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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884
by Mark Twain
Justice and honor are celebrated in this story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim.

All Quiet on the Western Front

1929
by Erich Maria Remarque
Though the war he describes is World War I, Remarque writes eloquently of all wars in this tale of a young German sent to fight in the trenches.

Beloved

1987
by Toni Morrison
Morrison’s heart-breaking novel tells the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains haunted by her daughter’s murder.
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The Best Short Stories

1945
by O. Henry
Short vignettes display irony and coincidence in everyday life. O. Henry’s forte is the surprise ending.

Brave New World

1932
by Aldous Huxley
Huxley brilliantly satirizes contemporary society’s dehumanization in this grim novel of the future.

The Call of the Wild

1903
by Jack London
When his beloved master is killed, the dog Buck flees to the wild, where he becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Rousing adventure set in Alaska’s Klondike country.
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Catch-22

1961
by Joseph Heller
This black comedy about World War II Army Air Corps aviators attempting to survive the absurdities of military bureaucracy has become a part of the American collective consciousness.

The Catcher in the Rye

1951
by J.D. Salinger
Fleeing his Pennsylvania prep school, Holden Caulfield holes up in New York City and rails against adult phoniness while trying to lose his innocence.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

1936
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Baker Street saga is chronicled in this collection that includes “A Study in Scarlet,” the 1887 story that introduced the English detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson.
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Crime and Punishment

1886
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
First published in Russian in 1866, this masterful psychological novel shows the horror and remorse of Raskolnikoff, a student, after he has killed an old woman for her money.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1948
by Alan Paton
In lyrical language Paton relates the moving story of a Zulu minister who searches for his children in Johannesburg, only to learn that South African society has destroyed their lives.

Don Quixote

1612
by Miguel de Cervantes
Originally published in Spanish in 1605, Cervantes’ satire about a gentle visionary who becomes a knight after reading too many chivalric romances is a universal tale of idealism versus practicality.
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Ethan Frome

1911
by Edith Wharton
An unhappy couple attempts suicide but find a far worse fate in this tale of irony and retribution in rural New England.

Gone with the Wind

1936
by Margaret Mitchell
Set against the backdrop of Georgia during the Civil War, Mitchell’s massive historical novel chronicles the tempestuous romance of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara.

The Good Earth

1931
by Pearl S. Buck
This Pulitzer Prize winner follows Wang Lung’s family from their early struggles to live off the land to their final disintegration as they move to the city.
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The Grapes of Wrath

1939
by John Steinbeck
Proletarian fiction at its finest, Steinbeck’s portrait of an Oklahoma family during the Depression spurred legislation to help stricken migrant workers.

The Great Gatsby

1925
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby has built an illegal empire to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, but his sacrifices for her prove to be his downfall.

Heart of Darkness

1902
by Joseph Conrad
Marlow relates the tale of Mr. Kurtz, successful in his greedy quest for ivory in the African Congo but leaving in its place hunger, death and slavery, for the natives.
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Invisible Man

1952
by Ralph Ellison
A young African American man moves to New York City and discovers he is “invisible,” seen only as a racial stereotype and never as himself.

Jane Eyre 1847

by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre’s ill-fated love for the brooding Mr. Rochester endures in this story of a strong-willed heroine who refuses to compromise herself.

Lord of the Flies

1954
by William Golding
A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island during a time of atomic warfare, bring both civilization and savagery to their community.
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Moby Dick

1851
by Herman Melville
Captain Ahab’s obsessive struggle to defeat Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him, is the focus of Melville’s masterpiece.

My Antonia

1918
by Willa Cather
In spite of a life of hard work, Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda is sustained by the healthy Nebraska soil and her warm-hearted brood of children.

Native Son

1940
by Richard Wright
The accidental death of his white boss’s daughter begins a chain of events from which Bigger Thomas, a bitter young black man, cannot escape.
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Nineteen Eighty Four

1949
by George Orwell
Ignorance is strength and peace is war in Orwell’s darkly imaginative vision of a future controlled by Big Brother and the Thought Police.

Of Human Bondage

1915
by W. Somerset Maugham
Afflicted with a club foot, Philip Carey suffers through his life, struggling to free himself from a destructive love affair and finally finding contentment as a country doctor.

Of Mice and Men

1937
by John Steinbeck
George and Lenny, itinerant Depression-era farm laborers, have their dream of attaining the good life shattered on a troubled ranch in the the Salinas Valley in Steinbeck's monumental novella of social realism.

The Old Man and the Sea

1952
by Ernest Hemingway
Santiago realizes the dream of catching a giant marlin, but he must battle the sharks for two days to bring his prize home.
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Pride and Prejudice

1813
by Jane Austen
A delightful comedy of marriage traces the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy as they overcome his pride and her prejudice and fall in love.

The Red Badge of Courage

1895
by Stephen Crane
Through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young Civil War soldier, we see the fears of battle and the inexplicable courage that comes when soldiers unite in a wartime machine.

Robinson Crusoe

1719
by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s novel about a castaway marooned for twenty-four years on a deserted island is an engrossing story of survival, civilization, and barbarism.
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The Scarlet Letter

1850
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s novel is a study of sin, guilt, and revenge. Adultress Hester Prynne must bear public humiliation but Roger Chillingsworth and Arthur Dimmesdale suffer equally.

A Separate Peace

1959
by John Knowles
Fifteen years later, the narrator remembers his boarding school roommate. The rivalry that tinged their friendship eventually leads to tragedy.

Silas Marner

1861
by George Eliot
This classic story shows redemption for a lonely and bitter man in the form of a child who brings him love and hope.
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The Sound and the Fury

1929
by William Faulkner
The moral decay of the Old South is presented through the eyes of four members of the once prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi.

The Stranger

1946
by Albert Camus
First published in French in 1942, the narrator of Albert Camus’ existential masterpiece is an autobiographical figure who does not conform to religious morality or social convention.

A Tale of Two Cities

1859
by Charles Dickens
This dramatic story of Paris and London during the Reign of Terror contains some of Dickens’ most memorable characters—Madame Defarge with her knitting and the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton.
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Tales

1952
by Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of short stories by the nineteenth century master of the macabre. Included are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

1891
by Thomas Hardy
Tess is ruined when her father’s vanity forces her to seek the favors of rich relations, and her life becomes a study in the grim reality of her times.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937
by Zora Neale Hurston
An African-American woman in 1930s rural Florida finds freedom and self-knowledge through a personal journey encompassing three very different marriages.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

1960
by Harper Lee
Small town Alabama in the 1930s is the setting for this fine novel of a child’s brutal introdution to racial prejudice and adult injustice.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe’s sentimental but realistic novel is often credited with heightening public awareness about the evils of slavery, thus hastening the Civil War.

War and Peace

1889
by Leo Tolstoy
An enormous cast of characters brings life to Tolstoy’s panoramic chronicle of Napoleonic Russia. Originally published in the 1860s.
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Winesburg, Ohio

1919
by Sherwood Anderson
Twenty-three stories of small town America show the characters’ spiritual dreams in conflict with society’s provincialism and materialism.

Wuthering Heights

1847
by Emily Bronte
Catherine and Heathcliff are the tempestuous lovers in this tale of passion and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
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Some Book List

Rank    Title     Author    Pts
1    To Kill a Mockingbird (5) *     Harper Lee    494
2    1984 *     George Orwell    423
3    Hamlet (1) *     William Shakespeare    335
4    The Great Gatsby (1) *     F. Scott Fitzgerald    313
5    The Fellowship of the Ring (1) *     J.R.R. Tolkien    287
6    Lolita (3) *     Vladimir Nabokov    285
7    The Catcher in the Rye (2) *     J.D. Salinger    283
8    One Hundred Years of Solitude (3) *     Gabriel Garcia Marquez    275
9    Catch-22 *     Joseph Heller    272
10    The Hobbit (2) *     J.R.R. Tolkien    236
11    The Return of the King *     J.R.R. Tolkien    232
12    The Bible (5) **     ?    228
13    Ender's Game (2) *     Orson Scott Card    215
14    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *     Mark Twain    209
15    The Grapes of Wrath (1) *     John Steinbeck    203
16    Brave New World (1) *     Aldous Huxley    199
17    Night *     Elie Wiesel    185
18    Moby-Dick (3) *     Herman Melville    184
19    Ulysses (3) *     James Joyce    174
20    Jane Eyre **     Charlotte Bronte    173
21    Slaughterhouse-Five **     Kurt Vonnegut    170
22    Crime and Punishment **     Fyodor Dostoyevsky    166
23    The Stand (1) **     Stephen King    156
    The Two Towers *     J.R.R. Tolkien    156
25    Love in the Time of Cholera (1) *     Gabriel Garcia Marquez    150
    Pride and Prejudice **     Jane Austen    150
27    Animal Farm *     George Orwell    138
    Macbeth **     William Shakespeare    138
29    The Handmaid's Tale *     Margaret Atwood    136
30    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1) *     Douglas Adams    135
31    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe *     C.S. Lewis    132
32    A Prayer for Owen Meany *     John Irving    131
33    The Giver (1) *     Lois Lowry    130
    Watership Down (1) *     Richard Adams    130
35    Don Quixote (1) **     Miguel de Cervantes    125
    Of Mice and Men **     John Steinbeck    125
37    Stranger in a Strange Land (2) *     Robert Heinlein    122
    A Clockwork Orange (1) **     Anthony Burgess    122
39    Great Expectations *     Charles Dickens    121
40    Lord of the Flies **     William Golding    120
41    I, Robot *     Isaac Asimov    119
42    Fahrenheit 451 *     Ray Bradbury    118
43    Anna Karenina (1) **     Leo Tolstoy    114
    Siddhartha *     Hermann Hesse    114
45    The Scarlet Letter (1) **     Nathaniel Hawthorne    113
46    Wuthering Heights **     Emily Bronte    110
47    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest *     Ken Kesey    108
48    Dune *     Frank Herbert    107
49    The Count of Monte Cristo **     Alexandre Dumas    106
50    Cat's Cradle (1) *     Kurt Vonnegut    104
51    The Sound and the Fury *     William Faulkner    103
52    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2) **     Robert Pirsig    101
53    Gone with the Wind (1) **     Margaret Mitchell    99
54    Atlas Shrugged (1) **     Ayn Rand    94
55    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1) **     James Joyce    93
56    A Wrinkle in Time **     Madeleine L'Engle    92
57    The Trial (1) **     Franz Kafka    91
58    Invisible Man (1) *     Ralph Ellison    87
59    Mrs. Dalloway *     Virginia Woolf    87
60    The Red Tent **     Anita Diamant    86
61    Roots *     Alex Haley    84
62    The Princess Bride **     William Goldman    83
63    The Iliad **     Homer    82
64    Cry, the Beloved Country *     Alan Paton    80
65    A Tale of Two Cities **     Charles Dickens    76
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **     Hunter S. Thompson    76
67    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland *     Lewis Carroll    74
68    The Little Prince     Antoine de Saint-Exupery    73
69    Paradise Lost **     John Milton    72
70    Les Miserables *     Victor Hugo    71
71    The Good Earth **     Pearl S. Buck    70
72    On the Road **     Jack Kerouac    68
73    Inferno **     Dante Alighieri    67
    The Metamorphosis **     Franz Kafka    67
75    Frankenstein **     Mary Shelley    65
76    Angela's Ashes **     Frank McCourt    62
77    Prufrock and Other Observations *     T.S. Eliot    61
78    Franny and Zooey **     J.D. Salinger    60
79    The Master and Margarita (1)     Mikhail Bulgakov    59
80    A People's History of the United States *     Howard Zinn    58
    The Canterbury Tales **     Geoffrey Chaucer    58
    The Name of the Rose     Umberto Eco    58
83    Neuromancer     William Gibson    57
84    The Poisonwood Bible *     Barbara Kingsolver    56
85    Anne of Green Gables (1) *     L.M. Montgomery    55
    Romeo and Juliet **     William Shakespeare    55
    War and Peace **     Leo Tolstoy    55
88    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone **     J.K. Rowling    54
89    Little Women **     Louisa May Alcott    53
    The World According to Garp (1) **     John Irving    53
91    Exodus     Leon Uris    52
    Gravity's Rainbow **     Thomas Pynchon    52
    The Importance of Being Earnest **     Oscar Wilde    52
    The Things They Carried *     Tim O'Brien    52
95    Pale Fire (1) *     Vladimir Nabokov    51
    The Bell Jar **     Sylvia Plath    51
    The Picture of Dorian Gray     Oscar Wilde    51
    Treasure Island **     Robert Louis Stevenson    51
99    As I Lay Dying (1) **     William Faulkner    50
    A Theory of Justice *     John Rawls    50
    Black Hawk Down     Mark Bowden    50
    King Lear     William Shakespeare    50
    Sometimes a Great Notion     Ken Kesey    50
104    Tao Te Ching (1)     Lao Tzu    49
    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1)     William L. Shirer    49
    Heart of Darkness **     Joseph Conrad    49
    In Cold Blood     Truman Capote    49
    The Left Hand of Darkness     Ursula K. LeGuin    49
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress **     Robert Heinlein    49
110    All Quiet on the Western Front **     Erich Maria Remarque    48
111    If on a Winter's Night a Traveler **     Italo Calvino    47
    Inherit the Wind *     Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee    47
    Snow Crash     Neal Stephenson    47
    The Martian Chronicles **     Ray Bradbury    47
115    The Diary of a Young Girl     Anne Frank    46
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter **     Carson McCullers    46
    The Old Man and the Sea **     Ernest Hemingway    46
118    The God of Small Things     Arundhati Roy    45
    The Hours     Michael Cunningham    45
120    Chronicle of a Death Foretold     Gabriel Garcia Marquez    44
    Gulliver's Travels     Jonathan Swift    44
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **     John Berendt    44
    Much Ado About Nothing **     William Shakespeare    44
    Possession     A.S. Byatt    44
    The Odyssey     Homer    44
    The Prophet     Kahlil Gibran    44
127    Shogun (1) **     James Clavell    43
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1) **     Haruki Murakami    43
    Charlotte's Web     E.B. White    43
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X **     Malcolm X & Alex Haley    43
    The Twelve Chairs     Ilya Ilf & Evgeni Petrov    43
132    Death in Venice and Other Stories     Thomas Mann    42
    Memoirs of a Geisha     Arthur Golden    42
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay     Michael Chabon    42
    The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman **     Laurence Sterne    42
136    Ada     Vladimir Nabokov    41
    Godel, Escher, Bach *     Douglas Hofstadter    41
    Hocus Pocus     Kurt Vonnegut    41
    Middlemarch     George Elliot    41
    The Federalist Papers     James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay    41
    The Woman in White     Wilkie Collins    41
    Where the Sidewalk Ends **     Shel Silverstein    41
143    Anthem     Ayn Rand    40
    Fargo Rock City     Chuck Klosterman    40
    Jurassic Park *     Michael Crichton    40
    Mother Night *     Kurt Vonnegut    40
    The Silmarillion     J.R.R. Tolkien    40
    The Way Things Work **     David Macauly    40
149    Bleak House     Charles Dickens    39
    Confessions *     St. Augustine of Hippo    39
    David Copperfield *     Charles Dickens    39
    Eugene Onegin     Alexander Pushkin    39
    My Name is Asher Lev     Chaim Potok    39
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra **     Friedrich Nietzsche    39
155    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH     Robert C. O'Brien    38
    Rebecca     Daphne Du Maurier    38
    Tropic of Cancer     Henry Miller    38
158    Naked Lunch (1)     William S. Burroughs    37
    And Then There Were None     Agatha Christie    37
    Foundation     Isaac Asimov    37
    The Phantom Tollbooth **     Norton Juster    37
    The Short Stories     Ernest Hemingway    37
    V     Thomas Pynchon    37
164    A Confederacy of Dunces     John Kennedy Toole    36
    Death of a Salesman     Arthur Miller    36
    Dubliners     James Joyce    36
    Run with the Horsemen     Ferrol Sams    36
    The Awakening     Kate Chopin    36
    The Wounded Land     Stephen R. Donaldson    36
    White Noise     Don DeLillo    36
171    Anarchy, State and Utopia *     Robert Nozick    35
    Freakonomics **     Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner    35
    Life of Pi     Yann Martel    35
    No Exit     Jean-Paul Sartre    35
    The Guns of August *     Barbara Tuchman    35
    The Sun Also Rises     Ernest Hemingway    35
    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More     Roald Dahl    35
178    Persuasion (1)     Jane Austen    34
    The Brothers Karamazov     Fyodor Dostoyevsky    34
    The Namesake     Jhumpa Lahiri    34
    Winnie the Pooh     A.A. Milne    34
182    A Light in the Attic     Shel Silverstein    33
    Cat's Eye     Margaret Atwood    33
184    All Creatures Great and Small     James Herriot    32
    Crossing to Safety     Wallace Stegner    32
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead     Tom Stoppard    32
    The Chosen     Chaim Potok    32
188    A Wizard of Earthsea (1)     Ursula K. LeGuin    31
    Guns, Germs, and Steel     Jared Diamond    31
    Invisible Cities     Italo Calvino    31
    This Perfect Day     Ira Levin    31
    Traveling Mercies     Anne Lamott    31
    Uncle Tom's Cabin     Harriet Beecher Stowe    31
194    For Whom the Bell Tolls     Ernest Hemingway    30
    John Adams     David McCullough    30
    Moll Flanders     Daniel Defoe    30
    Now We are Six     A.A. Milne    30
    Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience     William Blake    30
    Starship Troopers     Robert Heinlein    30
    The Right Stuff     Tom Wolfe    30
    Waiting for Godot *     Samuel Beckett    30
202    A Fine Balance     Rohinton Mistry    29
    A Ring of Endless Light     Madeleine L'Engle    29
    Beowulf     ?    29
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory     Roald Dahl    29
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman     Richard Feynman    29
    The Whisper of the River     Ferrol Sams    29
    To the Lighthouse     Virginia Woolf    29
    Wicked     Gregory Maguire    29
210    Calvin and Hobbes     Bill Watterson    28
    Gargantua and Pantagruel     Francois Rabelais    28
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas     Dr. Seuss    28
    I, Claudius     Robert Graves    28
    Madame Bovary     Gustave Flaubert    28
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer     Mark Twain    28
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower     Stephen Chbosky    28
    The Silver Chair     C.S. Lewis    28
    The Winds of War     Herman Wouk    28
    Welcome to the Monkey House     Kurt Vonnegut    28
220    A Little Princess     Frances Hodgson Burnett    27
    Blindness     Jose Saramago    27
    Breakfast of Champions     Kurt Vonnegut    27
    Grendel     John Gardner    27
    Lord Foul's Bane     Stephen R. Donaldson    27
    Our Town     Thornton Wilder    27
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time     Mark Haddon    27
    The Mists of Avalon *     Marion Zimmer Bradley    27
    VALIS     Philip K. Dick    27
229    Beach Music (1)     Pat Conroy    26
    The Neverending Story (1)     Michael Ende    26
    Compassion Fatigue *     Susan Moeller    26
    Lamb     Christopher Moore    26
    The Giving Tree     Shel Silverstein    26
    The Last Battle     C.S. Lewis    26
    The Power and the Glory                                      Graham Greene    26
236    "Master Harold"...and the Boys (1) *     Athol Fugard    25
    A Town Like Alice (1)     Nevil Shute    25
    At Dawn We Slept (1)     Gordon W. Prange    25
    Babar the King (1) *     Jean De Brunhoff    25
    Cathedral (1)     Raymond Carver    25
    Creating Minds (1)     Howard Gardner    25
    Deadline (1)     Chris Crutcher    25
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1)     Anne Tyler    25
    Ella Enchanted (1)     Gail Carson Levine    25
    Everything is Illuminated (1)     Jonathan Safran Foer    25
    Leaves of Grass (1)     Walt Whitman    25
    Random House Dictionary of the American Language (1) *     Jess Stein (ed.)    25
    The Anatomy of Melancholy (1)     Robert Burton    25
    The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (1)     Abbie Hoffman    25
    The Bloody Sun (1)     Marion Zimmer Bradley    25
    The Book of Mormon (1)     ?    25
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1)     Sherman Alexie    25
    The Loom of Language (1)     Frederick Bodmer    25
    What a Beautiful Sunday (1)     Jorge Semprun    25
    Wild Swans (1)     Jung Chang    25
    Wives and Daughters (1)     Elizabeth Gaskell    25
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince     J.K. Rowling    25
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban     J.K. Rowling    25
    Sentimental Education     Gustave Flaubert    25
    The Cider House Rules     John Irving    25
    The Fountainhead     Ayn Rand    25
    The Idiot     Fyodor Dostoyevsky    25
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions     Thomas Kuhn    25
264    All the Pretty Horses     Cormac McCarthy    24
    Childhood's End     Arthur C. Clarke    24
    Creature vs. Creator     Richard Yerby    24
    Dandelion Wine     Ray Bradbury    24
    Dangerous Liaisons     Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos    24
    Jitterbug Perfume     Tom Robbins    24
    Rascal     Sterling North    24
    Ravelstein     Saul Bellow    24
    Reagan: A Life in Letters     Ronald Reagan    24
    Red     Ted Dekker    24
    Song of Solomon     Toni Morrison    24
    Surprised by Joy     C.S. Lewis    24
    The Black Knight     Iris Murdoch    24
    The Confusion     Neal Stephenson    24
    The Foxfire Book     Eliot Wigginton (ed.)    24
    The Godfather     Mario Puzo    24
    The Great American Novel     Philip Roth    24
    The History of Love     Nicole Krauss    24
    The Secret Garden     Frances Hodgson Burnett    24
    The Seven Storey Mountain     Thomas Merton    24
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being     Milan Kundera    24
    The Urantia Book     Urantia Foundation    24
286    A Fire Upon the Deep     Vernor Vinge    23
    A Little Reviving     Richard Yerby    23
    A Separate Peace     John Knowles    23
    American Psycho     Bret Easton Ellis    23
    Angle of Repose     Wallace Stegner    23
    Big Fish     Daniel Wallace    23
    Black     Ted Dekker    23
    Burr     Gore Vidal    23
    Cannery Row     John Steinbeck    23
    Chuang Tsu     Gia-Fu Feng    23
    Cousin Bette     Honore de Balzac    23
    Deliverance     James Dickey    23
    Dracula     Bram Stoker    23
    Endgame     Samuel Beckett    23
    Fathers and Crows     William T. Vollman    23
    Ficciones     Jorge Luis Borges    23
    Group Portrait with Lady     Heinrich Boll    23
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix     J.K. Rowling    23
    Infinite Jest **     David Foster Wallace    23
    Long Walk to Freedom     Nelson Mandela    23
    Love's Executioner     Irvin D. Yalo    23
    Master and Commander     Patrick O'Brian    23
    No One Writes to the Colonel     Gabriel Garcia Marquez    23
    Remembrance of Things Past     Marcel Proust    23
    Six Easy Pieces     Richard Feynman    23
    Summer of My German Soldier     Bette Greene    23
    The BFG     Roald Dahl    23
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting     Milan Kundera    23
    The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are     Alan Watts    23
    The Crucible     Arthur Miller    23
    The Four Loves     C.S. Lewis    23
    The Kite Runner     Khaled Hosseini    23
    The Man in the High Castle     Philip K. Dick    23
    The Secret History     Donna Tartt    23
    The Tao of Pooh     Benjamin Hoff    23
    The Valley of Adventure     Enid Blyton    23
    Their Eyes Were Watching God     Zora Neale Hurston    23
    Three Men in a Boat     Jerome K. Jerome    23
    Tuesdays with Morrie     Mitch Albom    23
    When We Were Very Young     A.A. Milne    23
    Written on the Body     Jeanette Winterson    23
327    Absalom, Absalom!     William Faulkner    22
    An American Life     Ronald Reagan    22
    Animal Dreams     Barbara Kingsolver    22
    Armor     John Steakley    22
    Confessions of a Backup Dancer     Anonymous    22
    Cunt     Inga Muscio    22
    Dicey's Song     Cynthia Voigt    22
    Duino Elegies     Rainer Maria Rilke    22
    Five Children and It     E. Nesbit    22
    Gilead     Marilynne Robinson    22
    Having Our Say     Sarah & A. Elizabeth Delany    22
    Henry V     William Shakespeare    22
    Illuminatus!     Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea    22
    Island of the Blue Dolphins     Scott O'Dell    22
    It's a Magical World     Bill Watterson    22
    Kim     Rudyard Kipling    22
    King Matt the First     Janusz Korczak    22
    Man and Superman     George Bernard Shaw    22
    Man's Search for Meaning     Viktor Frankl    22
    My Land, My People     the Dalai Lama    22
    My Life in Christ     St. John of Kronstadt    22
    Narcissus and Goldmund     Hermann Hesse    22
    Nightwood     Djuna Barnes    22
    One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich     Alexander Solzhenitsyn    22
    Personal History     Katharine Graham    22
    Profiles in Courage     John F. Kennedy    22
    Purple America     Rick Moody    22
    Testament of Youth     Vera Brittain    22
    The Blessing of Pan     Lord Dunsany    22
    The Joyous Season     Patrick Dennis    22
    The Leopard     Giuseppe di Lampedusa    22
    The Man Without Qualities     Robert Musil    22
    The Missing Piece     Shel Silverstein    22
    The Origin of Species     Charles Darwin    22
    The Remains of the Day     Kazuo Ishiguro    22
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner     Samuel Taylor Coleridge    22
    The Stranger Beside Me     Ann Rule    22
    Three Days     Melody Carlson    22
    Tree In the Trail     Holling Clancy Holling    22
    White     Ted Dekker    22
    Wise Blood     Flannery O'Connor    22
    Zuleika Dobson     Max Beerbohm    22
369    A Farewell to Arms     Ernest Hemingway    21
    A History of English Speaking Peoples     Winston Churchill    21
    A House Like a Lotus     Madeleine L'Engle    21
    A Widow for One Year     John Irving    21
    America (the Book)     Jon Stewart    21
    Auntie Mame     Patrick Dennis    21
    Beloved     Toni Morrison    21
    Earth     David Brin    21
    Empire Falls     Richard Russo    21
    I Ching     ?    21
    It Can't Happen Here     Sinclair Lewis    21
    Jude the Obscure     Thomas Hardy    21
    Lonesome Dove     Larry McMurtry    21
    Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha     Mohandas Gandhi    21
    Perfect     Natasha Friend    21
    Quicksilver     Neal Stephenson    21
    Rabbit Run     John Updike    21
    Sherlock Holmes and the Hounds of the Baskervilles     Arthur Conan Doyle    21
    Sorrows and Rejoicings     Athol Fugard    21
    Tender is the Night     F. Scott Fitzgerald    21
    The Body Artist     Don DeLillo    21
    The Circle of Dusk II     Ralf Isau    21
    The Dragons of Eden     Carl Sagan    21
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet     Salman Rushdie    21
    The Iron Horse     Henry B. Comstock    21
    The Missing Piece Meets the Big O     Shel Silverstein    21
    The Sunflower     Simon Wiesenthal    21
    The Tale of Genji     Murasaki Shikibu    21
    The Time Traveler's Wife     Audrey Niffenegger    21
    The Wind Cannot Read     Richard Mason    21
    The Winter of Our Discontent     John Steinbeck    21
    Veil     George C. Chesbro    21
    Walden     Henry David Thoreau    21
    Were You There?     Ron DiCianni    21
    Words Under the Words     Naomi Shihab Nye    21
404    A Short History of a Small Place     T.R. Pearson    20
    A View from Nowhere     Thomas Nagel    20
    Absolute Brightness     James Lecesne    20
    Antigone     Sophocles    20
    Birdsong     Sebastian Faulks    20
    Bound for Canaan     Fergus M. Bordewich    20
    Clan of the Cave Bear     Jean M. Auel    20
    Dharma Bums     Jack Kerouac    20
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?     Philip K. Dick    20
    House of Sand and Fog     Andre Dubus    20
    Ishmael     Daniel Quinn    20
    Me Talk Pretty One Day     David Sedaris    20
    Nights in Aruba     Andrew Holleran    20
    Petersburg     Andrei Bely    20
    Running with Scissors     Augusten Burroughs    20
    Sparrow     Mary Doria Russell    20
    Tales of the Night     Peter Hoeg    20
    The Circle of Dusk I     Ralf Isau    20
    The Decameron     Giovanni Boccaccio    20
    The Enchanted Broccoli Forest     Mollie Katzen    20
    The Hotel New Hampshire     John Irving    20
    The Mist     Stephen King    20
    The Plot Against America     Philip Roth    20
    The Reawakening     Primo Levi    20
    The Runaway Jury     John Grisham    20
    The Screwtape Letters     C.S. Lewis    20
    The Search for Delicious     Natalie Babbitt    20
    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader     C.S. Lewis    20
    Tom Jones     Henry Fielding    20
    Uncle Wiggily's Adventures     Howard R. Garis    20
434    A Game of Thrones     George R.R. Martin    19
    A Raisin in the Sun     Lorraine Hansberry    19
    Barrayar     Lois McMaster Bujold    19
    Basic Facts About the United Nations     UN Department of Public Information    19
    Blackberry Subway Jam     Robert Munsch & Michael Martchenko    19
    Cheaper by the Dozen     Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth    19
    Et Nox Facta Est     Victor Hugo    19
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell     Susanna Clarke    19
    Light in August     William Faulkner    19
    Locked in the Cabinet     Robert Reich    19
    Lying Awake     Mark Salzman    19
    Marjorie Morningstar     Herman Wouk    19
    Memory of Fire: Genesis     Eduardo Galeano    19
    My Sister's Keeper     Jodi Picoult    19
    Notes from Underground     Fyodor Dostoyevsky    19
    Rimbaud     Graham Robb    19
    Rx     Tracy Lynn    19
    Sense and Sensibility     Jane Austen    19
    Silverlock     John Myers Myers    19
    Steppenwolfe     Hermann Hesse     19
    Story of My Life     Helen Keller    19
    The Conquest of America     Tzvetan Todorov    19
    The English Patient     Michael Ondaatje    19
    The Eyes of the Dragon     Stephen King    19
    The Gameplayers of Zan     M. A. Foster    19
    The Joy Luck Club     Amy Tan    19
    The Patron Saint of Liars     Ann Patchett    19
    The Railway Children     E. Nesbit    19
    The Republic     Plato    19
    The Spell of the Yukon     Robert Service    19
    The Stars of My Destination     Alfred Bester    19
    Till We Have Faces     C.S. Lewis    19
    Time Enough for Love     Robert Heinlein    19
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair     Pablo Neruda    19
    Will You Please be Quiet, Please?     Raymond Carver    19
469    A Clash of Kings     George R.R. Martin    18
    Agammemnon     Aeschulys    18
    And I Don't Want to Live This Life     Deborah Spungen    18
    Another Roadside Attraction     Tom Robbins    18
    Captain Horatio Hornblower     Cecil Scott Forester    18
    Choke     Chuck Palahniuk    18
    Critique of Pure Reason     Immanuel Kant    18
    Earthly Powers     Anthony Burgess    18
    Envy     Sandra Brown    18
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues     Tom Robbins    18
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close     Jonathan Safran Foer    18
    Flashman     George MacDonald Fraser    18
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater     Kurt Vonnegut    18
    Last Call     Tim Powers    18
    Like Water for Chocolate     Laura Esquivel    18
    Mere Christianity     C.S. Lewis    18
    Nicholas and Alexandra     Robert K. Massie    18
    People of the Lie     M. Scott Peck    18
    Player of Games     Iain M. Banks    18
    Prodigal Summer     Barbara Kingsolver    18
    Six Wars at a Time     Howard Shaff & Audrey Karl Shaff    18
    Speak     Laurie Halse Anderson    18
    The Color of Summer     Reinaldo Arenas    18
    The Color Purple     Alice Walker    18
    The First Circle     Alexander Solzhenitsyn    18
    The Ghost Writer     John Harwood    18
    The Illearth War     Stephen R. Donaldson    18
    The Killer Angels     Michael Shaara    18
    The Portrait of a Lady     Henry James    18
    The Source     James Michener    18
    The Thorn Birds     Colleen McCullough    18
    The Three Musketeers     Alexandre Dumas    18
    The Winter's Tale     William Shakespeare    18
    The Wizard of Oz     L. Frank Baum    18
503    A Kiss for Little Bear     Else Holmelund Minarik    17
    A Midsummer Night's Dream     William Shakespeare    17
    A Storm of Swords     George R.R. Martin    17
    Around the World in 80 Days     Jules Verne    17
    Belinda     Anne Rice    17
    Cash     Johnny Cash    17
    Contact     Carl Sagan    17
    Easter, 1916     William Butler Yeats    17
    Foucault's Pendulum     Umberto Eco    17
    Gaudy Night     Dorothy L. Sayers    17
    Getting to Yes     Roger Fisher & Bill Ury    17
    Heart of a Dog     Mikhail Bulgakov    17
    Herzog     Saul Bellow    17
    Island     Aldous Huxley    17
    Le Morte D'Arthur     Thomas Mallory    17
    Leading Minds     Howard Gardner    17
    Lenin's Tomb     David Remnick    17
    Mathematical Methods for Physicists     George B. Arfken    17
    No Country for Old Men     Cormac McCarthy    17
    Odd Thomas     Dean Koontz    17
    Oliver Twist     Charles Dickens    17
    Peace Like a River     Leif Enger    17
    Reasons and Persons     Derek Parfit    17
    Sybil     Flora Rheta Schreiber    17
    The God Delusion     Richard Dawkins    17
    The Last Temptation of Christ     Nikos Kazantzakis    17
    The Pearl     John Steinbeck    17
    The Power That Preserves     Stephen R. Donaldson    17
    The Scarlet Pimpernel     Baroness Orczy Emmuska    17
    The Witch of Blackbird Pond     Elizabeth George Speare    17
    Trout Fishing in America     Richard Brautigan    17
    Under the Volcano     Malcolm Lowry    17
    Watchmen     Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons    17
    White Fang     Jack London    17
    Yertle the Turtle     Dr. Seuss    17
538    All the King's Men     Robert Penn Warren    16
    Andersonville     MacKinlay Kantor    16
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee     Dee Brown    16
    Candide     Voltaire    16
    Captain Blood     Rafael Sabatini    16
    Cat's Cradle     Kurt Vonnegut    16
    Cold Mountain     Charles Frasier    16
    Colossus of Maroussi     Henry Miller    16
    Coryat's Crudities     Thomas Coryat    16
    Dance, Dance, Dance     Haruki Murakami    16
    Dancing Arabs     Sayed Kashua    16
    Dhalgren     Samuel Delaney    16
    Ender's Shadow     Orson Scott Card    16
    Fantastic Mr. Fox     Roald Dahl    16
    Faust     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    16
    Fear and Trembling     Soren Kierkegaard    16
    Fox in Sox     Dr. Seuss    16
    Getting the Love You Want, Guide for Couples     Harvelle Hendrix    16
    Green Shadows, White Whale     Ray Bradbury    16
    Kiss of the Spider Woman     Manuel Puig    16
    Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches In History     William Saffire (ed.)    16
    Life and Death in Shanghai     Nien Cheng    16
    Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder     Alan Dundes    16
    Mrs. Bridge     Evan S. Connell    16
    QB VII     Leon Uris    16
    The Call of the Wild     Jack London    16
    The Education of Little Tree     Forrest Carter & Rennard Strickland    16
    The Human Stain     Philip Roth    16
    The Last Unicorn     Peter S. Beagle    16
    The Mirror in the Mirror     Michael Ende    16
    The Prince     Niccolo Machiavelli    16
    The Runner     Cynthia Voigt    16
    The Shell Seekers     Rosamunde Pilcher    16
    The Snow Goose     Paul Gallico    16
    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down     Anne Fadiman    16
    The Third Man     Graham Greene    16
    Untouched by Human Hands     Robert Sheckley    16
    Villa Incognito     Tom Robbins    16
    Watchers     Dean Koontz    16
    Weapons of Chess     Bruce Pandolfini    16
    Where the Wild Things Are     Maurice Sendak    16
579    Caucasia     Danzy Senna    15
    Clarence Darrow for the Defense     Irving Stone    15
    Diary     Chuck Palahniuk    15
    Fog Magic     Julia Sauer    15
    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler     E.L. Konigsburg    15
    Graceland     Chris Abani    15
    Harold and Maude     Colin Higgins    15
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows     J.K. Rowling    15
    High Fidelity     Nick Hornby    15
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings     Maya Angelou    15
    In the Lake of the Woods     Tim O'Brien    15
    Life Among the Savages     Shirley Jackson    15
    Living to Tell the Tale     Gabriel Garcia Marquez    15
    Oedipus Rex     Sophocles    15
    Read to Me     Bernice Cullinan    15
    Sandokan     Emilio Salgari    15
    Sophie's Choice     William Styron    15
    Stand on Zanzibar     John Brunner    15
    Strong Poison     Dorothy L. Sayers    15
    The Dream of Reason     Anthony Gottlieb    15
    The Glass Bead Game     Hermann Hesse    15
    The Holy Sinner     Thomas Mann    15
    The Lords of Discipline     Pat Conroy    15
    The One Tree     Stephen R. Donaldson    15
    The Power of Myth     Joseph Campbell    15
    The Ugly American     William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick    15
    Thirteen Reasons Why     Jay Asher    15
    What is Called Thinking     Martin Heidegger    15
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?     Edward Albee    15
    Zami: A New Spelling of My Name     Audre Lorde    15
609    A Certain Slant of Light     Laura Whitcomb    14
    At Play in the Fields     Peter Matthiessen    14
    Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo     Oscar Zeta Acosta    14
    Blow Up and Other Stories     Julio Cortazar    14
    City     Clifford Simak    14
    Exploring Social Psychology     David G. Myers    14
    Go Tell it on the Mountain     James Baldwin    14
    High Tide in Tuscon     Barbara Kingsolver    14
    Human Scale Development     Manfred Max-Neef    14
    Loosely Based *     Storey Clayton    14
    Naked     David Sedaris    14
    Philosophical Investigations     Ludwig Wittgenstein     14
    Raising Demons     Shirley Jackson    14
    Rock and the Pop Narcotic     Joe Carducci    14
    Season of the Witch     James Leo Herlihy    14
    Stories     Katherine Mansfield    14
    Tevye's Daughters     Sholom Aleichem    14
    Thank You for Smoking     Christopher Buckley    14
    The Andromeda Strain     Michael Crichton    14
    The Art of Electronics     Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill    14
    The Art of War     Sun Tzu    14
    The Beautiful and the Damned     F. Scott Fitzgerald    14
    The Circle of Dusk III     Ralf Isau    14
    The Crying of Lot 49     Thomas Pynchon    14
    The Demons     Heimito von Doderer    14
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven     Mitch Albom    14
    The Lovely Bones     Alice Sebold    14
    The Petrified Forest     Robert E. Sherwood    14
    The Poetry of Emily Dickinson     Emily Dickinson    14
    Two Years Before the Mast     Richard Henry Dana    14
    Vamps and Tramps     Camille Paglia    14
    White Gold Wielder     Stephen R. Donaldson    14
    Zorba the Greek     Nikos Kazantzakis    14
642    A Room of One's Own     Virginia Woolf    13
    All Too Human     George Stephanopoulos    13
    American Gods     Neil Gaiman    13
    Bastard Out of Carolina     Dorothy Allison    13
    Because of Winn-Dixie     Kate DiCamillo    13
    Black Hawk, Grey Falcon     Rebecca West    13
    City of Glass     Paul Auster    13
    Darkness at Noon     Arthur Koestler    13
    Democracy and Distrust     John Hart Ely    13
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde     Robert Louis Stevenson    13
    Far From the Madding Crowd     Thomas Hardy    13
    Gift from the Sea     Anne Morrow Lindbergh    13
    House of Stairs     William Sleator    13
    Jailbird     Kurt Vonnegut    13
    Kipling Stories and Poems     Rudyard Kipling    13
    Letters to a Young Poet     Rainer Maria Rilke    13
    Nanjing 1937     Ye Zhaoyan    13
    Native Son     Richard Wright    13
    Never Let Me Go     Kazuo Ishiguro    13
    Nicomachean Ethics     Aristotle    13
    Nine Stories     J.D. Salinger    13
    Point Counter Point     Aldous Huxley    13
    Red Dragon     Thomas Harris    13
    Sexing the Body     Anne Fausto-Sterling    13
    Snow Falling on Cedars     David Guterson    13
    Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches     Bill Durham    13
    Sunk Without Trace     Robert Birley    13
    The Age of Innocence     Edith Wharton    13
    The Apology     Plato    13
    The Black Tulip     Alexandre Dumas    13
    The Circle of Dusk IV     Ralf Isau    13
    The Club Dumas     Artruro Perez-Reverte    13
    The Diamond Age     Neal Stephenson    13
    The Feynman Lectures on Physics     Richard Feynman    13
    The Gashleycrumb Tinies     Edward Gorey    13
    The Good Soldier Schweik     Jaroslav Hasek    13
    The Runes of the Earth     Stephen R. Donaldson    13
    The Word for World is a Forest     Ursula K. LeGuin    13
    William's Doll     Charlotte Zolotow    13
    Witching Times     John W. De Forest    13
    Year of the Griffen     Diana Wynne Jones    13
683    Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day     Judith Viorst    12
    Anton Chekhov's Short Stories     Anton Chekhov    12
    Black Mischief     Evelyn Waugh    12
    Chaos and Order     Stephen R. Donaldson    12
    Corrupting Dr. Nice     John Kessel    12
    Dead Souls     Nikolai Gogol    12
    Experiments in Mass Communications     Carl I. Hovland    12
    Fatal Revenant     Stephen R. Donaldson    12
    Ferdydurke     Witold Gombrowicz    12
    First Sorrow     Franz Kafka    12
    Flowers for Algernon     Daniel Keyes    12
    Hegemony or Survival     Noam Chomsky    12
    Herland     Charlotte Perkins Gilman    12
    Honeymoon in Purdah     Alison Wearing    12
    Hope Was Here     Joan Bauer    12
    I am Legend     Richard Matheson    12
    In the Penal Colony     Franz Kafka    12
    Job: A Comedy of Justice     Robert Heinlein    12
    Less Than Zero     Bret Easton Ellis    12
    Look Homeward, Angel     Thomas Wolfe    12
    Nickel and Dimed     Barbara Ehrenreich    12
    One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish     Dr. Seuss    12
    Prince Caspian     C.S. Lewis    12
    Stoneware and Porcelain     Daniel Rhodes    12
    The 42nd Parallel     John Dos Passos    12
    The Beekeeper's Apprentice     Laurie R. King    12
    The Book of Joe     Jonathan Tropper    12
    The Color of Magic     Terry Pratchett    12
    The Complaint; or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality     Edward Young    12
    The Law     Frederic Bastiat    12
    The New Encyclopaedia (1910)     H.C. O'Neill (ed.)    12
    The Shining     Stephen King    12
    The System of the World     Neal Stephenson    12
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall     Anne Bronte    12
    The Westing Game     Ellen Raskin    12
    Trainspotting     Irvine Welsh    12
719    A Bargain for Frances     Russell Hoban    11
    A Gathering Light     Jennifer Donnelly    11
    A Welsh Classical Dictionary     Peter C. Bartrum    11
    Ancient Evenings     Norman Mailer    11
    Anne of Windy Poplars     L.M. Montgomery    11
    At the Mountains of Madness     H.P. Lovecraft    11
    Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons     Bill Watterson    11
    Banana Heart Summer     Merlinda Bobis    11
    Bel Ami     Guy de Maupassant    11
    Boomsday     Christopher Buckley    11
    Chaos     James Gleick    11
    Collected Poems     William Dunbar    11
    Diplomacy     Henry Kissinger    11
    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates     Tom Robbins    11
    Fortune's Rocks     Anita Shreve    11
    Ham on Rye     Charles Bukowski    11
    Heiress of Water     Sandra Rodriguez Barron    11
    House of Mist     Maria Louisa Bombal    11
    Journey by Moonlight     Antal Szerb    11
    Knowing God     J.I. Packer    11
    Molloy     Samuel Beckett    11
    Peer Gynt     Henrik Ibsen    11
    Revelations of Divine Love     Julian of Norwich    11
    Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot     Al Franken    11
    Schindler's List     Thomas Keneally    11
    Set This House in Order     Matt Ruff    11
    Speaking with the Angel     Nick Hornby    11
    The Color of Water     James McBride    11
    The Continental Op     Dashiell Hammett    11
    The Dead Zone     Stephen King    11
    The Death of Virgil     Hermann Broch    11
    The Dispossessed     Ursula K. LeGuin    11
    The Gate of Ivrel     C.J. Cherryh    11
    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh     Michael Chabon    11
    The Postman     David Brin    11
    The Souls of Black Folk     W.E.B. DuBois    11
    The Taste of Courage     Desmond Flower & James Reeves    11
    To Your Scattered Bodies Go     Philip Jose Farmer    11
    Voyage to Temptation     Joe Wachter    11
    Water for Elephants     Sara Gruen    11
    Year of Wonders     Geraldine Brooks    11
760    A Grief Observed     C.S. Lewis    10
    A Hero of Our Time     Mikhail Lermentov    10
    A Loving Gentleman     Meta C. Wilde & Orin Borstein    10
    Amazing Grace     Jonathan Kozol    10
    Are You Somebody?     Nuala O'Faolain    10
    Boy     Roald Dahl    10
    Cavedweller     Dorothy Allison    10
    Cultural Politics of Everyday Life     John Shotter    10
    Death is a Lonely Business     Ray Bradbury    10
    Fences     August Wilson    10
    Flatland     Edwin A. Abbott    10
    Flood     Andrew Vachss    10
    Foundation and Empire     Isaac Asimov    10
    Gideon's Trumpet     Anthony Lewis    10
    Han Feizi     Han Feizi    10
    Illusions     Richard Bach    10
    Ivanhoe     Sir Walter Scott    10
    Julian     Gore Vidal    10
    Just and Unjust Wars     Michael Walzer    10
    Lincoln     Gore Vidal    10
    Little Scarlet     Walter Mosley    10
    Love Medicine     Louise Erdrich    10
    Love Warps the Mind a Little     John Dufresne    10
    Metamorphoses     Ovid    10
    My Century     Gunter Grass    10
    Passing     Nella Larsen    10
    Perfume     Patrick Suskind    10
    Ragtime     E.L. Doctorow    10
    Robinson Crusoe     Daniel Defoe    10
    Screwjack     Hunter S. Thompson    10
    Somnambulism     Charles Brockden Brown    10
    Stillwell and the American Experience in China     Barbara Tuchman    10
    Supernatural Horror in Literature     H.P. Lovecraft    10
    The Constitution of the United States of America     Constitutional Convention of 1787 et al.    10
    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire     Edward Gibbon    10
    The Forever War     Joe Haldeman    10
    The Monster at the End of this Book     Jon Stone    10
    The Orestia     Aeschylus    10
    The Plague     Albert Camus    10
    The Saffron Kitchen     Yasmin Crowther    10
    The Taming of the Shrew     William Shakespeare    10
    The Tell-Tale Heart     Edgar Allan Poe    10
    The Tempest     William Shakespeare    10
803    Camp Concentration     Thomas M. Disch    9
    Crunch Time     Mariah Fredericks    9
    Essays     Michel de Montaigne    9
    Farnham's Freehold     Robert Heinlein    9
    Ginger Man     J.P. Donleavy    9
    Giovanni's Room     James Baldwin    9
    Hell Has No Limits     Jose Donovo    9
    House of Leaves     Mark Z. Danielewski    9
    Johnny Got His Gun     Dalton Trumbo    9
    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk     Nikolai Leskov    9
    Life on the Mississippi     Mark Twain    9
    Mary Poppins     P.L. Travers    9
    Othello     William Shakespeare    9
    Pere Goriot     Honore de Balzac    9
    Railroads of Nevada     David F. Myrick    9
    Revolt of the Cockroach People     Oscar Zeta Acosta    9
    Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption     Stephen King    9
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry     Mildred D. Taylor    9
    Shadow Puppets     Orson Scott Card    9
    Still-Life with Woodpecker     Tom Robbins    9
    Swallows and Amazons     Arthur Ransome    9
    Swann's Way     Marcel Proust    9
    The Caves of Steel     Isaac Asimov    9
    The Closing of the American Mind     Alan Bloom    9
    The Curse of Lono     Hunter S. Thompson    9
    The Education of Henry Adams     Henry Adams    9
    The Eyre Affair     Jasper Fforde    9
    The Horse of Troy     J.J. Benitez    9
    The Kitchen God's Wife     Amy Tan    9
    The Lorax     Dr. Seuss    9
    The Magnificent Ambersons     Booth Tarkington    9
    The Penny     Joyce Meyer & Deborah Bedford    9
    The Savage Detectives     Roberto Bolano    9
    The Sea     John Banville    9
    The Sneetches and Other Stories     Dr. Seuss    9
    The Spectator Bird     Wallace Stegner    9
    The Wind in the Willows     Kenneth Grahame    9
    The Woman Who Walked Into Doors     Roddy Doyle    9
    Things Fall Apart     Chinua Achebe    9
    Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There     Lewis Carroll    9
    Web of the Romulans     M.S. Murdock    9
    What We Talk about When We Talk about Love     Raymond Carver    9
    Writing Down the Bones     Natalie Goldberg    9
    Yukon Ho!     Bill Watterson    9
847    Beggars in Spain     Nancy Kress    8
    Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame     Charles Bukowski    8
    D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths     Ingri & Edgar D'Aulaire    8
    Doctor Zhivago     Boris Pasternak    8
    Into Thin Air     Jon Krakauer    8
    Lucid Dreaming     Stephen Laberge    8
    Lucifer's Hammer     Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle    8
    Matilda     Roald Dahl    8
    Momo     Michael Ende    8
    Monster     Frank Peretti    8
    Mysterious Island     Jules Verne    8
    Nemesis     Isaac Asimov    8
    Palm of the Hand Stories     Yusanari Kawabata    8
    Reading Lolita in Teheran     Azar Nafisi    8
    Ruslan and Ljudmila     Alexander Pushkin    8
    Sacred Games     Vikram Chandra    8
    Summer's Lease     John Mortimer    8
    Swan Song     Robert McCammon    8
    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People     Stephen Covey    8
    The Bluest Eye     Toni Morrison    8
    The Butcher Boy     Patrick McCabe    8
    The Country Bunny     DuBose Heyward    8
    The Crystal Cave     Mary Stewart    8
    The Devil in the White City     Erik Larson    8
    The Doors of Perception     Aldous Huxley    8
    The Elements of Style     William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White    8
    The Future and its Enemies     Virigina Postrel    8
    The Ice Storm     Rick Moody    8
    The Patchwork Girl of Oz     L. Frank Baum    8
    The Pioneers     James Fenimore Cooper    8
    The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry     Walter Pater    8
    The Royal Game and Other Stories     Stefan Zweig    8
    The Sacred Fount     Henry James    8
    This Side of Paradise     F. Scott Fitzgerald    8
    Top Ten Uses of an Unworn Prom Dress     Tina Ferraro    8
    Whirlwind     James Clavell    8
    Word Freak     Stefan Fatsis    8
884    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court     Mark Twain    7
    A Long Way From Chicago     Richard Peck    7
    Airport Planning     Charles Froesch & Walther Prokosch    7
    Borderliners     Peter Hoeg    7
    Breakfast at Tiffany's     Truman Capote    7
    Collected Poems     Maya Angelou    7
    Dombey and Son     Charles Dickens    7
    East of Eden     John Steinbeck    7
    Excession     Iain M. Banks    7
    Finnegan's Wake     James Joyce    7
    Flags of Our Fathers     James Bradley    7
    Griffin and Sabine     Nick Bantock    7
    Happenstance     Carol Shields    7
    In Search of Excellence     Tom Peters    7
    Izzy, Willy-Nilly     Cynthia Voigt    7
    Kentucky Straight     Chris Offutt    7
    Main Street     Sinclair Lewis    7
    Naked in Death     J.D. Robb    7
    Needful Things     Stephen King    7
    One Child     Torey Hayden    7
    Picasso at the Lapin Agile     Steve Martin    7
    Singing Under the Shower     Jorge Maronna & Daniel Samper    7
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight     ?    7
    Sunday at Tiffany's     James Patterson    7
    Superfudge     Judy Blume    7
    The Duchess of Malfi     John Webster    7
    The Forest House     Marion Zimmer Bradley    7
    The Forsyte Saga     John Galsworthy    7
    The Hairy Ape     Eugene O'Neill    7
    The Horse and His Boy     C.S. Lewis    7
    The House of Blue Leaves     John Guare    7
    The Long Twilight     Keith Laumer    7
    The Long Walk     Stephen King    7
    The Master Builder     Henrik Ibsen    7
    The Prince and the Pauper     Mark Twain    7
    The Sword of Shannara     Terry Brooks    7
    The Ticket that Exploded     William S. Burroughs    7
    Titus Andronicus     William Shakespeare    7
    Tuck Everlasting     Natalie Babbitt    7
    We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families     Philip Gourevitch    7
    When Bad Things Happen to Good People     Harold Kushner    7
    Wisdom Energy     Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche    7
926    Alexander Hamilton     Ron Chernow    6
    All the President's Men     Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein    6
    American Rhapsody     Joe Eszterhas    6
    Amerika     Franz Kafka    6
    Democracy in America     Alexis de Tocqueville    6
    Discipline and Punish     Michel Foucault    6
    Earthman's Burden     Poul Anderson    6
    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World     Haruki Murakami    6
    IV     Chuck Klosterman    6
    Just Listen     Sarah Dessen    6
    Krik? Krak!     Edwidge Danticat    6
    Magpie Island     Colin Thiele    6
    One for the Money     Janet Evanovich    6
    Phaedo     Plato    6
    Planet of the Blind     Stephen Kuusisto    6
    Redwall     Brian Jacques    6
    Relativity: The Special and the General Theory     Albert Einstein    6
    Savannah Blues     Mary Kay Andrews    6
    Scoop     Evelyn Waugh    6
    Secrets of the Great Pyramid     Peter Tompkins    6
    Terms of Endearment     Larry McMurtry    6
    The Allegory of Love     C.S. Lewis    6
    The Bridge to Terabithia     Katherine Paterson    6
    The Fall of the House of Usher     Edgar Allan Poe    6
    The House of the Swan     Elizabeth Coatsworth    6
    The Jungle     Upton Sinclair    6
    The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination     Jacob Bronowski    6
    The Shipping News     Annie Proulx    6
    The Songcatcher     Sheryl McCrumb    6
    The Temple of the Golden Pavilion     Yukio Mishima    6
    The Threepenny Opera     Bertolt Brecht    6
    The Yellow Wallpaper     Charlotte Perkins Gilman    6
    There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom     Louis Sachar    6
    Understanding Power     Noam Chomsky    6
    Unholy Spirits     Gary North    6
    What God Wants to Know     Bruce Larson    6
    Where I'm Calling From     Raymond Carver    6
    Zen Buddhism     D.T. Suzuki    6
964    American Pastoral     Philip Roth    5
    An Unfortunate Woman     Richard Brautigan    5
    Battle Cry of Freedom     James McPherson    5
    Beware the Fish!     Gordon Korman    5
    Death Be Not Proud     John Gunther    5
    Down These Mean Streets     Piri Thomas    5
    Emily of New Moon     L.M. Montgomery    5
    Emotional Intelligence     Daniel Goleman    5
    Escape from Colditz     P.R. Reid    5
    Ghost Girl     Torey Hayden    5
    Goodbye, Columbus     Philip Roth    5
    Hiroshima     John Hersey    5
    Lake of Dead Languages     Carol Goodman    5
    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle     Betty MacDonald    5
    Player Piano     Kurt Vonnegut    5
    Rules and Order (vol. 1 of Law, Legislation, and Liberty)     Friedrich August von Hayek    5
    Savannah Breeze     Mary Kay Andrews    5
    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants     Ann Brashares    5
    The Background     Saki    5
    The Castle     Franz Kafka    5
    The Dark is Rising     Susan Cooper    5
    The Doll House     Henrik Ibsen    5
    The Good Rain     Timothy Egan    5
    The Hope Within     Tracie Peterson    5
    The Last Starfighter     Alan Dean Foster    5
    The Letters of Abelard and Heloise     Peter Abelard & Betty Radice    5
    The Memory Book     Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas    5
    The Phantom of the Opera     Gaston Leroux    5
    The Reader     Bernard Schlink    5
    The Revenge of the Baby-Sat     Bill Watterson    5
    The Strange Career of Jim Crow     C. Vann Woodward    5
    The Stranger     Albert Camus    5
    The Theory and Practice of Hell     Eugen Kogon    5
    Vecindarios Excentricos     Rosaria Ferre    5
    When Rabbit Howls     Truddi Chase    5
999    24 Hours     Greg Iles    4
    Anne of the Island     L.M. Montgomery    4
    Beezus and Ramona     Beverly Cleary    4
    Billy Sunday and Other Poems     Carl Sandburg    4
    Blue Like Jazz     Donald Miller    4
    Brighton Rock     Graham Greene    4
    Christine     Stephen King    4
    Danse Macabre     Stephen King    4
    Descent into Hell     Charles Williams    4
    Drawing of the Dark     Tim Powers    4
    Eight Cousins     Louisa May Alcott    4
    Ethan Frome     Edith Wharton    4
    Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like     Jay Williams    4
    Founding Brothers     Joseph J. Ellis    4
    Historia Regum Britanniae     Geoffrey of Monmouth    4
    Holes     Louis Sachar    4
    Little House on the Prairie     Laura Ingalls Wilder    4
    Lysistrata     Aristophanes    4
    Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel     Virginia Lee Burton    4
    Mountain Interval     Robert Frost    4
    Nostromo     Joseph Conrad    4
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek     Annie Dillard    4
    Portnoy's Complaint     Philip Roth    4
    Scientific Progress Goes Boink     Bill Watterson    4
    Self Reliance and Other Essays     Ralph Waldo Emerson    4
    Shadow of the Hegemon     Orson Scott Card    4
    Synchronicity     Carl Jung    4
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles     Thomas Hardy    4
    The Bonfire of the Vanities     Tom Wolfe    4
    The Business of Fancydancing     Sherman Alexie    4
    The Drama of the Gifted Child     Alice Miller    4
    The Gathering     Lois Lowry    4
    The Irish Princess     Amy J. Fetzer    4
    The Long Winter     Laura Ingalls Wilder    4
    The Obnoxious Jerks     Stephen Mane    4
    The Postman Always Rings Twice     James M. Cain    4
    The Reciprocating Aircraft Engine     Robert Dunston    4
    The Sirens of Titan     Kurt Vonnegut    4
    The Swiss Family Robinson     Johann D. Wyss    4
    The Tin Drum     Gunter Grass    4
    The View From Saturday     E.L. Konigsburg    4
    Tom Brown's School Days     Thomas Hughes    4
    Totem and Taboo     Sigmund Freud    4
    War of the Worlds     H.G. Wells    4
    What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child     Glenn Doman & David Melton    4
    When Hell Was in Session     Jeremiah Denton    4
1045    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea     Jules Verne    3
    As You Like It     William Shakespeare    3
    Bluebeard     Kurt Vonnegut    3
    Bringing Down the House     Ben Mezrich    3
    Crimson Sails     Alexander Grin    3
    Daughter of Time     Josephine Tey    3
    Delta of Venus     Anais Nin    3
    Dream of the Red Chamber     Tsao Hsueh Chin    3
    East of the Sun and West of the Moon     Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt    3
    Godric     Frederick Buechner    3
    Goggle-Eyes     Anne Fine    3
    Half Magic     Edward Eager    3
    Harriet the Spy     Louise Fitzhugh    3
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire     J.K. Rowling    3
    How to Win at Chess     I.A. Horowitz    3
    I Sing the Body Electric!     Ray Bradbury    3
    Line of Beauty     Alan Hollinghurst    3
    Looking Backward     Edward Bellamy    3
    Middlesex     Jeffrey Eugenedies    3
    Neverwhere     Neil Gaiman    3
    On Writing     Stephen King    3
    Orlando     Virginia Woolf    3
    Pop. 1280     Jim Thompson    3
    San Manuel Bueno, Martir     Miguel de Unamuno    3
    Tales of Pirx the Pilot     Stanislaw Lem    3
    Tarzan of the Apes     Edgar Rice Burroughs    3
    Technology of Wine Making     Maynard Amerine    3
    The Andalite Chronicles     K.A. Applegate    3
    The City of Gold and Lead     John Christopher    3
    The Collector     John Fowles    3
    The Covenant     James Michener    3
    The Death and Life of Superman     Roger Stern    3
    The Doomsday Book     Connie Willis    3
    The German Ideology     Karl Marx    3
    The Golden Ass     Apuleius    3
    The Hundred Secret Senses     Amy Tan    3
    The Luncheon of the Boating Party     Susan Vreeland    3
    The Outline of History     H.G. Wells    3
    The Sleeping Lord     David Jones    3
    The Wealth of Nations     Adam Smith    3
    Valley of Decision     Marcia Wallace    3
    White Oleander     Janet Fitch    3
1087    A Handful of Time     Kit Pearson    2
    A Primer of Freudian Psychology     Calvin Hall    2
    A Walk in the Woods     Bill Bryson    2
    Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret     Judy Blume    2
    Beneath the Wheel     Hermann Hesse    2
    Brideshead Revisited     Evelyn Waugh    2
    Cards of Identity     Nigel Dennis    2
    Cherry     Mary Karr    2
    Civility     Stephen L. Carter    2
    Conspiranoia     Devon Jackson    2
    Cyrano de Bergerac     Edmond Rostand    2
    Eragon     Christopher Paolini    2
    French Toast for Breakfast     Mary Anne Cohen    2
    Go Ask Alice     Anonymous    2
    Hatcher's Notebook     Julian Hatcher    2
    Heart's Cargo     William G. Arthrell    2
    Like a Hole in the Head     Jen Banbury    2
    Little Town on the Prairie     Laura Ingalls Wilder    2
    Medea     Euripides    2
    She's Not There     Jennifer Boylan    2
    Skinny Legs and All     Tom Robbins    2
    Stone Junction     Jim Dodge    2
    The Agony and the Ecstasy     Irving Stone    2
    The Alchemist     Paulo Coelho    2
    The Big Sleep     Raymond Chandler    2
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test     Tom Wolfe    2
    The End of Racism     Dinesh D'Souza    2
    The Freedom Writers Diary     The Freedom Writers    2
    The Genealogy of Morals     Friedrich Nietzsche    2
    The Interpretation of Dreams     Sigmund Freud    2
    The Man of Rats     Sigmund Freud    2
    The Mouse That Roared     Leonard Wibberly    2
    The Power of One     Bryce Courtenay    2
    The Road Less Traveled     M. Scott Peck    2
    The Road to Mecca     Athol Fugard    2
    The Tipping Point     Malcolm Gladwell    2
    The Truly Disadvantaged     William Julius Wilson    2
    The Valley of Horses     Jean M. Auel    2
    The Village of Stepanchikovo     Fyodor Dostoyevsky    2
    Tough Guys Don't Dance     Norman Mailer    2
    Tropic of Capricorn     Henry Miller    2
    Watt     Samuel Beckett    2
1129    Ain't Got Time to Bleed     Jesse Ventura    1
    Alive     Piers Paul Read    1
    Chronicles: Volume One     Bob Dylan    1
    Curtain     Agatha Christie    1
    Expecting Adam     Martha Beck    1
    Fear in Fenway     Crabbe Evers    1
    Final Harvest     Emily Dickinson    1
    Flow     Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi    1
    Homer Price     Robert McCloskey    1
    Irish Pedigrees     John O'Hart    1
    Left Behind     Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins    1
    Lords and Ladies     Terry Pratchett    1
    Machinery's Handbook     Erik Oberg (ed.)    1
    Man and His Symbols     Carl Jung    1
    Nine Princes in Amber     Roger Zelazny    1
    Pieces of a Song     Diane di Prima    1
    Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung     Lester Bangs    1
    Second Foundation     Isaac Asimov    1
    Something Wicked this Way Comes     Ray Bradbury    1
    Tales of the City     Armistead Maupin    1
    The Beach     Alex Garland    1
    The Brethren     Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong    1
    The Chamber     John Grisham    1
    The Crimson Petal and the White     Michel Faber    1
    The Fixer     Bernard Malamud    1
    The Hot Zone     Richard Preston    1
    The Razor's Edge     Somerset Maughm    1
    The Regulators     Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)    1
    The Zombie Survival Guide     Max Brooks    1
    Vanity Fair     William Makepeace Thackeray    1
    Who Moved My Cheese?     Spencer Johnson    1