Newsweek Top 100 Books

1. “War and Peace” – Leo Tolstoy 1869
2. “1984″ – George Orwell 1949
3. “Ulysses” – James Joyce 1922
4. “Lolita” – Vladimir Nabokov 1955
5. “The Sound and the Fury” – William Faulkner 1929
6. “Invisible Man” – Ralph Ellison 1952
7. “To the Lighthouse” – Virginia Woolf 1927
8. “The Illiad and The Odyssey” – Homer 8th century B.C.
9. “Pride and Prejudice”  - Jane Austen 1813
10. “Divine Comedy” – Dante Alighieri 1321
11. “Canterbury Tales” – Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century
12. “Gulliver’s Travels” – Jonathan Swift 1726
13. “Middlemarch” – George Eliot 1874
14. “Things Fall Apart” – Chinua Achebe 1958
15. “The Catcher in the Rye” – J. D. Salinger 1951
16. “Gone with the Wind” – Margaret Mitchell 1936
17. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
18. “The Great Gatsby” – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
19. “Catch-22″ – Joseph Heller 1961
20. “Beloved” – Toni Morrison 1987
21. “The Grapes of Wrath” – John Steinbeck 1939
22. “Midnight’s Children” – Salman Rushdie 1981
23. “Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley 1932
24. “Mrs. Dalloway” – Virginia Woolf 1925
25. “Native Son” – Richard Wright 1940
26. “Democracy in America” – Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
27. “Origin of Species” – Charles Darwin 1859
28. “The Histories” – Herodotus 440 B.C.
29. “The Social Contract” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
30. “Das Kapital” – Karl Marx 1867
31. “The Prince” – Niccolo Machiavelli 1532
32. “Confessions” – St. Augustine 4th century
33. “Leviathan” – Thomas Hobbes 1651
34. “The History of the Peloponnesian War” – Thucydides 431 B.C.
35. “The Lord of the Rings” – J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
36. “Winnie-the-Pooh” – A. A. Milne 1926
37. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” – C. S. Lewis 1950
38. “A Passage to India” – E. M. Forster 1924
39. “On the Road” – Jack Kerouac 1957
40. “To Kill a Mockingbird” – Harper Lee 1960
41. The Holy Bible NA
42. “A Clockwork Orange” – Anthony Burgess 1962
43. “Light in August” – William Faulkner 1932
44. “The Souls of Black Folk”  - W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
45. “Wide Sargasso Sea” – Jean Rhys 1966
46. “Madame Bovary” – Gustave Flaubert 1857
47. “Paradise Lost” – John Milton 1667
48. “Anna Karenina” – Leo Tolstoy 1877
49. “Hamlet” – William Shakespeare 1603
50. “King Lear” – William Shakespeare 1608
51. “Othello” – William Shakespeare 1622
52. “Sonnets” – William Shakespeare 1609
53. “Leaves of Grass” – Walt Whitman 1855
54. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” – Mark Twain 1885
55. “Kim” – Rudyard Kipling 1901
56. “Frankenstein” – Mary Shelley 1818
57. “Song of Solomon” – Toni Morrison 1977
58. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” – Ken Kesey 1962
59. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” – Ernest Hemingway 1940
60. “Slaughterhouse-Five” – Kurt Vonnegut 1969
61. “Animal Farm” – George Orwell 1945
62. “Lord of the Flies” – William Golding 1954
63. “In Cold Blood” – Truman Capote 1965
64. “The Golden Notebook” – Doris Lessing 1962
65. “Remembrance of Things Past” – Marcel Proust 1913
66. “The Big Sleep” – Raymond Chandler 1939
67. “As I Lay Dying” – William Faulkner 1930
68. “The Sun Also Rises” – Ernest Hemingway 1926
69. “I, Claudiu”s – Robert Graves 1934
70. “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” – Carson McCullers 1940
71. “Sons and Lovers” – D. H. Lawrence 1913
72. “All the King’s Men” – Robert Penn Warren 1946
73. “Go Tell It on the Mountain” – James Baldwin 1953
74. “Charlotte’s Web” – E. B. White 1952
75. “Heart of Darkness” – Joseph Conrad 1902
76. “Night” – Elie Wiesel 1958
77. “Rabbit, Run” – John Updike 1960
78. “The Age of Innocence” – Edith Wharton 1920
79. “Portnoy’s Complaint” – Philip Roth 1969
80. “An American Tragedy” – Theodore Dreiser 1925
81. “The Day of the Locust” – Nathanael West 1939
82. “Tropic of Cancer” – Henry Miller 1934
83. “The Maltese Falcon” – Dashiell Hammett 1930
84. “His Dark Materials” – Philip Pullman 1995
85. “Death Comes for the Archbishop” – Willa Cather 1927
86. “The Interpretation of Dreams” – Sigmund Freud 1900
87. “The Education of Henry Adams” – Henry Adams 1918
88. “Quotations from Chairman Mao” – Mao Zedong 1964
89. “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature” – William James 1902
90. “Brideshead Revisited” – Evelyn Waugh 1945
91. “Silent Spring” – Rachel Carson 1962
92. “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” – John Maynard Keynes 1936
93. “Lord Jim” – Joseph Conrad 1900
94. “Goodbye to All That” – Robert Graves 1929
95. “The Affluent Society” – John Kenneth Galbraith 1958
96. “The Wind in the Willows” – Kenneth Grahame 1908
97. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” – Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965
98. “Eminent Victorians” – Lytton Strachey 1918
99. “The Color Purple” – Alice Walker 1982
100. “The Second World War”  - Winston Churchill 1948

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