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1. 1984 by George Orwell 2 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 Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 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 Leo Tolstoy 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 Brothers: 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 Alan Jay Lerner 36. Candide by Voltaire 37. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (for school & in old English at that!) 38. Carrie by Stephen King 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, Magic, 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 Tom Wolfe 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 Michael Moore 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. Flowers for Algernon 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 Mario Puzo 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).
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