100 Books from Literature, Poetry & Non-Fiction

(Not in any particular order, although the one's on the top, I strongly recommend. How do you rank the written word?~Waldo)


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  1. The Stand by Stephen King
  2. Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  3. Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
  4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  5. The Plague by Albert Camus
  6. Regeneration by Pat Barker
  7. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  8. Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
  9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  10. Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
  11. Stiffed / Backlash by Susan Faludi
  12. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  13. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
  14. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  15. The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza
  16. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  17. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
  18. Post Office by Charles Bukowski
  19. American Buffalo by David Mamet
  20. Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  21. Poems by William Wordsworth
  22. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  23. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  25. Collected Stories by Grace Paley
  26. Ask the Dust by John Fante
  27. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  28. O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
  29. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
  30. The American Language by H. L. Mencke
  31. The Brothers Karamazov  by Feodor Doestoyevsky
  32. Radical Simplicity by Jim Merkel
  33. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
  34. Candide by Voltaire
  35. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  36. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  37. Complete Poems by e.e. Cummings
  38. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  39. Grahame, Kenneth.  The Wind in the Willows
  40. Collected Storeies by Katherine Anne Porter
  41. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  42. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
  43. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  44. Go Tell it To the Mountain by James Baldwin
  45. Poems & Plays by John Donne
  46. The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
  47. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  48. Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bilgakov
  49. The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
  50. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  51. Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
  52. Jazz by Toni Morrison
  53. Class: A Guide through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
  54. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  55. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
  56. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  57. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair  by Pablo Neruda
  58. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
  59. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  60. Dharma Bums by Jack Keruoac
  61. Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  62. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  63. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
  64. Poems by Alexander Pope
  65. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  66. Poetry by Robert Frost
  67. Persuasion by Jane Austen 68.
  68. Walker Percy The Moviegoer (1961)
  69. Come to Me: Stories by Amy Bloom
  70. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  71. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
  72. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
  73. The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White
  74. A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
  75. Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols
  76. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  77. Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
  78. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
  79. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould