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

Submitted by washwords on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 03:15
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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
  • 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
  • Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 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
  • Paradise Lost – John Milton
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
  • Watership Down – Richard Adams
  • Puddinhead Wilson
  • *O Henry Stories
  • 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
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • 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
  • King Lear – William Shakespeare
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  • Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • 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
  • Removed Harry Potter - c'mon! You're kidding, right? ;) shudders at HP between the Inferno and Twain.
  • 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
  • The Way Things Work – David Macauly
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berndt
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
  • The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  • A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O’Brien
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
  • The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  • Prufrock and Other Observations – T.S. Eliot
  • Exodus – Leon Uris
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More – Roald Dahl
  • Danny, the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
  • Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
  • A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
  • The Chosen – Chaim Potok
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  • The Iliad – Homer
  • Now We are Six – A.A. Milne
  • 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 Federalist Papers – James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay
  • The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  • The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  • Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler
  • Babar the King – Jean De Brunhoff
  • Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
  • 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
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
  • Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
  • A Separate Peace – John Knowles
  • Six Easy Pieces – Richard Feynman
  • When We Were Very Young – A.A. Milne
  • American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
  • The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
  • Personal History – Katharine Graham
  • The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  • The Missing Piece – Shel Silverstein
  • Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
  • The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
  • Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  • Beowulf
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
  • The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
  • The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Henry V – William Shakespeare
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  • The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
  • I Ching – Richard John Lynn (trans.)
  • The Missing Piece Meets the Big O – Shel Silverstein
  • 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
  • Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
  • A History of English Speaking Peoples – Winston Churchill
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • Empire Falls – Richard Russo
  • Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  • 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
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  • The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda
  • Marjorie Morningstar – Herman Wouk
  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
  • The Republic – Plato
  • Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth
  • Story of My Life – Helen Keller
  • The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
  • People of the Lie – M. Scott Peck
  • The Winter’s Tale – William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • The Pearl – John Steinbeck
  • Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss
  • Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
  • A Kiss for Little Bear – Else Holmelund Minarik
  • Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
  • The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Cold Mountain – Charles Frasier
  • Getting the Love You Want, Guide for Couples – Harvelle Hendrix
  • Fox in Sox – Dr. Seuss
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
  • No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Harold and Maude – Colin Higgins
  • High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
  • Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
  • 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
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  • A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
  • Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
  • Kipling Stories and Poems – Caroline Kipling (comp.)
  • Tevye’s Daughters – Shalom Aleichem
  • Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
  • William’s Doll – Charlotte Zolotow
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  • The Apology – Plato
  • In the Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
  • Experiments in Mass Communications – Carl I. Hovland
  • Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
  • Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish – Dr. Seuss
  • Herland – Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
  • Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  • Anne of Windy Poplars – L.M. Montgomery
  • The Color of Water – James McBride
  • All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
  • A Bargain for Frances – Russell Hoban
  • To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  • The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois
  • Our Town – Thornton Wilder
  • The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
  • Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Tempest – William Shakespeare
  • Grendel – John Gardner
  • The Constitution of the United States of America – Constitutional Convention of 1787 et al.
  • Metamorphoses – Ovid
  • The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • Illusions – Richard Bach
  • The Sneetches and Other Stories – Dr. Seuss
  • Othello – William Shakespeare
  • The Closing of the American Mind – Alan Bloom
  • 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
  • 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
  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Love – Raymond Carver
  • Matilda – Roald Dahl
  • The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
  • The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
  • The Elements of Style – William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
  • This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame – Charles Bukowski
  • 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
  • Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
  • Borderliners – Peter Hoeg
  • The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
  • Griffin and Sabine – Nick Bantock
  • Collected Poems – Maya Angelou
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold Kushner
  • The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
  • Superfudge – Judy Blume
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Plague – Albert Camus
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
  • Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
  • All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein
  • 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
  • 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
  • Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther
  • The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
  • The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
  • Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
  • Battle Cry of Freedom – James McPherson
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  • Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
  • Beezus and Ramona – Beverly Cleary
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Synchronicity – Carl Jung
  • Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Founding Brothers – Joseph J. Ellis
  • I Sing the Body Electric! – Ray Bradbury
  • Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X & Alex Haley
  • Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories – Anton Chekhov
  • The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon – Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt
  • 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
  • The Mouse That Roared – Leonard Wibberly
  • Little Town on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  • A Primer of Freudian Psychology – Calvin Hall
  • The Stranger – Albert Camus
  • Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
  • The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
  • Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
  • Watt – Samuel Beckett
  • Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  • Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Antigone – Sophocles
  • The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maughm
  • Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  • Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  • Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  • Free Agent Nation - Daniel Pink
  • Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
  • Paul Bunyan (legend)
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener, Melville
  • East of Eden, John Steinbeck
  • Nickel Mountain, John Gardner
  • The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
  • Are you There God? It's Me Margaret -- Judy Blue
  • The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  • Grimm's Brothers Fairy Tales
  • The God of Small Things - Anduhiti Roy
  • The Pocketbook of O Henry Stories
  • Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson
  • The WPA Guide to NY City - WPA, U.S. Government
  • The O.E.D. (Oxford English Dictionary)
  • The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, ed., Hirsh
  • My Life and Times - James Thurber
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - D. Eggers
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: There are actually only 777 books.

Comment: 12/23 this is washwords' listing of the books she's read on this list and ones she'd like to add. thanks!

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