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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.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  3. 3.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson
  4. 4.
    Aristotle's on the Soul
    by Aristotle
  5. 5.
    The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers Series)
    by Ayi Kwei Armah
  6. 6.
    Surfacing
    by Margaret Atwood
  7. 7.
    Collected Poems: Auden
    by W. H. Auden
  9. 9.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  10. 10.
    ?
    Casualties: Poems 1966-68,
    by J. P Clark-Bekederemo
  11. 11.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  12. 12.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  13. 13.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors
  14. 14.
    The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
    by Elizabeth Bishop
  16. 16.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  17. 17.
    The Tortilla Curtain
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  18. 18.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury
  19. 19.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte
  20. 20.
    Ham on Rye
    by Charles Bukowski
  21. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  22. 22.
    Anatomy of Melancholy (2 vols.)
    by Robert Burton
  23. 23.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  26. 26.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  28. 28.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  29. 29.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  30. 30.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  31. 31.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini
  32. 32.
    ?
    The Plays of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  33. 33.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  34. 34.
    The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Cicero
  35. 35.
    The House on Mango Street

  36. 36.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  37. 37.
    Adolphe and the Red Notebook
    by Benjamin Constant
  38. 38.
    ?
    Stories and Collected Poems
    by Stephen Crane
  40. 40.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski
  41. 41.
  42. 42.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin
  43. 43.
    ?
    Music of Human Flesh
    by Mahmoud Darwish
  44. 44.
    The Girl with the Golden Eyes (The Art of the Novella)
    by Honore de Balzac
  45. 45.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  46. 46.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  47. 47.
    The Fables Of La Fontaine
    by Jean De LA Fontaine
  48. 48.
    ?
    The unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de León
    by Luis de León
  49. 49.
    Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant
  50. 50.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas De Quincey
  51. 51.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville
  52. 52.
    Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror (Absolute Classics)
    by Lope de Vega
  54. 54.
    Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Key Texts)
    by Harold Joachim
  55. 55.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  56. 56.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson
  57. 57.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  59. 59.
    Selected Poems
    by Rita Dove
  60. 60.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  61. 61.
    You Shall Know Our Velocity
    by Dave Eggers
  62. 62.
  63. 63.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  64. 64.
    Emerson's Essays
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  65. 65.
    ?
    Poems for people who don't read poems;
    by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  66. 66.
    In Praise of Folly
    by Erasmus
  68. 68.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  69. 69.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  70. 70.
    ?
  71. 71.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  72. 72.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  73. 73.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  74. 74.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  75. 75.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford
  76. 76.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  77. 77.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  78. 78.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan
  79. 79.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith
  80. 80.
    Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
    by M. K. Gandhi
  81. 81.
    The Beggar's Opera (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Gay
  82. 82.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  84. 84.
    The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm
  85. 85.
    H. D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Hilda Doolittle
  86. 86.
    The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950
    by T. S. Eliot
  87. 87.
    The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton
  88. 88.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  89. 89.
    Second Skin
    by John Hawkes
  90. 90.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  91. 91.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  92. 92.
    Garden of Eden
    by Ernest Hemingway
  93. 93.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl
  94. 94.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  96. 96.
    Magna Carta
    by J. C. Holt
  97. 97.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer
  98. 98.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles
  99. 99.
    ?
    Complete Poems A.E. Housman
    by A.E. Housman
  100. 100.
    Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume
  101. 101.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  102. 102.
    ?
    An Egyptian Childhood (Modern Arabic Writing)
    by Taha Hussein
  103. 103.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  104. 104.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  105. 105.
    In Parenthesis (New York Review Books)
    by David Jones
  106. 106.
  107. 107.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  109. 109.
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally
  110. 110.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  113. 113.
    Complete Verse
    by Rudyard Kipling
  114. 114.
    Season on Earth (Poets, Penguin)
    by Kenneth Koch
  115. 115.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  116. 116.
  118. 118.
    Essays of Elia: The Works of Charles Lamb
    by Charles Lamb
  119. 119.
    Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  120. 120.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  121. 121.
    If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Primo Levi
  122. 122.
    Collected Poems by Vachel Lindsay
    by Vachel Lindsay
  124. 124.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  125. 125.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud
  126. 126.
    An Imaginary Life
    by David Malouf
  127. 127.
  128. 128.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann
  129. 129.
    The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe
    by Christopher Marlowe
  130. 130.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  131. 131.
    Life of Pi: Student Edition
    by Yann Martel
  132. 132.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx
  133. 133.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  134. 134.
    Angela's Ashes
    by Frank McCourt
  135. 135.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers
  136. 136.
    The Egoist
    by George Meredith
  137. 137.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller
  138. 138.
    Selected Poems: 1931-2004
    by Czeslaw Milosz
  139. 139.
    Don Juan
    by Moliere
  140. 140.
    Complete Poems
    by Marianne Moore
  141. 141.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More
  142. 142.
    The Good Apprentice (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Iris Murdoch
  143. 143.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  144. 144.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  145. 145.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul
  147. 147.
    Beyond Good and Evil
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  148. 148.
    Delta of Venus
    by Anais Nin
  149. 149.
    The Octopus
    by Frank Norris
  150. 150.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  151. 151.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  152. 152.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  153. 153.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  154. 154.
    Ovid: The Art of Love
    by Ovid
  155. 155.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  156. 156.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  157. 157.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath
  158. 158.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  159. 159.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  160. 160.
    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope
  161. 161.
    The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Ezra Pound
  162. 162.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon
  163. 163.
    ?
    A Dress of Fire
    by Dalia Ravikovitch
  164. 164.
    Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters
    by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
  165. 165.
    The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
    by Theodore Roethke
  166. 166.
    Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
    by Christina Georgina Rossetti
  167. 167.
    ?
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  168. 168.
    Confessions (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  169. 169.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  170. 170.
    Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
    by Richard Russo
  171. 171.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  172. 172.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  173. 173.
    ?
    Two Essays: Naive and Sentimental Poetry & On The Sublime
    by Friedrich Von Schiller
  174. 174.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw
  175. 175.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  177. 177.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  179. 179.
    Spenser: Faerie Queene
    by A. Hamilton
  180. 180.
    Tender Buttons (Dodo Press)
    by Gertrude Stein
  181. 181.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  182. 182.
    Love (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal
  184. 184.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker
  185. 185.
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind
  186. 186.
  187. 187.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  188. 188.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  189. 189.
    The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]
    by Dylan Thomas
  190. 190.
    Civil Disobedience (Dodo Press)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  191. 191.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  192. 192.
    The Torah

  193. 193.
    Civilization on Trial
    by Arnold J Toynbee
  194. 194.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev
  195. 195.
    The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    by Amos Tutuola
  197. 197.
    The Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike
  198. 198.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire
  199. 199.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  200. 200.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  201. 201.
    World Enough and Time (Voices of the South)
    by Robert Penn Warren
  202. 202.
    The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  203. 203.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  204. 204.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  205. 205.
    Three Plays By Thornton Wilder

  206. 206.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams
  207. 207.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  208. 208.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    by Jeanette Winterson
  209. 209.
    Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
    by Christa Wolf
  210. 210.
    Orlando (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  211. 211.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth
  212. 212.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  213. 213.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats
  214. 214.
    ?
  215. 215.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  216. 216.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  217. 217.
    The Art of War (Shambhala Classics)
    by Sun Tzu
  218. 218.
    Dream of the Red Chamber
    by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
  221. 221.
    The Vimalakirti Sutra

  222. 222.
    Mao: The Unknown Story
    by Jung Chang
  225. 225.
    ?
    Water Margin, the
    by Guanzhong Luo
  226. 226.
    Golden Lotus 4v Set
    by Egerton
  227. 227.
    Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
    by Sima Sima Qian
  228. 228.
    Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu
    by She Lao
  229. 229.
    The Story of the Western Wing
    by Wang Shi-fu
  230. 230.
    ?
    The Travels of Lao Can
    by Liu E
  232. 232.
    The Book of Chuang Tzu (Arkana)

  234. 234.
    The Works of Mencius

  235. 235.
    The I Ching or Book of Changes

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