853 Middlemarch George854 Through the Looking Glass Lewis855 King Lear of the Steppes Ivan856 He Knew He Was Right Anthony857 War and Peace Leo858 Sentimental Education Gustave859 Phineas Finn Anthony860 Maldoror Comte861 The Idiot Fyodor862 The Moonstone Wilkie863 Little Women Louisa May864 Thérèse Raquin Émile865 The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony866 Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules867 Crime and Punishment Fyodor868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis869 Our Mutual Friend Charles870 Uncle Silas Sheridan871 Notes from the Underground Fyodor872 The Water-Babies Charles873 Les Misérables Victor874 Fathers and Sons Ivan875 Silas Marner George876 Great Expectations Charles877 On the Eve Ivan878 Castle Richmond Anthony879 The Mill on the Floss George880 The Woman in White Wilkie881 The Marble Faun Nathaniel882 Max Havelaar 883 A Tale of Two Cities Charles884 Oblomovka Ivan885 Adam Bede George886 Madame Bovary Gustave887 North and South Elizabeth888 Hard Times Charles889 Walden Henry David

890 Bleak House Charles891 Villette Charlotte892 Cranford Elizabeth893 Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely Harriet894 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel895 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel896 Moby-Dick Herman897 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel898 David Copperfield Charles899 Shirley Charlotte900 Mary Barton Elizabeth901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne902 Wuthering Heights Emily903 Agnes Grey Anne904 Jane Eyre Charlotte905 Vanity Fair William Makepeace906 The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre907 La Reine Margot Alexandre908 The Three Musketeers Alexandre909 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan910 Martin Chuzzlewit Charles911 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan912 Lost Illusions Honoré913 A Christmas Carol Charles914 Dead Souls Nikolay915 The Charterhouse of Parma 916 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan917 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles918 Oliver Twist Charles919 The Nose Nikolay920 Le Père Goriot Honoré921 Eugénie Grandet Honoré922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor923 The Red and the Black 924 The Betrothed Alessandro925 Last of the Mohicans James926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James927 The Albigenses Charles Robert928 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert929 The Monastery Sir Walter930 Ivanhoe Sir Walter931 Frankenstein Mary932 Northanger Abbey Jane933 Persuasion Jane934 Ormond Maria935 Rob Roy Sir Walter936 Emma Jane937 Mansfield Park Jane938 Pride and Prejudice Jane939 The Absentee Maria940 Sense and Sensibility Jane941 Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von942 Castle Rackrent Maria

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943 Hyperion Friedrich944 The Nun Denis945 Camilla Fanny946 The Monk M.G.947 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von948 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann949 The Interesting Narrative Olaudah950 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William951 Justine Marquis952 Vathek William953 The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis954 Cecilia Fanny955 Confessions Jean-Jacques956 Dangerous Liaisons Pierre957 Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques958 Evelina Fanny959 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von960 Humphrey Clinker Tobias George961 The Man of Feeling Henry962 A Sentimental Journey Laurence963 Tristram Shandy Laurence964 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver965 The Castle of Otranto Horace966 Émile; or, On Education Jean-Jacques967 Rameau’s Nephew Denis968 Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques969 Rasselas Samuel970 Candide 971 The Female Quixote Charlotte972 Amelia Henry973 Peregrine Pickle Tobias George974 Fanny Hill John975 Tom Jones Henry976 Roderick Random Tobias George977 Clarissa Samuel978 Pamela Samuel979 Jacques the Fatalist Denis980 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus J.981 Joseph Andrews Henry982 A Modest Proposal Jonathan983 Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan984 Roxana Daniel985 Moll Flanders Daniel986 Love in Excess Eliza987 Robinson Crusoe Daniel988 A Tale of a Tub Jonathan

Pre-1700989 Oroonoko Aphra990 The Princess of Clèves Marie-Madelaine991 The Pilgrim’s Progress John992 Don Quixote Miguel993 The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas994 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John995 Gargantua and Pantagruel Françoise

996 The Thousand and One Nights 997 The Golden Ass Lucius998 Aithiopika 999 Chaireas and Kallirhoe

1000 Metamorphoses 1001 Aesop’s Fables

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1001 Books You Must ReadBefore you Die

This list, in reverse chronological order comes from the book of the same name by Peter Boxall. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It's a starting point, not the Final Answer!

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54. WORKING by Studs Terkel55. DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron56. THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION by Lionel Trilling57. THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill58. OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen59. JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME by Dumas Malone60. IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN by William Carlos Williams61. CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner62. THE HOUSE OF MORGAN by Ron Chernow63. THE SWEET SCIENCE by A. J. Liebling64. THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES by Karl Popper65. THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates66. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by R. H. Tawney67. A PREFACE TO MORALS by Walter Lippmann68. THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence69. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn70. THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Vann Woodward71. THE RISE OF THE WEST by William H. McNeill72. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels73. JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann74. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith75. THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell76. THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford77. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by James M. McPherson78. WHY WE CAN'T WAIT by Martin Luther King by Jr.79. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris80. STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY by Erwin Panofsky81. THE FACE OF BATTLE by John Keegan82. THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND by George Dangerfield83. VERMEER by Lawrence Gowing84. A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan85. WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham86. THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff87. A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy88. SIX EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman89. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard90. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James George Frazer91. SHADOW AND ACT by Ralph Ellison92. THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro93. THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION by Richard Hofstadter94. THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams95. THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE by Herbert Croly96. IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote97. THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm98. THE TAMING OF CHANCE by Ian Hacking99. OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS by Anne Lamott100. MELBOURNE by Lord David Cecil

1. THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by AYN RAND2. DIANETICS:THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH by L. RON HUBBARD3. OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND by LEONARD PEIKOFF4. 101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION by CLAIRE WOLFE5. THE GOD OF THE MACHINE by ISABEL PATERSON6. AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE by MICHAEL PAXTON7. THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE by JULIAN SIMON8. ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON by HENRY HAZLITT9. SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ10. MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME by JOHN R. LOTT11. PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL by BRUCE WISEMAN12. FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by G. HANCOCK13. CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING14. FREE TO CHOOSE by MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN15. AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF YOU DO by PETER MCWILLIAMS16. THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by F. A. HAYEK17. FREEDOM IN CHAINS by JAMES BOVARD18. AMERICA'S GREAT DEPRESSION by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD19. THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by JOHN T. FLYNN20. THE TRUE BELIEVER by ERIC HOFFER21. VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS by THOMAS WEST22. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by CARL L. BECKER23. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS by AARON T. BECK24. DEATH by GOVERNMENT by R. J. RUMMEL25. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF26. LONGITUDE by DAVA SOBEL27. ORDINARILY SACRED by LYNDA SEXSON28. SPEAK, MEMORY by VLADIMIR NABOKOV29. THE ART OF MEMORY by FRANCES YATES30. DUMBING US DOWN by JOHN TAYLOR GATTO31. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by JAMES FRAZER32. UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST33. A MODERN PROPHET by HAROLD KLEMP34. THE FLUTE OF GOD by PAUL TWITCHELL35. REAL PRESENCES by GEORGE STEINER36. OUT OF AFRICA by ISAK DINESEN37. WAYS OF SEEING by JOHN BERGER38. THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA'S CAMPUSES39. PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE40. STORMING HEAVEN by JAY STEVENS41. THE TEXAN by C. S. BARRIOS42. HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by GEORGE ORWELL43. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM JAMES44. HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS by DARRELL HUFF45. BUT IS IT TRUE? by AARON WILDAVSKY46. A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS47. ANATOMY OF CRITICISM by NORTHROP FRYE48. THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS by HENRY GRADY WEAVER49. MODERN TIMES by PAUL JOHNSON50. MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS by IRVING STONE51. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by HENRY ADAMS52. THE GREAT BRIDGE by DAVID MCCULLOUGH53. AMERICAN GAY by STEPHEN O. MURRAY

54. THE DOUBLE HELIX by JAMES D. WATSON55. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by FRANK KERMODE56. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by ELAINE PAGELS57. EROS THE BITTERSWEET by ANNE CARSON58. THE WESTERN CANON by HAROLD BLOOM59. THE WHITE GODDESS by ROBERT GRAVES60. HEALING OUR WORLD by MARY RUWART61. SILENT SPRING by RACHEL CARSON62. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by ANNIE DILLARD63. SEXUAL PERSONAE by CAMILLE PAGLIA64. THINK AND GROW RICH by NAPOLEON HILL65. A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN by DAVID KELLEY66. DOORS OF PERCEPTION by ALDOUS HUXLEY67. THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM by ROSE WILDER LANE68. MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT by WALTER WILLIAMS69. LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER by DAVID BOAZ70. BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE by WILLIAM MADDOX AND STUART LILIE71. A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL72. PARLIAMENT OF WHORES by P. J. O'ROURKE73. SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA'S FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN74. THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES by VIRGINIA POSTREL75. THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by WILLIAM STRUNK AND E. B. WHITE76. ORIENTALISM by EDWARD SAID77. ECOTERROR by RON ARNOLD78. WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK by HARRY BROWNE79. OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. EDWARDS DEMING80. NOT OUT OF AFRICA by MARY LEFKOWITZ81. THE END OF RACISM by DINESH D'SOUZA82. BEHIND THE MASK by IAN BURUMA83. IN A DARK WOOD by ALSTON CHASE84. PRIVATE PARTS by HOWARD STERN85. THE TELEPHONE BOOK by AVITAL RONELL86. THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE by GARY HART87. WAKING AND DREAMING by JOSEPH HART88. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD by LANA CANTRELL89. RADICAL SON by DAVID HOROWITZ90. UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN by SUSAN SONTAG91. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X92. A FEELING FOR BOOKS by JANICE RADWAY93. THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES by JOSEPH CAMPBELL94. THE JOB by WILLIAM BURROUGHS95. SILENT INTERVIEWS by SAMUEL R. DELANY96. SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS by MIKE ROYKO97. RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS by MICHAEL NOVACK98. REVERSE ANGLE by JOHN SIMON99. PLACING MOVIES by JONATHON ROSENBAUM100. RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING by PATRICK J BUCHANAN

13. CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING by TIBOR MACHAN

32. UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by STEPHEN E. AMBROSE

38. THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA'S CAMPUSES by ALAN CHARLES KORS39. PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by JAMES V. DE LONG

71. A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL

73. SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA'S FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN

7. CATCH-22

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner 6. 1984 by George Orwell

7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler 8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence 9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 11. ULYSSES by James Joyce12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler 12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller13. 1984 by George Orwell 13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 14. DUNE by Frank Herbert15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser 16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers 17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison 19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright 20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow 21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara 22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos 23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson 24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster 25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James 26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James 27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald 28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell 29. THE STAND by Stephen King30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford 30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James 32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser 33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh 34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren 36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder 37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster 38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin 39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene 40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey 42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley 44. YARROW by Charles de Lint45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway 45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad 46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad 47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence 48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence 49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 50. TRADER by Charles de Lint51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer 51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth 52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett 56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford 57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton 58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm 59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather 61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones 62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever 63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis 68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton 69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell 70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes 71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul 72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West 73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh 75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce 77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling 78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster 79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner 82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul 83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen 84. IT by Stephen King85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad 85. V. by Thomas Pynchon86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow 86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett 87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh89. LOVING by Henry Green 89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie 90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell 91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy 92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles 93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys 94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch 95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron 96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy 99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington 100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand 1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

6. Ulysses by James Joyce7. Beloved by Toni Morrison

by Ayn Rand 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding by L. Ron Hubbard 9. 1984 by George Orwell

10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

by Joseph Heller 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

by George Orwell 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute 27. Native Son by Richard Wright28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

by Stephen King 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

by Toni Morrison 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

by Vladimir Nabokov 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf by Charles de Lint 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving

by Flannery O'Connor 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies 40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

by Jack Kerouac 42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

by Charles de Lint 44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane 46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

by Charles de Lint 50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams51. My Antonia by Willa Cather52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers52. Howards End by E.M. Forster53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

by Nevil Shute 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison57. A PORTRAIT OF 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

60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving 64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

by William Faulkner 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 68. Light in August by William Faulkner

by Ralph Ellison 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

by John Fowles 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

by Robert Graves 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

by Ray Bradbury 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway by Sinclair Lewis 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein

79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett by William S. Burroughs 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

by Robert Heinlein 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein 87. The Bostonians by Henry James88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

by Willa Cather 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis by Charles de Lint 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

by Cormac McCarthy 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

by Richard Bach 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

#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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TIME 15The Complete ListIn Alphabetical Order Plato: Apology, Crito, Gorgias.

Thucydides: History.A - B

Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds.Saul Bellow

Aristotle: Ethics, Politics.

Robert Penn Warren Plutarch: Lives.

St. Augustine: Confessions.

St. Thomas: Treatise on Law.Philip Roth

Machiavelli: The Prince.

Montaigne: Essays.

Theodore Dreiser Shakespeare: Hamlet.

Locke: Of Civil Government.George Orwell

Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Madison et al: Federalist Papers.

John O'Hara Smith: The Wealth of Nations.

Marx: Communist Manifesto.

Judy Blume

Bernard Malamud

Flann O'Brien

Ian McEwan

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All the King's Men

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American Pastoral

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Animal Farm

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Appointment in Samarra

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

The Assistant

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Atonement

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Christopher Isherwood

Raymond Chandler

Margaret Atwood

Cormac McCarthy

Evelyn Waugh

Thornton Wilder

C - D

Henry Roth

Joseph Heller

J.D. Salinger

Anthony Burgess

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The Berlin Stories

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The Big Sleep

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The Blind Assassin

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Blood Meridian

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Call It Sleep

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Catch-22

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The Catcher in the Rye

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A Clockwork Orange

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William Styron

Jonathan Franzen

Thomas Pynchon

Anthony Powell

Nathanael West

Willa Cather

James Agee

Elizabeth Bowen

James Dickey

Robert Stone

F - G

John Cheever

The Confessions of Nat Turner

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The Crying of Lot 49

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A Dance to the Music of Time

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The Day of the Locust

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

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The Death of the Heart

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Deliverance

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Dog Soldiers

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Falconer

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The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

Doris Lessing

James Baldwin

Margaret Mitchell

John Steinbeck

Thomas Pynchon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

H - I

Evelyn Waugh

Carson McCullers

Graham Greene

Saul Bellow

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Gravity's Rainbow

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The Great Gatsby

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A Handful of Dust

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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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The Heart of the Matter

Herzog

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V.S. Naipaul

Robert Graves

David Foster Wallace

Ralph Ellison

L - N

William Faulkner

C.S. Lewis

Vladimir Nabokov

William Golding

J.R.R. Tolkien

Henry Green

Housekeeping

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I, Claudius

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Infinite Jest

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Invisible Man

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Light in August

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The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Lolita

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Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings

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Loving

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Lucky Jim

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Christina Stead

Salman Rushdie

Martin Amis

Walker Percy

Virginia Woolf

William Burroughs

Richard Wright

William Gibson

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Jack Kerouac

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Money

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The Moviegoer

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Mrs. Dalloway

Naked Lunch

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Native Son

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Neuromancer

Never Let Me Go

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Jerzy Kosinski

Vladimir Nabokov

E.M. Forster

Joan Didion

Philip Roth

A.S. Byatt

Graham Greene

Muriel Spark

John Updike

E.L. Doctorow

William Gaddis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Pale Fire

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Portnoy's Complaint

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Possession

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Rabbit, Run

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Ragtime

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Paul Bowles

Kurt Vonnegut

Neal Stephenson

John Barth

William Faulkner

Richard Ford

John le Carre

Ernest Hemingway

Zora Neale Hurston

Chinua Achebe

Harper Lee

Red Harvest

Revolutionary Road

The Sheltering Sky

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Snow Crash

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The Sportswriter

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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The Sun Also Rises

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Things Fall Apart

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Philip K. Dick

Iris Murdoch

Malcolm Lowry

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

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Zadie Smith

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To the Lighthouse

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White Teeth

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Thucydides: History.

Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds.

Aristotle: Ethics, Politics.

Plutarch: Lives.

St. Augustine: Confessions.

St. Thomas: Treatise on Law.

Machiavelli: The Prince.

Montaigne: Essays.

Shakespeare: Hamlet.

Locke: Of Civil Government.

Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Madison et al: Federalist Papers.

Smith: The Wealth of Nations.

Marx: Communist Manifesto.

The top 100 books of all time

Full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countries as released by the Norwegian Book Clubs. Don Quixote was named as the top book in history but otherwise no ranking was provided

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Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall ApartHans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories

Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron

Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night

Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His MasterAlfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz

Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads

Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), FaustNikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls

Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsKnut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.

The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).

Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of SakuntalaYasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the MountainNikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek

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Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice

Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected FictionsEmily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering HeightsAlbert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don QuixoteGeoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury TalesAnton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected StoriesJoseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), NostromoDante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine ComedyCharles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations

Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers KaramazovGeorge Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch

Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), MedeaWilliam Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the FuryGustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera

Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum

Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the SeaHomer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The OdysseyHenrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House

James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), UlyssesFranz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia

Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent PeopleGiacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems

Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi LongstockingLu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other StoriesMahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi

Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History

Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji GenjiRobert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities

Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).

Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), MetamorphosesFernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of DisquietEdgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales

Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and PantagruelJuan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro ParamoJalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi

Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The OrchardTayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the NorthJose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness

Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the KingStendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black

Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno

Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnValmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana

Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass

Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian

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DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers

Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook

Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic MountainHerman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick

Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved

Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita

George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984

Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past

Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children

William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello

Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's TravelsLeo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid

Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse

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Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov

William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the FuryGustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera

Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia

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Nonfiction

The Accidental Masterpiece Michael KimmelmanAlmost There Nuala O'FaolainThe Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard ShlainAn Ordinary Man Paul RusesabaginaAnother Country Mary PipherAnother Place at the Table Kathy HarrisonAre You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered Emily Fox GordonArmed Madhouse Greg PalastLa Bâtarde Violette LeducBasilica R. A. ScottiBig Green Purse Diane MacEachernBlack, White, and Jewish Rebecca WalkerA Border Passage Leila AhmedBoswell's Presumptuous Task Adam SismanC'est la Vie Suzy GershmanChasing the Flame Samantha PowerCherry Mary KarrThe City of Falling Angels John BerendtThe Cloister Walk Kathleen NorrisCollapse Jared DiamondThe Color of Water James McBrideThe Confessions Of an Economic Hitman John PerkinsThe Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsDaughter of the Queen of Sheba Jacki LydenThe Disappearing Girl Lisa MachoianEichmann in Jerusalem Hannah ArendtExpecting Adam Martha BeckFast Girls Emily WhiteFat Girl Judith MooreFlower Children Maxine SwannFreeing the Soul From Fear Robert SardelloFrom Binge to Blackout Chris Volkmann and Toren VolkmannGalileo's Daughter Dava SobelGeographies of Home Loida Maritza PerezGet to Work Linda R. HirshmanThe Ghost Map Steven JohnsonThe Girls Who Went Away Ann FesslerThe Golden Road Caille MillnerThe Growing Seasons Samuel HynesThe Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo Paula HuntleyIn the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel PhilbrickThe House of Mondavi Julia Flynn SilerThe How of Happiness Sonja LyubomirskyLand of a Thousand Hills Rosamond Halsey CarrThe Last Days of Socrates PlatoThe Liars' Club Mary KarrListening Is an Act of Love Dave IsayThe Lost Night Rachel HowardLoving Men More, Needing Men Less Judith SillsMad in Pursuit Violette LeducMartha Washington Patricia BradyMary, Called Magdalene Margaret GeorgeThe Measure of Our Days Jerome Groopman, M.D.The Mistress's Daughter A.M. HomesMotiba's Tattoos Mira Kamdar

My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness Patricia RaybonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick DouglassA New Earth Eckhart TolleThe Opposite of Fate Amy TanThe Pact Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Liza Frazier PagePersian Girls Nahid RachlinPicasso's War Russell MartinA Place in the Country Laura Shaine CunninghamThe Prince Niccolò MachiavelliProzac Diary Lauren SlaterRaising Fences Michael DatcherThe Rape of Nanking Iris ChangReading Judas Elaine Pagels and Karen L. KingSecret Daughter June CrossSeductress Betsy PrioleauSelf-Made Man Norah VincentShould You Leave? Peter D. Kramer, M.D.Smashed Koren ZailckasSomething to Declare Julia AlvarezThe Speckled Monster Jennifer Lee CarrellStill Life with Chickens Catherine GoldhammerThe Story of My Life Giacomo CasanovaStrangers in the House Raja ShehadehSword and Blossom Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko WilliamsThree Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver RelinThrough the Burning Steppe Elena KozhinaToo Close to the Falls Catherine GildinerWalking a Literary Labyrinth Nancy M. MaloneWithout a Net Michelle KennedyThe Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother Kim CherninThe Women's Wheel of Life Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard

Sue William Silverman'sContemporary Creative NonfictionReading List

Illness, Accident, Grief

Family & Relationships

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A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A MemoirHarold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My DeathAnatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My IllnessJoan Didion, The Year of Magical ThinkingAndre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving ChairHope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of LossKenny Fries, Body, RememberTemple Grandin, Thinking in PicturesLucy Grealy, Autobiography of a FaceEvan Handler, Time on Fire: My Comedy of TerrorsAnn Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical TimeRoger Kamenetz, Terre InfirmaJamaica Kincaid, My BrotherKay Jamison, An Unquiet MindNatalie Kusz, Road SongMindy Lewis, Life InsideAudre Lorde, The Cancer JournalsNancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the NondisabledChristopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of GriefReynolds Price, A Whole New LifeSue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual AddictionPatricia Stacey, The Boy Who Loved WindowsWilliam Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (how not to write a memoir)

Laurie Alberts, Fault LineMax Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmother’s StoryPaul Auster, The Invention of SolitudePeter Balakian, Black Dog of FateJane Bernstein, Loving RachelMary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana FamilyFrancine Cournos, City of OneJohn Daniel, Looking After: A Son’s MemoirPatty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of AdoptionDave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusNora Eisenberg, The War at HomeKathleen Finneran, The Tender LandNick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck CityPatricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern DaughterDorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My InheritanceGail Hosking Gilberg, Snake’s Daughter: The Roads in and Out of War

Childhood & Coming of Age

Place, Nature, Science

Vivian Gornick, Fierce AttachmentsAdam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and SonSusan Jacoby, Half-JewBret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers: The Men in My FamilyRebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other RememberingsKaren McElmurray, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s JourneyValerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family MemoirMichael Ondaatje, Running in the FamilyMolly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by PieceSandra Scofield, Occasions of SinSue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember YouAbigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a LifeJim Toner, SerendibBruce Weigl, The Circle of HanhJohn Edgar Wideman, Brothers and KeepersGeoffrey Wolff, The Duke of DeceptionTobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native SonPhyllis Barber, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada MemoirJo Ann Beard, The Boys of My YouthJerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of BelorusseJ. M. Coetzee, BoyhoodJudith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican ChildhoodFrank Conroy, Stop-TimeFaith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up GlobalJames Ellroy, My Dark PlacesAlexandra Fuller: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodHenry Louis Gates, Colored PeoplePatricia Hampl, A Romantic EducationTony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My LifeEva Hoffman, Lost in TranslationJune Jordan, Soldier: A Poet’s ChildhoodLisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern LandscapeAudre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my NameMary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic GirlhoodFrank McCourt, Angela’s AshesPaul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life StoryVladimir Nabokov, Speak MemoryAlberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard RodriguezLynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in BooksKate Simon, Bronx PrimitiveIlan Stevens, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of LanguageRichard Wright, Black Boy

Edward Abbey, Desert SolitaireDiane Ackerman, A Natural History of the SensesSusanne Antonetta (Suzanne Paola), Body Toxic; A Mind ApartKim Barnes, Hungry for the WorldRick Bass, WinterWendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

New Journalism, Immersion, History, Social, Political, Religious, Spiritual, Feminist, etc.

C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire

Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its FamilyJoanna Burger, The Parrot Who Owns MeFranklin Burroughs, Billy Watson’s Croker Sack

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of SurvivalAnnie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Teaching a Stone to TalkIvan Doig, This House of SkyAriel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking NorthGretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open SpaceJ. H. Fabre, Social Life in the Insect WorldEdward Hoagland, The Courage of TurtlesGarrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai’iMarcy Houle, Prairie KeepersCynthia Huntington, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape CodTheresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse HomeWilliam Kittredge, Hole in the SkyVerlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine TimeTed Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian AlpsDavid Lazar, The Body of BrooklynWilliam Least Heat Moon, Blue HighwaysBarry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in Northern LandscapeNancy Lord, Beluga DaysNorman MacLean, A River Runs Through ItMichael Martone, The Flatness and Other LandscapesPeter Mayle, A Year in ProvenceJohn McPhee, Coming into the CountryHarry Middleton, The Earth is EnoughKathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual GeographyJohn Price, Not Just Any Land: A Personal & Literary Journey into the American GrasslandsBill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural OdysseyDana Sachs, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in VietnamAlix Kates Shulman, Drinking the RainMark Spragg, When the River Changes DirectionRobert Stepto, Blue as the Lake: A Personal GeographyCelia Thaxter, An Island GardenTerry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist NunRicardo Ainslie, Long Dark Road (about the James Byrd racially inspired murder)Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of AmericaMark Curtis Anderson, Jesus Sound ExplosionVictoria Armour-Hileman, Singing to the Dead: A Missioner’s Life Among Refugees from BurmaBill Ayers, Fugitive DaysBarrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a MarriageLady Borton, Sensing the Enemy

Truman Capote, In Cold BloodDalton Conley, HonkyRosemary Daniell, Confessions of a (Female) ChauvinistJoan Didion, Slouching Toward BethlehemBeverly Donofrio, Looking for Mary (Or, The Blessed Mother and Me)Gretel Ehrlich, Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journey of an American BuddhistEduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and ShadowWilliam Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical InquiryMikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart

Experimental Forms

Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for SheetrockSebastian Haffner, Defying HitlerJim Harrison, Off to the SideTom Hayden, Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the TasadayJohn Hersey, HiroshimaAdam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial AfricaEva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the HolocaustSebastian Junger, A Perfect StormKazuko Kuramoto, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese ColonialistThomas Keneally, Schindler’s ListTracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren and HouseJon Krakauer, Into Thin AirAnne Lamont, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on FaithBernard Lefkowitz, Our BoysBeverly Lowry, Crossed OverNorman Mailer, The Executioner’s SongNancy Mairs, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal Pablo Neruda, MemoirsKathleen Norris, The Cloister WalkTillie Olsen, SilencesMary Rose O’Reilley, Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist ShepherdSusan Orlean, The Orchid ThiefCaryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversRandy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS EpidemicNatalia Rachel Singer, Scraping by in the Big EightiesSusan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of OthersHunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las VegasSusan Tiberghien, Circling to the Center: One Woman’s Encounter with Silent PrayerStuds Terkel, WorkingTom Wolfe, The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc.

David B., EpilepticItalo Calvino, The Road to San GiovanniElias Canetti, The Agony of Files: Notes and NotationsE. M. Cioran, All Gall is DividedInga Clendinnen, Tiger’s EyeDennis and Vicki Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (husband-wife collaboration)Seamus Deane, Reading in the DarkNick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck CityRobin Hemley, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness Brian Lennon, City, An EssayPrimo Levi, The Periodic TablePat Mora, House of HousesDonald Morrill, The Untouched MinutesTim O’Brien, The Things They CarriedJames Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second EssaysRichard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; EmbroideriesW. G. Sebald, The Emigrants; The Rings of SaturnBob Shacochis, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of LoveArt Spiegelman, Maus I and II (A Survivor’s Tale)Lawrence Sutin, A Postcard MemoirHunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Personal Essay & Anthologies

Humor

Journals & Letters

Peter Trachtenberg, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh

Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a ChildBrenda Miller, Season of the BodyBecky Bradway, ed., In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the HeartlandJanet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in LifeBernard Cooper, Maps to AnywhereCharles D’Ambrosio, OrphansToi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior JourneyThe Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative NonfictionM.F.K. Fisher, Among FriendsPatricia Foster, Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography & Self-DiscoveryDaniel Francis, ed., Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-FictionIan Frazier, On the RezKenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside OutWilliam Gass, On Being BlueAlbert Goldbarth, Many CirclesVivian Gornick, Approaching Eye LevelSteve Harvey, Bound for Shady GroveEmily Hiestand, Angela the Upside-down GirlPico Iyer, Falling off the MapJudith Kitchen, Distance and Direction; Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary NonfictionTed Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian AlpsDavid Lazar, The Body of BrooklynPhillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My BodyRasunah Marsden, Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-fictionBrenda Miller, Season of the BodyNaomi Shihab Nye, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and PlacesCynthia Ozick, Fame & Folly, Quarrel & Quandry, and Metaphor & MemoryMolly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy)Scott Russel Sanders, Staying PutMarjorie Sandor, The Night GardenerMimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized BedDavid Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One DayDavid Shields, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of CelebrityGerald Stern, What I Can’t Bear Losing Michael Steinberg, Still PitchingIra Sukrungruang, Scoot Over Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction AnthologyAbigail Thomas, SafekeepingRobert Vivian, Cold Snap as YearningLawrence Weschler, Vermeer in BosniaE. B. White, One Man’s MeatVirginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Stephen Akey, College Robert Benchley, Benchley Beside HimselfDinty Moore, The Accidental BuddhistS. J. Perelman, Most of the Most of S. J. PerelmanDavid Sedaris, NakedJames Thurber, My Life and Hard Times

