Top 100 according to Newsweek [http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1]

italics are the books I'm currently reading, slashed are books I've already read, bolded are the ones I'm considering reading next.

  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Ulysses - James Joyce
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  • Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  • To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  • Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  • Middlemarch - George Eliot
  • Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  • The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  • Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • Beloved - Toni Morrison
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  • Native Son - Richard Wright
  • Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
  • On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  • The Histories - Herodotus
  • The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Das Kapital - Karl Marx
  • The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Confessions - St. Augustine
  • Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
  • The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
  • The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
  • Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis (although, I should probably re-read this one)
  • A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version.
  • A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Light in August - William Faulkner
  • The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  • Paradise Lost - John Milton
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  • King Lear - Willian Shakespeare
  • Othello - William Shakespeare
  • Sonnets - William Shakespeare
  • Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  • The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  • Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  • The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  • As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • I, Claudius - Robert Graves
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
  • Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
  • All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
  • Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
  • Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • Night - Elie Wiesel
  • Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  • Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
  • An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
  • The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
  • Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  • The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  • His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  • The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
  • The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong
  • The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James
  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  • Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes
  • Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  • Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
  • The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley and Malcolm X
  • Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
  • The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  • The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate - Winston Churchill

I'll finish reading these some day, when I'm much older. I'm dreading most of the non-fictions. The ones I've already read, however, are fantastic books.

apr 20 2010 ∞
may 27 2014 +