| 20. |  Beloved (F) Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and...
| 21. |  The Grapes of Wrath (F) Forced from their home, the Joad family is lured to California to find work; instead they find disillusionment, exploitation, and... | John Steinbeck | 1939 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 22. |  Midnight's Children (F) Winner of the Booker of BookersSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's... | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | Newsweek, The Guardian, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 23. |  Brave New World (F) Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically... | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | The Telegraph, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 24. |  Mrs. Dalloway (F) This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Direct and vivid in her... | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | The Guardian, St. John's Reading List, Radcliffe, Time | | 25. |  Native Son (F) Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was... | Richard Wright | 1940 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 26. |  Democracy in America (NF) In the mid-1800s, a French political scientist named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to appraise the meaning and... | Alexis de Tocqueville | 1835 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 27. |  On the Origin of Species (NF) In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a... | Charles Darwin | 1859 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 28. |  The Histories (NF) A Greek historian, Herodotus (c.485-425 BC) left his native town of Halicarnassus, a Greek colony, to travel extensively. He... | Herodotus | 440 B.C. | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 29. |  The Social Contract (NF) The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of... | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1762 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 30. |  Das Kapital (NF) One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of... | Karl Marx | 1867 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 31. |  The Prince (NF) A new edition of the highly exalted and infamous discourse containing observations and instructions on the significance of a rise... | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 32. |  Confessions (NF) When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world. | St. Augustine | 4th century | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 33. |  Leviathan (NF) The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained' Hobbes' answer is sovereignty,... | Thomas Hobbes | 1651 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 34. |  The History of the Peloponnesian War (NF) Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta... | Thucydides | 431 B.C. | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 35. |  The Lord of the Rings (F) One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the... | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | The Telegraph, Wikipedia, Radcliffe, Time | | 36. |  Winnie-the-Pooh (F) Edward Bear acquires a new name, Winnie-the-Pooh, and a new life with the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Woods. | A. A. Milne | 1926 | The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe | | 37. |  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (F) They open a door and enter a world. | C. S. Lewis | 1950 | The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Time | | 38. |  A Passage to India (F) When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular... | E. M. Forster | 1924 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 39. |  On the Road (F) First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life... | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 40. |  To Kill a Mockingbird (F) Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face...
| 41. |  The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. The beloved and timeless King James Version is made available in an affordable edition for Sunday schools, Bible clubs, church... | | NA | St. John's Reading List, Wikipedia, NYPL | | 42. |  A Clockwork Orange (F) Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not... | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 43. |  Light in August (F) Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the... | William Faulkner | 1932 | Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 44. |  The Souls of Black Folk (NF) In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868'1963) eloquently affirms... | W. E. B. Du Bois | 1903 | St. John's Reading List, NYPL, Modern Library | | 45. |  Wide Sargasso Sea (F) A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into... | Jean Rhys | 1966 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 46. |  Madame Bovary (F) Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a... | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | The Telegraph, The Guardian | | 47. |  Paradise Lost (F) Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery,... | John Milton | 1667 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 48. |  Anna Karenina (F) Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.... | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club | | 49. |  Hamlet (F) One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the... | William Shakespeare | 1603 | The Guardian, St. John's Reading List | | 50. |  King Lear (F) A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves... | William Shakespeare | 1608 | The Guardian, St. John's Reading List | | 51. |  Othello (F) One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy,... | William Shakespeare | 1622 | The Guardian, St. John's Reading List | | 52. |  Sonnets (F) Shakespeare's sonnets, the greatest of Elizabethan sonnet sequences, were first published in an unauthorized version in 1609.... | William Shakespeare | 1609 | The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List | | 53. |  Leaves of Grass (F) I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite... | Walt Whitman | 1855 | Newsweek, The Guardian | | 54. |  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (F) The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. | Mark Twain | 1885 | Newsweek, The Guardian | | 55. |  Kim (F) A white youth in India, becomes friends with an old ascetic priest, the lama. The boy juggles Imperialist life with his spiritual... | Rudyard Kipling | 1901 | Newsweek, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 56. |  Frankenstein (F) Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly... | Mary Shelley | 1818 | Newsweek, The Telegraph | | 57. |  Song of Solomon (F) Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest... | Toni Morrison | 1977 | Oprah's Book Club, NYPL, Radcliffe | | 58. |  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (F) Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that... | Ken Kesey | 1962 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Time | | 59. |  For Whom the Bell Tolls (F) In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years... | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | The Telegraph, NYPL, Radcliffe | | 60. |  Slaughterhouse-Five (F) Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the...
| 61. |  Animal Farm (F) Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the... | George Orwell | 1945 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 62. |  Lord of the Flies (F) The story that never grows old... Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954,... | William Golding | 1954 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 63. |  In Cold Blood (NF) On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts... | Truman Capote | 1965 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 64. |  The Golden Notebook (F) Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the... | Doris Lessing | 1962 | The Guardian, NYPL, Time | | 65. |  Remembrance of Things Past (F) Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic,... | Marcel Proust | 1913 | The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL | | 66. |  The Big Sleep (F) When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds... | Raymond Chandler | 1939 | The Telegraph, NYPL, Time | | 67. |  As I Lay Dying (F) One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and... | William Faulkner | 1930 | Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 68. |  The Sun Also Rises (F) The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example... | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 69. |  I, Claudius (F) Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus,... | Robert Graves | 1934 | The Telegraph, Modern Library, Time | | 70. |  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (F) With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary ... | Carson McCullers | 1940 | Oprah's Book Club, Modern Library, Time | | 71. |  Sons and Lovers (F) Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds.... | D. H. Lawrence | 1913 | The Guardian, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 72. |  All the King's Men (F) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It... | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 73. |  Go Tell It on the Mountain (F) James Baldwin's portrayal of black people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change. | James Baldwin | 1953 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 74. |  Charlotte's Web (F) Beloved by generations, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little are two of the most cherished stories of all time. Now, for the first... | E. B. White | 1952 | Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe | | 75. |  Heart of Darkness (F) A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together... | Joseph Conrad | 1902 | St. John's Reading List, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 76. |  Night (NF) Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager... | Elie Wiesel | 1958 | Oprah's Book Club, Wikipedia, NYPL | | 77. |  Rabbit, Run (F) Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is... | John Updike | 1960 | The Telegraph, Radcliffe, Time | | 78. |  The Age of Innocence (F) Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel of passion and desire. The beautiful Countess Ellen Olenska, fleeing her brutish... | Edith Wharton | 1920 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 79. |  Portnoy's Complaint (F) Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are... | Philip Roth | 1969 | NYPL, Modern Library, Time | | 80. |  An American Tragedy (F) The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of... | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time |
| 81. |  The Day of the Locust (F) "Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death... | Nathanael West | 1939 | NYPL, Modern Library, Time | | 82. |  Tropic of Cancer (F) Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of... | Henry Miller | 1934 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 83. |  The Maltese Falcon (F) Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel... | Dashiell Hammett | 1930 | The Telegraph, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 84. |  His Dark Materials (F) Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy ' The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber... | Philip Pullman | 1995 | The Telegraph, Wikipedia | | 85. |  Death Comes for the Archbishop (F) Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. | Willa Cather | 1927 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 86. |  The Interpretation of Dreams (NF) Freud's Revolutionary Theory: This ground-breaking work, which Freud considered his most valuable, forever changed the way we... | Sigmund Freud | 1900 | The Telegraph, NYPL | | 87. |  The Education of Henry Adams (NF) A scion of the famous Adams family of American statesmen, historian Henry Adams was more drawn to scholarship than to politics. His... | Henry Adams | 1918 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 88. |  Quotations from Chairman Mao (NF) Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with... | Mao Zedong | 1964 | Wikipedia, NYPL | | 89. |  The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (NF) After completing his monumental work, The Principles of Psychology, William James turned his attention to serious consideration of... | William James | 1902 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 90. |  Brideshead Revisited (F) Evelyn Waugh's best-loved novel and the basis for the PBS television production, Brideshead Revisited, the epic story of a great... | Evelyn Waugh | 1945 | Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time | | 91. |  Silent Spring (NF) First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of... | Rachel Carson | 1962 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 92. |  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (NF) Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. 'I can think of no single book that... | John Maynard Keynes | 1936 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 93. |  Lord Jim (F) A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where... | Joseph Conrad | 1900 | NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library | | 94. |  Goodbye to All That (NF) In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that... | Robert Graves | 1929 | The Telegraph, Modern Library | | 95. |  The Affluent Society (NF) Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional... | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1958 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 96. |  The Wind in the Willows (F) This is the much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his... | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 | The Telegraph, Wikipedia, Radcliffe | | 97. |  The Autobiography of Malcolm X (NF) If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was... | Alex Haley and Malcolm X | 1965 | NYPL, Modern Library | | 98. |  Eminent Victorians (NF) An unparalleled manifesto for the modern biographer, Strachey's razor-sharp essays about 4 prominent Victorians brought him... | Lytton Strachey | 1918 | The Telegraph, Modern Library | | 99. |  The Color Purple (F) Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and... | Alice Walker | 1982 | NYPL, Radcliffe | | 100. |  The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; (NF) Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal... | Winston Churchill | 1948 | NYPL, Modern Library |
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| Harper Lee | 1960 | Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time |
| Toni Morrison | 1987 | The Telegraph, The Guardian, Radcliffe, Time |
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