100 Great Books: 50%

THE BOOK OF GREAT BOOKS 100

1. Aeneid – Virgil
2. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
3. All the King’s Men – Warren
4. Animal Farm – Orwell 
5. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
6. As You Like It – Shakespeare
7. The Awakening – Chopin
8. Beowulf
9. Bill Budd – Melville
10. The Bluest Eyes – Morrison
11. Brave New World – Huxley
12. The Call of the Wild – London
13. Candide – Voltaire
14. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
15. Catch22 – Heller
16. The Color Purple – Walker
17. Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
18. The Crucible – Miller
19. Daisy Miller – James
20. David Copperfield – Dickens
21. Death of a Salesman – Miller
22. Diary of a Young Girl – Frank
23. Inferno – Dante
24. Doctor Faustus – Marlowe
25. A Doll’s House – Ibsen
26. Don Quixote – Cervantes
27. Ethan Frome – Wharton
28. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo – Plato
29. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
30. Faust: Parts 1 and 2 – Goethe
31. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
32. Frankenstein – Shelly (read)
33. The Glass Menagerie – Williams
34. The Good Earth – Buck
35. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
36. Great Expectations – Dickens (read)
37. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
38. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
39. Hamlet – Shakespeare
40. Hard Times – Dickens
41. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
42. Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
43. House Made of Dawn – Momaday
44. The House of Seven Gables – Hawthorne (read)
45. Huckleberry Finn – Twain
46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
47. Iliad – Homer
48. Invisible Man – Ellison
49. Jane Eyre – Bronte 
50. The Joy Luck Club – Tan
51. Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
52. The Jungle – Sinclair
53. King Lear – Shakespeare
54. Light in August – Faulkner
55. Lord Jim – Conrad
56. The Lord of the Flies – Golding
57. The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
58. Macbeth – Shakespeare
59. Madame Bovary – Flaubert 
60. The Major of Casterbridge – Hardy
61. The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
62. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
63. Moby-Dick – Melville
64. Native Son – Wright
65. 1984 – Orwell (read)
66. Odyssey – Homer
67. The Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles
68. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
69. The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
70. Oliver Twist – Dickens
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey
72. Othello – Shakespeare
73. Paradise Lost – Milton 
74. The Pearl – Steinbeck
75. The Plague – Camus
76. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce (read)
77. Pride and Prejudice – Austen (read)
78. The Prince – Machiavelli
79. The Red Badge of Courage – Crane
80. Republic – Plato
81. The Return of the Native – Hardy (read)
82. Richard III – Shakespeare
83. Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
84. The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
85. A Separate Peace – Knowles
86. Silas Marner – Eliot (read)
87. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
88. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
89. Steppenwolf – Hesse
90. The Stranger – Camus 
91. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
92. The Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare
93. The Tempest – Shakespeare
94. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Hardy
95. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
96. Tom Sawyer – Twain
97. Treasure Island – Stevenson 
98. Twelfth Night – Shakespeare
99. Waiting for Godot – Beckett
100. Walden – Thoreau