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Harvard Bookstore Staff's Favorite 100 Books

These are the 100 favorite books of the staff at the Harvard Bookstore as listed on their website.

Please, if you disagree with the list do NOT change it. It is THEIR favorite list not yours. Instead create a new list that you feel is better so we can all work on that one too :)

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1. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
  
2. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
  
3. The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Paul Auster
  
4. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
5. The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
6. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
7. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
8. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
10. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
11. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.M. Dostoevsky
  
12. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
13. Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
14. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
15. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
16. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
17. Perfume (MTI)
by Patrick Suskind
  
18. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
19. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
20. The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
21. Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
  
22. Dracula (Enriched Classics)
by Bram Stoker
  
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 The Eagles Die Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austria
by George R. Marek
  
24. Emotionally Weird
by Kate Atkinson
  
25. The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
  
26. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
  
27. Kitchen (A Black cat book)
by Banana Yoshimoto
  
28. London Fields
by Martin Amis
  
29. Moise and the World of Reason
by Tennessee Williams
  
30. Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
  
31. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
32. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
33. The Tortilla Curtain
by T.Coraghessan Boyle
  
34. Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)
by Georges Bataille
  
35. Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
  
36. A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
  
37. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
38. The Counterfeiters: A Novel
by Andre Gide
  
39. Bell Jar (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath
  
40. Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat
  
41. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
42. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
43. Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One
by Patricia C. Wrede
  
44. The Earthsea Quartet (Roc)
by Ursula K.Le Guin
  
45. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
by Mike Davis
  
46. Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
  
47. The History Of The Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
48. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Julia Alvarez
  
49. Kabuki: Circle of Blood
by David Mack
  
50. Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
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Created by Harleth on May 06, 2007.