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.