My List
5 Lists
1) 1984, George Orwell
2) Animal Farm, George Orwell
3) Catch-22, Joseph Heller
4) The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
5) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
6) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7) Lord of the Flies, William Golding
8 ) On the Road, Jack Kerouac
4 Lists
9) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
10) Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
11) A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
12) Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
13) Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
14) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
15) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
16) Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
17) The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
18) The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
19) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
20) To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
21) Ulysses, James Joyce
3 Lists
22) As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
23) Beloved, Toni Morrison
24) Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
25) Dune, Frank Herbert
26) Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
27) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
28) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
29) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
30) I, Claudius, Robert Graves
31) Light in August, William Faulkner
32) The Magus, John Fowles
33) Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
34) The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
35) Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
36) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
37) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
38) A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
39) The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
40) The Stand, Stephen King
41) Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
42) Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
43) Watership Down, Richard Adams
2 Lists
44) Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
45) The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
46) The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
47) All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
48) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
49) Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
50) Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
51) Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara
52) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
53) Atonement, Ian McEwan
54) At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
55) The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thorton Wilder
56) The Call of the Wild, Jack London
57) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
58) Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
59) A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
60) David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
61) The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
62) Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
63) The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
64) Deliverance, James Dickey
65) Emma, Jane Austen
66) Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
67) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
68) The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
69) The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
70) Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
71) Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
72) A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
73) The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
74) Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
75) The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
76) His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
77) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
78) A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
79) Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
80) The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
81) Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
82) Love in the TIme of Cholera, Gabreil Garcia Marquez
83) Loving, Henry Green
84) Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
85) Middlemarch, George Eliot
86) Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
87) Native Son, Richard Wright
88) Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
89) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
90) Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
91) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
92) Persuasion, Jane Austen
93) Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
94) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
95) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
96) Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
97) Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
98) The Recognitions, William Gaddis
99) A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
100) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
101) A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
102) Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
103) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
104) Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
105) Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
1 List
106) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
107) The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
108) The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durell
109) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
110) All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
111) The Ambassadors, Henry James
112) American Pastoral, Philip Roth
113) Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
114) Anthem, Ayn Rand
115) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
116) Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
117) Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
118) The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
119) At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
120) Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard
121) The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
122) A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
123) The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
124) The BFG, Roald Dahl
125) The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
126) Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
127) Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
128) Bleak House, Charles Dickens
129) The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
130) Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
131) The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
132) Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
133) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
134) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
135) A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
136) The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
137) Citizen of the Galazy, Robert Heinlein
138) The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
139) Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
140) The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
141) A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
142) The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
143) The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
144) The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
145) The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
146) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
147) Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
148) The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
149) A Death in the Family, James Agee
150) Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
151) Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
152) The Door into Summer, Robert Heinlein
153) Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
154) Double Star, Robert Heinlein
155) Dracula, Bram Stoker
156) East of Eden, John Steinbeck
157) Falconer, John Cheever
158) Far From the Maddening Crowd, Thomas Hardy
159) Fear, L. Ron Hubbard
160) Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
161) Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
162) Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
163) For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
164) Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
165) From Here to Eternity, James Jones
166) The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy
167) Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
168) The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
169) The Godfather, Mario Puzo
170) The Golden Bowl, Henry James
171) The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
172) Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
173) Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and and Neil Gaiman
174) The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
175) Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
176) Greenmantle, Charles de Lint
177) Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
178) Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K. Hamilton
179) The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
180) Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
181) Herzog, Saul Bellow
182) A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
183) Holes, Louis Sachar
184) Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
185) The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
186) Howard’s End, E.M. Forster
187) The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
188) I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
189) The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
190) Illusions, Richard Bach
191) Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
192) Ironweed, William Kennedy
193) It, Stephen King
194) Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer
195) Katherine, Anya Seton
196) Kim, Rudyard Kipling
197) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
198) Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
199) Life of Pi, Yann Martel
200) The Little Country, Charles de Lint
201) Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
202) Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
203) Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
204) The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
205) Magician, Raymond E. Feist
206) The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
207) Mainstreet, Sinclair Lewis
208) The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
209) The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
210) The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
211) Matilda, Roald Dahl
212) Memory and Dream, Charles de Lint
213) Mission Earth, L. Ron Hubbard
214) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
215) Money, Martin Amis
216) Moonheart, Charles de Lint
217) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
218) Mort, Terry Pratchett
219) Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
220) Mulengro, Charles de Lint
221) My Antonia, Willa Cather
222) Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
223) The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
224) The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
225) Neuromancer, William GIbson
226) Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
227) Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
228) Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
229) Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
230) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
231) The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
232) One Lonely Night, Mickey Spillane
233) On the Beach, Nevil Shute
234) The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
235) Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
236) Perfume, Patrick Suskind
237) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
238) The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
239) Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
240) Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
241) The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
242) Possession, A.S. Byatt
243) The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
244) The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
245) The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
246) The Puppet Masters, Robert Heinlein
247) Rabbit, Run, John Updike
248) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
249) The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
250) Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
251) Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
252) Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
253) The Road, Cormac McCarthy
254) A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
255) The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
256) Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
257) The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
258) The Secret Garden, Frances Hodson Burnett
259) The Secret History, Donna Tartt
260) Shane, Jack Schaefer
261) The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
262) Siddharta, Hermann Hesse
263) Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
264) Someplace to be Flying, Charles de Lint
265) Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
266) Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
267) Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
268) Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
269) The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
270) The Sportswrite, Richard Ford
271) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre
272) Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
273) The Stranger, Albert Camus
274) Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
275) The Story of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
276) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
277) A Suitable Boy Boy, Vikram Seth
278) Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
279) Swallows and Amazins, Arthur Ransome
280) Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
281) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
282) Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
283) The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
284) The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
285) The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffengger
286) Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
287) Trader, Charles de Lint
288) Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
289) The Trial, Franz Kafka
290) Trustee from the Toolroom, Nevil Shute
291) The Twilight Saga, Stephanie Meyer
292) The Twits, Roald Dahl
293) Ubik, Philip K. Dick
294) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
295) U.S.A.(trilogy), John Dos Passos
296) V., Thomas Pynchon
297) Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
298) The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
299) Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
300) The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
301) We the Living, Ayn Rand
302) White Noise, Don DeLillo
303) White Teeth, Zadie Smith
304) The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
305) Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
306) The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
307) Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
308) Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
309) The Woman is White, Wilkie Collins
310) Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
311) The Wood Wife, Terri Windling
312) The World According to Garp, John Irving
313) The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
314) Yarrow, Charles de Lint
315) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
316) Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm