002: Books You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read

Submitted by freshiev on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 11:42
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  • The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories by Mark Twain (1906)
  • Abramham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas (1952)
  • Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  • The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  • The Adventures of Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
  • Adventures of Hans Pfall by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
  • Æneid by Virgil
  • Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
  • An American Tragedy by Irving Howe
  • Analects by Confucius (500 BCE)
  • Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • The Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus
  • The Apocrypha
  • The Apology of Socrates by Plato
  • Arabian Nights by Anthony Galland (1704)
  • Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (1873)
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  • The Art Of War by Sun Tzu (1910)
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1931)
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1817)
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
  • Basic Writings of Nietzche by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Beach at Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)
  • Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (1885)
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
  • Beowulf
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
  • Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The BFG by Roald Dahl
  • Bhagavad-Gita (400 BCE)
  • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  • Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
  • The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1860)
  • The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago
  • The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  • The Book Of Mormon
  • The Bostan of Saadi by Sheikh Musliju-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
  • The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
  • Bridget Jone’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  • Bring 'em Back Alive by Frank Buck and Edward Anthony
  • The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoyevsky
  • Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
  • Buffalo Bill by William F Cody
  • Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
  • Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
  • Caesar's Conquests by Julius Caesar
  • Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
  • The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (1926)
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
  • Camille by Alexandre Dumas (1852)
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
  • Captain Burle by Emile Zola
  • Captain Corell's Mandolin by Louis de Berniers
  • Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling (1897)
  • Carmen by George Bizet
  • The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  • The Castle by Franz Kafka
  • Castle Dangerous by Walter Scott (1831)
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Categories by Aristotle (350 BCE)
  • Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
  • Cato or, An Essay On Old Age by Cicero (44 BCE)
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory by Roald Dahl
  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
  • Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg (1916)
  • Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfous
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • The City Of God by Saint Augustine (413 AD)
  • Civil and Moral Essays by Francis Bacon
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
  • Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard (1889)
  • The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade (1861)
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
  • The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  • The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by Thomas H. Johnson
  • Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
  • The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
  • Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • Concerning the Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei
  • Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
  • Confessions by Saint Augustine (400 AD)
  • Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
  • The Conspiracy of the Pontiac by Francis Parkman (1851)
  • The Conspirators by Alexandre Dumas (1843)
  • Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632)
  • The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas (1845)
  • The Cossack Chief by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  • Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)
  • The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough (1922)
  • Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
  • The Crises by Winston Churchill
  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  • Crito by Plato
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev
  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1897)
  • Daniel Boone by John Bakeless
  • Dap Kapital by Karl Marx
  • The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)
  • Darwinism; An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection With Some of Its Applications by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
  • Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson (1991)
  • David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
  • Davy Crockett
  • Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  • A Death in the Family by James Agee
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola
  • Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio
  • The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
  • The Deerslayer by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • The Descent Of Man by Charles Darwin (1871)
  • The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  • The Dhammapada
  • Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Xun Lu
  • A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1750)
  • A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1755)
  • A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1754)
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  • Don Juan by George Byron (1824)
  • Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Downfall by Emile Zola (1892)
  • Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • East of Eden by Joh Steinbeck
  • Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Education Of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1907)
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Essays by Michel De Montaigne
  • Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
  • Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Isaac Asimov
  • Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
  • The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (1838)
  • Fang and Claw by Frank Buck
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (1901)
  • The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant
  • The Food of the Gods by H.G. Wells (1904)
  • The Forged Coupon And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
  • The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas (1848)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Four Million by O. Henry
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
  • Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
  • Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • The Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe (1843)
  • The Golden Notebook by Doris M. Lessing
  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
  • Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson (1904)
  • Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  • The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • Heaven & Hell by Manuel Swedenborg
  • Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  • Heredity in Humans by Amram Scheinfeld
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • History by Elsa Morante
  • History of Animals by Aristotle (350 BCE)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • The Holy Bible
  • The Holy Qur'an (550 AD)
  • The Holy War by John Bunyan
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
  • How I Found Livingstone by Henry M Stanley (1872)
  • How We Think by John Dewey
  • Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1831)
  • Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  • The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1936)
  • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  • The Idiot by Feodor Dostoyevsky
  • Idyls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
  • The Iliad by Homer (962 BCE)
  • The Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
  • The Imitation Of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis (1415)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Independent People by Halldor Kiljan Laxness
  • The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (1869)
  • The Interpretation Of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900)
  • In the Reign of Terror by G.A. Henty (1890)
  • The Introduction Of New Species by Alfred Russel Wallace (1855)
  • The Inundation by Emile Zola
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)
  • Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (1820)
  • Jacques Damour by Emile Zola
  • Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
  • Jesus The Christ by James E. Talmage
  • Joan of Arc by Frederick Schiller (1801)
  • The Journal of John Woolman
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
  • Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinana D. Celine
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1607)
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
  • Justíne by Marquís de Sade
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  • Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
  • Katherine by Anya Seton
  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy (1916)
  • Kings In Exile by Alphonse Daudet
  • King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (1885)
  • A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
  • Kit Carson by John Abbott
  • Knights of the Round Table by Howard Pyle (1903)
  • Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
  • The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott (1810)
  • Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon (1930)
  • Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The Last Man by Mary Shelley
  • Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzákis
  • The Laws Of Manu (1500 BCE)
  • Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855)
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  • Life On The Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
  • The Lion of the North by G.A. Henty (1890)
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  • The Little Savage by Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
  • Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
  • Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
  • Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  • The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison
  • Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
  • A Love Episode by Emile Zola
  • Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte (1870)
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
  • The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
  • Magician by Raymond E. Feist
  • The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  • The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  • The Magus by John Fowles
  • Mahabharata by Anonymous
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
  • The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  • The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo (1869)
  • Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale (1863)
  • The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
  • The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
  • Marco Polo by Donn Byrne
  • The Marvelous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1904)
  • The Master of Ballantree by Robert Luois Stevenson (1889)
  • Master of the World by Jules Verne (1904)
  • The Mathnawi by E.H. Whinfield
  • Matilda by Roald Dahl
  • Medea by Euripides
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1933)
  • Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (1891)
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne (1876)
  • Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1600)
  • The Miller's Daughter by Emile Zola
  • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
  • The Moonstone by William Wilkie Collins
  • Mort by Terry Pratchett
  • The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome
  • The Mountains of California by John Muir
  • Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)
  • My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
  • Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (1874)
  • Nana by Emile Zola
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
  • Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
  • Njal's Saga by Anonymous
  • The Octopus by Frank Norris
  • The Odyssey by Homer (927 BCE)
  • Oedipus the King by Sophocles
  • Off on a Comet by Jules Verne (1874)
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • On Dreams by Aristotle (350 BCE)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitseyn
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • On Jungle Trails by Frank Buck
  • On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzche
  • On The Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies by William Gilbert
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volumes 1-13
  • The Oregon Trail by Franic Parkman (1849)
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • Our National Parks by John Muir
  • Our Town by Thorton Wilder
  • The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte (1870)
  • The Outline of History Vol. I by H.G. Wells
  • The Outline of History Vol. II by H.G. Wells
  • The Oxbow Incident by Walter Van Tillburn Clark
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • A Passion Of The South by Alphonse Daudet
  • The Pathfinder by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  • Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
  • Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
  • Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  • Phædo by Plato
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • The Pilot by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • The Pioneers by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
  • The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  • Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)
  • The Planet That Wasn't by Isaac Asimov
  • Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
  • Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
  • The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • The Possessed by Feodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Prarie by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
  • The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1882)
  • The Prince of India by Lew Wallace
  • The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  • The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (1894)
  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  • Psycho by Robert Bloch
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (1894)
  • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Queen’s Necklace by Alexandre Dumas (1849)
  • The Raged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
  • A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • Ramayana by Davi Vanamali
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • The Red Rover by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
  • Renascence And Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917)
  • The Republic by Plato
  • Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  • Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
  • The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  • Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1883)
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
  • Rob Roy by Walter Scott (1818)
  • Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne (1886)
  • Rolling Stones by O. Henry
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597)
  • Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
  • Salome by Oscar Wilde
  • Sapho by Alphonse Daudet
  • A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
  • A Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
  • The Sea Wolf by Jack London (1904)
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
  • The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1809)
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Pavlovich Chekov
  • Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
  • The Seven who were Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
  • The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
  • The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
  • Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding David
  • The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
  • Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
  • The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
  • Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
  • The Spy by James Fenimoore Cooper
  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • Steep Trails by John Muir
  • The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  • The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud
  • The Story of Her Captivity, Sufferings and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson (1682)
  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
  • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1901)
  • The Story of Tracy Baker by Jacqueline Wilson
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1900)
  • Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant
  • A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Rasome
  • Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (1813)
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
  • Tales of Alphonse Daudet by Alphonse Daudet
  • The Talisman by Walter Scott (1825)
  • The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  • Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
  • The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  • Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
  • A Thousand Mile Walk To the Gulf by John Muir
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For All and None by Friedrich Nietzche
  • Tigers and Traitors by Jules Verne (1880)
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
  • The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
  • Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (1866)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1856)
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute
  • A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
  • Travels in Alaska by John Muir
  • Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable by Samuel Beckett
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
  • Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1845)
  • Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Twits by Roald Dahl
  • Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
  • Typee by Herman Melville (1846)
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  • Under Two Flags by Ouida (1868)
  • Unmodern Observations by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Upanishads (500 BC)
  • The Use and Abuse of History by Friedrich Nietzche
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
  • A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
  • The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902)
  • The Voyage Of The Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839)
  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • War of the Jews by Josephus
  • War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)
  • Waterloo by Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  • The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
  • Westward, Ho! by Charles Kingsley (1855)
  • What Is Man? And Other Essays by Mark Twain (1906)
  • The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
  • White Fang by Jack London (1906)
  • Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzche
  • William Tell by Frederick Schiller (1804)
  • The Will To Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values by Friedrich Nietzche
  • Wild Animals I have known by Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)
  • Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • With Fire and Sword by Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)
  • The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins
  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Won by the Sword by G.A. Henty (1899)
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
  • The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
  • The Yosemite by John Muir
  • Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzákis
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002: Books You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read
professor09/03/2007

Of those you haven't read I can recommend:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Odyssey by Homer - The Iliad can be skipped (not a pre-requisite).
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte