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

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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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Creating Minds – Howard Gardner
  • Random House Dictionary of the American Language – Jess Stein (ed.)
  • The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman – Abbie Hoffman
  • 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
  • Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • The Urantia Book – Urantia Foundation
  • 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
  • Reagan: A Life in Letters – Ronald Reagan
  • The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
  • 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
  • My Life in Christ – St. John of Kronstadt
  • 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
  • Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha – Mohandas Gandhi
  • 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
  • I Ching – Richard John Lynn (trans.)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Basic Facts About the United Nations – UN Department of Public Information
  • 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
  • Et Nox Facta Est – Victor Hugo
  • 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
  • Mathematical Methods for Physicists – George B. Arfken
  • Sybil Flora – Rheta Schreiber
  • Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan
  • Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  • Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss
  • Leading Minds – Howard Gardner
  • Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  • It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
  • Cash – Johnny Cash
  • Belinda – Anne Rice
  • Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & Bill Ury
  • Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
  • Le Morte D’Arthur – Thomas Mallory
  • 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
  • Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History – William Saffire (ed.)
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl
  • Cold Mountain – Charles Frasier
  • White Noise – Don DeLillo
  • Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
  • Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor
  • Weapons of Chess – Bruce Pandolfini
  • Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
  • Getting the Love You Want, Guide for Couples – Harvelle Hendrix
  • 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
  • The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
  • What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  • Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read – Bernice Cullinan
  • 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
  • Exploring Social Psychology – David G. Myers
  • Vamps and Tramps – Camille Paglia
  • Loosely Based – Storey Clayton
  • The Art of Electronics – Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
  • Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
  • Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana
  • Human Scale Development – Manfred Max-Neef
  • 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
  • The New Encyclopaedia (1910) – H.C. O’Neill (ed.)
  • 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
  • Experiments in Mass Communications – Carl I. Hovland
  • 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
  • A Welsh Classical Dictionary – Peter C. Bartrum
  • 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
  • Stillwell and the American Experience in China – Barbara W. Tuchman
  • A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
  • Amazing Grace – Jonathan Kozol
  • Just and Unjust Wars – Michael Walzer
  • The Orestia – Aeschylus
  • Cultural Politics of Everyday Life – John Shotter
  • Fences – August Wilson
  • Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Big Friendly Giant – Roald Dahl
  • The Tempest – William Shakespeare
  • Grendel – John Gardner
  • The Constitution of the United States of America – Constitutional Convention of 1787 et al.
  • 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
  • Railroads of Nevada – David F. Myrick
  • 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
  • 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 Future and its Enemies – Virigina Postrel
  • The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
  • Summer’s Lease – John Mortimer
  • The Country Bunny – DuBose Heyward
  • The Elements of Style – William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
  • 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
  • The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry – Walter Pater
  • 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
  • Airport Planning – Charles Froesch & Walther Prokosch
  • The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
  • Wisdom Energy – Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  • Excession – Iain M. Banks
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold Kushner
  • 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
  • Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  • Planet of the Blind – Stephen Kuusisto
  • Secrets of the Great Pyramid – Peter Tompkins
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rules and Order (vol. 1 of Law, Legislation, and Liberty) – Friedrich August von Hayek
  • 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
  • What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child – Glenn Doman & David Melton
  • 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
  • The Truly Disadvantaged – William Julius Wilson
  • Conspiranoia – Devon Jackson
  • 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
  • French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating – Mary Anne Cohen
  • 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 Maughm
  • 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
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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.

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