No. |
Book |
Pages |
Year Published |
1 |
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous |
120 |
-2100 |
2 |
The Iliad by Homer |
683 |
-890 |
3 |
The Odyssey by Homer |
541 |
-725 |
4 |
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho |
397 |
-600 |
5 |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
306 |
-560 |
6 |
The Art of War by Sun Tzu |
273 |
-500 |
7 |
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus |
144 |
-480 |
8 |
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus |
335 |
-458 |
9 |
The Histories by Herodotus |
716 |
-450 |
10 |
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles |
259 |
-450 |
11 |
Medea by Euripides |
59 |
-431 |
12 |
Lysistrata by Aristophanes |
132 |
-411 |
13 |
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides |
648 |
-411 |
14 |
Electra by Sophocles |
128 |
-410 |
15 |
The Symposium by Plato |
131 |
-385 |
16 |
Apology by Plato |
127 |
-380 |
17 |
The Republic by Plato |
416 |
-380 |
18 |
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle |
329 |
-340 |
19 |
Poetics by Aristotle |
61 |
-335 |
20 |
The Complete Poems by Catullus |
195 |
-60 |
21 |
The Aeneid by Virgil |
442 |
-19 |
22 |
Metamorphoses by Ovid |
723 |
8 |
23 |
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch |
766 |
100 |
24 |
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius |
363 |
121 |
25 |
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius |
303 |
180 |
26 |
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous |
1049 |
800 |
27 |
Beowulf by Unknown |
213 |
975 |
28 |
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri |
798 |
1320 |
29 |
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio |
909 |
1353 |
30 |
The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer |
1327 |
1400 |
31 |
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Thomas Malory |
512 |
1485 |
32 |
The Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli |
544 |
1513 |
33 |
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli |
140 |
1513 |
34 |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
1041 |
1532 |
35 |
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne |
1344 |
1572 |
36 |
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe |
752 |
1592 |
37 |
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
1023 |
1605 |
38 |
Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous |
1590 |
1611 |
39 |
The Complete Works by William Shakespeare |
1248 |
1623 |
40 |
Paradise Lost by John Milton |
453 |
1667 |
41 |
Ethics by Baruch Spinoza |
186 |
1677 |
42 |
Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault |
117 |
1697 |
43 |
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe |
320 |
1719 |
44 |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift |
306 |
1726 |
45 |
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift |
64 |
1729 |
46 |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume |
96 |
1748 |
47 |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding |
1024 |
1749 |
48 |
Candide by Voltaire |
129 |
1759 |
49 |
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne |
735 |
1767 |
50 |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon |
1312 |
1776 |
51 |
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine |
416 |
1776 |
52 |
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
1264 |
1776 |
53 |
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton |
688 |
1780 |
54 |
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant |
796 |
1781 |
55 |
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
448 |
1782 |
56 |
The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding Fathers |
30 |
1787 |
57 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
77 |
1798 |
58 |
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
327 |
1808 |
59 |
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm |
880 |
1812 |
60 |
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss |
352 |
1812 |
61 |
The Complete Novels by Jane Austen |
1344 |
1813 |
62 |
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
2 |
1816 |
63 |
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
335 |
1818 |
64 |
Don Juan by Lord Byron |
584 |
1819 |
65 |
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott |
544 |
1819 |
66 |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
108 |
1820 |
67 |
The Complete Poems by John Keats |
416 |
1820 |
68 |
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore |
32 |
1823 |
69 |
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper |
410 |
1826 |
70 |
The Red and the Black by Stendhal |
608 |
1830 |
71 |
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo |
510 |
1831 |
72 |
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin |
240 |
1833 |
73 |
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson |
40 |
1833 |
74 |
The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen |
803 |
1835 |
75 |
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol |
435 |
1835 |
76 |
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens |
801 |
1837 |
77 |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
608 |
1838 |
78 |
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin |
432 |
1839 |
79 |
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens |
817 |
1839 |
80 |
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov |
185 |
1840 |
81 |
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville |
992 |
1840 |
82 |
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol |
512 |
1842 |
83 |
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens |
288 |
1843 |
84 |
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas |
1276 |
1844 |
85 |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass |
158 |
1845 |
86 |
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |
532 |
1847 |
87 |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
464 |
1847 |
88 |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |
867 |
1847 |
89 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë |
542 |
1848 |
90 |
Selected Poems by Lord Byron |
864 |
1848 |
91 |
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx |
288 |
1848 |
92 |
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
