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Great Books Reading List

Here are a few of the 100 Lists of Great books to read (basically a life times worth of reading) and I thought that if I read a few each year, I can make my way through the lists.

The Modern Library 100 Best Novels

  1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
  2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (read pre-2022)
  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 by Joseph Heller
  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 HUNTERby 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 SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford
  31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
  69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
  70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby 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 (read pre-2022)
  79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster (read pre-2022)
  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

The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction

  1. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams
  2. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James
  3. UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington
  4. A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN by Virginia Woolf
  5. SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson
  6. SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot
  7. THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson
  8. SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov
  9. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE by H. L. Mencken
  10. THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY by John Maynard Keynes
  11. THE LIVES OF A CELL by Lewis Thomas
  12. THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner
  13. BLACK BOY by Richard Wright
  14. ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
  15. THE CIVIL WAR by Shelby Foote
  16. THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara Tuchman
  17. THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND by Isaiah Berlin
  18. THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN by Reinhold Niebuhr
  19. NOTES OF A NATIVE SON by James Baldwin
  20. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS by Gertrude Stein
  21. THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by William Strunk and E. B. White
  22. AN AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal
  23. PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
  24. THE MISMEASURE OF MAN by Stephen Jay Gould
  25. THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP by Meyer Howard Abrams
  26. THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE by Peter B. Medawar
  27. THE ANTS by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
  28. A THEORY OF JUSTICE by John Rawls
  29. ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich
  30. THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS by E. P. Thompson
  31. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois
  32. PRINCIPIA ETHICA by G. E. Moore
  33. PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION by John Dewey
  34. ON GROWTH AND FORM by D’Arcy Thompson
  35. IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein
  36. THE AGE OF JACKSON, Arthur Schlesinger by Jr.
  37. THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes
  38. BLACK LAMB and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
  39. AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by W. B. Yeats
  40. SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA by Joseph Needham
  41. GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves
  42. HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell
  43. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN by Mark Twain
  44. CHILDREN OF CRISIS by Robert Coles
  45. A STUDY OF HISTORY by Arnold J. Toynbee
  46. THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith
  47. PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson
  48. THE GREAT BRIDGE by David McCullough
  49. PATRIOTIC GORE by Edmund Wilson
  50. SAMUEL JOHNSON by Walter Jackson Bate
  51. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
  52. THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe
  53. EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey
  54. WORKING by Studs Terkel
  55. DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron
  56. THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION by Lionel Trilling
  57. THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill
  58. OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen
  59. JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME by Dumas Malone
  60. IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN by William Carlos Williams
  61. CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner
  62. THE HOUSE OF MORGAN by Ron Chernow
  63. THE SWEET SCIENCE by A. J. Liebling
  64. THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES by Karl Popper
  65. THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates
  66. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by R. H. Tawney
  67. A PREFACE TO MORALS by Walter Lippmann
  68. THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence
  69. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn
  70. THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Vann Woodward
  71. THE RISE OF THE WEST by William H. McNeill
  72. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels
  73. JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
  74. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith
  75. THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell
  76. THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford
  77. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by James M. McPherson
  78. WHY WE CAN’T WAIT by Martin Luther King by Jr.
  79. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris
  80. STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY by Erwin Panofsky
  81. THE FACE OF BATTLE by John Keegan
  82. THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND by George Dangerfield
  83. VERMEER by Lawrence Gowing
  84. A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan
  85. WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham
  86. THIS BOY’S LIFE by Tobias Wolff
  87. A MATHEMATICIAN’S APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
  88. SIX EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman
  89. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard
  90. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James George Frazer
  91. SHADOW AND ACT by Ralph Ellison
  92. THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro
  93. THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION by Richard Hofstadter
  94. THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams
  95. THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE by Herbert Croly
  96. IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
  97. THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm
  98. THE TAMING OF CHANCE by Ian Hacking
  99. OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS by Anne Lamott
  100. MELBOURNE by Lord David Cecil

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The Modern Library Reader’s List 100 Best Novels

  1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
  2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
  3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard (read pre-2022)
  4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
  20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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 (read pre-2022)
  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

