THE LIST

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

2. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

3. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

4. Emma, Jane Austen

5. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

6. Walden, Henry David Thoreau

7. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

8. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

10. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

11. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

13. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

14. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

15. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

16. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

17. Tess of the d’Urvervilles, Thomas Hardy

18. On the Road, Jack Kerouac

19. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

20. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

21. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding

22. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

23. The Stranger, Albert Camus

24. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

25. Hamlet, William Shakespeare

26. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

27. The Federalist, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay

28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

29. The Republic, Plato

30. The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer

31. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

32. The Divine Comedy, Dante Aligheri

33. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

34. Das Kapital, Karl Marx

35. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence

36. Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather

37. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

38. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

39. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

40. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

41. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

42. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

43. Call of the Wild, Jack London

44. The Awakening, Kate Chopin

45. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

46. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

47. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

48. Rights of Man, Thomas Paine

49. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

50. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

51. Jurassic Park, Michael Chrichton