Newsweek Top 100

Newsweek's Top 100 Books

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• 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

The Book List

The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 - George Orwell
5. The Republic - Plato
6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
8. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
11. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
14. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
16. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann D. Wyss
17. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
18. The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
20. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
21. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
22. The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
24. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
25. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
26. Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
27. White Noise - Don DeLillo
28. Ulysses - James Joyce
29. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
30. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond - Denis Johnson
31. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
33. The Book of Deeds, of Arms, and of Chivalry - Christine de Pizan
34. The Art of Warfare - Sun Tzu
35. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
36. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
37. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
38. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
39. Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
40. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
41. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
42. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
44. Politics - Aristotle
45. Boy Scouts Handbook (Original Edition) - Boy Scouts of America
46. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
47. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
48. The Crisis - Winston Churchill
49. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
50. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
51. Animal Farm - George Orwell
52. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
53. The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton
54. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
55. Essential Manners for Men - Peter Post
56. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
57. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
58. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
59. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
60. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
61. The Stranger - Albert Camus
62. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
63. The Pearl - John Steinback
64. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
65. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
66. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
67. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
68. The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
69. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
70. Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
71. Paradise Lost - John Milton
72. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
73. The American Boy's Handy Book - Daniel Carter
74. Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
75. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
76. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
78. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
79. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
80. Theodore Rex - Edmun Morris
81. The Counte of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
82. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
83. The Red Bage of Courage - Stephen Crane
84. Lives - Plutarch
85. The Strenuous Life - Theodore Roosevelt
86. The Holy Bible - Various
87. The Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
88. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
89. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
90. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
91. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden
92. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
93. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
94. The Histories - Herodotus
95. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
96. The Frontier in American History
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
98. Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson