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

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."

(found at: http://bluepyramid.org/library/bookcomp.htm)

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1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
2. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
3.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
4. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
5. Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
6. The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
7. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
8. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
9. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
by Orson Scott Card
  
10. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
11. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
12.
?
 The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
  
13. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
15. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
16. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
18. I, Robot (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Isaac Asimov
  
19. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
20. Dune
by Frank Herbert
  
21.
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 LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
by GABR GARCIAMARQUEZ
  
22. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
23. Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
25. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
26. Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Edition
by Hermann Hesse
  
27.
?
 The Stand
by Stephen King
  
28. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
29. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
30.
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 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
31. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
  
32. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
33. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
34. Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
35.
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 Roots
by Alex Haley
  
36. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
  
37. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
38. Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
39. Cat's Cradle (Essential.penguin)
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
40. Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
  
41. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
42. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
43. Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
44. A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
  
45. The World According To Garp
by John Irving
  
46. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
47. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
48. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
  
49. Black Hawk Down
by Mark Bowden
  
50. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
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Created by Vesra on Aug 22, 2007.