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Much thanks to Emily for starting this list – and hopefully not killing me. I’ve mostly added eastern classics to help get me all Sinicized.

The list of lists can be found here: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html

  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  2. 2.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  3. 3.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  4. 4.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson
  5. 5.
    Aristotle's on the Soul
    by Aristotle
  6. 6.
    The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers Series)
    by Ayi Kwei Armah
  7. 7.
    Surfacing
    by Margaret Atwood
  8. 8.
    Collected Poems: Auden
    by W. H. Auden
  10. 10.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  11. 11.
    ?
    Casualties: Poems 1966-68,
    by J. P Clark-Bekederemo
  12. 12.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  13. 13.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  14. 14.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors
  15. 15.
    The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
    by Elizabeth Bishop
  17. 17.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  18. 18.
    The Tortilla Curtain
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  19. 19.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury
  20. 20.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte
  21. 21.
    Ham on Rye
    by Charles Bukowski
  22. 22.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  23. 23.
    Anatomy of Melancholy (2 vols.)
    by Robert Burton
  24. 24.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler
  25. 25.
  26. 26.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  27. 27.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  29. 29.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  30. 30.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  31. 31.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  32. 32.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini
  33. 33.
    ?
    The Plays of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  34. 34.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  35. 35.
    The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Cicero
  36. 36.
    The House on Mango Street

  37. 37.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  38. 38.
    Adolphe and the Red Notebook
    by Benjamin Constant
  39. 39.
    ?
    Stories and Collected Poems
    by Stephen Crane
  41. 41.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin
  44. 44.
    ?
    Music of Human Flesh
    by Mahmoud Darwish
  45. 45.
    The Girl with the Golden Eyes (The Art of the Novella)
    by Honore de Balzac
  46. 46.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  47. 47.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  48. 48.
    The Fables Of La Fontaine
    by Jean De LA Fontaine
  49. 49.
    ?
    The unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de León
    by Luis de León
  50. 50.
    Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant
  51. 51.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas De Quincey
  52. 52.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville
  53. 53.
    Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror (Absolute Classics)
    by Lope de Vega
  55. 55.
    Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Key Texts)
    by Harold Joachim
  56. 56.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  57. 57.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson
  58. 58.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  60. 60.
    Selected Poems
    by Rita Dove
  61. 61.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  62. 62.
    You Shall Know Our Velocity
    by Dave Eggers
  63. 63.
  64. 64.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  65. 65.
    Emerson's Essays
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  66. 66.
    ?
    Poems for people who don't read poems;
    by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  67. 67.
    In Praise of Folly
    by Erasmus
  69. 69.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  70. 70.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  71. 71.
    ?
  72. 72.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  73. 73.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  74. 74.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  75. 75.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  76. 76.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford
  77. 77.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  78. 78.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  79. 79.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan
  80. 80.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith
  81. 81.
    Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
    by M. K. Gandhi
  82. 82.
    The Beggar's Opera (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Gay
  83. 83.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  85. 85.
    The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm
  86. 86.
    H. D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Hilda Doolittle
  87. 87.
    The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950
    by T. S. Eliot
  88. 88.
    The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton
  89. 89.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  90. 90.
    Second Skin
    by John Hawkes
  91. 91.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  92. 92.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  93. 93.
    Garden of Eden
    by Ernest Hemingway
  94. 94.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl
  95. 95.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  97. 97.
    Magna Carta
    by J. C. Holt
  98. 98.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer
  99. 99.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles
  100. 100.
    ?
    Complete Poems A.E. Housman
    by A.E. Housman
  101. 101.
    Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume
  102. 102.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  103. 103.
    ?
    An Egyptian Childhood (Modern Arabic Writing)
    by Taha Hussein
  104. 104.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  105. 105.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  106. 106.
    In Parenthesis (New York Review Books)
    by David Jones
  107. 107.
  108. 108.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  110. 110.
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally
  111. 111.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  114. 114.
    Complete Verse
    by Rudyard Kipling
  115. 115.
    Season on Earth (Poets, Penguin)
    by Kenneth Koch
  116. 116.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  117. 117.
  119. 119.
    Essays of Elia: The Works of Charles Lamb
    by Charles Lamb
  120. 120.
    Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  121. 121.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  122. 122.
    If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Primo Levi
  123. 123.
    Collected Poems by Vachel Lindsay
    by Vachel Lindsay
  125. 125.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  126. 126.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud
  127. 127.
    An Imaginary Life
    by David Malouf
  128. 128.
  129. 129.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann
  130. 130.
    The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe
    by Christopher Marlowe
  131. 131.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  132. 132.
    Life of Pi: Student Edition
    by Yann Martel
  133. 133.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx
  134. 134.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  135. 135.
    Angela's Ashes
    by Frank McCourt
  136. 136.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers
  137. 137.
    The Egoist
    by George Meredith
  138. 138.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller
  139. 139.
    Selected Poems: 1931-2004
    by Czeslaw Milosz
  140. 140.
    Don Juan
    by Moliere
  141. 141.
    Complete Poems
    by Marianne Moore
  142. 142.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More
  143. 143.
    The Good Apprentice (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Iris Murdoch
  144. 144.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  145. 145.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  146. 146.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul
  148. 148.
    Beyond Good and Evil
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  149. 149.
    Delta of Venus
    by Anais Nin
  150. 150.
    The Octopus
    by Frank Norris
  151. 151.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  152. 152.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  153. 153.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  154. 154.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  155. 155.
    Ovid: The Art of Love
    by Ovid
  156. 156.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  157. 157.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  158. 158.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath
  159. 159.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  160. 160.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  161. 161.
    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope
  162. 162.
    The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Ezra Pound
  163. 163.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon
  164. 164.
    ?
    A Dress of Fire
    by Dalia Ravikovitch
  165. 165.
    Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters
    by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
  166. 166.
    The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
    by Theodore Roethke
  167. 167.
    Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
    by Christina Georgina Rossetti
  168. 168.
    ?
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  169. 169.
    Confessions (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  170. 170.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  171. 171.
    Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
    by Richard Russo
  172. 172.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  173. 173.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  174. 174.
    ?
    Two Essays: Naive and Sentimental Poetry & On The Sublime
    by Friedrich Von Schiller
  175. 175.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw
  176. 176.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  178. 178.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  180. 180.
    Spenser: Faerie Queene
    by A. Hamilton
  181. 181.
    Tender Buttons (Dodo Press)
    by Gertrude Stein
  182. 182.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  183. 183.
    Love (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal
  185. 185.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker
  186. 186.
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind
  187. 187.
  188. 188.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  189. 189.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  190. 190.
    The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]
    by Dylan Thomas
  191. 191.
    Civil Disobedience (Dodo Press)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  192. 192.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  193. 193.
    The Torah

  194. 194.
    Civilization on Trial
    by Arnold J Toynbee
  195. 195.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev
  196. 196.
    The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    by Amos Tutuola
  198. 198.
    The Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike
  199. 199.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire
  200. 200.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  201. 201.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  202. 202.
    World Enough and Time (Voices of the South)
    by Robert Penn Warren
  203. 203.
    The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  204. 204.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  205. 205.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  206. 206.
    Three Plays By Thornton Wilder

  207. 207.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams
  208. 208.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  209. 209.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    by Jeanette Winterson
  210. 210.
    Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
    by Christa Wolf
  211. 211.
    Orlando (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  212. 212.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth
  213. 213.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  214. 214.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats
  215. 215.
    ?
  216. 216.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  217. 217.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  218. 218.
    The Art of War (Shambhala Classics)
    by Sun Tzu
  219. 219.
    Dream of the Red Chamber
    by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
  222. 222.
    The Vimalakirti Sutra

  223. 223.
    Mao: The Unknown Story
    by Jung Chang
  226. 226.
    ?
    Water Margin, the
    by Guanzhong Luo
  227. 227.
    Golden Lotus 4v Set
    by Egerton
  228. 228.
    Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
    by Sima Sima Qian
  229. 229.
    Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu
    by She Lao
  230. 230.
    The Story of the Western Wing
    by Wang Shi-fu
  231. 231.
    ?
    The Travels of Lao Can
    by Liu E
  233. 233.
    The Book of Chuang Tzu (Arkana)

  235. 235.
    The Works of Mencius

  236. 236.
    The I Ching or Book of Changes

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