882 |
1849 |
93 |
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe |
821 |
1849 |
94 |
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
64 |
1850 |
95 |
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
279 |
1850 |
96 |
The D'Artagnan Romances series by Alexandre Dumas |
— |
1850 |
97 |
Moby-Dick, or, the Whale by Herman Melville |
654 |
1851 |
98 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
438 |
1852 |
99 |
Bleak House by Charles Dickens |
1017 |
1853 |
100 |
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville |
80 |
1853 |
101 |
Hard Times by Charles Dickens |
353 |
1854 |
102 |
Walden by Henry David Thoreau |
352 |
1854 |
103 |
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch |
862 |
1855 |
104 |
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens |
1021 |
1855 |
105 |
The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) by Anthony Trollope |
336 |
1855 |
106 |
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
624 |
1855 |
107 |
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
329 |
1856 |
108 |
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire |
365 |
1857 |
109 |
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) by Anthony Trollope |
418 |
1857 |
110 |
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins |
672 |
1859 |
111 |
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin |
703 |
1859 |
112 |
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
489 |
1859 |
113 |
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov |
586 |
1859 |
114 |
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill |
187 |
1859 |
115 |
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot |
579 |
1860 |
116 |
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
505 |
1861 |
117 |
Silas Marner by George Eliot |
262 |
1861 |
118 |
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo |
1463 |
1862 |
119 |
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev |
244 |
1862 |
120 |
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell |
679 |
1863 |
121 |
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
233 |
1864 |
122 |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages, #3) by Jules Verne |
240 |
1864 |
123 |
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens |
801 |
1865 |
124 |
The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12) by Jules Verne |
723 |
1865 |
125 |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
671 |
1866 |
126 |
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
1392 |
1867 |
127 |
The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6) by Anthony Trollope |
890 |
1867 |
128 |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
449 |
1868 |
129 |
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins |
528 |
1868 |
130 |
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
667 |
1869 |
131 |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) by Jules Verne |
394 |
1869 |
132 |
Middlemarch by George Eliot |
904 |
1871 |
133 |
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll |
312 |
1871 |
134 |
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
733 |
1872 |
135 |
The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) by George MacDonald |
241 |
1872 |
136 |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
252 |
1873 |
137 |
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy |
433 |
1874 |
138 |
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud |
182 |
1875 |
139 |
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope |
776 |
1875 |
140 |
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell |
245 |
1877 |
141 |
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
964 |
1877 |
142 |
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy |
448 |
1878 |
143 |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
796 |
1879 |
144 |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
122 |
1879 |
145 |
Heidi by Johanna Spyri |
352 |
1880 |
146 |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace |
620 |
1880 |
147 |
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James |
797 |
1881 |
148 |
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain |
240 |
1881 |
149 |
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen |
164 |
1882 |
150 |
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
311 |
1882 |
151 |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
327 |
1883 |
152 |
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle |
400 |
1883 |
153 |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott |
96 |
1884 |
154 |
The Complete Stories and Poems by Lewis Carroll |
392 |
1884 |
155 |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
520 |
1884 |
156 |
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson |
67 |
1885 |
157 |
Germinal by Émile Zola |
592 |
1885 |
158 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy |
445 |
1886 |
159 |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson |
178 |
1886 |
160 |
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy |
86 |
1886 |
161 |
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) by Jerome K. Jerome |
185 |
1889 |
162 |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain |
480 |
1889 |
163 |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce |
36 |
1890 |
164 |
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
242 |
1890 |
165 |
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson |
716 |
1890 |
166 |
Hunger by Knut Hamsun |
134 |
1890 |
167 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
518 |
1891 |
168 |
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
70 |
1892 |
169 |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling |
48 |
1894 |
170 |
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
277 |
1894 |
171 |
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling |
368 |
1894 |
172 |
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy |
310 |
1895 |
173 |
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells |
118 |
1895 |
174 |
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells |
153 |
1896 |
175 |
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand |
240 |
1897 |
176 |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
488 |
1897 |
177 |
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells |
192 |
1897 |
178 |
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James |
131 |
1898 |
179 |
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells |
192 |
1898 |
180 |
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad |
261 |
1899 |
181 |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum |
154 |
1900 |
182 |
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad |
455 |
1900 |
183 |
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser |
580 |
1900 |
184 |
Kim by Rudyard Kipling |
366 |
1901 |
185 |
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann |
731 |
1901 |
186 |
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling |
210 |
1902 |
187 |
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov |
467 |
1903 |
188 |
The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
172 |
1903 |
189 |
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie |
176 |
1904 |
190 |
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov |
96 |
1904 |
191 |
The Sea Wolf by Jack London |
425 |
1904 |
192 |
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry |
32 |
1905 |
193 |
White Fang by Jack London |
252 |
1905 |
194 |
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy |
182 |
1905 |
195 |
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton |
351 |
1905 |
196 |
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce |
404 |
1906 |
197 |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair |
335 |
1906 |
198 |
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad |
304 |
1907 |
199 |
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster |
119 |
1908 |
200 |
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
256 |
1908 |
201 |
The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8) by L.M. Montgomery |
2088 |
1908 |
202 |
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde |
1270 |
1908 |
203 |
Howards End by E.M. Forster |
246 |
1910 |
204 |
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
331 |
1911 |
205 |
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle |
272 |
1912 |
206 |
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw |
82 |
1912 |
207 |
The Complete Poetry and Prose by William Blake |
1024 |
1913 |
208 |
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence |
654 |
1913 |
209 |
Dubliners by James Joyce |
207 |
1914 |
210 |
The Rainbow (Brangwen Family, #1) by D.H. Lawrence |
544 |
1915 |
211 |
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham |
684 |
1915 |
212 |
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein |
130 |
1916 |
213 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
329 |
1916 |
214 |
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. |
128 |
1918 |
215 |
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen |
192 |
1918 |
216 |
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson |
240 |
1919 |
217 |
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) by P.G. Wodehouse |
256 |
1919 |
218 |
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) by Agatha Christie |
121 |
1920 |
219 |
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis |
454 |
1920 |
220 |
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1) by Hugh Lofting |
144 |
1920 |
221 |
Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3) by Sigrid Undset |
1144 |
1920 |
222 |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton |
332 |
1920 |
223 |
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) by John Galsworthy |
872 |
1921 |
224 |
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini |
359 |
1921 |
225 |
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin |
255 |
1921 |
226 |
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco |
40 |
1922 |
227 |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
152 |
1922 |
228 |
Ulysses by James Joyce |
783 |
1922 |
229 |
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran |
127 |
1923 |
230 |
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek |
752 |
1923 |
231 |
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
212 |
1923 |
232 |
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster |
376 |
1924 |
233 |
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann |
706 |
1924 |
234 |
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda |
70 |
1924 |
235 |
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov |
126 |
1925 |
236 |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
180 |
1925 |
237 |
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway |
650 |
1925 |
238 |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
255 |
1925 |
239 |
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf |
194 |
1925 |
240 |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) by Agatha Christie |
288 |
1926 |
241 |
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway |
189 |
1926 |
242 |
The Castle by Franz Kafka |
316 |
1926 |
243 |
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke |
356 |
1926 |
244 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather |
297 |
1927 |
245 |
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle |
1796 |
1927 |
246 |
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse |
256 |
1927 |
247 |
In Search of Lost Time (6 Volumes) by Marcel Proust |
4211 |
1927 |
248 |
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell |
266 |
1927 |
249 |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf |
209 |
1927 |
250 |
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht |
124 |
1928 |
251 |
Orlando by Virginia Woolf |
228 |
1928 |
252 |
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by John Donne |
736 |
1929 |
253 |
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner |
326 |
1929 |
254 |
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves |
281 |
1929 |
255 |
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett |
224 |
1929 |
256 |
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
293 |
1929 |
257 |
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
296 |
1929 |
258 |
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke |
80 |
1929 |
259 |
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe |
644 |
1929 |
260 |
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf |
112 |
1929 |
261 |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner |
288 |
1930 |
262 |
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud |
127 |
1930 |
263 |
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett |
213 |
1930 |
264 |
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse |
320 |
1930 |
265 |
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper |
48 |
1930 |
266 |
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
240 |
1930 |
267 |
The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff |
48 |
1931 |
268 |
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck |
418 |
1931 |
269 |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft |
184 |
1931 |
270 |
The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer |
1152 |
1931 |
271 |
The Waves by Virginia Woolf |
297 |
1931 |
272 |
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
453 |
1932 |
273 |
Light in August by William Faulkner |
507 |
1932 |
274 |
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons |
233 |
1932 |
275 |
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
288 |
1932 |
276 |
1919 (U.S.A., #2) by John Dos Passos |
400 |
1932 |
277 |
Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
440 |
1932 |
278 |
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
198 |
1932 |
279 |
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell |
213 |
1933 |
280 |
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
356 |
1933 |
281 |
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) by Agatha Christie |
322 |
1934 |
282 |
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
315 |
1934 |
283 |
I, Claudius/Claudius the God (Claudius #1-2) by Robert Graves |
839 |
1934 |
284 |
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett |
201 |
1934 |
285 |
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller |
318 |
1934 |
286 |
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1) by P.L. Travers |
209 |
1934 |
287 |
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh |
308 |
1934 |
288 |
The African Queen by C.S. Forester |
256 |
1935 |
289 |
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
501 |
1935 |
290 |
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Years, #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
335 |
1935 |
291 |
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner |
320 |
1936 |
292 |
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf |
72 |
1936 |
293 |
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
1037 |
1936 |
294 |
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17) by Agatha Christie |
214 |
1937 |
295 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
219 |
1937 |
296 |
Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) by Dorothy L. Sayers |
409 |
1937 |
297 |
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |
112 |
1937 |
298 |
Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester |
292 |
1938 |
299 |
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier |
441 |
1938 |
300 |
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell |
232 |
1938 |
301 |
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre |
178 |
1938 |
302 |
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss |
56 |
1938 |
303 |
Our Town by Thornton Wilder |
181 |
1938 |
304 |
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) by P.G. Wodehouse |
286 |
1938 |
305 |
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans |
44 |
1939 |
306 |
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler |
231 |
1939 |
307 |
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |
264 |
1939 |
308 |
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot |
56 |
1939 |
309 |
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn |
448 |
1939 |
310 |
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
229 |
1939 |
311 |
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
455 |
1939 |
312 |
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo |
309 |
1939 |
313 |
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler |
292 |
1940 |
314 |
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene |
222 |
1940 |
315 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway |
471 |
1940 |
316 |
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler |
216 |
1940 |
317 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
359 |
1940 |
318 |
Native Son by Richard Wright |
504 |
1940 |
319 |
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
64 |
1941 |
320 |
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell |
316 |
1941 |
321 |
Curious George by H.A. Rey |
48 |
1941 |
322 |
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf |
224 |
1941 |
323 |
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus |
212 |
1942 |
324 |
The Stranger by Albert Camus |
123 |
1942 |
325 |
Mythology by Edith Hamilton |
497 |
1942 |
326 |
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis |
224 |
1942 |
327 |
West with the Night by Beryl Markham |
294 |
1942 |
328 |
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4) by Raymond Chandler |
266 |
1943 |
329 |
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse |
558 |
1943 |
330 |
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand |
704 |
1943 |
331 |
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
93 |
1943 |
332 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
496 |
1943 |
333 |
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić |
314 |
1945 |
334 |
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren |
160 |
1945 |
335 |
Animal Farm by George Orwell |
122 |
1945 |
336 |
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell |
906 |
1945 |
337 |
The Pearl by John Steinbeck |
96 |
1945 |
338 |
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck |
181 |
1945 |
339 |
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh |
351 |
1945 |
340 |
Stuart Little by E.B. White |
131 |
1945 |
341 |
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams |
104 |
1945 |
342 |
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl |
165 |
1946 |
343 |
Hiroshima by John Hersey |
152 |
1946 |
344 |
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka |
486 |
1946 |
345 |
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman |
222 |
1946 |
346 |
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren |
439 |
1946 |
347 |
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown |
32 |
1947 |
348 |
The Plague by Albert Camus |
308 |
1947 |
349 |
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank |
283 |
1947 |
350 |
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) by Primo Levi |
187 |
1947 |
351 |
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln |
32 |
1947 |
352 |
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry |
397 |
1947 |
353 |
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre |
275 |
1947 |
354 |
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams |
107 |
1947 |
355 |
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1) by Winston S. Churchill |
914 |
1948 |
356 |
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene |
272 |
1948 |
357 |
Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) by Tove Jansson |
176 |
1948 |
358 |
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer |
721 |
1948 |
359 |
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey |
56 |
1948 |
360 |
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton |
316 |
1948 |
361 |
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith |
343 |
1948 |
362 |
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir |
746 |
1949 |
363 |
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell |
416 |
1949 |
364 |
The Third Man by Graham Greene |
157 |
1949 |
365 |
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson |
302 |
1949 |
366 |
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
117 |
1949 |
367 |
1984 by George Orwell |
328 |
1949 |
368 |
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) by Josephine Tey |
206 |
1949 |
369 |
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury |
182 |
1950 |
370 |
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich |
688 |
1950 |
371 |
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt |
527 |
1951 |
372 |
Molloy by Samuel Beckett |
241 |
1951 |
373 |
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury |
186 |
1951 |
374 |
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene |
160 |
1951 |
375 |
From Here to Eternity by James Jones |
816 |
1951 |
376 |
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger |
277 |
1951 |
377 |
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk |
537 |
1951 |
378 |
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham |
228 |
1951 |
379 |
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar |
347 |
1951 |
380 |
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett |
109 |
1952 |
381 |
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
581 |
1952 |
382 |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
132 |
1952 |
383 |
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis |
506 |
1952 |
384 |
The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1) by Mary Norton |
192 |
1952 |
385 |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck |
601 |
1952 |
386 |
Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas |
203 |
1952 |
387 |
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas |
48 |
1952 |
388 |
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White |
184 |
1952 |
389 |
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis |
191 |
1952 |
390 |
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester |
250 |
1953 |
391 |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
175 |
1953 |
392 |
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler |
379 |
1953 |
393 |
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke |
224 |
1953 |
394 |
The Crucible by Arthur Miller |
143 |
1953 |
395 |
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger |
198 |
1953 |
396 |
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas |
121 |
1953 |
397 |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
182 |
1954 |
398 |
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose |
79 |
1954 |
399 |
The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens |
560 |
1954 |
400 |
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov |
192 |
1955 |
401 |
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester |
258 |
1955 |
402 |
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves |
782 |
1955 |
403 |
The Quiet American by Graham Greene |
180 |
1955 |
404 |
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson |
64 |
1955 |
405 |
On the Road by Jack Kerouac |
307 |
1955 |
406 |
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence |
144 |
1955 |
407 |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
417 |
1955 |
408 |
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor |
555 |
1955 |
409 |
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien |
1728 |
1955 |
410 |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams |
208 |
1955 |
411 |
The Fall by Albert Camus |
147 |
1956 |
412 |
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) by Gerald Durrell |
273 |
1956 |
413 |
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg |
56 |
1956 |
414 |
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis |
767 |
1956 |
415 |
Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay |
768 |
1956 |
416 |
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill |
179 |
1956 |
417 |
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury |
239 |
1957 |
418 |
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak |
592 |
1957 |
419 |
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand |
1168 |
1957 |
420 |
On the Beach by Nevil Shute |
296 |
1957 |
421 |
A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1) by Michael Bond |
159 |
1958 |
422 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote |
142 |
1958 |
423 |
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison |
134 |
1958 |
424 |
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene |
220 |
1958 |
425 |
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
