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1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 5. All the President's Men by and 6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 9. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 10. Anna Karenina by 11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 12. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 13. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer 14. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 15. The Art of Living by Epictetus 16. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 17. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 18. Atonement by Ian McEwan 19. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 21. Babe by Dick King-Smith 22. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 23. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 24. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten (incorrectly appears on some lists as "Walt Disney's Bambi") 25. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 26. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 27. Beloved by Toni Morrison 28. Beowulf by Who The Heck Knows 29. The Bhagava Gita (I only read bits and pieces of it) 30. The Bielski : The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews by Peter Duffy 31. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 32. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 33. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 34. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 35. Bridgadoon by 36. Candide by Voltaire 37. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (for school & in old English at that!) 38. Carrie by 39. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 40. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger 41. Charlotte's Web by E B White 42. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman 43. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm 44. Christine by Stephen King 45. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 46. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 47. The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 48. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 49. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 50. Compact Oxford English Dictionary 51. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 52. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 53. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 54. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 55. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 56. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace 57. Contactby Carl Sagan 58. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 59. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 61. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 62. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 63. Cujo by Stephen King 64. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 65. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 66. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 67. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 68. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 69. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 70. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 71. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 72. Deenie by Judy Blume 73. The Devil in the White City: Murder, , and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 74. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 75. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (bits & pieces) 76. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 77. Don Quixote by Cervantes 78. Dracula by Bram Stoker 79. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 80. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 81. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 82. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by 83. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 84. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson 85. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 86. Emma by Jane Austen 87. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 88. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J Sobol 89. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 90. Ethics by Spinoza 91. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves 92. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 93. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 94. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 95. Extravagance by Gary Krist 96. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 97. Fahrenheit 9/11 by 98. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 99. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 100. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 101. The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien 102. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 103. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 104. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce 105. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 106. by Daniel Keyes 107. Fodor's Selected Hotels of Europe 108. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 109. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 110. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 111. Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger 112. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 113. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 114. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 115. George W Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 116. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 117. A Girl from Yamhill by a Beverly Cleary 118. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 119. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 120. The Godfather: Book by 121. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 122. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 123. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 124. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards 125. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 126. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago 127. The Graduate by Charles Webb 128. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 129. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 130. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 131. The Group by Mary McCarthy 132. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth 133. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 134. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling 135. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J K Rowling 136. He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo 137. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 138. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 139. Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson 140. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 141. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 142. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 143. Henry V by William Shakespeare 144. Henry VI by William Shakespeare 145. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 146. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 147. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 148. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 149. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 150. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 151. Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss 152. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 153. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss 154. How the Light Gets In by M J Hyland 155. Howl and Other Poem by Allen Ginsberg 156. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 157. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron 158. The Iliad by Homer 159. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres 160. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 161. Indiana by George Sand 162. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (which is actually part of The Divine Comedy so shouldn't be counted, but I'll let it slide) 163. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee 164. Ironweed by William J Kennedy 165. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 167. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 168. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 169. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 170. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 171. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 172. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 173. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 174. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 175. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 176. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D H Lawrence 177. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 178. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester 179. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester 180. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester 181. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 182. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 183. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 184. Letters of Ayn Rand edited by Michael S. Berliner 185. Letters of Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis (not mentioned specifically by name, but alluded to by Lorelai in the revival). 186. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 187. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus 188. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 189. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo 190. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 191. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 192. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 193. Lisa and David by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin MD 194. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 195. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 196. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 197. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 198. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 199. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 200. Lord of the Flies by 201. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 202. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 203. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 204. The Love Story by Erich Segal 205. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 206. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 207. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 208. by William Goldman 209. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 210. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 211. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 212. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 213. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 214. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D. 215. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken 216. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 217. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 218. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 219. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 220. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 221. by Stephen King 222. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt 223. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 224. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin 225. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 226. Molloy by Samuel Beckett 227. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 228. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 229. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 230. Motley Crue by Seamus Craic 231. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve 232. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 233. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 234. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 235. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M Hersh 236. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken 237. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 238. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, by Myra Waldo 239. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 240. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard 241. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 242. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 243. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 244. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 245. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene 246. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 247. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 248. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 249. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 250. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 251. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 252. Night by Elie Wiesel 253. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 254. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E Cain, Laurie A Finke, Barbara E Johnson, John P McGowan 255. Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 256. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 257. Oedipus Rex by Sophicles 258. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 259. Old School by Tobias Wolff 260. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 261. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 262. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 263. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 264. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 265. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 266. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 267. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 268. Othello by Shakespeare 269. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 270. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 271. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 272. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 273. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 274. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 275. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 276. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 277. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 278. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 279. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 280. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 281. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 282. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 283. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche (not the whole thing, though) 284. of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind 285. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 286. Primary Colors by Joe Klein 287. Property by Valerie Martin 288. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe 289. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 290. Pushkin: A Biography by T J Binyon 291. Pygmalion by 292. Quattrocento by James Mckean 293. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 294. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 295. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers (I read the entire Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, actually) 296. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 297. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 298. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 299. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 300. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 301. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 302. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 303. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman (I went through a True Crime phase and am fascinated by the Patty Hearst story) 304. The Return of the King by J R R Tolkien 305. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem 306. Richard III by William Shakespeare 307. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 308. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert 309. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 310. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 311. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 312. A Room with a View by E M Forster 313. Rosemary's Baby by 314. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors 315. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 316. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 317. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 318. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 319. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 320. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L Baum 321. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 322. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 323. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 324. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 325. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 326. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 327. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 328. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 329. Sexus by Henry Miller 330. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 331. Shane by Jack Shaefer 332. The Shining by Stephen King 333. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 334. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 335. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 336. Small Island by Andrea Levy 337. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 338. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 339. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 340. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 341. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 342. A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin 343. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 344. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 345. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 346. Songbook by Nick Hornby 347. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 348. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 349. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 350. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 351. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 352. by Ira Levin 353. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 354. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 355. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 356. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 357. Stuart Little by E B White 358. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker 359. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 360. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 361. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 362. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 363. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 364. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 365. Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald 366. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 367. Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem 368. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?) 369. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 370. Time and Again by Jack Finney 371. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 372. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 373. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 374. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 375. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 376. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 377. The Trial by Franz Kafka 378. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 379. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 380. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 381. Ulysses by James Joyce 382. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - by Sylvia Plath 383. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 384. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 385. Unless by Carol Shields 386. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 387. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 388. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 389. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard 390. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 391. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac 392. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 393. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 394. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 395. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker 396. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles 397. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 398. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 399. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 400. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 401. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 402. Wild by Cheryl Strayed 403. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike 404. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum 405. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 406. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 407. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 408. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne