1001 Books You Must Read

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

Instructions: simply enter a letter r into the red column next to the books you've read. The formula will do all the telling you how many you've read and what percentage of the total this is. You can then put your age into the box see how much you have to read to finish!

31

books read =

3.10%
19

Enter your current age in this box: To complete this list, you need to read an average of

17 books/year if you're a western male 16 books/year if you're a western female

Title 2000s Never Let Me Go Saturday On Beauty Slow Man Adjunct: An Undigest The Sea The Red Queen The Plot Against America The Master Vanishing Point The Lambs of London Dining on Stones Cloud Atlas Drop City The Colour Thursbitch The Light of Day What I Loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Islands Elizabeth Costello London Orbital Family Matters Fingersmith The Double Everything is Illuminated First Name Kazuo Ian Zadie J.M. Peter John Margaret Philip Colm David Peter Iain David T. Coraghessan Rose Alan Graham Siri Mark Dan J.M. Iain Rohinton Sarah Jos Jonathan Safran

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Unless Kafka on the Shore The Story of Lucy Gault That They May Face the Rising Sun In the Forest Shroud Middlesex Youth Dead Air Nowhere Man The Book of Illusions Gabriels Gift Austerlitz Platform Schooling Atonement The Corrections Dont Move The Body Artist Fury At Swim, Two Boys Choke Life of Pi The Feast of the Goat An Obedient Father The Devil and Miss Prym Spring Flowers, Spring Frost White Teeth The Heart of Redness Under the Skin Ignorance Nineteen Seventy Seven Celestial Harmonies City of God How the Dead Live The Human Stain The Blind Assassin After the Quake Small Remedies Super-Cannes House of Leaves Blonde Pastoralia 1900s Timbuktu The Romantics Cryptonomicon As If I Am Not There Everything You Need Fear and Trembling The Ground Beneath Her Feet Disgrace Sputnik Sweetheart

Carol Haruki William John Edna John Jeffrey J.M. Iain Aleksandar Paul Hanif W.G. Michael Heather Ian Jonathan Margaret Don Salman Jamie Chuck Yann Mario Akhil Paulo Ismail Zadie Zakes Michel Milan David Pter E.L. Will Philip Margaret Haruki Shashi J.G. Mark Z. Joyce George Paul Pankaj Neal Slavenka A.L. Amlie Salman J.M. Haruki

79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131

Elementary Particles Intimacy Amsterdam Cloudsplitter All Souls Day The Talk of the Town Tipping the Velvet The Poisonwood Bible Glamorama Another World The Hours Veronika Decides to Die Mason & Dixon The God of Small Things Memoirs of a Geisha Great Apes Enduring Love Underworld Jack Maggs The Life of Insects American Pastoral The Untouchable Silk Cocaine Nights Hallucinating Foucault Fugitive Pieces The Ghost Road Forever a Stranger Infinite Jest The Clay Machine-Gun Alias Grace The Unconsoled Morvern Callar The Information The Moors Last Sigh Sabbaths Theater The Rings of Saturn The Reader A Fine Balance Loves Work The End of the Story Mr. Vertigo The Folding Star Whatever Land The Master of Petersburg The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Pereira Declares: A Testimony City Sister Silver How Late It Was, How Late Captain Corellis Mandolin Felicias Journey Disappearance

Michel Hanif Ian Russell Cees Ardal Sarah Barbara Bret Easton Pat Michael Paulo Thomas Arundhati Arthur Will Ian Don Peter Victor Philip John Alessandro J.G. Patricia Anne Pat Hella David Foster Victor Margaret Kazuo Alan Martin Salman Philip W.G. Bernhard Rohinton Gillian Lydia Paul Alan Michel Park J.M. Haruki Antonio Jchym James Louis William David

132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184

The Invention of Curried Sausage The Shipping News Trainspotting Birdsong Looking for the Possible Dance Operation Shylock Complicity On Love What a Carve Up! A Suitable Boy The Stone Diaries The Virgin Suicides The House of Doctor Dee The Robber Bride The Emigrants The Secret History Life is a Caravanserai The Discovery of Heaven A Heart So White Possessing the Secret of Joy Indigo The Crow Road Written on the Body Jazz The English Patient Smillas Sense of Snow The Butcher Boy Black Water The Heather Blazing Asphodel Black Dogs Hideous Kinky Arcadia Wild Swans American Psycho Times Arrow Mao II Typical Regeneration Downriver Seor Vivo and the Coca Lord Wise Children Get Shorty Amongst Women Vineland Vertigo Stone Junction The Music of Chance The Things They Carried A Home at the End of the World Like Life Possession The Buddha of Suburbia

Uwe E. Annie Irvine Sebastian A.L. Philip Iain Alain Jonathan Vikram Carol Jeffrey Peter Margaret W.G. Donna Emine Harry Javier Alice Marina Iain Jeanette Toni Michael Peter Patrick Joyce Colm Hilda Ian Esther Jim Jung Bret Easton Martin Don Padgett Pat Iain Louis Angela Elmore John Thomas W.G. Jim Paul Tim Michael Lorrie A.S. Hanif

185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237

The Midnight Examiner A Disaffection Sexing the Cherry Moon Palace Billy Bathgate Remains of the Day The Melancholy of Resistance The Temple of My Familiar The Trick is to Keep Breathing The History of the Siege of Lisbon Like Water for Chocolate A Prayer for Owen Meany London Fields The Book of Evidence Cats Eye Foucaults Pendulum The Beautiful Room is Empty Wittgensteins Mistress The Satanic Verses The Swimming-Pool Library Oscar and Lucinda Libra The Player of Games Nervous Conditions The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency The Radiant Way The Afternoon of a Writer The Black Dahlia The Passion The Pigeon The Child in Time Cigarettes The Bonfire of the Vanities The New York Trilogy Worlds End Enigma of Arrival The Taebek Mountains Beloved Anagrams Matigari Marya Watchmen The Old Devils Lost Language of Cranes An Artist of the Floating World Extinction Foe The Drowned and the Saved Reasons to Live The Parable of the Blind Love in the Time of Cholera Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

William James Jeanette Paul E.L. Kazuo Lszl Alice Janice Jos Laura John Martin John Margaret Umberto Edmund David Salman Alan Peter Don Iain M. Tsitsi Douglas Douglas Margaret Peter James Jeanette Patrick Ian Harry Tom Paul T. Coraghessan V.S. Jo Toni Lorrie Ngugi wa Joyce Alan/David Kingsley David Kazuo Thomas J.M. Primo Amy Gert Gabriel Jeanette

238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290

The Cider House Rules A Maggot Less Than Zero Contact The Handmaids Tale Perfume Old Masters White Noise Queer Hawksmoor Legend Dictionary of the Khazars The Bus Conductor Hines The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The Lover Empire of the Sun The Wasp Factory Nights at the Circus The Unbearable Lightness of Being Blood and Guts in High School Neuromancer Flauberts Parrot Money: A Suicide Note Shame Worstward Ho Fools of Fortune La Brava Waterland The Life and Times of Michael K The Diary of Jane Somers The Piano Teacher The Sorrow of Belgium If Not Now, When? A Boys Own Story The Color Purple Wittgensteins Nephew A Pale View of Hills Schindlers Ark The House of the Spirits The Newton Letter On the Black Hill Concrete The Names Rabbit is Rich Lanark: A Life in Four Books The Comfort of Strangers Julys People Summer in Baden-Baden Broken April Waiting for the Barbarians Midnights Children Rites of Passage Rituals

John John Bret Easton Carl Margaret Patrick Thomas Don William Peter David Milorad James Jos Marguerite J.G. Iain Angela Milan Kathy William Julian Martin Salman Samuel William Elmore Graham J.M. Doris Elfriede Hugo Primo Edmund Alice Thomas Kazuo Thomas Isabel John Bruce Thomas Don John Alasdair Ian Nadine Leonid Ismail J.M. Salman William Cees

291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343

Confederacy of Dunces City Primeval The Name of the Rose The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Smileys People Shikasta A Bend in the River Burgers Daughter The Safety Net If On a Winters Night a Traveler The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Cement Garden The World According to Garp Life: A Users Manual The Sea, The Sea The Singapore Grip Yes The Virgin in the Garden In the Heart of the Country The Passion of New Eve Delta of Venus The Shining Dispatches Petals of Blood Song of Solomon The Hour of the Star The Left-Handed Woman Ratners Star The Public Burning Interview With the Vampire Cutter and Bone Amateurs Patterns of Childhood Autumn of the Patriarch W, or the Memory of childhood A Dance to the Music of Time Grimus The Dead Father Fateless Willard and His Bowling Trophies High Rise Humboldts Gift Dead Babies Correction Ragtime The Fan Man Dusklands The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Breakfast of Champions Fear of Flying A Question of Power The Siege of Krishnapur

John Elmore Umberto Milan John Doris V.S. Nadine Heinrich Italo Douglas Ian John Georges Iris J.G. Thomas A.S. J.M. Angela Anas Stephen Michael Ngugi wa Toni Clarice Peter Don Robert Anne Newton Donald Christa Gabriel Georges Anthony Salman Donald Imre Richard J.G. Saul Martin Thomas E.L. William J.M. Heinrich John Kurt Erica Bessie J.G.

344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396

The Castle of Crossed Destinies Crash The Honorary Consul Gravitys Rainbow The Black Prince Sula Invisible Cities The Breast The Summer Book G Surfacing House Mother Normal In A Free State The Book of Daniel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Group Portrait With Lady The Wild Boys Rabbit Redux The Sea of Fertility The Drivers Seat The Ogre The Bluest Eye Goalies Anxiety at the Penalty Kick I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Mercier et Camier Troubles Jahrestage The Atrocity Exhibition Tent of Miracles Pricksongs and Descants Blind Man With a Pistol Slaughterhouse Five The French Lieutenants Woman The Green Man Portnoys Complaint The Godfather Ada Them A Void/Avoid Eva Trout Myra Breckinridge The Nice and the Good Belle du Seigneur Cancer Ward The First Circle 2001: A Space Odyssey Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid The German Lesson In Watermelon Sugar A Kestrel for a Knave The Quest for Christa T. Chocky

Italo J.G. Graham Thomas Iris Toni Italo Philip Tove John Margaret B.S. V.S. E.L. Hunter S. Heinrich William John Yukio Muriel Michael Toni Peter Maya Samuel J.G. Uwe J.G. Jorge Robert Chester Kurt John Kingsley Philip Mario Vladimir Joyce Georges Elizabeth Gore Iris Albert Aleksandr Aleksandr Arthur C. Philip K. Malcolm Siegfried Richard Barry Christa John

397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test The Cubs and Other Stories One Hundred Years of Solitude The Master and Margarita Pilgrimage The Joke No Laughing Matter The Third Policeman A Man Asleep The Birds Fall Down Trawl In Cold Blood The Magus The Vice-Consul Wide Sargasso Sea Giles Goat-Boy The Crying of Lot 49 Things The River Between August is a Wicked Month God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Everything That Rises Must Converge The Passion According to G.H. Sometimes a Great Notion Come Back, Dr. Caligari Albert Angelo Arrow of God The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Herzog V. Cats Cradle The Graduate Manon des Sources The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Girls of Slender Means Inside Mr. Enderby The Bell Jar One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Collector One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest A Clockwork Orange Pale Fire The Drowned World The Golden Notebook Labyrinths Girl With Green Eyes The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Stranger in a Strange Land Franny and Zooey A Severed Head Faces in the Water Solaris Cat and Mouse

Tom Mario Gabriel Mikhail Dorothy Milan Angus Flann Georges Rebecca B.S. Truman John Marguerite Jean John Thomas Georges Ngugi wa Edna Kurt Flannery Clarice Ken Donald B.S. Chinua Marguerite Saul Thomas Kurt Charles Marcel John Muriel Anthony Sylvia Aleksandr John Ken Anthony Vladimir J.G. Doris Jorge Luis Edna Giorgio Robert J.D. Iris Janet Stanislaw Gnter

450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Catch-22 The Violent Bear it Away How It Is Our Ancestors The Country Girls To Kill a Mockingbird Rabbit, Run Promise at Dawn Cider With Rosie Billy Liar Naked Lunch The Tin Drum Absolute Beginners Henderson the Rain King Memento Mori Billiards at Half-Past Nine Breakfast at Tiffanys The Leopard Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring A Town Like Alice The Bitter Glass Things Fall Apart Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris Borstal Boy The End of the Road The Once and Future King The Bell Jealousy Voss The Midwich Cuckoos Blue Noon Homo Faber On the Road Pnin Doctor Zhivago The Wonderful O Justine Giovannis Room The Lonely Londoners The Roots of Heaven Seize the Day The Floating Opera The Lord of the Rings The Talented Mr. Ripley Lolita A World of Love The Trusting and the Maimed The Quiet American The Last Temptation of Christ The Recognitions The Ragazzi

Muriel Joseph Flannery Samuel Italo Edna Harper John Romain Laurie Keith William Gnter Colin Saul Muriel Heinrich Truman Giuseppe Kenzaburo Nevil Eils Chinua Alan Paul Brendan John T.H. Iris Alain Patrick John Georges Max Jack Vladimir Boris James Lawrence James Sam Romain Saul John J.R.R. Patricia Vladimir Elizabeth James Graham Nikos William Pier Paulo

503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555

Bonjour Tristesse Im Not Stiller Self Condemned The Story of O A Ghost at Noon Lord of the Flies Under the Net The Go-Between The Long Goodbye The Unnamable Watt Lucky Jim Junkie The Adventures of Augie March Go Tell It on the Mountain Casino Royale The Judge and His Hangman Invisible Man The Old Man and the Sea Wise Blood The Killer Inside Me Memoirs of Hadrian Malone Dies Day of the Triffids Foundation The Opposing Shore The Catcher in the Rye The Rebel Molloy The End of the Affair The Abbot C The Labyrinth of Solitude The Third Man The 13 Clocks Gormenghast The Grass is Singing I, Robot The Moon and the Bonfires The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Love in a Cold Climate The Case of Comrade Tulayev The Heat of the Day Kingdom of This World The Man With the Golden Arm Nineteen Eighty-Four All About H. Hatterr Disobedience Death Sentence The Heart of the Matter Cry, the Beloved Country Doctor Faustus The Victim Exercises in Style

Franoise Max Wyndham Pauline Alberto William Iris L.P. Raymond Samuel Samuel Kingsley William Saul James Ian Friedrich Ralph Ernest Flannery Jim Marguerite Samuel John Isaac Julien J.D. Albert Samuel Graham Georges Octavio Graham James Mervyn Doris Isaac Cesare Simon Nancy Victor Elizabeth Alejo Nelson George G.V. Alberto Maurice Graham Alan Thomas Saul Raymond

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If This Is a Man Under the Volcano The Path to the Nest of Spiders The Plague Back Titus Groan The Bridge on the Drina Brideshead Revisited Animal Farm Cannery Row The Pursuit of Love Loving Arcanum 17 Christ Stopped at Eboli The Razors Edge Transit Ficciones Dangling Man The Little Prince Caught The Glass Bead Game Embers Go Down, Moses The Outsider In Sicily The Poor Mouth The Living and the Dead Hangover Square Between the Acts The Hamlet Farewell My Lovely For Whom the Bell Tolls Native Son The Power and the Glory The Tartar Steppe Party Going The Grapes of Wrath Finnegans Wake At Swim-Two-Birds Coming Up for Air Goodbye to Berlin Tropic of Capricorn Good Morning, Midnight The Big Sleep After the Death of Don Juan Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Nausea Rebecca Cause for Alarm Brighton Rock U.S.A. Murphy Of Mice and Men

Primo Malcolm Italo Albert Henry Mervyn Ivo Evelyn George John Nancy Henry Andr Carlo W. Somerset Anna Jorge Luis Saul Antoine Henry Herman Sandor William Albert Elio Flann Patrick Patrick Virginia William Raymond Ernest Richard Graham Dino Henry John James Flann George Christopher Henry Jean Raymond Sylvie Winifred Jean-Paul Daphne Eric Graham John Samuel John

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Their Eyes Were Watching God The Hobbit The Years In Parenthesis The Revenge for Love Out of Africa To Have and Have Not Summer Will Show Eyeless in Gaza The Thinking Reed Gone With the Wind Keep the Aspidistra Flying Wild Harbour Absalom, Absalom! At the Mountains of Madness Nightwood Independent People Auto-da-F The Last of Mr. Norris They Shoot Horses, Dont They? The House in Paris England Made Me Burmese Days The Nine Tailors Threepenny Novel Novel With Cocaine The Postman Always Rings Twice Tropic of Cancer A Handful of Dust Tender is the Night Thank You, Jeeves Call it Sleep Miss Lonelyhearts Murder Must Advertise The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Testament of Youth A Day Off The Man Without Qualities A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Journey to the End of the Night Brave New World Cold Comfort Farm To the North The Thin Man The Radetzky March The Waves The Glass Key Cakes and Ale The Apes of God Her Privates We Vile Bodies The Maltese Falcon Hebdomeros

Zora J.R.R. Virginia David Wyndham Isak Ernest Sylvia Aldous Rebecca Margaret George Ian William H.P. Djuna Halldr Elias Christopher Horace Elizabeth Graham George Dorothy L. Bertolt M. James M. Henry Evelyn F. Scott P.G. Henry Nathanael Dorothy L. Gertrude Vera Storm Robert Lewis Louis-Ferdinand Aldous Stella Elizabeth Dashiell Joseph Virginia Dashiell W. Somerset Wyndham Frederic Evelyn Dashiell Giorgio

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Passing A Farewell to Arms Red Harvest Living The Time of Indifference All Quiet on the Western Front Berlin Alexanderplatz The Last September Harriet Hume The Sound and the Fury Les Enfants Terribles Look Homeward, Angel Story of the Eye Orlando Lady Chatterleys Lover The Well of Loneliness The Childermass Quartet Decline and Fall Quicksand Parades End Nadja Steppenwolf Remembrance of Things Past To The Lighthouse Tarka the Otter Amerika The Sun Also Rises Blindness The Castle The Good Soldier vejk The Plumed Serpent One, None and a Hundred Thousand The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Making of Americans Manhattan Transfer Mrs. Dalloway The Great Gatsby The Counterfeiters The Trial The Artamonov Business The Professors House Billy Budd, Foretopman The Green Hat The Magic Mountain We A Passage to India The Devil in the Flesh Zenos Conscience Cane Antic Hay Amok The Garden Party

Nella Ernest Dashiell Henry Alberto Erich Maria Alfred Elizabeth Rebecca William Jean Thomas Georges Virginia D.H. Radclyffe Wyndham Jean Evelyn Nella Ford Madox Andr Herman Marcel Virginia Henry Franz Ernest Henry Franz Jaroslav D.H. Luigi Agatha Gertrude John Virginia F. Scott Andr Franz Maxim Willa Herman Michael Thomas Yevgeny E.M. Raymond Italo Jean Aldous Stefan Katherine

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The Enormous Room Jacobs Room Siddhartha The Glimpses of the Moon Life and Death of Harriett Frean The Last Days of Humanity Aarons Rod Babbitt Ulysses The Fox Crome Yellow The Age of Innocence Main Street Women in Love Night and Day Tarr The Return of the Soldier The Shadow Line Summer Growth of the Soil Bunner Sisters A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Under Fire Rashomon The Good Soldier The Voyage Out Of Human Bondage The Rainbow The Thirty-Nine Steps Kokoro Locus Solus Rosshalde Tarzan of the Apes The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Sons and Lovers Death in Venice The Charwomans Daughter Ethan Frome Fantmas Howards End Impressions of Africa Three Lives Martin Eden Strait is the Gate Tono-Bungay The Inferno A Room With a View The Iron Heel The Old Wives Tale The House on the Borderland Mother The Secret Agent The Jungle

E.E. Virginia Herman Edith May Karl D.H. Sinclair James D.H. Aldous Edith Sinclair D.H. Virginia Wyndham Rebecca Joseph Edith Knut Edith James Henri Akutagawa Ford Madox Virginia W. Somerset D.H. John Natsume Raymond Herman Edgar Robert D.H. Thomas James Edith Marcel/Pierre E.M. Raymond Gertrude Jack Andr H.G. Henri E.M. Jack Arnold Arnold Maxim Joseph Upton

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Young Trless The Forsyte Sage The House of Mirth Professor Unrat Where Angels Fear to Tread Nostromo Hadrian the Seventh The Golden Bowl The Ambassadors The Riddle of the Sands The Immoralist The Wings of the Dove Heart of Darkness The Hound of the Baskervilles Buddenbrooks Kim Sister Carrie Lord Jim 1800s Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. The Stechlin The Awakening The Turn of the Screw The War of the Worlds The Invisible Man What Maisie Knew Fruits of the Earth Dracula Quo Vadis The Island of Dr. Moreau The Time Machine Effi Briest Jude the Obscure The Real Charlotte The Yellow Wallpaper Born in Exile Diary of a Nobody The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes News from Nowhere New Grub Street Gsta Berlings Saga Tess of the DUrbervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Kreutzer Sonata La Bte Humaine By the Open Sea Hunger The Master of Ballantrae Pierre and Jean Fortunata and Jacinta The People of Hems The Woodlanders She

Robert John Edith Heinrich E.M. Joseph Frederick Henry Henry Erskine Andr Henry Joseph Arthur Conan Thomas Rudyard Theodore Joseph

Theodore Kate Henry H.G. H.G. Henry Andr Bram Henryk H.G. H.G. Theodore Thomas Charlotte George George & Weedon Arthur Conan William George Selma Thomas Oscar Leo mile August Knut Robert Louis Guy Benito August Thomas H.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Mayor of Casterbridge Kidnapped King Solomons Mines Germinal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Bel-Ami Marius the Epicurean Against the Grain The Death of Ivan Ilyich A Womans Life Treasure Island The House by the Medlar Tree The Portrait of a Lady Bouvard and Pcuchet Ben-Hur Nana The Brothers Karamazov The Red Room Return of the Native Anna Karenina Drunkard Virgin Soil Daniel Deronda The Hand of Ethelberta The Temptation of Saint Anthony Far from the Madding Crowd The Enchanted Wanderer Around the World in Eighty Days In a Glass Darkly The Devils Erewhon Spring Torrents Middlemarch Through the Looking Glass King Lear of the Steppes He Knew He Was Right War and Peace Sentimental Education Phineas Finn Maldoror The Idiot The Moonstone Little Women Thrse Raquin The Last Chronicle of Barset Journey to the Centre of the Earth Crime and Punishment Alices Adventures in Wonderland Our Mutual Friend Uncle Silas Notes from the Underground The Water-Babies

Robert Louis Thomas Robert Louis H. mile Mark Guy Walter Joris-Karl Leo Guy Robert Louis Giovanni Henry Gustave Lew mile Fyodor August Thomas Leo mile Ivan George Thomas Gustave Thomas Nicolai Jules Sheridan Fyodor Samuel Ivan George Lewis Ivan Anthony Leo Gustave Anthony Comte Fyodor Wilkie Louisa May mile Anthony Jules Fyodor Lewis Charles Sheridan Fyodor Charles

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Les Misrables Fathers and Sons Silas Marner Great Expectations On the Eve Castle Richmond The Mill on the Floss The Woman in White The Marble Faun Max Havelaar A Tale of Two Cities Oblomovka Adam Bede Madame Bovary North and South Hard Times Walden Bleak House Villette Cranford Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely The Blithedale Romance The House of the Seven Gables Moby-Dick The Scarlet Letter David Copperfield Shirley Mary Barton The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Wuthering Heights Agnes Grey Jane Eyre Vanity Fair The Count of Monte-Cristo La Reine Margot The Three Musketeers The Purloined Letter Martin Chuzzlewit The Pit and the Pendulum Lost Illusions A Christmas Carol Dead Souls The Charterhouse of Parma The Fall of the House of Usher The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Oliver Twist The Nose Le Pre Goriot Eugnie Grandet The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Red and the Black The Betrothed Last of the Mohicans

Victor Ivan George Charles Ivan Anthony George Wilkie Nathaniel Charles Ivan George Gustave Elizabeth Charles Henry David Charles Charlotte Elizabeth Harriet Nathaniel Nathaniel Herman Nathaniel Charles Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Emily Anne Charlotte William Makepeace Alexandre Alexandre Alexandre Edgar Allan Charles Edgar Allan Honor Charles Nikolay Edgar Allan Charles Charles Nikolay Honor Honor Victor Alessandro James

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The Albigenses Melmoth the Wanderer The Monastery Ivanhoe Frankenstein Northanger Abbey Persuasion Ormond Rob Roy Emma Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice The Absentee Sense and Sensibility Elective Affinities Castle Rackrent 1700s Hyperion The Nun Camilla The Monk Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship The Mysteries of Udolpho The Interesting Narrative The Adventures of Caleb Williams Justine Vathek The 120 Days of Sodom Cecilia Confessions Dangerous Liaisons Reveries of a Solitary Walker Evelina The Sorrows of Young Werther Humphrey Clinker The Man of Feeling A Sentimental Journey Tristram Shandy The Vicar of Wakefield The Castle of Otranto mile; or, On Education Rameaus Nephew Julie; or, the New Eloise Rasselas Candide The Female Quixote Amelia Peregrine Pickle Fanny Hill Tom Jones Roderick Random Clarissa

James Charles Robert Charles Robert Sir Walter Sir Walter Mary Jane Jane Maria Sir Walter Jane Jane Jane Maria Jane Johann Wolfgang von Maria Friedrich Denis Fanny M.G. Johann Wolfgang von Ann Olaudah William Marquis William Marquis Fanny Jean-Jacques Pierre Jean-Jacques Fanny Johann Wolfgang von Tobias George Henry Laurence Laurence Oliver Horace Jean-Jacques Denis Jean-Jacques Samuel Charlotte Henry Tobias George John Henry Tobias George Samuel

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Pamela Jacques the Fatalist Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Joseph Andrews A Modest Proposal Gullivers Travels Roxana Moll Flanders Love in Excess Robinson Crusoe A Tale of a Tub Pre-1700 Oroonoko The Princess of Clves The Pilgrims Progress Don Quixote The Unfortunate Traveller Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit Gargantua and Pantagruel The Thousand and One Nights The Golden Ass Aithiopika Chaireas and Kallirhoe Metamorphoses Aesops Fables

Samuel Denis J. Henry Jonathan Jonathan Daniel Daniel Eliza Daniel Jonathan Aphra Marie-Madelaine John Miguel Thomas John Franoise Lucius

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Timm Proulx Welsh Faulks Kennedy Roth Banks de Botton Coe Seth Shields Eugenides Ackroyd Atwood Sebald Tartt zdamar Mulisch Marias Walker Warner Banks Winterson Morrison Ondaatje Heg McCabe Carol Oates Tibn Doolittle McEwan Freud Crace Chang Ellis Amis DeLillo Powell Barker Sinclair de Bernieres Carter Leonard McGahern Pynchon Sebald Dodge Auster OBrien Cunningham Moore Byatt Kureishi

Kotzwinkle Kelman Winterson Auster Doctorow Ishiguro Krasznahorkai Walker Galloway Saramago Esquivel Irving Amis Banville Atwood Eco White Markson Rushdie Hollinghurst Carey DeLillo Banks Dangarembga Adams Adams Drabble Handke Ellroy Winterson Sskind McEwan Mathews Wolfe Auster Boyle Naipaul Jung-rae Morrison Moore Thiong'o Carol Oates Moore/Gibbons Amis Leavitt Ishiguro Bernhard Coetzee Levi Hempel Hofmann Garca Mrquez Winterson

Irving Fowles Ellis Sagan Atwood Sskind Bernhard DeLillo Burroughs Ackroyd Gemmell Pavic Kelman Saramago Duras Ballard Banks Carter Kundera Acker Gibson Barnes Amis Rushdie Beckett Trevor Leonard Swift Coetzee Lessing Jelinek Claus Levi White Walker Bernhard Ishiguro Keneally Allende Banville Chatwin Bernhard DeLillo Updike Gray McEwan Gordimer Tsypkin Kadare Coetzee Rushdie Golding Nooteboom

Kennedy Toole Leonard Eco Kundera Le Carr Lessing Naipaul Gordimer Bll Calvino Adams McEwan Irving Perec Murdoch Farrell Bernhard Byatt Coetzee Carter Nin King Herr Thiong'o Morrison Lispector Handke DeLillo Coover Rice Thornburg Barthelme Wolf Garca Mrquez Perec Powell Rushdie Barthelme Kertsz Brautigan Ballard Bellow Amis Bernhard Doctorow Kotzwinkle Coetzee Bll Le Carr Vonnegut Jong Head Farrell

Calvino Ballard Greene Pynchon Murdoch Morrison Calvino Roth Jansson Berger Atwood Johnson Naipaul Doctorow Thompson Bll Burroughs Updike Mishima Spark Tournier Morrison Handke Angelou Beckett Farrell Johnson Ballard Amado Coover Hines Vonnegut Fowles Amis Roth Puzo Nabokov Carol Oates Perec Bowen Vidal Murdoch Cohen Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn Clarke Dick Lowry Lenz Brautigan Hines Wolf Wyndham

Wolfe Vargas Llosa Garca Mrquez Bulgakov Richardson Kundera Wilson OBrien Perec West Johnson Capote Fowles Duras Rhys Barth Pynchon Perec Thiongo OBrien Vonnegut OConnor Lispector Kesey Bartholme Johnson Achebe Duras Bellow Pynchon Vonnegut Webb Pagnol Le Carr Spark Burgess Plath Solzhenitsyn Fowles Kesey Burgess Nabokov Ballard Lessing Borges OBrien Bassani Heinlein Salinger Murdoch Frame Lem Grass

Spark Heller OConnor Beckett Calvino OBrien Lee Updike Gary Lee Waterhouse Burroughs Grass MacInnes Bellow Spark Bll Capote Tomasi di Lampedusa Oe Shute Dillon Achebe Sillitoe Gallico Behan Barth White Murdoch Robbe-Grillet White Wyndham Bataille Frisch Kerouac Nabokov Pasternak Thurber Durrell Baldwin Selvon Gary Bellow Barth Tolkien Highsmith Nabokov Bowen Plunkett Greene Kazantzkis Gaddis Pasolini

Sagan Frisch Lewis Rage Moravia Golding Murdoch Hartley Chandler Beckett Beckett Amis Burroughs Bellow Baldwin Fleming Drrenmatt Ellison Hemingway OConnor Thompson Yourcenar Beckett Wyndham Asimov Gracq Salinger Camus Beckett Greene Bataille Paz Greene Thurber Peake Lessing Asimov Pavese Vestdijk Mitford Serge Bowen Carpentier Algren Orwell Desani Moravia Blanchot Greene Paton Mann Bellow Queneau

Levi Lowry Calvino Camus Green Peake Andri Waugh Orwell Steinbeck Mitford Green Breton Levi Maugham Seghers Borges Bellow de Saint-Exupry Green Hesse Marai Faulkner Camus Vittorini OBrien White Hamilton Woolf Faulkner Chandler Hemingway Wright Greene Buzzati Green Steinbeck Joyce OBrien Orwell Isherwood Miller Rhys Chandler Townsend Warner Watson Sartre du Maurier Ambler Greene Dos Passos Beckett Steinbeck

Neale Hurston Tolkien Woolf Jones Lewis Dineson Hemingway Townsend Warner Huxley West Mitchell Orwell MacPherson Faulkner Lovecraft Barnes Laxness Canetti Isherwood McCoy Bowen Greene Orwell Sayers Brecht Ageyev Cain Miller Waugh Fitzgerald Wodehouse Roth West Sayers Stein Brittain Jameson Musil Grassic Gibbon Cline Huxley Gibbons Bowen Hammett Roth Woolf Hammett Maugham Lewis Manning Waugh Hammett de Chirico

Larsen Hemingway Hammett Green Moravia Remarque Dblin Bowen West Faulkner Cocteau Wolfe Bataille Woolf Lawrence Hall Lewis Rhys Waugh Larsen Ford Breton Hesse Proust Woolf Williamson Kafka Hemingway Green Kafka Haek Lawrence Pirandello Christie Stein Dos Passos Woolf Fitzgerald Gide Kafka Gorky Cather Melville Arlen Mann Zamyatin Forster Radiguet Svevo Toomer Huxley Zweig Mansfield

Cummings Woolf Hesse Wharton Sinclair Kraus Lawrence Lewis Joyce Lawrence Huxley Wharton Lewis Lawrence Woolf Lewis West Conrad Wharton Hamsen Wharton Joyce Barbusse Ryunosuke Ford Woolf Maugham Lawrence Buchan Soseki Roussel Hesse Rice Burroughs Tressell Lawrence Mann Stephens Wharton Allain/Souvestre Forster Roussel Stein London Gide Wells Barbusse Forster London Bennett Bennett Gorky Conrad Sinclair

Musil Galsworthy Wharton Mann Forster Conrad Rolfe James James Childers Gide James Conrad Doyle Mann Kipling Dreiser Conrad Somerville/Ross Fontane Chopin James Wells Wells James Gide Stoker Sienkiewicz Wells Wells Fontane Hardy Somerville/Ross Perkins Gilman Gissing Goldsmith Doyle Morris Gissing Lagerlf Hardy Wilde Tolstoy Zola Strindberg Hamsun Stevenson de Maupassant Prez Galds Strindberg Hardy Rider Haggard

Stevenson Hardy Stevenson Rider Haggard Zola Twain de Maupassant Pater Huysmans Tolstoy de Maupassant Stevenson Verga James Flaubert Wallace Zola Dostoevsky Strindberg Hardy Tolstoy Zola Turgenev Eliot Hardy Flaubert Hardy Leskov Verne Le Fanu Dostoevsky Butler Turgenev Eliot Carroll Turgenev Trollope Tolstoy Flaubert Trollope de Lautraumont Dostoevsky Collins Alcott Zola Trollope Verne Dostoevsky Carroll Dickens Le Fanu Dostoevsky Kingsley

Hugo Turgenev Eliot Dickens Turgenev Trollope Eliot Collins Hawthorne Multatuli Dickens Goncharov Eliot Flaubert Gaskell Dickens Thoreau Dickens Bront Gaskell Beecher Stowe Hawthorne Hawthorne Melville Hawthorne Dickens Bront Gaskell Bront Bront Bront Bront Thackeray Dumas Dumas Dumas Poe Dickens Poe de Balzac Dickens Gogol Stendhal Poe Dickens Dickens Gogol de Balzac de Balzac Hugo Stendhal Manzoni Fenimore Cooper

Hogg Maturin Maturin Scott Scott Shelley Austen Austen Edgeworth Scott Austen Austen Austen Edgeworth Austen Goethe Edgeworth Hlderlin Diderot Burney Lewis Goethe Radcliffe Equiano Godwin de Sade Beckford de Sade Burney Rousseau Choderlos de Laclos Rousseau Burney Goethe Smollett Mackenzie Sterne Sterne Goldsmith Walpole Rousseau Diderot Rousseau Johnson Voltaire Lennox Fielding Smollett Cleland Fielding Smollett Richardson

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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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CA'S CAMPUSES by ALAN CHARLES KORS LT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by JAMES V. DE LONG

UART LILIE TRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL

FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkie 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner 6. 1984 by George Orwell 7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand 7. CATCH-22 8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler 8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand 9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence 9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard 10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard 11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 11. ULYSSES by James Joyce 12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler 12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller 13. 1984 by George Orwell 13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgera 14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 14. DUNE by Frank Herbert 15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by R 16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser 16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Rob 17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers 17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute 18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison 19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salin 20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright 20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow 21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynch 22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara 22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinb 23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos 23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonneg 24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson 24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mit 25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster 25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James 26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer 27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James 27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nev 28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald 28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John I 29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell 29. THE STAND by Stephen King 30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford 30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN b 31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison 32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James 32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddiso 33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser 33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William F 34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh 34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint 36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren 36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkn 37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder 37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset M 38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster 38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor 39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin 39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene 40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies 41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles d 42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey 42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony 43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad Powell 44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley 44. YARROW by Charles de Lint 45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway 45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H 46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad 46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane 47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad 47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint 48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence 48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence 49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 50. TRADER by Charles de Lint

51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer 51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GAL 52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth 52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by C 53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atw 54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy 55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Bur 56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett 56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute 57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford 57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOU 58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton 58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint 59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm 59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card 60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lin 61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather 61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis 62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones 62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein 63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever 63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Heming 64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by J 65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COME 66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shi 67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis 68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton 69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison 70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell 70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling 71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes 71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles 72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul 72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert He 73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West 73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MA 74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh 75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien 77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce 77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury 78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling 78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis 79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster 79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams 80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs 81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom C 82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner 82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilt 83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul 83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinle 84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen 84. IT by Stephen King 85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad 85. V. by Thomas Pynchon 86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow 86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein 87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett 87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Hein 88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Wau 89. LOVING by Henry Green 89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie 90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST 91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell 91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Heming 92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy 92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles 93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken K 94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys 94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather 95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch 95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint 96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron 96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy 97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock 98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach 98. 99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy 99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies 100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington 100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rush

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6. Ulysses by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison by Ayn Rand 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding by L. Ron Hubbard 9. 1984 by George Orwell 10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov seph Heller 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck TSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce HARSH MISTRESS by Robert HeinleinCatch-22 by Joseph Heller 15. A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 16. LICE by Nevil Shute 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell ORLD by Aldous Huxley 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway N THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner by George Orwell 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway NBOW by Thomas Pynchon 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad F WRATH by John Steinbeck 22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne USE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston E WIND by Margaret Mitchell 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison LIES by William Golding 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute 27. Native Son by Richard Wright OWEN MEANY by John Irving 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Stephen King 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut EUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 30. ni Morrison 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ROBOROS by E.R. Eddison 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway D THE FURY by William Faulkner 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London mir Nabokov 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf y Charles de Lint 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ALOM! by William Faulkner 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin NDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving y Flannery O'Connor 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren LCANO by Malcolm Lowry 39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster S by Robertson Davies 40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien BE FLYING by Charles de Lint 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally by Jack Kerouac 42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton KNESS by Joseph Conrad 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand arles de Lint 44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce AINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 45. IGHT by Mickey Spillane 46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf DREAM by Charles de Lint 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum HOUSE by Virginia Woolf 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence R by Walker Percy 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess rles de Lint 50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

D by Ayn Rand EAD by Ayn Rand RTH by L. Ron Hubbard E RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien INGBIRD by Harper Lee

ER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams 51. My Antonia by Willa Cather A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers 52. Howards End by E.M. Forster D'S TALE by Margaret Atwood 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote AN by Cormac McCarthy 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie by Nevil Shute 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison F THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron by Charles de Lint 58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner by Orson Scott Card 59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster UNTRY by Charles de Lint 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton IONS by William Gaddis 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor OPERS by Robert Heinlein 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald RISES by Ernest Hemingway 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf CORDING TO GARP by John Irving 64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence ICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury 65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 66. G by William Faulkner 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles NCER by Henry Miller 68. Light in August by William Faulkner N by Ralph Ellison 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James FE by Terri Windling 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe John Fowles 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier O SUMMER by Robert Heinlein 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams RT OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 73. by Robert Pirsig Robert Graves 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh HE WILD by Jack London 75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence BIRDS by Flann O'Brien 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 1 by Ray Bradbury 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway by Sinclair Lewis 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein OWN by Richard Adams 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett by William S. Burroughs 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys URES by Laurell K. Hamilton 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo ASTERS by Robert Heinlein 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells by Robert Heinlein 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad E GALAXY by Robert Heinlein 87. The Bostonians by Henry James EVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser ST by William Faulkner 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather R THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 90. O ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald NG SKY by Paul Bowles 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles y Willa Cather 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Charles de Lint 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling mac McCarthy 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald OD by Robert Holdstock 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike Richard Bach 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster MAN by Robertson Davies 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis VERSES by Salman Rushdie 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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TIME 15 The Complete List In Alphabetical Order PRINT A-B The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Read the Original Review Plato: Apology, Crito, Gorgias. Thucydides: History. Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Aristotle: Ethics, Politics. Plutarch: Lives. St. Augustine: Confessions. American Pastoral Philip Roth Read the Original Review St. Thomas: Treatise on Law. Machiavelli: The Prince. Montaigne: Essays. An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Read the Original Review Shakespeare: Hamlet. Locke: Of Civil Government. Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Madison et al: Federalist Papers Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Read the Original Review Smith: The Wealth of Nations. Marx: Communist Manifesto. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume The Assistant Bernard Malamud Read the Original Review

At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien Atonement Ian McEwan Read the Original Review

Beloved Toni Morrison Read the Original Review

The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood Read the Original Review

The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Read the Original Review

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Read the Original Review

Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review

The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Read the Original Review

C-D Call It Sleep Henry Roth Read the Original Review

Catch-22 Joseph Heller Read the Original Review

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Read the Original Review

A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Read the Original Review

The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron Read the Original Review

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Read the Original Review

The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review

A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Read the Original Review

The Day of the Locust Nathanael West Read the Original Review

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Read the Original Review

Deliverance James Dickey Read the Original Review

Dog Soldiers Robert Stone Read the Original Review

F-G Falconer John Cheever Read the Original Review

The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles Read the Original Review

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Read the Original Review

Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Read the Original Review

Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Read the Original Review

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Read the Original Review

Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Read the Original Review

H-I A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Read the Original Review

The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Herzog

Saul Bellow Read the Original Review

Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson Read the Original Review

A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul Read the Original Review

I, Claudius Robert Graves Read the Original Review

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Read the Original Review

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Read the Original Review

L-N Light in August William Faulkner Read the Original Review

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review

Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Read the Original Review

Loving

Henry Green Read the Original Review

Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Read the Original Review

The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Read the Original Review

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis Read the Original Review

The Moviegoer Walker Percy Read the Original Review

Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William Burroughs Read the Original Review

Native Son Richard Wright Read the Original Review

Neuromancer William Gibson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Read the Original Review

1984 George Orwell Read the Original Review

O-R On the Road Jack Kerouac Read the Original Review

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Read the Original Review

The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review

A Passage to India E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays Joan Didion Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Read the Original Review

Possession A.S. Byatt Read the Original Review

The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Read the Original Review

Rabbit, Run John Updike Read the Original Review

Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Read the Original Review

The Recognitions William Gaddis Read the Original Review

Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road Richard Yates S-T The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Read the Original Review

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Read the Original Review

Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Sportswriter Richard Ford Read the Original Review

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre Read the Original Review

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Read the Original Review

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Read the Original Review

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Read the Original Review

To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Read the Original Review

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Read the Original Review

U-W Ubik Philip K. Dick Under the Net Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Read the Original Review

Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo Read the Original Review

White Teeth Zadie Smith Read the Original Review

Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhy

Plato: Apology, Crito, Gorgias.

Thucydides: History.

Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds.

Aristotle: Ethics, Politics.

Plutarch: Lives.

St. Augustine: Confessions.

St. Thomas: Treatise on Law.

Machiavelli: The Prince.

Montaigne: Essays.

Shakespeare: Hamlet.

Locke: Of Civil Government.

Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Madison et al: Federalist Papers.

Smith: The Wealth of Nations.

Marx: Communist Manifesto.

The top 100 books of all time

Full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by
Wednesday May 8, 2002 Guardian Unlimited

Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of C Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger. Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC). James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300). George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984 Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Oth Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500). Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian

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Martha Washington Patricia Brady Mary, Called Magdalene Margaret George The Measure of Our Days Jerome Groopman, M.D. The Mistress's Daughter A.M. Homes Motiba's Tattoos Mira Kamdar My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness Patricia Raybon Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass A New Earth Eckhart Tolle The Opposite of Fate Amy Tan The Pact Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Liza Frazier Page Persian Girls Nahid Rachlin Picasso's War Russell Martin A Place in the Country Laura Shaine Cunningham The Prince Niccol Machiavelli Prozac Diary Lauren Slater Raising Fences Michael Datcher The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang Reading Judas Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King Secret Daughter June Cross Seductress Betsy Prioleau Self-Made Man Norah Vincent Should You Leave? Peter D. Kramer, M.D. Smashed Koren Zailckas Something to Declare Julia Alvarez The Speckled Monster Jennifer Lee Carrell Still Life with Chickens Catherine Goldhammer The Story of My Life Giacomo Casanova Strangers in the House Raja Shehadeh Sword and Blossom Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Through the Burning Steppe Elena Kozhina Too Close to the Falls Catherine Gildiner Walking a Literary Labyrinth Nancy M. Malone Without a Net Michelle Kennedy The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother Kim Chernin The Women's Wheel of Life Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard

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Illness, Accident, Grief

A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, Meditations from a Moving Chair Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss Kenny Fries, Body, Remember Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face Evan Handler, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors Ann Hood, Do Not Go Gentle: The Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time Roger Kamenetz, Terre Infirma Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother Kay Jamison, An Unquiet Mind Natalie Kusz, Road Song Mindy Lewis, Life Inside Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals Nancy Mairs, Carnal Acts; Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Christopher Noel, In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Womans Journey Through Sexual Addiction Patricia Stacey, The Boy Who Loved Windows William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (how not to write a memoir)

Family & Relationships

Laurie Alberts, Fault Line Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfathers Story; I Love Gootie: My Grandmothers Story Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family Francine Cournos, City of One John Daniel, Looking After: A Sons Memoir Patty Dann, The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Nora Eisenberg, The War at Home Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land

Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter Dorothy Gallagher, How I Came into My Inheritance Gail Hosking Gilberg, Snakes Daughter: The Roads in and Out of War Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son Susan Jacoby, Half-Jew Bret Lott, Fathers, Sons, Brothers: The Men in My Family Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings Karen McElmurray, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mothers Journey Valerie Miner, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family Molly Peacock, Paradise, Piece by Piece Sandra Scofield, Occasions of Sin Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life Jim Toner, Serendib Bruce Weigl, The Circle of Hanh John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers Geoffrey Wolff, The Duke of Deception Tobias Wolff, This Boys Life

Childhood & Coming of Age

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son Phyllis Barber, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth Jerome Charyn, The Dark Lady of Belorusse J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood Frank Conroy, Stop-Time Faith Edise, Nina Sichel, Eds., Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global James Ellroy, My Dark Places Alexandra Fuller: Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Henry Louis Gates, Colored People Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Life Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation June Jordan, Soldier: A Poets Childhood Lisa Knopp, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Frank McCourt, Angelas Ashes Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory Alberto Rios, Capirotadas: A Nogales Memoir Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive Ilan Stevens, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Richard Wright, Black Boy

Place, Nature, Science

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses Susanne Antonetta (Suzanne Paola), Body Toxic; A Mind Apart Kim Barnes, Hungry for the World Rick Bass, Winter Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and its Family Joanna Burger, The Parrot Who Owns Me Franklin Burroughs, Billy Watsons Croker Sack Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Teaching a Stone to Talk Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Space J. H. Fabre, Social Life in the Insect World Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaii Marcy Houle, Prairie Keepers Cynthia Huntington, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod Theresa Jordan, Riding the White Horse Home William Kittredge, Hole in the Sky Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in Northern Landscape Nancy Lord, Beluga Days Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It Michael Martone, The Flatness and Other Landscapes Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence John McPhee, Coming into the Country Harry Middleton, The Earth is Enough Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography John Price, Not Just Any Land: A Personal & Literary Journey into the American Grasslands Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey Dana Sachs, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam Alix Kates Shulman, Drinking the Rain Mark Spragg, When the River Changes Direction Robert Stepto, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

New Journalism, Immersion, History, Social, Political, Religious, Spiritual

Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun Ricardo Ainslie, Long Dark Road (about the James Byrd racially inspired murder) Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Mark Curtis Anderson, Jesus Sound Explosion Victoria Armour-Hileman, Singing to the Dead: A Missioners Life Among Refugees from Burma

Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Dalton Conley, Honky Rosemary Daniell, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem Beverly Donofrio, Looking for Mary (Or, The Blessed Mother and Me) Gretel Ehrlich, Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journey of an American Buddhist Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow William Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler Jim Harrison, Off to the Side Tom Hayden, Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday John Hersey, Hiroshima Adam Hochschild, King Leopolds Ghost: Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Eva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm Kazuko Kuramoto, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonialist Thomas Keneally, Schindlers List Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren and House Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air Anne Lamont, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Boys Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over Norman Mailer, The Executioners Song Nancy Mairs, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal Pablo Neruda, Memoirs Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Tillie Olsen, Silences Mary Rose OReilley, Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Natalia Rachel Singer, Scraping by in the Big Eighties Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Susan Tiberghien, Circling to the Center: One Womans Encounter with Silent Prayer Studs Terkel, Working Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, etc.

Experimental Forms
David B., Epileptic Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni Elias Canetti, The Agony of Files: Notes and Notations E. M. Cioran, All Gall is Divided

Inga Clendinnen, Tigers Eye Dennis and Vicki Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (husband-wife collaboration) Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Robin Hemley, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness Brian Lennon, City, An Essay Primo Levi, The Periodic Table Pat Mora, House of Houses Donald Morrill, The Untouched Minutes Tim OBrien, The Things They Carried James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; Embroideries W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants; The Rings of Saturn Bob Shacochis, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II (A Survivors Tale) Lawrence Sutin, A Postcard Memoir Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Peter Trachtenberg, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh

Personal Essay & Anthologies

Jill Bialofsky and Helen Schulman (eds.), Wanting a Child Brenda Miller, Season of the Body Becky Bradway, ed., In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland Janet Burroway, Embalming Mom: Essays in Life Bernard Cooper, Maps to Anywhere Charles DAmbrosio, Orphans Toi Dericotte, The Black Notesbooks: An Interior Journey The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction M.F.K. Fisher, Among Friends Patricia Foster, Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography & Self-Discovery Daniel Francis, ed., Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction Ian Frazier, On the Rez Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out William Gass, On Being Blue Albert Goldbarth, Many Circles Vivian Gornick, Approaching Eye Level Steve Harvey, Bound for Shady Grove Emily Hiestand, Angela the Upside-down Girl Pico Iyer, Falling off the Map Judith Kitchen, Distance and Direction; Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps David Lazar, The Body of Brooklyn Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body Rasunah Marsden, Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-fiction Brenda Miller, Season of the Body Naomi Shihab Nye, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places Cynthia Ozick, Fame & Folly, Quarrel & Quandry, and Metaphor & Memory Molly Peacock (ed.), The Private I (on privacy) Scott Russel Sanders, Staying Put Marjorie Sandor, The Night Gardener

Mimi Schwartz, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day David Shields, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity Gerald Stern, What I Cant Bear Losing Michael Steinberg, Still Pitching Ira Sukrungruang, Scoot Over Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping Robert Vivian, Cold Snap as Yearning Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia E. B. White, One Mans Meat Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Humor
Stephen Akey, College Robert Benchley, Benchley Beside Himself Dinty Moore, The Accidental Buddhist S. J. Perelman, Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman David Sedaris, Naked James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times

Journals & Letters

Genevieve Jurgensen, The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season Jean Rhys, The Letters of Jean Rhys, Selected & Edited by Francis Wyndham & Diana Melly Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne and Letters to a Young Poet May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Anne Truitt, Prospect: The Journal of an Artist

Occupational Memoirs
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide Robert Cowser, Dream Season: A Professor Joins Americas Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team Gail Griffin, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue Ben Hamper, Rivethead Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking Susan Neville: Iconography: A Writers Meditation Danielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue Louise Rafkin, Other Peoples Dirt: A Housecleaners Curious Adventures Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Richard Seltzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt; The Natural History of Pain

On and About Writing (not just nonfiction)

Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays (published annually)

Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art Gayle Brandeis, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write J. O. Cofer, Marilyn Kallet, eds., Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of Survival Judith Ortiz Cofer, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer Rosemary Daniell, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Womens Lives Scott Edelstein, The Indispensable Writers Guide Jon Franklin, Writing for Story Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction Philip Gerard, Carolyn Forche, ed., Writing Creative Nonfiction Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories (memoir & craft) Robin Hemley, Turning Life into Fiction Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editors Advice to Writers Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay Rebecca McClanahan, Write Your Heart Out Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola, Tell it Slant Dinty Moore, The Truth of the Matter Joyce Carol Oates, First Person Singular Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs Michael Steinberg (ed.), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction Mimi Schwartz, Writing True Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse: Ideas & Inspirations for Writing William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Literary Journals specifically for Nonfiction

Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (http://msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre/ ) Creative Nonfiction (www.creativenonfiction.org) River Teeth , Department of English, Ashland University, Ashland, OH 44805 Brevity (750 words or less--www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brevity.html) Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay (www.tiny-lights.com) Double-Take/Points of Entry (www.pointsofentry.org) Seneca Review (lyric essays), Hobart-William Smith College, Geneva, NY 14456

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Selected Essays As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury Tom Jones The Great Gatsby Madame Bovary The Good Soldier Faust Lord of the Flies Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Scarlet Letter Catch 22 A Farewell to Arms The Iliad The Odyssey The Hunchback of Notre Dame Their Eyes Were Watching God Brave New World A Doll's House The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Metamorphosis The Woman Warrior To Kill a Mockingbird Babbitt The Call of the Wild The Magic Mountain One Hundred Years of Solitude Bartleby the Scrivener Moby Dick The Crucible Beloved

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A Good Man is Hard to Find Long Day's Journey into Night Animal Farm Doctor Zhivago The Bell Jar Selected Tales Swann's Way The Crying of Lot 49 All Quiet on the Western Front Cyrano de Bergerac Call It Sleep The Catcher in the Rye Hamlet Macbeth A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet Pygmalion Frankenstein Ceremony One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Antigone Oedipus Rex The Grapes of Wrath Treasure Island Uncle Tom's Cabin Gulliver's Travels Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace Fathers and Sons The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Candide Slaughterhouse-Five

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Kids Books for All Ages The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Heidi by Johanna Spyri Books for Preschoolers - More Preschool Titles from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Corduroy by Don Freeman The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney Books for Children Ages 4-8 - More Primary Reading from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst The Mitten by Jan Brett Stellaluna by Janell Cannon Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff The Lorax by Dr. Seuss Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg Math Curse by Jon Scieszka Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman The Napping House by Audrey Wood Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch Books for Children Ages 9-12 - More Books by Grade Level from TeachersFirst Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli The BFG by Roald Dahl The Giver by Lois Lowry James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Matilda by Roald Dahl Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder - Laura Ingalls Wilder Webquest Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett Stuart Little by E. B. White Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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