The 425 Greatest Books of All Time was a list finalized in 1994 on Usenet. As assembled by the expert participants in Usenet's rec.arts.books newsgroup, this can be considered as the most important of all such lists because it incorporated at least eight highly regarded previous lists, including Anthony Burgess' 1984 list of Ninety-nine Novels.

The lists were assembled as a group effort during the years 1989-94. The earliest, collated by Alexander H. McIntire, Jr. of the University of Miami's Graduate School of International Studies, gave recommendations of works found in the following sources:

The Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman. (l)

Great Books of the Western World, Mortimer J. Adler, Editor. (g)

Great Books of the Twentieth Century, as proposed by Adler. (t)

"Books for the College-Bound Student," in Books and the Teen-aged Reader. (c)

The College and Adult Reading List of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). (e)

Books for You, the secondary-level reading list of the NCTE. (b)

"List for the College-Preparatory Student" in Reading in the Secondary School. (s)

"One Hundred Significant Books" from Good Reading (Committee on College Reading). (r)

McIntire prefaced his list with these observations:

:Some considerations:

:Many of the books followed by c, s, b, or e are what I call "teacherly" books--those seen as suitable for secondary English curricula because of literary merit or perceived wholesomeness. They represent, in some case, the biases, professional and personal, of generations of English teachers.

:The books followed by l, g, t, or r might be more legitimately considered "important," either for literary merit or historical importance. They include most of the core "classics" of the Western literary canon and important works of the social and natural sciences.

:Obviously, the same problems of canonicity and ethnic bias that pertain in scholastic debate today can be seen in this list. The major reason for including the "teacherly" works is to offer some alternatives--there are more works by female writers and at least some by non-white writers there. By that same token, the orientation is weighted toward American titles in 19th and 20th Century works, and toward Western works generally.

:Any serious reader will have quarrels with this list. That is as it should be. I have not fudged here. I stress this point to avoid conflict. I did not choose the books included here. To take the smallest example, I don't know why King Lear is not included in the Shakespeare list. I would, however, challenge any serious reader to look through here without finding at least something that sparks your attention and sends you off to the library.

:Finally, realize that these lists are timebound. Many of the original compilations were made in the 1950s and 1960s [when people still read, says my anti-television bias]. There are works here that seemed to be important at the time, but which have wavered in their reputation in the last two or three decades. I would welcome any helpful comments or reasonable sources to add to the database that underlies this project.

Andrew Duchowski of Texas A&M and Mike Morris were responsible for the final 1994 list, and Robert Grumbine collected it in 1999-2000 in his site of book lists. [476] It is posted here in an author/title format as it originally appeared on Usenet.

425 Greatest Books of All Time

The Bible

The New Testament

The Great Conversation (Three volumes of introduction and reference to the set)

Syntopicon 1

Syntopicon 2

Qu'ran

Unknown : The Epic of Gilgamesh

Unknown : The Greek Anthology

Unknown : Medieval Latin Lyrics

Unknown : Beowulf

Homer : The Iliad, The Odyssey

Sappho : Poems

Aeschylus : Tragedies, The Oresteia

Sophocles : Tragedies, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra, The Theban Plays

Euripides : Tragedies, Alcestis, Medea, Hipploytus, Trojan Women, Electra, Bacchae

Lucretius : On the Nature of Things

Thucydides : History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato : Collected dialogues, The Trial and Death of Socrates, The Republic

Aristotle : Ethics, Politics, Collected works, volume I and II

Epicurus : ``Letter to Herodotus, ``Letter to Menoecus

Hippocrates : Collected works, Medical Writings

Galen : On the Natural Faculties

Euclid : The Elements

Archimedes : Collected works

Apollonius of Perga : Conic Sections

Nicomachus of Gerasa : Introduction to Arithmetic

Marcus Aurelius : The Meditations

Apuleius : The Golden Ass

Cicero : Works

Horace : Works

Pindar : Olympians, etc.

Theocritus : Idylls

Julius Caesar : The War in Gaul

Petronius : The Satyricon

Livy : History of Rome

Ovid : Works

Plutarch : Parallel Lives, Moralia

Tacitus : The Annals, The Histories, Agricola, Germania

Epictetus : The Discourses, Encheiridion

Sun Tsu : Art of War

Tu Fu : Poems

Unknown : Classic Japanese Poetry

Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching

Unknown : The Bhagavad-Gita

Ssu-Ma Chien : Records of the Grand Historian of China

Unknown : Catullus

Unknown : The Early Irish Epic

Unknown : The English and Scottish Popular Ballad

Sei Shonagon : The Pillow Book

Abelard and Heloise : Various

Heike Monogatari : Various

Lady Murasaki : The Tale of Genji

Virgil : The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics

Ptolemy : The Almagest

Nicolaus Copernicus : On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Lucian : Works

Plotinus : The Enneads

Saint Augustine : On the Teacher, Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine

Unknown : The Song of Roland

Unknown : The Song of Songs

Unknown : The Nibelungenlied (Volsunga Saga as Scandinavian version)

Unknown : The Mahabharata

Unknown : The Kalevala

Unknown : The Journal of John Woolman

Njal : The Saga

Saint Thomas Aquinas : Summa Theologica, vol. I and II

Dante Alighieri : The New Life, On Monarchy, The Divine Commedy

Geoffrey Chaucer : Troilus and Cressida, The Canterbury Tales

Leonardo da Vinci : Notebooks

Nicolo Machiavelli : The Prince,

Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy

Thomas Malory : Le Morte d'Arthur

John Gardner : Grendel

Mary Stewart : The Crystal Cave, etc.

John Dryden : MacFlecknoe, etc.

Christopher Marlowe : Poems, Doctor Faustus

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Matthew Arnold : Dover Beach

Robert Browning : Collected Works

Emily Dickinson : Collected Works

John Keats : Collected Works

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Collected Works

Alfred Lord Tennyson : Idylls of the King, etc.

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

James Fenimore Cooper : Last of the Mohicans

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe, etc.

Bertold Brecht : Mother Courage

Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun

Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman, Canticle for Liebowitz, Crucible

Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author

August Strindberg : Miss Julie, etc.

John Synge : Playboy of the Western World

Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest

Thornton Wilder : Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth

Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire

e.e. cummings : Collected Works

Gerard Manley Hopkins : Collected Works

A.E. Housman : Collected Works

Theodore Roethke : Collected Works

Joan Didion : Collected Works

Annie Dillard : Collected Works

Loren Eiseley : Immense Journey, etc.

John McPhee : Collected Works

Saki (Munro) : Collected Short Stories

L. Thomas : Collected Works

James Thurber : Carnival, etc.

E. B. White : Essays

Sherwood Anderson : Winesburg, Ohio

F. Scott Fitzgerald : Great Gatsby

John Galsworthy : Forsyte Saga

Ernest Hemingway : The Sun also Rises

Sinclair Lewis : Main Street

John Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

Richard Wright : Native Son

Ray Bradbury : The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451

Anthony Burgess : Enderby, A Clockwork Orange

J. Gardner : October Light

J. Herriot : All Creatures Great Small

J. Knowles : A Separate Peace

H. Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird

T. Morrison : Song of Solomon

A. Paton : Cry the Beloved Country

J.R.R. Tolkien : Lord of the Rings

J. Watson : The Double Helix

Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan

Desiderius Erasmus : The Praise of Folly

Sir Thomas More : Utopia

M. Renault : The King Must Die, etc.

J. William : Augustus

Bede : History of the English Church and People

A.C. Cawley : Everyman Miracle Plays

Ackerman : Backgrounds to Medieval Literature

W. Langland : Piers the Ploughman

E. Hamilton : Mythology, etc.

Martin Luther : Table Talk, Three Treatises

Francois Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel

Marco Polo : The Travels of Marco Polo

John Calvin : Institutes of the Christian Religion

Michel de Montaigne : Essays

William Gilbert : On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Galileo Galilei : The Starry Messenger

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Edmund Spenser : Prothalamion, The Faerie Queene,

Shephearde's Calendar

Sir Francis Bacon : Essays, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum,

New Atlantis

William Shakespeare : Poetry, Plays and Sonnets, Macbeth,

The Tempest

Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

Rand : Atlas Shrugged

Mumford : City in History

Walker : Color Purple

Zukav : Dancing Wu-Li Masters

Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago

Watscon : Double Helix

Herbert : Dune Trilogy

Strunk White : Elements of Style

Rifkin : Entropy

Thompson : Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Abbott : Flatland

Mishima : Forbidden Colors

Asimov : Foundation Trilogy

Rand : Fountainhead

Friedman : Free to Choose

Hofstadter : Godel, Escher, Bach

Mitchell : Gone with the Wind

Pynchon : Gravity's Rainbow

Atwood : Handmaid's Tale

Hersey : Hiroshima

Revel : How Democracies Perish

St. Exupery : Little Prince

Frankl : Man's Search for Meaning

Lewis : Mere Christianity

Abbey : Monkey Wrench Gang

Kerouac : On the Road

Shirer : Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Peck : Road Less Travelled

Leopold : Sand County Almanac

de Beauvoir : Second Sex

Merton : Seven Story Mountain

Hesse : Siddhartha, Steppenwolf

Vonnegut : Slaughterhouse Five

Schumacher : Small Is Beautiful

Heinlein : Stranger in a Strange Land

Kuhn : Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Capra : Tao of Physics

Toffler : Third Wave

Berry : Unsettling of America

Pirsig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Ben Jonson : Volpone, Epigrams, Plays

Izaak Walton : The Compleat Angler

Johannes Kepler : Epitome of Copernican Astronomy,

Concerning the Harmonies of the World

William Harvey : On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals,

On the Circulation of the Blood, On the Generation of Animals

Rene Descartes : Rules for the Direction of the Mind,

Discourse on the Method, Geometry, Meditations on First Philosophy,

and other works

Moliere : Comedies

John Milton : English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes,

Areopagitica, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets,

L'Allegro

William Blake : Selected Works

Blaise Pascal : The Provincial Letters, Pensees,

Scientific Treatises

Sir Isaac Newton : Principia and Optics,

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz : Discourse on Metaphysics,

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Monadology

Benedict de Spinoza : Ethics

Christiaan Huygens : Treatise on Light

John Locke : A Letter Concerning Toleration,

Second Essay Concerning Civil Government,

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,

Thoughts Concerning Education

Jean Baptiste Racine : Tragedies, Phedre

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Tsao Hsueh Chin : The Dream of the Red Chamber

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders

Jonathon Swift : Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub,

Meditations upon a Broomstick, Resolutions when I Come to be Old

Journal to Stella, A Modest Proposal

Choderlos de Laclos : Dangerous Acquaintances

Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Restif de la Bretonne : Monsieur Nicolas

William Congreve : The Way of the World

George Berkeley : The Principles of Human Knowledge

Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu : Persian Letters,

Spirit of Laws

Voltaire : Letters on the English, Candide,

Philosophical Dictionary

Giacomo Casanova : History of My Life

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones

Samuel Johnson : The Vanity of Human Wishes, Dictionary, Rasselas,

The Lives of the Poets

David Hume : Treatise on Human Nature, Essays Moral and Political,

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Montesquieu : Spirit of Laws,

Jean Jaques Rousseau : On the Origin of Inequality,

On the Political Economy, Emile, The Social Contract, Confessions

Adam Smith : The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant : Critique of Pure Reason,

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals,

Critique of Practical Reason, The Science of Right, Critique of Judgment,

Perpetual Peace

Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,

Autobiography

James Boswell : Journal, Life of Samuel Johnson

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier : Elements of Chemistry

John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton : Federalist Papers,

(together with Articles of Confederation,

Constitution of the United States, and Declaration of Independence)

Thomas Jefferson : Writings

Flannery O'Connor : Wise Blood, Collected Works

Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858,

Speeches and Writings 1859-1865

Ulysses S. Grant : Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters

William Tecumseh Sherman : Memoirs

Richard B. Morris, ed. : Basic Documents in American History

Clinton Rossiter, ed. : The Federalist Papers

Jeremy Bentham :

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,

Theory of Fictions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust, Poetry and Truth

Anton Chekhov : Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard

Flann O'Brien : At Swim-Two-Birds

Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter

Eugene O'Neill : Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh,

Long Day's Journey into Night, Ah Wilderness

Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape,

Murphy

E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey, eds. :

Contemporary Drama

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier : Analytical Theory of Heat

William Wordsworth : Poems, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems,

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems, Biographia Literaria

The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Writings on Shakespeare

William Butler Yeats : Collected Poems, Collected Plays,

The Autobiography

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair

Karl von Clausewitz : On War

Stendhal : The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, On Love

Baudelaire : Poems

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan

Arthur Schopenhauer : Studies in Pessimism

Michael Faraday : Chemical History of a Candle,

Experimental Researches in Electricity

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Phenomenology of Spirit,

Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Charles Lyell : Principles of Geology

Auguste Comte : The Positive Philosophy

Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Representative Men, Essays, Journal,

American Scholar

Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales

Alexis de Tocqueville : Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic, On Liberty,

Representative Government, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women,

Charles Darwin : The Origin of Species, the Descent of Man,

Autobiography

Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield,

Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend,

Little Dorrit

Francis Parkman : France and England in North America

Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin

Frederick Douglass : Various

Claude Bernard : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine*

Henry David Thoreau : Civil Disobedience, Walden

A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod

Karl Marx : Capital (together with Communist Manifesto)

George Eliot : Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss

T.S. Eliot : Collected Poems and Collected Plays,

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Walt Whitman : Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas,

Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855),

A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads

Robert Frost : Collected Poems

Lewis Carroll : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

Through the Looking Glass

Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness

E.M. Forster : A Passage to India

Herman Melville : Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener,

Redburn, White-Jacket The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, Pierre

Friedrich Engels : The Communist Manifesto

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment, The Idiot,

The Brothers Karamazov

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary, Three Stories,

A Sentimental Education

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : Journal

Rimbaud : Poems

Henrik Ibsen : Plays, A Doll's House

Count Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace, Anna Karenina, What is Art?,

Twenty-Three Tales, The Kingdom of God is within You

Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

The Mysterious Stranger, Mississippi Writings, The Innocents Abroad,

Roughing It

William James : The Principles of Psychology,

The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragamatism and Four Essays

from The Meaning of Truth, Essays in Radical Empiricism

Henry James : The American, The Ambassadors

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : Thus Spoke Zarathustra,

Beyond Good and Evil, The Geneology of Morals, The Will to Power

Jules Henri Poincare : Science and Hypothesis, Science and Method

Sigmund Freud : The Interpretation of Dreams,

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents,

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Gilbert White : A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne

Robert Burns : Various

George Bernard Shaw : Plays and Prefaces, Pygmalion, Major Barbara

Max Planck : Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory,

Where Is Science Going?, Scientific Autobiography

Henri Bergson : Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory,

Creative Evolution, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

John Dewey : How We Think, Democracy and Education,

Experience and Nature, Logic, the Theory of Inquiry,

Human Nature and Conduct

Alfred North Whitehead : An Introduction to Mathematics,

Science and the Modern World, The Aims of Education and Other Essays,

Adventures of Ideas

George Santayana : The Life of Reason, Skepticism and Animal Faith,*

Persons and Places

John Donne : Selected Works

Nikolai Lenin : The State and Revolution

Marcel Proust : Remembrance of Things Past

Bertrand Russell : The Problems of Philosophy,

The Analsysis of Mind, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth,

Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits

Thomas Mann : The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers

Albert Einstein : The Meaning of Relativity,

On the Method of Theoretical Physics,

The Evolution of Physics (with*L. Infeld )

James Joyce : ``The Dead in Dubliners,

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake

Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando,

The Waves, Room of One's Own

D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers, Women in Love

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World, Collected Essays,

After Many a Summer, Ape and Essence, Island

L.P. Hartley : Facial Justice

Olivia Manning : The Balkans Trilogy (to 1965)

Ivy Compton-Burnett : The Mighty and Their Fall

Joseph Heller : Catch-22

Richard Hughes : The Fox in the Attic

Patrick White : Riders in the Chariot

Angus Wilson : The Old Men at the Zoo, Late Call

James Baldwin : Another Country, Go Tell it on the Mountain

Pamela Hansford Johnson : An Error of Judgment

Malcolm Lowry : Under the Volcano

V.S. Naipaul : A Bend in the River

William Stryon : Sophie's Choice

Brian Aldiss : Life in the West

Russell Hoban : Riddley Walker

David Lodge : How Far Can You Go?

John Kennedy Toole : A Confederacy of Dunces

Alasdair Gray : Lanark

Alexander Theroux : Darconville's Cat

Paul Theroux : The Mosquito Coast

Gore Vidal : Creation

Norman Mailer : The Naked and the Dead, Ancient Evenings,

Armies of the Night

Nevil Shute : No Highway

Elizabeth Bowen : The Heat of the Day

Jaques Maritain : Art and Scholasticism, The Degrees of Knowledge,

The Rights of Man and Natural Law, True Humanism

Franz Kafka : The Trial, The Castle

Arnold Toynbee : A Study of History, Civilization on Trial

Jean Paul Sartre : Nausea, No Exit, Being and Nothingness

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : The First Circle, The Cancer Ward

George Orwell : Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Andre Malraux : Man's Fate

Albert Camus : The Plague, The Stranger, Outsider

Edgar Allan Poe : Short Stories and Other Works, The Raven

Mary McCarthy : The Groves of Academe

Raymond Chandler : The Long Goodbye

Kingsley Amis : Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League

John Braine : Room at the Top

Lawrence Durrell : The Alexandria Quartet (to 1960)

Colin MacInnes : The London Novels (to 1960)

Malcolm Bradbury : The History Man

Brian Moore : The Doctor's Wife

Robert Nye : Falstaff

Erica Jong : How to Save Your Own Life

James Plunkett : Farewell Companions

Paul Scott : Staying On

John Updike : The Coup

J.G. Ballard : The Unlimited Dream Company

Bernard Malamud : The Assistant, Dubin's Lives

Iris Murdoch : The Bell

Alan Sillitoe : Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

T.H. White : The Once and Future King

William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying,

The Mansion

Ian Fleming : Goldfinger

C.P. Snow : Strangers and Brothers (to 1970)

Ernest Hemingway : Short Stories, For Whom the Bell Tolls,

The Old Man and The Sea, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms

Rex Warner : The Aerodrome

Joyce Cary : The Horse's Mouth

Somerset Maugham : The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage

Evelyn Waugh : Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour (to 1961)

Mervyn Peake : Titus Groan

John O'Hara : The Lockwood Concern

Chinua Achebe : A Man of the People

John Barth : Giles Goat-Boy, The End of the Road

Nadine Gordimer : The Late Bourgeois World

Walker Percy : The Last Gentleman

R.K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets

J.B. Priestley : The Image Men

Mordecai Richler : Cocksure

Keith Roberts : Pavane

John Fowles : The French Lieutenant's Woman

Saul Bellow : The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog,

Humboldt's Gift

Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra : Don Quixote

Jorge Luis Borges : Labyrinths, Dreamtigers

Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol : Dead Souls

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev : Fathers and Sons

Arthur Conan Doyle : ``Sherlock Holmes

Alexander Berkman : Various

Doris Lessing : The Golden Notebook

Muriel Spark : The Girls of Slender Means, The Mandelbaum Gate

William Golding : The Spire, The Lord of the Flies

Wilson Harris : Heartland

Christopher Isherwood : A Single Man

Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory, The Defence

Henry Adams : The Education of Henry Adams,

History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson,

History of the United States during the Administration of Madison

Frank Norris : Novels and Essays

W.E.B. Du Bois : Writings

Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories, My Antonia

Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men

Benjamin Franklin : Writings

Fernand Braudel : The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World

in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century

William H. McNeill : The Rise of the West

Will and Ariel Durant : The Story of Civilization

Samuel Eliot Morison : The Oxford History of the American People

Page Smith : A People's History of the United States

E.H. Gombrich : The Story of Art

H.G. Wells : Various

Ford Madox Ford : Parade's End, The Good Soldier

Herbert Read : The Green Child

William Carlos Williams : Poems

Jack London : Novels and Stories, Novels and Social Writings

William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886

Washington Irving : History, Tales, and Sketches,

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry

James Fenimore Cooper : The Leatherstocking Tales vol. I and II

William Sansom : The Body

William Cooper : Scenes from Provincial Life

Budd Schulberg : The Disenchanted

Anthony Powell : A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975)

J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye

Henry Williamson : The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (to 1969)

Herman Wouk : The Caine Mutiny

Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man

Henry Green : Party Going

Edith Wharton : Ethan From

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren : How to Read a Book

Supplementary==

W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. : Poets of the English Language

Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. : The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

==See also

Literature

Reading

External links

Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

IMDb: Angus Wilson, Late Call

Internet Book List