The Modern Library Read’s List 100 Best Nonfiction

  1. THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by AYN RAND
  2. DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH by L. RON HUBBARD
  3. OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND by LEONARD PEIKOFF
  4. 101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION by CLAIRE WOLFE
  5. THE GOD OF THE MACHINE by ISABEL PATERSON
  6. AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE by MICHAEL PAXTON
  7. THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE by JULIAN SIMON
  8. ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON by HENRY HAZLITT
  9. SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
  10. MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME by JOHN R. LOTT
  11. PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL by BRUCE WISEMAN
  12. FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by G. HANCOCK
  13. CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING by TIBOR MACHAN
  14. FREE TO CHOOSE by MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN
  15. AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF YOU DO by PETER MCWILLIAMS
  16. THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by F. A. HAYEK
  17. FREEDOM IN CHAINS by JAMES BOVARD
  18. AMERICA’S GREAT DEPRESSION by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
  19. THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by JOHN T. FLYNN
  20. THE TRUE BELIEVER by ERIC HOFFER
  21. VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS by THOMAS WEST
  22. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by CARL L. BECKER
  23. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS by AARON T. BECK
  24. DEATH by GOVERNMENT by R. J. RUMMEL
  25. A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF
  26. LONGITUDE by DAVA SOBEL
  27. ORDINARILY SACRED by LYNDA SEXSON
  28. SPEAK, MEMORY by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
  29. THE ART OF MEMORY by FRANCES YATES
  30. DUMBING US DOWN by JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
  31. THE GOLDEN BOUGH by JAMES FRAZER
  32. UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by STEPHEN E. AMBROSE
  33. A MODERN PROPHET by HAROLD KLEMP
  34. THE FLUTE OF GOD by PAUL TWITCHELL
  35. REAL PRESENCES by GEORGE STEINER
  36. OUT OF AFRICA by ISAK DINESEN
  37. WAYS OF SEEING by JOHN BERGER
  38. THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA’S CAMPUSES by ALAN CHARLES KORS
  39. PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by JAMES V. DE LONG
  40. STORMING HEAVEN by JAY STEVENS
  41. THE TEXAN by C. S. BARRIOS
  42. HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by GEORGE ORWELL
  43. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM JAMES
  44. HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS by DARRELL HUFF
  45. BUT IS IT TRUE? by AARON WILDAVSKY
  46. A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
  47. ANATOMY OF CRITICISM by NORTHROP FRYE
  48. THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS by HENRY GRADY WEAVER
  49. MODERN TIMES by PAUL JOHNSON
  50. MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS by IRVING STONE
  51. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by HENRY ADAMS
  52. THE GREAT BRIDGE by DAVID MCCULLOUGH
  53. AMERICAN GAY by STEPHEN O. MURRAY
  54. THE DOUBLE HELIX by JAMES D. WATSON
  55. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by FRANK KERMODE
  56. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by ELAINE PAGELS
  57. EROS THE BITTERSWEET by ANNE CARSON
  58. THE WESTERN CANON by HAROLD BLOOM
  59. THE WHITE GODDESS by ROBERT GRAVES
  60. HEALING OUR WORLD by MARY RUWART
  61. SILENT SPRING by RACHEL CARSON
  62. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by ANNIE DILLARD
  63. SEXUAL PERSONAE by CAMILLE PAGLIA
  64. THINK AND GROW RICH by NAPOLEON HILL
  65. A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN by DAVID KELLEY
  66. DOORS OF PERCEPTION by ALDOUS HUXLEY
  67. THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM by ROSE WILDER LANE
  68. MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT by WALTER WILLIAMS
  69. LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER by DAVID BOAZ
  70. BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE by WILLIAM MADDOX AND STUART LILIE
  71. A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL
  72. PARLIAMENT OF WHORES by P. J. O’ROURKE
  73. SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA’S FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN
  74. THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES by VIRGINIA POSTREL
  75. THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by WILLIAM STRUNK AND E. B. WHITE
  76. ORIENTALISM by EDWARD SAID
  77. ECOTERROR by RON ARNOLD
  78. WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WORK by HARRY BROWNE
  79. OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. EDWARDS DEMING
  80. NOT OUT OF AFRICA by MARY LEFKOWITZ
  81. THE END OF RACISM by DINESH D’SOUZA
  82. BEHIND THE MASK by IAN BURUMA
  83. IN A DARK WOOD by ALSTON CHASE
  84. PRIVATE PARTS by HOWARD STERN
  85. THE TELEPHONE BOOK by AVITAL RONELL
  86. THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE by GARY HART
  87. WAKING AND DREAMING by JOSEPH HART
  88. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD by LANA CANTRELL
  89. RADICAL SON by DAVID HOROWITZ
  90. UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN by SUSAN SONTAG
  91. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X
  92. A FEELING FOR BOOKS by JANICE RADWAY
  93. THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  94. THE JOB by WILLIAM BURROUGHS
  95. SILENT INTERVIEWS by SAMUEL R. DELANY
  96. SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS by MIKE ROYKO
  97. RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS by MICHAEL NOVACK
  98. REVERSE ANGLE by JOHN SIMON
  99. PLACING MOVIES by JONATHON ROSENBAUM
  100. RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING by PATRICK J BUCHANAN

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The Guardian’s (British version) List 100 Best Novels

 

  • Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
  • Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
  • Robinson Curseo, Daniel Defoe
  • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
  • Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
  • Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
  • Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  • Emma, Jane Austen
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
  • The Black Sheep, Honore De Balzac
  • The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  • Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli
  • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
  • Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  • The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Little Women, Louisa M Alcott
  • The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
  • The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
  • Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
  • Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
  • The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
  • The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  • In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
  • The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
  • The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
  • Ulysses, James Joyce
  • Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Trial, Franz Kafka
  • Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway
  • Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
  • USA, John Dos Passos
  • The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
  • The Pursite of Love, Nancy Mitford
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
  • Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
  • Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
  • The Lord Of The Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
  • Lord of the Flies, William Golding (read pre-2022)
  • The Quiet American, Graham Greene (read pre-2022)
  • On the Road, Jack Kerouac
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (read pre-2022)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (read pre-2022)
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • Herzog, Saul Bellow
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre
  • Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  • The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
  • A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
  • Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
  • Lanark, Alasdair Gray
  • The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
  • The BFG, Roald Dahl
  • The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
  • Money, Martin Amis
  • An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey (read pre-2022)
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
  • Haroun and the Sea af Stories, Salman Rushdie
  • LA Confidential, James Ellroy
  • Wise Children, Angela Carter
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (read pre-2022)
  • American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  • Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald