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Thanks all!
-Heather
Monday, August 11, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Amaztype
http://amaztype.tha.jp/
This link is so much fun. I've been playing around with it for going on 20minutes.
It's really simple:
Type in a word that the site will search for on Amazon.com (for example: love)
It will then create that word (love) out of books that come up in the search (love related books).
It's sort of like just doing an Amazon search for a keyword, but instead the search results come back in a fun shape. If you pan your mouse over the letters created by the covers, it will highlight the books on top and give you some of their information. If you click on the cover, it will open a window to that book on Amazon.com
This link is so much fun. I've been playing around with it for going on 20minutes.
It's really simple:
Type in a word that the site will search for on Amazon.com (for example: love)
It will then create that word (love) out of books that come up in the search (love related books).
It's sort of like just doing an Amazon search for a keyword, but instead the search results come back in a fun shape. If you pan your mouse over the letters created by the covers, it will highlight the books on top and give you some of their information. If you click on the cover, it will open a window to that book on Amazon.com
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The House at Riverton
The Publisher's Description:
The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades.
Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline.
In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth.
In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever.
The novel is full of secrets -- some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history.
Originally published to critical acclaim in Australia, already sold in ten countries and a #1 bestseller in England, The House at Riverton is a vivid, page-turning novel of suspense and passion, with characters -- and an ending -- the reader won't soon forget.
http://www.amazon.com/House-at-Riverton-Novel/dp/1416550518Review and Grade: A
I loved this book. I finished it over a week ago and I'm still thinking about it. I recommended it to my mom's book club because it makes such a good discussion book and because I want someone to talk about it with! Kate Morton is incredibly talented and she weaves such an intense, beautifully complicated tale, filled with those "ah-ha" moments. I'm positive I could read it again, even right now, and still be just as enthralled and still see another level of meaning that I missed the first time. I can't say enough wonderful things about this book, but apparently, neither can anyone else. I'm not doing this book justice but just look at all of the reviews on Amazon too.
This book was published a few years ago in Australia and has become a worldwide success over time. It was finally released in the US this spring and I've already heard movie rumors. I doubt the movie would do the book justice (does it ever?) but it just reflects how much buzz there is around this book.
Overall, go get this book. Right now. Even in hardcover (and its not small), you can't put it down. I even carried it in my purse!
The Wilde Women
My first review on here!
Publisher's description:
I enjoyed this novel as I read it, but by the end I was losing interest. There are just so many characters to follow and as a result, none were really able to develop. The protagonists, Pearl and Kat Wilde held so much potential for strong character in the beginning but by the end, they simply fell flat. The plot developed about as much as the characters. There are so many questions and intrigues early on that are wrapped up so neatly by the end that they simply aren't worth knowing.
The strengths of this novel is the style, which makes me confident that Paula Wall has another good book in her. She managed to keep me interested far past the point when I realized it wasn't going anywhere, which says a lot. She also had a few quotable jems thrown in that show insight into the true nature of relationships.
Overall, I would recommend this book to someone who has nothing better to do and nothing better to read. It isn't a bad book, but it is severely lacking.
Publisher's description:
Paula Wall, the national bestselling author of The Rock Orchard, returns with another witty, wise, and romantic tale of two sisters with a talent for seduction and the unfortunate habit of falling for the wrong man every time.
The Wilde sisters dove headfirst into this world on fire with life and expectation. With hair black as midnight and eyes blazing blue, they grow into truly irresistible women. But as well as being blessed with beauty and determination, the Wilde sisters are cursed with equal tastes for mischief and bad men. And both of these appetites always lead to trouble. Love either lifts a woman up or drags her down. When a Wilde woman dies, they don't have to dig a hole.
On Black Friday in Five Points, Tennessee, Pearl Wilde finds her sister, Kat, in the barn wearing both her favorite shoes and her fiancé. As quick to fury as she is to passion, Pearl leaves town immediately. She returns five years later a sophisticated femme fatale, with her claws sharpened like stainless steel and a demeanor so cool that the townspeople can no longer tell if she even has sweat glands. Slowly and deliberately, Pearl begins her revenge on Kat by captivating all the men of Five Points, but all the while never forgetting the one man who had the power to break her heart.
In The Wilde Women, Paula Wall once again bewitches the reader with humor, sass, smarts, and sensuality, creating a hilarious and beguiling world where sometimes the best revenge is forgiveness.
Review and Grade: D+
I enjoyed this novel as I read it, but by the end I was losing interest. There are just so many characters to follow and as a result, none were really able to develop. The protagonists, Pearl and Kat Wilde held so much potential for strong character in the beginning but by the end, they simply fell flat. The plot developed about as much as the characters. There are so many questions and intrigues early on that are wrapped up so neatly by the end that they simply aren't worth knowing.
The strengths of this novel is the style, which makes me confident that Paula Wall has another good book in her. She managed to keep me interested far past the point when I realized it wasn't going anywhere, which says a lot. She also had a few quotable jems thrown in that show insight into the true nature of relationships.
Overall, I would recommend this book to someone who has nothing better to do and nothing better to read. It isn't a bad book, but it is severely lacking.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Big Read List
According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.
The instructions:
Look at the list and:
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE.
Reprint this list in your own blog.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (wow, not since I was a child! I didn't know it was a classic)
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92.The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The instructions:
Look at the list and:
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE.
Reprint this list in your own blog.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (wow, not since I was a child! I didn't know it was a classic)
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92.The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Monday, July 21, 2008
The perfect library
Classics:
The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace by Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Poetry:
Sonnets by Shakespeare
Divine Comedy by Dante
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Odes by John Keats
The Waste Land by TS Eliot
Paradise Lost by John M ilton
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Collected Poems by WB Yeats
Collected Poems by Ted Hughes
Literary Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
A la Recherche du temps perdu by Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Sword of Honor TRilogy by Evelyn Waugh
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Rabbit Series by John Updike
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MArquez
Beloved by Toni MOrrison
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Romantic Fiction:
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Alexander Trilogy by Mary Renault
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas HArdy
The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy
Children's Books:
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrove by CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
The Railway Children by E . Nesbit
Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne
HArry Potter by JK Rowling
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sci-Fi:
Frankenstein
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Brave NEw World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Foundation by Isaac Asimon
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Crime:
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Killshot by Elmore Leonard
Books that Changed the World
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
On the Interpreation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
L'Encyclopedie by Diderot et al
Books that Changed Your World
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Jonathan Livingston Seafull by Richard Bach
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
How to Cook by Delia Smith
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Schott's Originial Miscellany by Ben Schott
http://www.bspcn.com/2008/04/08/110-best-books-the-perfect-library/
The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace by Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Poetry:
Sonnets by Shakespeare
Divine Comedy by Dante
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Odes by John Keats
The Waste Land by TS Eliot
Paradise Lost by John M ilton
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Collected Poems by WB Yeats
Collected Poems by Ted Hughes
Literary Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
A la Recherche du temps perdu by Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Sword of Honor TRilogy by Evelyn Waugh
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Rabbit Series by John Updike
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MArquez
Beloved by Toni MOrrison
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Romantic Fiction:
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Alexander Trilogy by Mary Renault
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas HArdy
The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy
Children's Books:
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrove by CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
The Railway Children by E . Nesbit
Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne
HArry Potter by JK Rowling
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sci-Fi:
Frankenstein
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Brave NEw World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Foundation by Isaac Asimon
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Crime:
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Killshot by Elmore Leonard
Books that Changed the World
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
On the Interpreation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
L'Encyclopedie by Diderot et al
Books that Changed Your World
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Jonathan Livingston Seafull by Richard Bach
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
How to Cook by Delia Smith
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Schott's Originial Miscellany by Ben Schott
http://www.bspcn.com/2008/04/08/110-best-books-the-perfect-library/
Librarian's List of Must Reads
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
BBC's 100 Most Loved Novels (2003)
This is probably my favorite list. Almost every book on here that I haven't read yet, I want to read soon!
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Orange Award Winners Challenge
2008
The Road Home, by Rose Tremain - WINNER
Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston
The Outcast, by Sadie Jones
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O'Neill
Lottery, by Patricia Wood
2007
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - WINNER
Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations, by Jane Harris
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
2006On Beauty, by Zadie Smith - WINNER
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel
The Accidental, by Ali Smith
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, by Carrie Tiffany
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
2005
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver - WINNER
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
2004
Small Island, by Andrea Levy - WINNER
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
2003
Property, by Valerie Martin - WINNER
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
Unless, by Carol Shields
The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
2002
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett- WINNER
No Bones, by Anna Burns
The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
A Child's Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
2001
The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville - WINNER
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Fred & Edie, by Jill Dawson
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times, by Linda Grant - WINNER
If I Told You Once, by Judy Budnitz
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Dancers Dancing, by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
1999
A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne - WINNER
The Short History of a Prince, by Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
The Leper's Companions, by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds, by Marilyn Bowering
1998
Larry's Party, by Carol Shield - WINNER
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville
The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore, by Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
1997
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels - WINNER
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness, by Deirdre Madden
Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx
Hen's Teeth, by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn
1996
A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore - WINNER
The Book of Colour, by Julia Blackburn
Spinsters, by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins
The Road Home, by Rose Tremain - WINNER
Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston
The Outcast, by Sadie Jones
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O'Neill
Lottery, by Patricia Wood
2007
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - WINNER
Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations, by Jane Harris
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
2006On Beauty, by Zadie Smith - WINNER
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel
The Accidental, by Ali Smith
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, by Carrie Tiffany
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
2005
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver - WINNER
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
2004
Small Island, by Andrea Levy - WINNER
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
2003
Property, by Valerie Martin - WINNER
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
Unless, by Carol Shields
The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
2002
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett- WINNER
No Bones, by Anna Burns
The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
A Child's Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
2001
The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville - WINNER
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Fred & Edie, by Jill Dawson
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times, by Linda Grant - WINNER
If I Told You Once, by Judy Budnitz
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Dancers Dancing, by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
1999
A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne - WINNER
The Short History of a Prince, by Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
The Leper's Companions, by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds, by Marilyn Bowering
1998
Larry's Party, by Carol Shield - WINNER
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville
The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore, by Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
1997
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels - WINNER
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness, by Deirdre Madden
Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx
Hen's Teeth, by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn
1996
A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore - WINNER
The Book of Colour, by Julia Blackburn
Spinsters, by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins
Friday, July 18, 2008
New Classics Challenge Aug 1-Jan 31
http://lostinagoodstory.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-classics-challenge.html
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
Daring Girls Challenge
http://daringbookchallenge.blogspot.com/
20 Girl Classics
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and other books
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds,
Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton (series of 21 books)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitshugh
The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander (series of 5 books)
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah H. Richards
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (series of 3 books)
Lizzie Bright and The Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Matilda and The BFG by Roald Dahl
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona by Beverly Cleary (series of 8 books)
Other Favorites
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (series of 7 books)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (series of 7 books)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency and other madcap stories by Daniel Pinkwater
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (series of 7 books)
Robot Series by Isaac Asimov (series of 4 books plus short stories, must read the 4 books)Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (series of 9 books)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin (series of 3 books)
Dragonsong Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey (series of 3 books)
The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Classic Girl and Her Horse Books
Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Mythologies and Fairy Tales
Bullfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (note: this is 888 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (note: this is 1120 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm (note: this is 880 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
The Odyssey by Homer
Old Fashioned Girl Detective Series
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene (series of 56 books [the originals]) see here.
Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell (series of 39 books)
20 Girl Classics
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and other books
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds,
Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Magical Melons by Carol Ryrie Brink
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton (series of 21 books)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitshugh
The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander (series of 5 books)
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah H. Richards
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (series of 3 books)
Lizzie Bright and The Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Matilda and The BFG by Roald Dahl
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona by Beverly Cleary (series of 8 books)
Other Favorites
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (series of 7 books)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (series of 7 books)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency and other madcap stories by Daniel Pinkwater
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (series of 7 books)
Robot Series by Isaac Asimov (series of 4 books plus short stories, must read the 4 books)Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (series of 9 books)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin (series of 3 books)
Dragonsong Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey (series of 3 books)
The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Classic Girl and Her Horse Books
Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Mythologies and Fairy Tales
Bullfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (note: this is 888 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (note: this is 1120 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm (note: this is 880 pages long, keep that in mind when making your list)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
The Odyssey by Homer
Old Fashioned Girl Detective Series
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene (series of 56 books [the originals]) see here.
Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell (series of 39 books)
Pelham Library's List of Banned Books 2008
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
The House of the Spirits
Fair and Tender Ladies
Flowers In The Attic
Go Ask Alice
The Handmaid's Tale
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Go Tell It on the Mountain
In The Heat Of The Night
On My Honor
Figure In The Shadows
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Olive's Ocean
Forever
Earth’s Children (Series)
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
The Moves Make the Man
Prince of Tides
Clockwork Orange
Naked Lunch
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger
Ricochet River
The Goats
Jump Ship to Freedom
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Crazy Lady!
Les Miserables
Watchmen
The Lords of Discipline
Tropic of Cancer
The Golden Compass (series)
Princess Diaries (series)
Just Listen
The Terrorist
Alice (Series)
Inkheart
Freedom Writers Diary
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
The Chocolate War
Stotan!
The Scarlet Letter
American Tragedy
Killing Mr. Griffin
Such is My Beloved
Invisible Man
As I Lay Dying
The Wars
The Great Gatsby
Pillars Of The Earth
The Diary of a Young Girl
America
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Annie on My Mind
Grendel
Julie of the Wolves
Lord Of The Flies
Ordinary People
Stones from the River
Catch-22
It's Not the End of the World
James and the Giant Peach
The Cider House Rules
The Indian in the Cupboard
Who Is Frances Rain?
We All Fall Down
The Sun Also Rises
Red Sky at Morning
The Outsiders
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Animal Farm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Flowers for Algernon
It
Leaves of Grass
Just Listen
The Talisman
Carrie
Tommyknockers
Different Seasons
A Separate Peace
Funhouse
Sons and Lovers
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Women in Love
The Diviners
The Beet Fields
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Wrinkle in Time
Richard II
Of Mice And Men
East of Eden
Catcher in the Rye
Ulysses
The Naked and The Dead
Sanctuary
Who Has Seen The Wind
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Kane & Abel
The Satanic Verses
Sexy
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Scary Stories
Cradle and All
Gossip Girl (series)
Frankenstein
Harry Potter (series)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Color Purple
Kaffir Boy
Fallen Angels
A Light in the Attic
The Lovely Bones
The Giver
Bridge to Terabithia
Jacob Have I Loved
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Don Quixote
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Tenth Circle
Dr. Zhivago
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Chronicles Of Prydain (series)
In Cold Blood
The Hammer of Eden
Witches
Anastasia Krupnik
Bluest Eye
Beloved
The Pigman
Deenie
The Boy Who Lost His Face
The Wars
Slaughterhouse-Five
Native Son
Jack
Tiger Eyes
Dead Zone
Always Running : La Vida Loca:
Song of Solomon
Summer of My German Soldier
Running Loose
How to Eat Fried Worms
The View from the Cherry Tree
The Headless Cupid
Terrorist
A Time to Kill
Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things
Lolita
Brokeback Mountain
The Kite Runner
Dangerous Girls
The Grapes of Wrath
Doll Baby
When Jeff Comes Home
A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
Luna
What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets, & Showers
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hold Fast
Lives of Girls and Women
Suite Française
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Underground To Canada
How Do You Spell Abducted?
Black Like Me
Doctor Zhivago
Snow Falling on Cedars
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and
Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
The House of the Spirits
Fair and Tender Ladies
Flowers In The Attic
Go Ask Alice
The Handmaid's Tale
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Go Tell It on the Mountain
In The Heat Of The Night
On My Honor
Figure In The Shadows
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Olive's Ocean
Forever
Earth’s Children (Series)
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
The Moves Make the Man
Prince of Tides
Clockwork Orange
Naked Lunch
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger
Ricochet River
The Goats
Jump Ship to Freedom
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Crazy Lady!
Les Miserables
Watchmen
The Lords of Discipline
Tropic of Cancer
The Golden Compass (series)
Princess Diaries (series)
Just Listen
The Terrorist
Alice (Series)
Inkheart
Freedom Writers Diary
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
The Chocolate War
Stotan!
The Scarlet Letter
American Tragedy
Killing Mr. Griffin
Such is My Beloved
Invisible Man
As I Lay Dying
The Wars
The Great Gatsby
Pillars Of The Earth
The Diary of a Young Girl
America
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Annie on My Mind
Grendel
Julie of the Wolves
Lord Of The Flies
Ordinary People
Stones from the River
Catch-22
It's Not the End of the World
James and the Giant Peach
The Cider House Rules
The Indian in the Cupboard
Who Is Frances Rain?
We All Fall Down
The Sun Also Rises
Red Sky at Morning
The Outsiders
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Animal Farm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Flowers for Algernon
It
Leaves of Grass
Just Listen
The Talisman
Carrie
Tommyknockers
Different Seasons
A Separate Peace
Funhouse
Sons and Lovers
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Women in Love
The Diviners
The Beet Fields
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Wrinkle in Time
Richard II
Of Mice And Men
East of Eden
Catcher in the Rye
Ulysses
The Naked and The Dead
Sanctuary
Who Has Seen The Wind
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Kane & Abel
The Satanic Verses
Sexy
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Scary Stories
Cradle and All
Gossip Girl (series)
Frankenstein
Harry Potter (series)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Color Purple
Kaffir Boy
Fallen Angels
A Light in the Attic
The Lovely Bones
The Giver
Bridge to Terabithia
Jacob Have I Loved
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Don Quixote
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Tenth Circle
Dr. Zhivago
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Chronicles Of Prydain (series)
In Cold Blood
The Hammer of Eden
Witches
Anastasia Krupnik
Bluest Eye
Beloved
The Pigman
Deenie
The Boy Who Lost His Face
The Wars
Slaughterhouse-Five
Native Son
Jack
Tiger Eyes
Dead Zone
Always Running : La Vida Loca:
Song of Solomon
Summer of My German Soldier
Running Loose
How to Eat Fried Worms
The View from the Cherry Tree
The Headless Cupid
Terrorist
A Time to Kill
Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things
Lolita
Brokeback Mountain
The Kite Runner
Dangerous Girls
The Grapes of Wrath
Doll Baby
When Jeff Comes Home
A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
Luna
What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets, & Showers
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hold Fast
Lives of Girls and Women
Suite Française
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Underground To Canada
How Do You Spell Abducted?
Black Like Me
Doctor Zhivago
Snow Falling on Cedars
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and
Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
Modern Library Reader’s List
1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. IT by Stephen King
85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. IT by Stephen King
85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
Modern Library Board’s List:
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
89. LOVING by Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
89. LOVING by Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
Boston Public Library 100 Most Influential Books of the Century
Adler, Alfred. Study of Organic Inferiority and Its Physical Compensation: A Contribution to Clinical Medicine. 1917
Adorno, Theodor. Philosophy of Modern Music. 1973
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. 1941
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. 1953
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. 1949
Beck, Simone, Bertholle, Louise and Child, Julia. Art of French Cooking.
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. 1934
Bernays, Edward. The Engineering of Consent. 1955
Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Our Bodies Our Selves; A Book by and for Women. 1973
Buber, Martin. I and Thou. 1923
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1962
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. 1946
Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. 1936
Carson, Rachael. Silent Spring. 1962
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard. 1904
Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. 1957
Clark, Arthur. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1960
Comfort, Alex. The Joy of Sex: A Cordon Bleu Guide to Lovemaking. 1972
Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. 1902
Denby, Edwin. Looking at Dance. 1949
Dewey, John. The School and the Child: Being Selections from the Educational Essays of John Dewey. 1907
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Genetics and the Origin of the Species. 1937
Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. 1917
Eliot, T.S. Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925
Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank. 1947
Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. 1962
Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 1890-1915
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. 1913
Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. 1933
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. 1963
Gandhi, Mohandas K. Satyagraha in South Africa. 1928
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1967
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. 1956
Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. 1971
Gorky, Maksim. Creatures that Once Were Men. 1905
Gray, John. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationship. 1992
Greenberg, Clement. Art and Culture: Critical Essays. 1961
Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. 1976
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. 1962, English Translation
Heisenberg, Werner. Uncertainty Principle. 1927
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. 1961
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. 1926
Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf. 1927
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. 1925-26
Ho, Chi Minh. Reflections from Captivity. 1978
James, William. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. 1907
John XXIII, Pope. Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII. 1965
Joyce, James. Ulysses. 1922
Jung, C.G. Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, a Contribution to the Evolution of Thought. 1916
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. 1925
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 1957
Keynes, John M. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. 1936
Kinsey, Alfred C. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. 1948
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. 1940
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962
Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. 1928
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. 1962
LÈvi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. 1969
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. 1922
Lorenz, Konrad. On Aggression. 1966
Malraux, AndrÈ. Man's Fate. 1934
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. 1924
Mao, Tse-tung. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. 1966
Maslow, Abraham. Motivation and Personality. 1954.
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. 1928
Merton, Thomas. Seven Story Mountain. 1948
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. 1956
Morgan, Thomas Hunt. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. 1916
Montessori, Maria. The Montessori Method. 1912
Nabokov, Vladimir V. Lolita. 1955
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Novel. 1949
Pavlov, I. Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Psychological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex. 1927
Piaget, Jean. Judgement and Reasoning in the Child. 1924
Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. 1921
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. 1913
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. 1957
Reed, John. Ten Days That Shook the World. 1919
Reich, Wilhelm. Function of the Orgasm: Sex-economic Problems of Biological Energy. 1973
Remarque, Rainer Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. 1928
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives.
Sagan, Carl. Intelligent Life in the Universe. 1963
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye. 1951
Sanger, Mary. Happiness in Marriage. 1926
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. 1943
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. 1906
Skinner, B.F. Beyond Freedom and Dignity. 1971
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. The Gulag Archipelago. 1974-78
Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West. 1918-22
Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. 1946
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939
Surgeon General's Office. Smoking and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. 1979
Tarbell, Ida. The History of the Standard Oil Company. 1904
Von Neumann, John. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. 1944
W., Bill. AA Big Book. 1939
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. 1969
Watson, John. Behaviorism. 1925
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics. 1948
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929
Wright, Richard. Native Son. 1940
Books that Didn't Quite Make It
Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 1962
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1970
Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 1900
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. 1952
Boas, Franz. The Mind of Primitive Man.
Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land.
Brecht, Berthold. Mother Courage and her Children.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 1970
Buck, Pearl. Good Earth. 1931
C‚pek, Karel. R.U.R.. 1920
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of Night.
Chomsky, Noam. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. 1971
Christie, Agatha. Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
cummings, e.e. Enormous Room.
Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics. 1976
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist.
Gibbs, W. Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics.
Hall, Radclyffe. Well of Loneliness. 1928
Hammett, Dashiell. Maltese Falcon.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. 1902
James, Henry. The Golden Bowl. 1904
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life.
Keynes, John M. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. 1919
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960
Lukas, J.A. Common Ground.
Metalious, G. Peyton Place. 1956
Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926
Nin, Anais. The Diary of Anais Nin. 1966
O. Henry. Four Million.
Peale, Norman V. Power of Positive Thinking.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. 1965
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Rilke, Rainer M. Sonnets to Orpheus.
Ruben, David. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but were Afraid to Ask. 1969
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. 1987
Skinner, B.F. Science and Human Behavior. 1953
Stein, Gertrude. Making of Americans.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Phenomenon of Man.
Tuchman, Barbara. Guns of August. 1962
Tzara, Trista. Seven Dada Manifestos and Lamisteries.
Von Braun, Werner. The Mars Project. 1953
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. 1982
X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1965
Yeats, W.B. Wild Swans at Coole. Zangvill, Israel. The Melting Pot. 1909
Adorno, Theodor. Philosophy of Modern Music. 1973
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. 1941
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. 1953
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. 1949
Beck, Simone, Bertholle, Louise and Child, Julia. Art of French Cooking.
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. 1934
Bernays, Edward. The Engineering of Consent. 1955
Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Our Bodies Our Selves; A Book by and for Women. 1973
Buber, Martin. I and Thou. 1923
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1962
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. 1946
Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. 1936
Carson, Rachael. Silent Spring. 1962
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard. 1904
Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. 1957
Clark, Arthur. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1960
Comfort, Alex. The Joy of Sex: A Cordon Bleu Guide to Lovemaking. 1972
Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. 1902
Denby, Edwin. Looking at Dance. 1949
Dewey, John. The School and the Child: Being Selections from the Educational Essays of John Dewey. 1907
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Genetics and the Origin of the Species. 1937
Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. 1917
Eliot, T.S. Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925
Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank. 1947
Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. 1962
Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 1890-1915
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. 1913
Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. 1933
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. 1963
Gandhi, Mohandas K. Satyagraha in South Africa. 1928
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1967
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. 1956
Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. 1971
Gorky, Maksim. Creatures that Once Were Men. 1905
Gray, John. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationship. 1992
Greenberg, Clement. Art and Culture: Critical Essays. 1961
Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. 1976
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. 1962, English Translation
Heisenberg, Werner. Uncertainty Principle. 1927
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. 1961
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. 1926
Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf. 1927
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. 1925-26
Ho, Chi Minh. Reflections from Captivity. 1978
James, William. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. 1907
John XXIII, Pope. Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII. 1965
Joyce, James. Ulysses. 1922
Jung, C.G. Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, a Contribution to the Evolution of Thought. 1916
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. 1925
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 1957
Keynes, John M. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. 1936
Kinsey, Alfred C. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. 1948
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. 1940
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962
Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. 1928
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. 1962
LÈvi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. 1969
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. 1922
Lorenz, Konrad. On Aggression. 1966
Malraux, AndrÈ. Man's Fate. 1934
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. 1924
Mao, Tse-tung. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. 1966
Maslow, Abraham. Motivation and Personality. 1954.
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. 1928
Merton, Thomas. Seven Story Mountain. 1948
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. 1956
Morgan, Thomas Hunt. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. 1916
Montessori, Maria. The Montessori Method. 1912
Nabokov, Vladimir V. Lolita. 1955
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Novel. 1949
Pavlov, I. Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Psychological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex. 1927
Piaget, Jean. Judgement and Reasoning in the Child. 1924
Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. 1921
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. 1913
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. 1957
Reed, John. Ten Days That Shook the World. 1919
Reich, Wilhelm. Function of the Orgasm: Sex-economic Problems of Biological Energy. 1973
Remarque, Rainer Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. 1928
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives.
Sagan, Carl. Intelligent Life in the Universe. 1963
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye. 1951
Sanger, Mary. Happiness in Marriage. 1926
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. 1943
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. 1906
Skinner, B.F. Beyond Freedom and Dignity. 1971
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. The Gulag Archipelago. 1974-78
Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West. 1918-22
Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. 1946
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939
Surgeon General's Office. Smoking and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. 1979
Tarbell, Ida. The History of the Standard Oil Company. 1904
Von Neumann, John. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. 1944
W., Bill. AA Big Book. 1939
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. 1969
Watson, John. Behaviorism. 1925
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics. 1948
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929
Wright, Richard. Native Son. 1940
Books that Didn't Quite Make It
Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 1962
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1970
Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 1900
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. 1952
Boas, Franz. The Mind of Primitive Man.
Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land.
Brecht, Berthold. Mother Courage and her Children.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 1970
Buck, Pearl. Good Earth. 1931
C‚pek, Karel. R.U.R.. 1920
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of Night.
Chomsky, Noam. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. 1971
Christie, Agatha. Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
cummings, e.e. Enormous Room.
Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics. 1976
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist.
Gibbs, W. Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics.
Hall, Radclyffe. Well of Loneliness. 1928
Hammett, Dashiell. Maltese Falcon.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. 1902
James, Henry. The Golden Bowl. 1904
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life.
Keynes, John M. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. 1919
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960
Lukas, J.A. Common Ground.
Metalious, G. Peyton Place. 1956
Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926
Nin, Anais. The Diary of Anais Nin. 1966
O. Henry. Four Million.
Peale, Norman V. Power of Positive Thinking.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. 1965
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Rilke, Rainer M. Sonnets to Orpheus.
Ruben, David. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but were Afraid to Ask. 1969
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. 1987
Skinner, B.F. Science and Human Behavior. 1953
Stein, Gertrude. Making of Americans.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Phenomenon of Man.
Tuchman, Barbara. Guns of August. 1962
Tzara, Trista. Seven Dada Manifestos and Lamisteries.
Von Braun, Werner. The Mars Project. 1953
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. 1982
X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1965
Yeats, W.B. Wild Swans at Coole. Zangvill, Israel. The Melting Pot. 1909
Books that shaped people's lives
Respondents to the Survey of Lifetime Reading Habits, conducted [fall 1991] for the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Library of Congress' Center for the Book, cited the following when asked to name a book that had made a difference in their lives:
The Bible**
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
The Book of Mormon
(Five titles were tied for the next place):
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
A Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
Passages, by Gail Sheehy
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner
** A large gap exists between the #1 book and the rest of the list.
25 BOOKS THAT HAVE SHAPED READERS' LIVES
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Bible
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Roots, by Alex Haley
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
What Color is Your Parachute?, by Richard Nelson Bolles
The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The Bible**
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
The Book of Mormon
(Five titles were tied for the next place):
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
A Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
Passages, by Gail Sheehy
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner
** A large gap exists between the #1 book and the rest of the list.
25 BOOKS THAT HAVE SHAPED READERS' LIVES
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Bible
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Roots, by Alex Haley
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
What Color is Your Parachute?, by Richard Nelson Bolles
The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Ten Books for the Rugged Individualist
The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plains), Cormac McCarthy
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston
Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston
Dalva, Jim Harrison
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston
Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston
Dalva, Jim Harrison
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Ten Books You Plan to Read When You Retire (But Probably Won't)
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, T.E. Lawrence
The Bible
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, T.E. Lawrence
The Bible
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Ten Books about Reading
Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print, Marilyn Jager Adams
Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy, Miles Myers
I Hear America Reading: Why We Read * What We Read, Jim Burke
It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, Janet Allen
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop, Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmerman
Reading Engagement: Motivating Readers through Integrated Instruction, ed. John T. Guthrie and Alan Wigfield
Reading Lessons, Gerry Coles
Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, Edward Fry
The Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions, Jeff McQuillan
The Read-Aloud Handbook, JimTrelease
Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy, Miles Myers
I Hear America Reading: Why We Read * What We Read, Jim Burke
It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, Janet Allen
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop, Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmerman
Reading Engagement: Motivating Readers through Integrated Instruction, ed. John T. Guthrie and Alan Wigfield
Reading Lessons, Gerry Coles
Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, Edward Fry
The Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions, Jeff McQuillan
The Read-Aloud Handbook, JimTrelease
Ten Books for a Rainy Day
Babeltower, A.S. Byatt
Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh (Irving and Jean Stone, editors)
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Maria Rilke
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
The Rain God, Arturo Islas
Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh (Irving and Jean Stone, editors)
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Maria Rilke
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
The Rain God, Arturo Islas
Ten Books about Fascinating People
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us, James Carroll
And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
Daisy Bates in the Desert, Julia Blackburn
Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng
Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius), Greg Sarris
Nobody Nowhere
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
The American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis
The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer, Dan Van Der Vat
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
Daisy Bates in the Desert, Julia Blackburn
Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng
Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius), Greg Sarris
Nobody Nowhere
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
The American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis
The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer, Dan Van Der Vat
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Ten Books for Those in Pain or Despair
Anything by Dr. Seuss
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Feeling Good, Dr. Burns
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan
The Book of Psalms
Their Eyes Are Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Feeling Good, Dr. Burns
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan
The Book of Psalms
Their Eyes Are Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan
Ten Nobel Prize Winners to Read
Nadine Gordimer
Seamus Heaney
Ernest Hemingway
Eugene O'Neill
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Czeslaw Milosz
Toni Morrison
Kenzaboro Oe
Wislawa Szymbosrska
W.B. Yeats
Seamus Heaney
Ernest Hemingway
Eugene O'Neill
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Czeslaw Milosz
Toni Morrison
Kenzaboro Oe
Wislawa Szymbosrska
W.B. Yeats
Ten Books for a Mad Mad Mad World
A Bright Red Scream: Self Mutilation and the Language of Pain, Marilee Strong
Amphigorey, by Edword Gorey
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman and Paul McCarthy (editors)
Girl Interrupted, Suzanne Kaysen
Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
The Stand, Stephen King
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Amphigorey, by Edword Gorey
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman and Paul McCarthy (editors)
Girl Interrupted, Suzanne Kaysen
Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
The Stand, Stephen King
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Ten Books about Love
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
Love in the Time of Cholera, Garbriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
The Riders, Tim Winton
Snow Falling on Ceders, David Guterson
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
Love in the Time of Cholera, Garbriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
The Riders, Tim Winton
Snow Falling on Ceders, David Guterson
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The Cultural Literacy List
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet, Shakespeare
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Odyssey, Homer (Fagels translation)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet, Shakespeare
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Odyssey, Homer (Fagels translation)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ten Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Chicana Falsa, Michelle Serros
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Annie Lamott
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Camelia O. Skinner and Emily Kimborough
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Seinlanguage, Jerry Seinfeld
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen, Woody Allen
The Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, by Sue Townsend
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Chicana Falsa, Michelle Serros
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Annie Lamott
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Camelia O. Skinner and Emily Kimborough
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Seinlanguage, Jerry Seinfeld
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen, Woody Allen
The Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, by Sue Townsend
Ten Historical Novels You'll Love
Dead Man's Walk, Larry McMurtry
Burr, Gore Vidal
The Eight, Katherine Neville
Gospel, Wilton Barnhardt
Hawaii, James Michener
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
Trinity, Leon Uris
Burr, Gore Vidal
The Eight, Katherine Neville
Gospel, Wilton Barnhardt
Hawaii, James Michener
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
Trinity, Leon Uris
Ten Historical Novels You'll Love
Dead Man's Walk, Larry McMurtry
Burr, Gore Vidal
The Eight, Katherine Neville
Gospel, Wilton Barnhardt
Hawaii, James Michener
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
Trinity, Leon Uris
Burr, Gore Vidal
The Eight, Katherine Neville
Gospel, Wilton Barnhardt
Hawaii, James Michener
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
Trinity, Leon Uris
Ten Recommendations for The Great American Novel
Absalom! Absalom! William Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Twenty Books a Teenage Girl Would Want to Read
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Betsey Brown, Ntozake Shange
Black Ice, Lorene Cary
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair
Dharma Girl, Chelsea Cain
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
Forever, Judy Blume
Girl Interrupted, Suzanne Kaysen
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Julie Alvarez
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Betsey Brown, Ntozake Shange
Black Ice, Lorene Cary
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair
Dharma Girl, Chelsea Cain
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
Forever, Judy Blume
Girl Interrupted, Suzanne Kaysen
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Julie Alvarez
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago
Ten Books You Can Read Today about the Future
Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte
Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
Children of Men, P.D. James
The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula LeGuin
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Left Behind, Rim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, and Your Life, Faith Popcorn
Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
Children of Men, P.D. James
The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula LeGuin
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Left Behind, Rim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, and Your Life, Faith Popcorn
Ten Best Films that Began as Books
A River Runs Through It, Normal McLean
Apocalypse Now, Joseph Conrad (from Heart of Darkness)
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Dead, James Joyce
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Apocalypse Now, Joseph Conrad (from Heart of Darkness)
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Dead, James Joyce
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Ten Books for a Desert Island
The Annotated Alice
Collected Works of Shakespeare (Harold Bloom's choice)
The Divine Comedy (Pinsky translation), Dante Alligieri
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
The Histories, Herodotus
King James Bible (William Faulkner's choice)
The Odyssey, Homer (Fagles translation)
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabar-Zinn
Collected Works of Shakespeare (Harold Bloom's choice)
The Divine Comedy (Pinsky translation), Dante Alligieri
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
The Histories, Herodotus
King James Bible (William Faulkner's choice)
The Odyssey, Homer (Fagles translation)
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabar-Zinn
Ten Books We Should All Read before Childhood Ends
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Indian in the Cupboard
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Inglis Wilder
The BFG, Roald Dahl
The Box Car Children
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Indian in the Cupboard
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Inglis Wilder
The BFG, Roald Dahl
The Box Car Children
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
Ten Books a Teenage Boy Would Want to Read
A River Runs Through It, Norman McLean
Always Running, Luis Rodriguez
Dogsong, Gary Paulsen
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
Makes Me Want to Holler, Nathan McCall
Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff
Way Past Cool, Jess Mowry
Always Running, Luis Rodriguez
Dogsong, Gary Paulsen
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
Makes Me Want to Holler, Nathan McCall
Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff
Way Past Cool, Jess Mowry
Ten Books of Booklists
500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide, Erica Bauermeister, et al.
The Book Group Book, Ellen Slezak
Books for a Small Planet: A Multicultural-Intercultural Bibliography for Young English Language Learners, Dorothy S. Brown
Great Books for Girls: More than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women, Kathleen Odean
A Lifetime Reading Plan, Clifton Fadiman
New York Public Library's Books of the Century, ed. E Diefendorf
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today, Martin Seymour-Smith
The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group, With Annotated Lists of 250 Titles for Provocative Discussion, Davis Laskin and Holly Hughes
Strong Souls Singing: African American Books for Our Daughters and Our Sisters and Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers, edited by Archie Givens.
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
The Book Group Book, Ellen Slezak
Books for a Small Planet: A Multicultural-Intercultural Bibliography for Young English Language Learners, Dorothy S. Brown
Great Books for Girls: More than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women, Kathleen Odean
A Lifetime Reading Plan, Clifton Fadiman
New York Public Library's Books of the Century, ed. E Diefendorf
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today, Martin Seymour-Smith
The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group, With Annotated Lists of 250 Titles for Provocative Discussion, Davis Laskin and Holly Hughes
Strong Souls Singing: African American Books for Our Daughters and Our Sisters and Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers, edited by Archie Givens.
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
Ten Books Worth Reading Aloud to Your Children
A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
Fairy tales (Pantheon series)
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingles Wilder
Polar Express, Chris Can Allsburg
Taxi Dog, Debra Barracca
The Stinky Cheese Man, John Scieszka
The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
Fairy tales (Pantheon series)
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingles Wilder
Polar Express, Chris Can Allsburg
Taxi Dog, Debra Barracca
The Stinky Cheese Man, John Scieszka
The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
Ten Books for the Adventurous
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Seven Summits, Dick Bass and Frank Wells (with Rick Ridgeway)
Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo, Tracy Johnston
The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback, Robyn Davidson
Travelers' Tales: The Best of Travelers' Tales, Larry Habegger (editor)
Treasure, Clive Cussler
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Seven Summits, Dick Bass and Frank Wells (with Rick Ridgeway)
Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo, Tracy Johnston
The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback, Robyn Davidson
Travelers' Tales: The Best of Travelers' Tales, Larry Habegger (editor)
Treasure, Clive Cussler
Ten Books for People Who Think the World is Absurd
The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegutt
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (or other Robbins book)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and other books in the trilogy), Douglass Adams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
V, Thomas Pynchon
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegutt
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (or other Robbins book)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and other books in the trilogy), Douglass Adams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
V, Thomas Pynchon
Thursday, July 17, 2008
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Candide – Voltaire
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
Total: 41/1001
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Candide – Voltaire
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
Total: 41/1001
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