Occupational Memoirs

On and About Writing (not just nonfiction)

Genevieve Jurgensen, The Disappearance: A Primer of LossCarl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing SeasonJean Rhys, The Letters of Jean Rhys, Selected & Edited by Francis Wyndham & Diana MellyRainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne and Letters to a Young PoetMay Sarton, Journal of a SolitudeLeslie Marmon Silko & James Wright, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Anne Truitt, Prospect: The Journal of an Artist

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, TeacherTed Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-SingPat Conroy, The Water is WideRobert Cowser, Dream Season: A Professor Joins America’s Oldest Semi-Pro Football TeamGail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother TongueBen Hamper, RivetheadThomas Lynch, The UndertakingSusan Neville: Iconography: A Writer’s MeditationDanielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at BellevueLouise Rafkin, Other People’s Dirt: A Housecleaner’s Curious AdventuresRuth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the TableOliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatRichard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a KnifeFrank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain

Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to ArtGayle Brandeis, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who WriteJ. O. Cofer, Marilyn Kallet, eds., Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of SurvivalJudith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a WriterRosemary Daniell, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s LivesScott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writer’s GuideJon Franklin, Writing for StoryBonnie Friedman, Writing Past DarkPhilip Gerard, Creative NonfictionPhilip Gerard, Carolyn Forche, ed., Writing Creative NonfictionNatalie Goldberg, Writing Down the BonesVivian Gornick, The Situation and the StoryPatricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories (memoir & craft)Robin Hemley, Turning Life into FictionJudith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative NonfictionAnne Lamott, Bird by BirdBetsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to WritersPhillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal EssayRebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart OutBrenda Miller, Suzanne Paola, Tell it SlantDinty Moore, The Truth of the MatterJoyce Carol Oates, First Person SingularBill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into MemoirsMichael Steinberg (ed.), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative NonfictionMimi Schwartz, Writing TrueMonica Wood, The Pocket Muse: Ideas & Inspirations for WritingWilliam 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 44805Brevity (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

Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

New Journalism, Immersion, History, Social, Political, Religious, Spiritual, Feminist, etc.

Singing to the Dead: A Missioner’s Life Among Refugees from Burma

Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

(husband-wife collaboration)

In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland

Distance and Direction; Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction

Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of Survival

Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives

The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction

101 Great Books

Recommended for College-Bound Readers

It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.

Author Title-- Beowulf

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart

Agee, James A Death in the Family

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain

Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot

Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March

Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights

Camus, Albert The Stranger

Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard

Chopin, Kate The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage

Dante Inferno

de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick

Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy

Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers

Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays

Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Fielding, Henry Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary

Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust

Golding, William Lord of the Flies

Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter

Heller, Joseph Catch 22

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

Homer The Iliad

Homer The Odyssey

Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House

James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady

James, Henry The Turn of the Screw

Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis

Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt

London, Jack The Call of the Wild

Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain

Marquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude

Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener

Melville, Herman Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Morrison, Toni Beloved

O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find

O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night

Orwell, George Animal Farm

Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago

Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar

Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales

Proust, Marcel Swann's Way

Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49

Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac

Roth, Henry Call It Sleep

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Shakespeare, William Hamlet

Shakespeare, William Macbeth

Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet

Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein

Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Sophocles Antigone

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island

Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels

Thackeray, William Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Henry David Walden

Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace

Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Voltaire Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth

Welty, Eudora Collected Stories

Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie

Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse

Wright, Richard Native Son

It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among your many options.

It's a good idea to talk to your parents, librarians, teachers, and counselor about your reading list. They can help you choose the best books for you from among 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 

Books for Preschoolers - More Preschool Titles from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

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 

Books for Children Ages 4-8 - More Primary Reading from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

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. EastmanThe 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 TitusThe 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 HenkesThe Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Amelia Bedelia by Peggy ParishThe 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 

Books for Children Ages 9-12 - More Books by Grade Level from TeachersFirst

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 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 RobinsonMatilda 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 Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder - Laura Ingalls Wilder WebquestSideways 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 CreechThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 

Books for Young Adults - More Books by Grade Level from TeachersFirst

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls The Cay by Theodore Taylor The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare 

Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein 

Books for Preschoolers - More Preschool Titles from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

Books for Children Ages 4-8 - More Primary Reading from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

by Judith Viorst