319 |
1958 |
426 |
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce |
240 |
1958 |
427 |
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone |
776 |
1958 |
428 |
Exodus by Leon Uris |
608 |
1958 |
429 |
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4) by T.H. White |
639 |
1958 |
430 |
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel |
115 |
1958 |
431 |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
209 |
1959 |
432 |
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass |
580 |
1959 |
433 |
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson |
208 |
1959 |
434 |
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) by Walter M. Miller Jr. |
334 |
1959 |
435 |
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing |
282 |
1959 |
436 |
The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake |
1173 |
1959 |
437 |
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut |
224 |
1959 |
438 |
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein |
335 |
1959 |
439 |
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt |
192 |
1960 |
440 |
The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet #1-4) by Lawrence Durrell |
884 |
1960 |
441 |
To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) by Harper Lee |
324 |
1960 |
442 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #1) by Scott O'Dell |
184 |
1960 |
443 |
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss |
64 |
1960 |
444 |
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss |
62 |
1960 |
445 |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer |
1614 |
1960 |
446 |
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
146 |
1961 |
447 |
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein |
528 |
1961 |
448 |
Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) by Joseph Heller |
453 |
1961 |
449 |
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster |
256 |
1961 |
450 |
Solaris by Stanisław Lem |
204 |
1961 |
451 |
The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-4) by A.A. Milne |
557 |
1961 |
452 |
The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss |
65 |
1961 |
453 |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark |
150 |
1961 |
454 |
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck |
336 |
1961 |
455 |
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut |
282 |
1961 |
456 |
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates |
355 |
1961 |
457 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee |
272 |
1962 |
458 |
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges |
256 |
1962 |
459 |
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury |
293 |
1962 |
460 |
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
213 |
1962 |
461 |
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson |
378 |
1962 |
462 |
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire |
192 |
1962 |
463 |
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick |
259 |
1962 |
464 |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson |
146 |
1962 |
465 |
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) by P.D. James |
250 |
1962 |
466 |
The Thin Red Line by James Jones |
475 |
1962 |
467 |
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1) by Ezra Jack Keats |
40 |
1962 |
468 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey |
325 |
1962 |
469 |
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle |
211 |
1962 |
470 |
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov |
246 |
1962 |
471 |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
182 |
1962 |
472 |
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck |
214 |
1962 |
473 |
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman |
606 |
1962 |
474 |
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain |
321 |
1962 |
475 |
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt |
312 |
1963 |
476 |
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin |
106 |
1963 |
477 |
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré |
224 |
1963 |
478 |
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot |
240 |
1963 |
479 |
The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote |
2934 |
1963 |
480 |
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1) by Edward Gorey |
32 |
1963 |
481 |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter |
434 |
1963 |
482 |
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft |
406 |
1963 |
483 |
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
294 |
1963 |
484 |
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
37 |
1963 |
485 |
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson |
864 |
1963 |
486 |
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut |
306 |
1963 |
487 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) by Roald Dahl |
176 |
1964 |
488 |
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway |
192 |
1964 |
489 |
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein |
64 |
1964 |
490 |
The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2) by Lloyd Alexander |
182 |
1965 |
491 |
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
343 |
1965 |
492 |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick |
231 |
1965 |
493 |
The Magus by John Fowles |
656 |
1965 |
494 |
Asterix and Cleopatra (Asterix, #6) by René Goscinny |
48 |
1965 |
495 |
The Source by James A. Michener |
1080 |
1965 |
496 |
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss |
62 |
1965 |
497 |
Stoner by John Williams |
278 |
1965 |
498 |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X |
466 |
1965 |
499 |
Silence by Shūsaku Endō |
201 |
1966 |
500 |
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman |
103 |
1966 |
501 |
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein |
288 |
1966 |
502 |
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
311 |
1966 |
503 |
Ariel by Sylvia Plath |
105 |
1966 |
504 |
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon |
152 |
1966 |
505 |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard |
126 |
1966 |
506 |
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman |
588 |
1966 |