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100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know

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  1. Abuela by Arthur Dorros
  2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
  3. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel
  4. Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
  5. Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
  6. The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale by Lucia M. Gonzalez, retold by; illustrated by Lulu Delacre
  7. Bread and Jam For Frances by Russell Hoban; illustrated by Lillian Hoban
  8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.; illustrated by Eric Carle
  9. Bruno Munari’s Abc by Bruno Munari
  10. Buz by Richard Egielski
  11. Caps for Sale; A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
  12. The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss; illustrated by Crockett Johnson
  13. A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  14. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault; illustrated by Lois Ehlert
  15. Click, Clack, Moo : Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
  16. Come Along, Daisy! by Jane Simmons
  17. Corduroy by Don Freeman
  18. Curious George by H. A. Rey
  19. Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland
  20. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
  21. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
  22. Fire Truck by Peter Sís
  23. Freight Train by Donald Crews
  24. Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
  25. The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
  26. George and Martha by James Marshall
  27. Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
  28. Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack
  29. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
  30. Goodnight Moon by Margaret W. Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd
  31. Gossie by Dunrea Olivier
  32. Grandfather'S Journey by Allen Say
  33. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
  34. Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion; illustrated by Margaret Graham
  35. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson Donald B. Johnson
  36. Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
  37. How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  38. I Kissed the Baby! by Mary Murphy
  39. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff
  40. It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folktale by Margot Zemach, retold and illustrated by
  41. John Henry by Julius Lester; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
  42. Julius by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Dav Pilkey
  43. Kitten’S First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
  44. Lilly’S Purple Plastic Purse by Henkes Kevin
  45. The Line-Up Book by Russo Marisabina
  46. The Little Red Hen: An Old Story by Margot Zemach.
  47. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed. Young
  48. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
  49. Mabela the Clever by Margaret Read MacDonald
  50. Machines at Work by Byron Barton
  51. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
  52. Maisy Goes Swimming by Lucy Cousins
  53. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
  54. Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
  55. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
  56. Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
  57. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia L. Burton
  58. Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
  59. Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry and James Marshall Allard
  60. Mr. Gumpy'S Outing by John Birmingham
  61. Mufaro'S Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe, retold and illustrated by
  62. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
  63. My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
  64. The Napping House by Audrey Wood
  65. No, David! by David Shannon
  66. Off to School, Baby Duck! by Amy Hest
  67. Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
  68. Olivia by Ian Falconer
  69. Owen by Kevin Henkes
  70. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
  71. Pierre: A Cautionary Tale by Maurice Sendak
  72. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
  73. Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
  74. The Random House Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of 386 Timeless Nursery Rhymes by Arnold Lobel
  75. Round Trip by Ann Jonas
  76. Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
  77. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
  78. Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
  79. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
  80. The Stray Dog by Simont Marc
  81. Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
  82. Swimmy by Leo Lionni
  83. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
  84. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
  85. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  86. Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
  87. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
  88. The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
  89. Trashy Town by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman
  90. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf by John Scieszka
  91. Tuesday by David Wiesner
  92. Uptown by Collier Bryan
  93. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  94. The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky, adapted and illustrated by
  95. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  96. Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
  97. Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
  98. The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
  99. Yoko by Rosemary Wells
  100. Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa by Gerald McDermott, retold and illustrated by

BBC's Big Read

  1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
  23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
  24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
  28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
  32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
  33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
  34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
  36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
  38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
  39. Dune, Frank Herbert
  40. Emma, Jane Austen
  41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
  42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
  50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
  51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
  53. The Stand, Stephen King
  54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
  56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
  57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
  58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
  62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
  63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
  65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
  66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
  67. The Magus, John Fowles
  68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
  70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
  71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
  72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
  73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
  74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
  75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
  76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
  78. Ulysses, James Joyce
  79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
  81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
  82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
  83. Holes, Louis Sachar
  84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
  87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
  90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
  91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
  93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  95. Katherine, Anya Seton
  96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
  97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
  98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
  99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
  100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

CounterPunch's Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

  1. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: a season in the wilderness
  2. Louis Adamic, Dynamite: a century of class violence in America 1830-1930
  3. Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA diary
  4. Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murry Silverstein, A Pattern Language: towns, building and construction
  5. Jack Anderson, Confessions of a Muckraker: the inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years
  6. Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon
  7. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil
  8. David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified: a guide to the fleshy fungi
  9. Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
  10. James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work
  11. Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies
  12. Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben
  13. B.A. Botkin, A Treasury of Mississippi River Folktales
  14. Jim Bouten, Ball Four
  15. Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais, Labor's Untold Story
  16. Marshall Bradley, Fern Bradley and Barbara Ellis, The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
  17. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in the Twentieth Century
  18. Kathleen Brenzel, Western Garden Book
  19. David Brower, For the Earth's Sake
  20. Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: the psychoanalytical meaning of history
  21. Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
  22. E.H. Carr, What Is History?
  23. Allan Chase, The Legacy of Malthus
  24. Samuel B. Charters, The Country Blues
  25. Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians
  26. Andrew Cockburn, The Threat: inside the Soviet military machine
  27. Claud Cockburn, I Claud
  28. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the great west
  29. Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking
  30. Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa
  31. Vine DeLoria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: an Indian manifesto
  32. Angie Debo, Geronimo: the man, his time, his place
  33. John Dower, War Without Mercy: race & power in the pacific war
  34. E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and The Irrational
  35. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
  36. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex
  37. William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
  38. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition
  39. Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: the case for a feminist revolution
  40. MKF Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
  41. Henry Watson Fowler, Modern English Usage
  42. Roger Fry, Cezanne: a study of his development
  43. Northrop Frye, An Anatomy of Criticism: four essays
  44. Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  45. Myles Horton, The Long Haul: an autobiography
  46. Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War
  47. Dan Georgakas, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
  48. Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
  49. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
  50. Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
  51. Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades
  52. ECS Handy and Elizabeth Handy, Native Planters in Old Hawaii: their life, lore and environment
  53. Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
  54. Jane E. Harrison, Themis: a study in the social origins of Greek religion
  55. Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: good news and bad times
  56. Seymour Hersh, Kissinger: the Price of Power
  57. George Leonard Herter and Berte Herter, Bull Cook: Authentic Recipes and Practices
  58. Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: radical ideas during the English revolution
  59. William Hinton, Fanshen: a doumentary of revolution in a Chinese village
  60. Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
  61. Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada : an introduction to Canadian economic history
  62. CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
  63. Gertrude Jekyll, Home and Garden
  64. Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
  65. Leroi Jones, Blues People: negro music in white America
  66. Walter Karp, The Politics of War
  67. Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 years at the movies
  68. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  69. Alfred Kinsey et al., The Kinsey Reports on Human Sexual Behavior,
  70. Andrew Kopkind, The Thirty Years' War: dispatches and diversions of a radical journalist 1965-1994
  71. Frank Kofsky, Harry Truman and the War Scare of 1948: a successful campaign to deceive the nation
  72. John Fire Lame Deer, [[Seeker of Visions ]]
  73. RD Laing, The Divided Self
  74. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations
  75. DH Lawrence, Etruscan Places
  76. Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book
  77. Godfrey Lehman, We The Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History
  78. Meridel Le Sueur, North Star Country
  79. Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the Eighteenth Century
  80. Albert Bates Lord, The Singer of Tales
  81. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
  82. Fitzroy McLean, Eastern Approaches
  83. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: the invisible art
  84. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade
  85. Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Fields: the story of migratory farm labor in California
  86. Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
  87. Dave Marsh, Heart of Rock and Soul: the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
  88. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
  89. Peter Matthiessen, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
  90. HL Mencken, Prejudices: a selection
  91. Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
  92. C. Wright Mills, Listen Yanqui
  93. Edwin Morse, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
  94. Robert Motherwell, Dada Documents and Manifestoes
  95. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
  96. Paul Oliver, Blues Fell This Morning: meaning in the blues
  97. The Editors, The Oxford English Dictionary
  98. Robert Palmer, Deep Blues
  99. Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds
  100. Kim Philby, My Silent War
  101. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
  102. Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
  103. Charles Ramsey and Harold Sleeper, Architectural Graphic Standards
  104. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
  105. Edward Said, Orientalism
  106. G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
  107. Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and A Day: A Detention Diary
  108. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil
  109. Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
  110. Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: foundations of a theory of personal conduct
  111. Ida Tarbell, The History of Standard Oil
  112. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
  113. Bertha Thompson, Sister of the Road: an autobiography of Box Car Bertha
  114. EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
  115. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  116. David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film
  117. Robert Tench, Across the Forbidden Sands
  118. Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program
  119. Gordon Wasson, Soma: divine mushroom of immortality
  120. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses
  121. Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
  122. Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station
  123. Geoffrey Wolfe, Black Sun: the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby
  124. Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: water, aridity and the growth of the American West
  125. Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Daniel Burt's Literary 100

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Dante Alighieri
  3. Homer
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. James Joyce
  8. John Milton
  9. Virgil
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  12. Murasaki Shikibu
  13. Sophocles
  14. William Faulkner
  15. Feodor Dostoevsky
  16. T.S. Eliot
  17. Marcel Proust
  18. Jane Austen
  19. George Eliot
  20. William Butler Yeats
  21. Alexander Pushkin
  22. Euripides
  23. John Donne
  24. Herman Melville
  25. John Keats
  26. Ovid
  27. Tu Fu
  28. William Blake
  29. Aeschylus
  30. Gustave Flaubert
  31. Franz Kafka
  32. Moliere
  33. William Wordsworth
  34. Aristophanes
  35. Thomas Mann
  36. Henrik Ibsen
  37. Anton Chekhov
  38. Henry James
  39. Vladimir Nabokov
  40. Walt Whitman
  41. Honore de Balzac
  42. Jonathan Swift
  43. Stendhal
  44. Thomas Hardy
  45. George Bernard Shaw
  46. Ernest Hemingway
  47. D. H. Lawrence
  48. Charles Baudelaire
  49. Samuel Beckett
  50. Virginia Woolf
  51. Alexander Pope
  52. Francois Rabelais
  53. Francesco Petrarch
  54. Emily Dickinson
  55. Edgar Allan Poe
  56. Henry Fielding
  57. Joseph Conrad
  58. Robert Browning
  59. Albert Camus
  60. Charlotte Bronte
  61. Emily Bronte
  62. Jean Racine
  63. Mark Twain
  64. August Strindberg
  65. Emile Zola
  66. Jorge Luis Borges
  67. Cao Xueqin
  68. Giovanni Boccaccio
  69. Voltaire
  70. Laurence Sterne
  71. William Makepeace Thackeray
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  73. Eugene O'Neill
  74. Wallace Stevens
  75. Lord Byron ( George Gordon)
  76. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  77. Walter Scott
  78. Pablo Neruda
  79. Robert Musil
  80. Alfred Lord Tennyson
  81. Flannery O'Connor
  82. Catullus
  83. Federico Garcia Lorca
  84. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  85. Theodore Dreiser
  86. Ralph Ellison
  87. Anthony Trollope
  88. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  89. Victor Hugo
  90. Rabindranath Tagore
  91. Daniel Defoe
  92. Gunter Grass
  93. Lu Xun
  94. E. M. Forster
  95. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  96. Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
  97. Richard Wright
  98. Gertrude Stein
  99. Zeami Motokiyo
  100. Oscar Wilde

Daniel Burt's Novel 100

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  3. Ulysses by James Joyce
  4. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  8. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  9. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  10. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  11. Emma by Jane Austen
  12. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  15. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  17. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  18. The Ambassadors by Henry James
  19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  21. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  24. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  25. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  26. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  27. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  28. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
  29. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  30. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  31. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  32. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  33. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
  34. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  35. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
  36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  37. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
  38. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
  39. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
  40. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  41. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  42. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  44. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  46. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
  47. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  48. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  50. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  51. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
  52. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  53. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  54. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  55. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  56. Petersburg by Andrei Bely
  57. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  58. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
  59. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  60. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  61. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
  62. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  63. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  65. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  66. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  67. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
  68. Germinal by Émile Zola
  69. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  70. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  71. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  72. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
  73. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  74. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
  75. Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  76. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
  77. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  78. City of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
  79. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  80. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
  81. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  82. Candide by Voltaire
  83. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
  84. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
  85. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  86. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  87. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
  88. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
  89. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
  90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  91. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  92. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
  93. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
  94. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  95. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  96. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
  97. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  98. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  99. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  100. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  101. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  102. Native Son by Richard Wright
  103. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  104. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  105. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  106. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  107. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
  108. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
  109. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  110. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  111. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  112. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  113. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  114. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  115. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  116. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  117. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
  118. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  119. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
  120. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
  121. Cold Nights by Ba Jin
  122. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  123. The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
  124. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  125. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  126. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  127. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Books canonical lists

Guardian Review's Top 100 Books of All Time

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute's "50 Best Books of the 20th Century" (Non-fiction)

The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List

Martin Seymour-Smith's 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

National Education Association's Kids' Top 100 books

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100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know

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  1. Abuela by Arthur Dorros
  2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
  3. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel
  4. Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
  5. Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
  6. The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale by Lucia M. Gonzalez, retold by; illustrated by Lulu Delacre
  7. Bread and Jam For Frances by Russell Hoban; illustrated by Lillian Hoban
  8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.; illustrated by Eric Carle
  9. Bruno Munari’s Abc by Bruno Munari
  10. Buz by Richard Egielski
  11. Caps for Sale; A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
  12. The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss; illustrated by Crockett Johnson
  13. A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  14. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault; illustrated by Lois Ehlert
  15. Click, Clack, Moo : Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
  16. Come Along, Daisy! by Jane Simmons
  17. Corduroy by Don Freeman
  18. Curious George by H. A. Rey
  19. Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland
  20. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
  21. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
  22. Fire Truck by Peter Sís
  23. Freight Train by Donald Crews
  24. Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
  25. The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
  26. George and Martha by James Marshall
  27. Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
  28. Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack
  29. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
  30. Goodnight Moon by Margaret W. Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd
  31. Gossie by Dunrea Olivier
  32. Grandfather'S Journey by Allen Say
  33. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
  34. Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion; illustrated by Margaret Graham
  35. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson Donald B. Johnson
  36. Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
  37. How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  38. I Kissed the Baby! by Mary Murphy
  39. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff
  40. It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folktale by Margot Zemach, retold and illustrated by
  41. John Henry by Julius Lester; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
  42. Julius by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Dav Pilkey
  43. Kitten’S First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
  44. Lilly’S Purple Plastic Purse by Henkes Kevin
  45. The Line-Up Book by Russo Marisabina
  46. The Little Red Hen: An Old Story by Margot Zemach.
  47. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed. Young
  48. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
  49. Mabela the Clever by Margaret Read MacDonald
  50. Machines at Work by Byron Barton
  51. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
  52. Maisy Goes Swimming by Lucy Cousins
  53. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
  54. Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
  55. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
  56. Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
  57. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia L. Burton
  58. Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
  59. Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry and James Marshall Allard
  60. Mr. Gumpy'S Outing by John Birmingham
  61. Mufaro'S Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe, retold and illustrated by
  62. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
  63. My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
  64. The Napping House by Audrey Wood
  65. No, David! by David Shannon
  66. Off to School, Baby Duck! by Amy Hest
  67. Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
  68. Olivia by Ian Falconer
  69. Owen by Kevin Henkes
  70. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
  71. Pierre: A Cautionary Tale by Maurice Sendak
  72. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
  73. Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
  74. The Random House Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of 386 Timeless Nursery Rhymes by Arnold Lobel
  75. Round Trip by Ann Jonas
  76. Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
  77. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
  78. Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
  79. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
  80. The Stray Dog by Simont Marc
  81. Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
  82. Swimmy by Leo Lionni
  83. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
  84. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
  85. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  86. Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
  87. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
  88. The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
  89. Trashy Town by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman
  90. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf by John Scieszka
  91. Tuesday by David Wiesner
  92. Uptown by Collier Bryan
  93. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  94. The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky, adapted and illustrated by
  95. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  96. Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
  97. Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
  98. The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
  99. Yoko by Rosemary Wells
  100. Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa by Gerald McDermott, retold and illustrated by

BBC's Big Read

  1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
  23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
  24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
  28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
  32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
  33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
  34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
  36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
  38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
  39. Dune, Frank Herbert
  40. Emma, Jane Austen
  41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
  42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
  50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
  51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
  53. The Stand, Stephen King
  54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
  56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
  57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
  58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
  62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
  63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
  65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
  66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
  67. The Magus, John Fowles
  68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
  70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
  71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
  72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
  73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
  74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
  75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
  76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
  78. Ulysses, James Joyce
  79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
  81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
  82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
  83. Holes, Louis Sachar
  84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
  87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
  90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
  91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
  93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  95. Katherine, Anya Seton
  96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
  97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
  98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
  99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
  100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

CounterPunch's Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

  1. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: a season in the wilderness
  2. Louis Adamic, Dynamite: a century of class violence in America 1830-1930
  3. Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA diary
  4. Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murry Silverstein, A Pattern Language: towns, building and construction
  5. Jack Anderson, Confessions of a Muckraker: the inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years
  6. Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon
  7. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil
  8. David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified: a guide to the fleshy fungi
  9. Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
  10. James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work
  11. Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies
  12. Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben
  13. B.A. Botkin, A Treasury of Mississippi River Folktales
  14. Jim Bouten, Ball Four
  15. Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais, Labor's Untold Story
  16. Marshall Bradley, Fern Bradley and Barbara Ellis, The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
  17. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in the Twentieth Century
  18. Kathleen Brenzel, Western Garden Book
  19. David Brower, For the Earth's Sake
  20. Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: the psychoanalytical meaning of history
  21. Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
  22. E.H. Carr, What Is History?
  23. Allan Chase, The Legacy of Malthus
  24. Samuel B. Charters, The Country Blues
  25. Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians
  26. Andrew Cockburn, The Threat: inside the Soviet military machine
  27. Claud Cockburn, I Claud
  28. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the great west
  29. Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking
  30. Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa
  31. Vine DeLoria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: an Indian manifesto
  32. Angie Debo, Geronimo: the man, his time, his place
  33. John Dower, War Without Mercy: race & power in the pacific war
  34. E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and The Irrational
  35. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
  36. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex
  37. William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
  38. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition
  39. Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: the case for a feminist revolution
  40. MKF Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
  41. Henry Watson Fowler, Modern English Usage
  42. Roger Fry, Cezanne: a study of his development
  43. Northrop Frye, An Anatomy of Criticism: four essays
  44. Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  45. Myles Horton, The Long Haul: an autobiography
  46. Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War
  47. Dan Georgakas, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
  48. Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
  49. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
  50. Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
  51. Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades
  52. ECS Handy and Elizabeth Handy, Native Planters in Old Hawaii: their life, lore and environment
  53. Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
  54. Jane E. Harrison, Themis: a study in the social origins of Greek religion
  55. Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: good news and bad times
  56. Seymour Hersh, Kissinger: the Price of Power
  57. George Leonard Herter and Berte Herter, Bull Cook: Authentic Recipes and Practices
  58. Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: radical ideas during the English revolution
  59. William Hinton, Fanshen: a doumentary of revolution in a Chinese village
  60. Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
  61. Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada : an introduction to Canadian economic history
  62. CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
  63. Gertrude Jekyll, Home and Garden
  64. Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
  65. Leroi Jones, Blues People: negro music in white America
  66. Walter Karp, The Politics of War
  67. Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 years at the movies
  68. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  69. Alfred Kinsey et al., The Kinsey Reports on Human Sexual Behavior,
  70. Andrew Kopkind, The Thirty Years' War: dispatches and diversions of a radical journalist 1965-1994
  71. Frank Kofsky, Harry Truman and the War Scare of 1948: a successful campaign to deceive the nation
  72. John Fire Lame Deer, [[Seeker of Visions ]]
  73. RD Laing, The Divided Self
  74. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations
  75. DH Lawrence, Etruscan Places
  76. Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book
  77. Godfrey Lehman, We The Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History
  78. Meridel Le Sueur, North Star Country
  79. Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the Eighteenth Century
  80. Albert Bates Lord, The Singer of Tales
  81. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
  82. Fitzroy McLean, Eastern Approaches
  83. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: the invisible art
  84. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade
  85. Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Fields: the story of migratory farm labor in California
  86. Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
  87. Dave Marsh, Heart of Rock and Soul: the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
  88. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
  89. Peter Matthiessen, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
  90. HL Mencken, Prejudices: a selection
  91. Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
  92. C. Wright Mills, Listen Yanqui
  93. Edwin Morse, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
  94. Robert Motherwell, Dada Documents and Manifestoes
  95. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
  96. Paul Oliver, Blues Fell This Morning: meaning in the blues
  97. The Editors, The Oxford English Dictionary
  98. Robert Palmer, Deep Blues
  99. Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds
  100. Kim Philby, My Silent War
  101. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
  102. Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
  103. Charles Ramsey and Harold Sleeper, Architectural Graphic Standards
  104. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
  105. Edward Said, Orientalism
  106. G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
  107. Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and A Day: A Detention Diary
  108. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil
  109. Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
  110. Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: foundations of a theory of personal conduct
  111. Ida Tarbell, The History of Standard Oil
  112. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
  113. Bertha Thompson, Sister of the Road: an autobiography of Box Car Bertha
  114. EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
  115. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  116. David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film
  117. Robert Tench, Across the Forbidden Sands
  118. Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program
  119. Gordon Wasson, Soma: divine mushroom of immortality
  120. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses
  121. Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
  122. Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station
  123. Geoffrey Wolfe, Black Sun: the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby
  124. Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: water, aridity and the growth of the American West
  125. Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Daniel Burt's Literary 100

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Dante Alighieri
  3. Homer
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer
  6. Charles Dickens
  7. James Joyce
  8. John Milton
  9. Virgil
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  12. Murasaki Shikibu
  13. Sophocles
  14. William Faulkner
  15. Feodor Dostoevsky
  16. T.S. Eliot
  17. Marcel Proust
  18. Jane Austen
  19. George Eliot
  20. William Butler Yeats
  21. Alexander Pushkin
  22. Euripides
  23. John Donne
  24. Herman Melville
  25. John Keats
  26. Ovid
  27. Tu Fu
  28. William Blake
  29. Aeschylus
  30. Gustave Flaubert
  31. Franz Kafka
  32. Moliere
  33. William Wordsworth
  34. Aristophanes
  35. Thomas Mann
  36. Henrik Ibsen
  37. Anton Chekhov
  38. Henry James
  39. Vladimir Nabokov
  40. Walt Whitman
  41. Honore de Balzac
  42. Jonathan Swift
  43. Stendhal
  44. Thomas Hardy
  45. George Bernard Shaw
  46. Ernest Hemingway
  47. D. H. Lawrence
  48. Charles Baudelaire
  49. Samuel Beckett
  50. Virginia Woolf
  51. Alexander Pope
  52. Francois Rabelais
  53. Francesco Petrarch
  54. Emily Dickinson
  55. Edgar Allan Poe
  56. Henry Fielding
  57. Joseph Conrad
  58. Robert Browning
  59. Albert Camus
  60. Charlotte Bronte
  61. Emily Bronte
  62. Jean Racine
  63. Mark Twain
  64. August Strindberg
  65. Emile Zola
  66. Jorge Luis Borges
  67. Cao Xueqin
  68. Giovanni Boccaccio
  69. Voltaire
  70. Laurence Sterne
  71. William Makepeace Thackeray
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  73. Eugene O'Neill
  74. Wallace Stevens
  75. Lord Byron ( George Gordon)
  76. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  77. Walter Scott
  78. Pablo Neruda
  79. Robert Musil
  80. Alfred Lord Tennyson
  81. Flannery O'Connor
  82. Catullus
  83. Federico Garcia Lorca
  84. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  85. Theodore Dreiser
  86. Ralph Ellison
  87. Anthony Trollope
  88. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  89. Victor Hugo
  90. Rabindranath Tagore
  91. Daniel Defoe
  92. Gunter Grass
  93. Lu Xun
  94. E. M. Forster
  95. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  96. Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
  97. Richard Wright
  98. Gertrude Stein
  99. Zeami Motokiyo
  100. Oscar Wilde

Daniel Burt's Novel 100

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  3. Ulysses by James Joyce
  4. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  8. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  9. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  10. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  11. Emma by Jane Austen
  12. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  15. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  17. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  18. The Ambassadors by Henry James
  19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  21. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  24. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  25. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  26. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  27. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  28. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
  29. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  30. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  31. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  32. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  33. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
  34. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  35. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
  36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  37. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
  38. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
  39. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
  40. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  41. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  42. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  44. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  46. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
  47. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  48. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  50. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  51. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
  52. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  53. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  54. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  55. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  56. Petersburg by Andrei Bely
  57. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  58. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
  59. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  60. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  61. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
  62. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  63. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  65. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  66. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  67. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
  68. Germinal by Émile Zola
  69. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  70. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  71. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  72. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
  73. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  74. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
  75. Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  76. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
  77. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  78. City of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
  79. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  80. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
  81. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  82. Candide by Voltaire
  83. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
  84. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
  85. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  86. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  87. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
  88. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
  89. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
  90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  91. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  92. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
  93. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
  94. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  95. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  96. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
  97. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  98. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  99. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  100. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  101. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  102. Native Son by Richard Wright
  103. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  104. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  105. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  106. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  107. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
  108. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
  109. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  110. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  111. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  112. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  113. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  114. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  115. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  116. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  117. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
  118. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  119. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
  120. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
  121. Cold Nights by Ba Jin
  122. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  123. The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
  124. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  125. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  126. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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