Top 100 Books

@kellys3ps (3723)
United States
August 15, 2008 10:34pm CST
The staff at the Harvard Book Store has put together a list of their top 100 books ever written. http://www.harvard.com/onourshelves/top100.html Books listed are: A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn The Wind Up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami The New York Trilogy Paul Auster The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky On the Road Kerouac Alice in Wonderland Carrol Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky The Age of Innocence Wharton Don Quixote Cervantes Perfume Suskind Ulysses Joyce Anna Karenina Tolstoy Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Cry the Beloved Country Paton Dracula Stoker The Eagles Die Marek Emotionally Weird Atkinson The Handmaid's Tale Atwood Infinite Jest Wallace Kitchen Yoshimoto London Fields Amis Moise and the World of Reason Williams Movie Wars Rosenbaum Paradise Lost Milton Persuasion Austen Tortilla Curtain Boyle Visions of Excess Bataille Where the Wild Things Are Sendak Wild Sheep Chase Murakami Beloved Morrison Counterfeiters Gide The Bell Jar Plath Blind Owl Hedayat Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas Dealing With Dragons Wrede The Earthsea Trilogy Le Guin The Ecology of Fear Davis Franny and Zooey Salinger History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez Kabuki: Circle of Blood Mack & Jiang Of Human Bondage Maugham The Satanic Verses Rushdie The Sheltering Sky Bowles Tristam Shandy Sterne Well of Loneliness Hall Wicked Pavilion Powell Collected Stories of V.S. Pritchett War and Peace Tolstoy Babel 17 Delany Dora Freud Empire Falls Russo For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway Girl in Landscape Letham Goodbye to All That Graves Ham on Rye Bukowski Life Like Mao II Delillo Random Family Leblanc Revolutionary Road Yates The Stranger Camus Humboldt's Gift Bellow White Noise Delillo Atlas Shrugged Rand Bast$#% Out of Carolina Allison Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills Bukowski Delta of Venus Nin Fast Food Nation Schlosser Ficciones Borges Go Ask Alice Anonymous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams Iliad Homer On Photography Sontag Republic Plato Shockproof Sydney Skate Meaker Society of the Spectacle Debord Strangers in Paradise Moore The Sun Also Rises Hemingway A Wrinkle In Time L'Engle Dubliners Joyce The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut No Logo Klein Aeneid Virgil Ariel Plath Charlotte's Web White Curious George Learns the Alphabet Rey Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Paley The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers Henry VIII Shakespeare I, Claudius Graves The Lost Continent Bryson Master and Margarita Bulgakov How many have you read? Do you know of any books that should be on this list and are not? How about books that are on the list and should not be?
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• India
17 Aug 08
I have read only two, Brothers Karamazov and The count of Monte Christo. But I am not surprised that Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both have two book in the list. They are great writers indeed!
@joyadalia (1408)
• Philippines
16 Aug 08
I've read about 5 of these books and by far, The Lord of the Rings is the best masterpiece I've ever read from the list your mentioned. The vampire and witch chronicles of Anne Rice should be added there ;o) By the way, are you sure that the Harvard Book Store won't be mad by your posting their list here? ;O)