Newsweek’s Top 100 Books

 

• War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 1869
• 1984 – George Orwell 1949
• Ulysses – James Joyce 1922
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 1955
• The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 1929
• Invisible Man Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 1952
• To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 1927
• The Illiad and The Odyssey – Homer 8th century B.C.
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 1813
• Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri 1321
• Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 1726
• Middlemarch – George Eliot 1874
• Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 1958
• The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger 1951
• Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 1936
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 1961
• Beloved – Toni Morrison 1987
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 1939
• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 1981
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 1932
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 1925
• Native Son – Richard Wright 1940
• Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
• Origin of Species – Charles Darwin 1859
• The Histories – Herodotus 440 B.C.
• The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
• Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867
• The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli 1532
• Confessions – St. Augustine 4th century
• Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes 1651
• The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 431 B.C.
• The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
• Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne 1926
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis 1950
• A Passage to India – E. M. Forster 1924
• On the Road – Jack Kerouac 1957
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 1960
• The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. NA
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 1962
• Light in August Light in August – William Faulkner 1932
• The Souls of Black Folk – W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 1966
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 1857
• Paradise Lost – John Milton 1667
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 1877
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare 1603
• King Lear – William Shakespeare 1608
• Othello – William Shakespeare 1622
• Sonnets – William Shakespeare 1609
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman 1855
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 1885
• Kim – Rudyard Kipling 1901
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 1818
• Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison 1977
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 1962
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 1940
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut 1969
• Animal Farm – George Orwell 1945
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding 1954
• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote 1965Ž
• The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 1962
• Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 1913
• The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 1939
• As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner 1930
• The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 1926
• I, Claudius – Robert Graves 1934
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 1940
• Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence 1913
• All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren 1946
• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 1953
• Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White 1952
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 1902
• Night – Elie Wiesel 1958
• Rabbit, Run – John Updike 1960
• The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 1920
• Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 1969
• An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser 1925
• The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West 1939
• Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller 1934
• The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 1930
• His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 1995
• Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather 1927
• The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud 1900
• The Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams 1918
• Quotations from Chairman Mao – Mao Zedong 1964
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature – William James 1902
• Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945
• Silent Spring – Rachel Carson 1962
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money – John Maynard Keynes 1936
• Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 1900
• Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves 1929
• The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith 1958
• The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 1908
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965
• Eminent Victorians – Lytton Strachey 1918
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker 1982
• The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; – Winston Churchill 1948