"Blue Pyramid's The Book List (or the 778 Best Books of All-Time)" adapted for my own use

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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
1984 – George Orwell
The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Night – Elie Wiesel
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bible
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Dune – Frank Herbert
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
The Stand – Stephen King
Ulysses – James Joyce
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Roots – Alex Haley
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Black Hawk Down – Mark Bowden
King Lear – William Shakespeare
A Theory of Justice – John Rawls
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Death in Venice and Other Stories – Thomas Mann
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Middlemarch – George Elliot
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
Hocus Pocus – Kurt Vonnegut
The Way Things Work – David Macauly
Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Confessions – St. Augustine of Hippo
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berndt
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O’Brien
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Neuromancer – William Gibson
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
Prufrock and Other Observations – T.S. Eliot
Run with the Horsemen – Ferrol Sams
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
Exodus – Leon Uris
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More – Roald Dahl
Anarchy, State and Utopia – Robert Nozick
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Iliad – Homer
Now We are Six – A.A. Milne
Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
The Whisper of the River – Ferrol Sams
A Ring of Endless Light – Madeleine L’Engle
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Calvin and Hobbes – Bill Watterson
The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beach Music – Pat Conroy
Compassion Fatigue – Susan Moeller
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie
The Loom of Language – Frederick Bodmer
Cathedral – Raymond Carver
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler
Babar the King – Jean De Brunhoff
"Master Harold"...and the Boys – Athol Fugard
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton
The Bloody Sun – Marion Zimmer Bradley
At Dawn We Slept – Gordon W. Prange
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Ravelstein – Saul Bellow
Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
The Foxfire Book – Eliot Wigginton (ed.)
The Great American Novel – Philip Roth
Surprised by Joy – C.S. Lewis
V – Thomas Pynchon
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Confusion – Neal Stephenson
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
The 12 Chairs – Ilya Ilf & Evgeni Petrov
Fathers and Crows – William T. Vollman
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Endgame – Samuel Beckett
Chuang Tsu – Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (trans.)
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Six Easy Pieces – Richard Feynman
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are – Alan Watts
When We Were Very Young – A.A. Milne
Love’s Executioner – Irvin D. Yalo
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
The Valley of Adventure – Enid Blyton
Burr – Gore Vidal
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
John Adams – David McCullough
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
Dubliners – James Joyce
Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voight
Personal History – Katharine Graham
King Matt the First – Janusz Korczak
Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke
Illuminatus! – Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
Purple America – Rick Moody
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Tree In the Trail – Holling Clancy Holling
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
The Missing Piece – Shel Silverstein
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Land, My People – the Dalai Lama
Man on Superman – George Bernard Shaw
Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
Beowulf
It’s a Magical World – Bill Watterson
The Blessing of Pan – Lord Dunsany
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Cunt – Inga Muscio
The Joyous Season – Patrick Dennis
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Henry V – William Shakespeare
Narcissus and Goldmund – Herman Hesse
A House Like a Lotus – Madeleine L’Engle
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
Fargo, Rock City – Chuck Klosterman
The Wind Cannot Read – Richard Mason
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O – Shel Silverstein
Sorrows and Rejoicings – Athol Fugard
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Iron Horse – Henry B. Comstock
Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Rabbit Run – John Updike
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
A Widow for One Year – John Irving
Words Under the Words – Naomi Shihab Nye
Veil – George C. Chesbro
Auntie Mame – Patrick Dennis
Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Sunflower – Simon Wiesenthal
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Tales of the Night – Peter Hoeg
Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
A View from Nowhere – Thomas Nagel
Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures – Howard R. Garis
The Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Phillip K. Dick
The Reawakening – Primo Levi
The Wounded Land – Stephen R. Donaldson
Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
The Search for Delicious – Natalie Babbitt
Petersburg – Andrei Bely
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest – Mollie Katzen
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
A Short History of a Small Place – T.R. Pearson
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda
Memory of Fire: Genesis – Eduardo Galeano
Will You Please be Quiet, Please? – Raymond Carver
Marjorie Morningstar – Herman Wouk
Blackberry Subway Jam – Robert Munsch & Michael Martchenko
The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
The Conquest of America – Tzvetan Todorov
Silverlock – John Myers Myers
Lying Awake – Mark Salzman
Locked in the Cabinet – Robert Reich
The Spell of the Yukon – Robert Service
Time Enough for Love – Robert Heinlein
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Barrayar – Lois McMaster Bujold
Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
The Gameplayers of Zan – M. A. Foster
The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Republic – Plato
Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth
Story of My Life – Helen Keller
The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
The Color of Summer – Reinaldo Arenas
Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nicholas and Alexandra – Robert K. Massie
Six Wars at a Time – Howard Shaff & Audrey Karl Shaff
People of the Lie – M. Scott Peck
The Winter’s Tale – William Shakespeare
Captain Horatio Hornblower – Cecil Scott Forester
And I Don’t Want to Live This Life – Deborah Spungen
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Tom Robbins
Last Call – Tim Powers
Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess
The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
Shogun – James Clavell
Island – Aldous Huxley
Lenin’s Tomb – David Remnick
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
Sybil Flora – Rheta Schreiber
Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
Cash – Johnny Cash
Belinda – Anne Rice
Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers
Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
Easter, 1916 – William Butler Yeats
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy Emmuska
A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
A Kiss for Little Bear – Else Holmelund Minarik
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
Reasons and Persons – Derek Parfit
Green Shadows, White Whale – Ray Bradbury
The Runner – Cynthia Voight
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl
Cold Mountain – Charles Frasier
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor
Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
Untouched by Human Hands – Robert Sheckley
All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
Fox in Sox – Dr. Seuss
Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dhalgren – Samuel Delaney
Coryat’s Crudities – Thomas Coryate
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
Captain Blood – Rafael Sabatini
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
QB VII – Leon Uris
Mrs. Bridge – Evan S. Connell
The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
Contact – Carl Sagan
No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre
Harold and Maude – Colin Higgins
Caucasia – Danzy Senna
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers
One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Clarence Darrow for the Defense – Irving Stone
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse
The Holy Sinner – Thomas Mann
The Lords of Discipline – Pat Conroy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
The Ugly American – William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
Blow Up and Other Stories – Julio Cortazar
High Tide in Tuscon – Barbara Kingsolver
Stories – Katherine Mansfield
Vamps and Tramps – Camille Paglia
Loosely Based – Storey Clayton
Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo – Oscar Zeta Acosta
Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
The Demons – Heimito von Doderer
Season of the Witch – James Leo Herlihy
The Leopard – Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Petrified Forest – Robert E. Sherwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Raising Demons – Shirley Jackson
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegut
Year of the Griffen – Diana Wynne Jones
All Too Human – George Stephanopoulos
Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience – William Blake
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
Kipling Stories and Poems – Caroline Kipling (comp.)
The Gashleycrumb Tinies – Edward Gorey
Tevye’s Daughters – Shalom Aleichem
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
Black Hawk, Grey Falcon – Rebecca West
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
William’s Doll – Charlotte Zolotow
Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches – Bill Durham
House of Stairs – William Sleator
The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Democracy and Distrust – John Hart Ely
Point Counter Point – Aldous Huxley
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Sunk Without Trace – Robert Birley
This Perfect Day – Ira Levin
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Sexing the Body – Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Apology – Plato
In the Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
The 42nd Parallel – John Dos Passos
The Law – Frederic Bastiat
Stoneware and Porcelain – Daniel Rhodes
First Sorrow – Franz Kafka
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
A Comedy of Justice – Robert Heinlein
Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness – Stephen R. Donaldson
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Honeymoon in Purdah – Alison Wearing
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
The Complaint; or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality – Edward Young
Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish – Dr. Seuss
Herland – Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
The System of the World – Neal Stephenson
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
The Shining – Stephen King
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Anne of Windy Poplars – L.M. Montgomery
The Color of Water – James McBride
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
Chaos – James Gleick
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Dead Zone – Stephen King
Knowing God – J.I. Packer
A Bargain for Frances – Russell Hoban
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Taste of Courage – Desmond Flower & James Reeves
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot – Al Franken
Set This House in Order – Matt Ruff
Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons – Bill Watterson
Collected Poems – William Dunbar
Ancient Evenings – Norman Mailer
The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois
Revelations of Divine Love – Julian of Norwich
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
Death is a Lonely Business – Ray Bradbury
The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoirs of a Dublin Woman – Nuala O’Faolain
Cavedweller – Dorothy Allison
Valis – Phillip K. Dick
A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
Amazing Grace – Jonathan Kozol
The Orestia – Aeschylus
Fences – August Wilson
Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
The Big Friendly Giant – Roald Dahl
The Tempest – William Shakespeare
Grendel – John Gardner
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Screwjack – Hunter S. Thompson
Gideon’s Trumpet – Anthony Lewis
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
Julian – Gore Vidal
My Century – Gunter Grass
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Flatland – Edwin A. Abbott
Flood – Andrew Vachss
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
Boy – Roald Dahl
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
The Odyssey – Homer
Illusions – Richard Bach
The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
The Sneetches and Other Stories – Dr. Seuss
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors – Roddy Doyle
Othello – William Shakespeare
The Closing of the American Mind – Alan Bloom
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
Farnham’s Freehold – Robert Heinlein
Web of the Romulans – M.S. Murdock
Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
The Curse of Lono – Hunter S. Thompson
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Revolt of the Cockroach People – Oscar Zeta Acosta
To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
Yukon Ho! – Bill Watterson
Essays – Michel de Montaigne
Camp Concentration – Thomas M. Disch
The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
The Spectator Bird – Wallace Stegner
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Matilda – Roald Dahl
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Future and its Enemies – Virigina Postrel
The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
Summer’s Lease – John Mortimer
The Country Bunny – DuBose Heyward
Beggars in Spain – Nancy Kress
This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sacred Fount – Henry James
The Patchwork Girl of Oz – L. Frank Baum
Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame – Charles Bukowski
Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Palm of the Hand Stories – Yusanari Kawabata
Lucid Dreaming – Stephen Laberge
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths – Ingri & Edgar D’Aulaire
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Whirlwind – James Clavell
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
Borderliners – Peter Hoeg
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
Kentucky Straight – Chris Offutt
Griffin and Sabine – Nick Bantock
Collected Poems – Maya Angelou
A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
Wisdom Energy – Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Excession – Iain M. Banks
The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
Naked in Death – J.D. Robb
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Superfudge – Judy Blume
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
The Ticket that Exploded – William S. Burroughs
Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Steve Martin
The Hairy Ape – Eugene O’Neill
The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley
The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
In Search of Excellence – Tom Peters
Happenstance – Carol Shields
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Long Walk – Stephen King
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut
American Rhapsody – Joe Eszterhas
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World – Haruki Murakami
Krik? Krak! – Edwidge Danticat
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Unholy Spirits – Gary North
Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
Planet of the Blind – Stephen Kuusisto
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Native Son – Richard Wright
Zen Buddhism – D.T. Suzuki
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
What God Wants to Know – Bruce Larson
One for the Money – Janet Evanovich
Earthman’s Burden – Poul Anderson
Where I’m Calling From – Raymond Carver
Phaedo – Plato
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
Amerika – Franz Kafka
Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
The Allegory of Love – C.S. Lewis
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination – Jacob Bronowski
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
Beware the Fish! – Gordon Korman
An Unfortunate Woman – Richard Brautigan
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther
The Memory Book – Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
When Rabbit Howls – Truddi Chase
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Blindness – Jose Saramago
Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle – Betty MacDonald
Vecindarios Excentricos – Rosaria Ferre
Escape from Colditz – P.R. Reid
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
The Theory and Practice of Hell – Eugen Kogon
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise – Peter Abelard & Betty Radice
Emily of New Moon – L.M. Montgomery
The Good Rain – Timothy Egan
The Background – Saki
The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C. Vann Woodward
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The Revenge of the Baby-Sat – Bill Watterson
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Francois Rabelais
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Battle Cry of Freedom – James McPherson
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Billy Sunday and Other Poems – Carl Sandburg
The Business of Fancydancing – Sherman Alexie
Historia Regum Britanniae – Geoffrey of Monmouth
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The View From Saturday – E.L. Konigsburg
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
Beezus and Ramona – Beverly Cleary
Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
When Hell Was in Session – Jeremiah Denton
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like – Jay Williams
The Reciprocating Aircraft Engine – Robert Dunston
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Obnoxious Jerks – Stephen Mane
Synchronicity – Carl Jung
Tom Brown’s School Days – Thomas Hughes
Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Drawing of the Dark – Tim Powers
Mountain Interval – Robert Frost
Scientific Progress Goes Boink – Bill Watterson
Descent into Hell – Charles Williams
The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
Founding Brothers – Joseph J. Ellis
The Irish Princess – Amy J. Fetzer
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
Eight Cousins – Louisa May Alcott
Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
Lysistrata – Aristophanes
I Sing the Body Electric! – Ray Bradbury
Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy
Pop. 1280 – Jim Thompson
The Outline of History – H.G. Wells
San Manuel Bueno, Martir – Miguel de Unamuno
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X & Alex Haley
Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories – Anton Chekhov
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Death and Life of Superman – Roger Stern
The City of Gold and Lead – John Christopher
Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Stanislaw Lem
East of the Sun and West of the Moon – Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt
Technology of Wine Making – Maynard Amerine
The German Ideology – Karl Marx
Ghost Girl – Torey Hayden
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Lord Foul’s Bane – Stephen R. Donaldson
The Sleeping Lord – David Jones
The Collector – John Fowles
Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
Delta of Venus – Anais Nin
Godric – Frederick Buechner
Valley of Decision – Marcia Wallace
The Covenant – James Michener
Half Magic – Edward Eager
The Mouse That Roared – Leonard Wibberly
Little Town on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Valley of Horses – Jean M. Auel
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
A Primer of Freudian Psychology – Calvin Hall
The Road to Mecca – Athol Fugard
The Stranger – Albert Camus
The Village of Stepanchikovo – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Hatcher’s Notebook – Julian Hatcher
Like a Hole in the Head – Jen Banbury
The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Skinny Legs and All – Tom Robbins
The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Norman Mailer
Beneath the Wheel – Hermann Hesse
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Watt – Samuel Beckett
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Civility – Stephen L. Carter
The Chamber – John Grisham
The Brethren – Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
Pieces of a Song – Diane di Prima
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Irish Pedigrees – John O’Hart
Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Fixer – Bernard Malamud
Expecting Adam – Martha Beck
Curtain – Agatha Christie
Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
Machinery’s Handbook – Erik Oberg (ed.)
Ain’t Got Time to Bleed – Jesse Ventura
The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
Antigone – Sophocles
The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham
Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Zombie Survival Guide – Max Brooks
The Hot Zone – Michael Crichton
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay

Author Comments:

From the Blue Pyramid website:

"You’ll never need to seek out book recommendations again! Here we present to you the 778 best books of all-time, as ranked by readers, visitors, friends, and the creator of the Blue Pyramid. This compilation is the result of 46 individuals’ lists of their 25 favorite books."

Note: This time I removed the numbers from the books I have already read, so that I have a kind of countdown for how many are still left to read. Besides, I took out some books I think don't belong in a list like this, like self-help books or dictionaries. So there are now considerably less than 778 books.

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"Blue Pyramid's The Book List (or the 778 Best Books of All-Time)"

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