====== Book Lists ====== ===== Reddit's Favourite Books ===== [[http://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/c0udvs9|source]] - Douglas Adams: //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// - George Orwell: //1984// - **Frank Herbert: //Dune//** - Kurt Vonnegut: //Slaughterhouse 5// - **Orson Scott Card: //Ender's Game//** - Aldous Huxley: //Brave New World// - J. D. Salinger: //The Catcher in the Rye// - Various: //The Bible// - Neal Stephenson: //Snow Crash// - J.K. Rowling: //Harry Potter Series// - **Robert A. Heinlein: //Stranger in a Strange Land//** - Richard P. Feynman: //Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!// - Harper Lee: //To Kill A Mockingbird// - Isaac Asimov: //The Foundation Saga// - William Gibson: //Neuromancer// - Bill Watterson: //Calvin and Hobbes// - Jared Diamond: //Guns, Germs, and Steel// - Joseph Heller: //Catch-22// - Robert M. Pirsig: //Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance// - Hermann Hesse: //Siddhartha// - Richard Dawkins: //The Selfish Gene// - Douglas Hofstadter: //Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid// - Lao Tse: //Tao Te Ching// - Mark Z. Danielewski: //House of Leaves// - Lois Lowry: //The Giver// - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: //Crime and Punishment// - George Orwell: //Animal Farm// - Howard Zinn: //A People's History of the United States// - J. R. R. Tolkien: //The Lord of the Rings// - Daniel Quinn: //Ishmael// - Stephen Hawking: //A Brief History of Time// - Vladimir Nabokov: //Lolita// - Alexandre Dumas: //The Count of Monte Cristo// - Philip Pullman: //His Dark Materials Trilogy// - Albert Camus: //The Stranger// - Dr. Seuss: //Various// - Cormac McCarthy: //The Road// - **William Golding: //Lord of the Flies//** - Jon Stone and Michael Smollin: //The Monster At The End Of This Book// - **Hunter S. Thompson: //Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas//** - Bill Bryson: //A Short History of Nearly Everything// - Phillip K. Dick: //Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep// - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: //A Hundred Years of Solitude// - Sun Tzu: //The Art of War// - Dale Carnegie: //How to Win Friends and Influence People// - Daniel Keyes: //Flowers For Algernon// - Dan Simmons: //The Hyperion Cantos// - John Kennedy Toole: //A Confederacy of Dunces// - Various: //The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights// - Kurt Vonnegut: //Cat's Cradle// - Walter M. Miller, Jr: //A Canticle for Leibowitz// - Homer: //Odyssey// - Ray Bradbury: //Fahrenheit 451// - **F. Scott Fitzgerald: //The Great Gatsby//** - George RR Martin: //A Song of Ice and Fire// - Fyodor Dostoevsky: //The Brothers Karamazov// - Larry Niven: //Ringworld// - George RR Martin: //A Game of Thrones// - Antoine de Saint Exupéry: //The Little Prince// - Kevin Mitnick: //The Art of Deception// - Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt: //Freakonomics// - Robert A. Heinlein: //The Moon is a Harsh Mistress// - Michael Pollan: //The Omnivore's Dilemma// - Joseph Conrad: //Heart of Darkness// - Joe Haldeman: //The Forever War// - Mark Twain: //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: //Notes From Underground// - James Loewen: //Lies My Teacher Told Me// - Tar¿ Gomi: //Everybody Poops// - **Charles Darwin: //On the Origin of Species//** - Malcolm X with Alex Haley: //The Autobiography of Malcolm X// - David Wong: //John Dies at the End// - Karl Marx: //The Communist Manifesto// - Carl Sagan: //Contact// - Anthony Burgess: //A Clockwork Orange// - Niccolò Machiavelli: //The Prince// - Ayn Rand: //Atlas Shrugged// - **Neal Stephenson: //The Diamond Age//** - Leo Tolstoy: //War and Peace// - Stephen King: //The Stand// - Jack Kerouac: //The Dharma Bums// - J. R. R. Tolkien: //The Hobbit// - Herman Melville: //Moby Dick// - Michael Shermer: //Why People Believe Weird Things// - **Milan Kundera: //The Unbearable Lightness of Being//** - Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky: //Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media// - **Isaac Asimov: //Asimov's Guide to the Bible//** - **Ernest Hemingway: //The Old Man and the Sea//** - David Foster Wallace: //Infinite Jest// - Jared Diamond: //Collapse// - Miguel de Cervantes: //Don Quixote// - James Gleick: //Chaos// - Neil Gaiman: //American Gods// - Robert A. Heinlein: //Starship Troopers// - Mark Haddon: //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime// - Tom G. Stevens: //You Can Choose to Be Happy// - James Howard Kunstler: //The Geography of Nowhere// - Erich Maria Remarque: //All Quiet on the Western Front// - Adolf Hitler: //Mein Kampf// - Voltaire: //Candide// - Jack Ketchum: //The Girl Next Door// - Michael Pollan: //In Defense of Food// - Stephen King: //The Dark Tower// - **Chuck Palahniuk: //Fight Club//** - Richard Dawkins: //The Greatest Show on Earth// - Scott Nearing: //The Making of a Radical// - Andrew MacDonald: //The Turner Diaries// - China Mieville: //The Scar// - **Hermann Hesse: //Steppenwolf//** - Sarah Palin: //Going Rogue// - Marquis De Sade: //120 Days of Sodom// - Arthur C Clarke: //Rendezvous with Rama// - Margaret Atwood: //Oryx and Crake// - Friedrich Nietzsche: //Beyond Good and Evil// - **Thomas Pynchon: //Gravity's Rainbow//** - **William Burroughs: //Naked Lunch//** - Arthur C Clarke: //Childhood's End// - John Steinbeck: //Of Mice and Men// - MA Foster: //The Book of Ler// - Carl Sagan: //The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark// - Dalton Trumbo: //Johnny Got His Gun// - Neal Stephenson: //Cryptonomicon// - **Richard Adams: //Watership Down//** - Kurt Vonnegut: //Breakfast of Champions// - Fernand Braudel: //Civilization and Capitalism// - Chuck Klosterman: //Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs// - Vernor Vinge: //A Fire Upon the Deep// - Kevin J Anderson: //The Saga of Seven Suns// - The Grapes of Wrath: //The Grapes of Wrath// - Bret Easton Ellis: //American Psycho// - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: //The Mote in God's Eye// - Noam Chomsky: //The Chomsky Reader// - Stephen Jay Gould: //The Panda's Thumb// - Edwin Abbot: //Flatland// - Jack Kerouac : //On the Road// - Richard Dawkins: //The God Delusion// - Charles Rosen: //The Classical Style// - Sharon Kay Penman: //Here Be Dragons// - Ronald Reagan: //An American Life// - Carl Sagan: //Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space// - Friedman & Felleisen: //The Little Schemer// - Henry David Thoreau: //Life in the Woods// - Rebecca West: //Black Lamb, Grey Falcon// - **Friedrich Nietzsche: //Thus Spake Zarathustra//** - Neil Gaiman: //Sandman// - Neil Strauss: //The Game// - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: //Good Omens// - CS Lewis: //Mere Christianity// - Henry David Thoreau: //Walden// - Joseph Tainter: //The Collapse of Complex Societies// - **H.P. Lovecraft: //Cthulhu Mythos//** - Alfred Bester: //The Stars My Destination// - **Ken Follett: //The Pillars of the Earth//** - R. Scott Bakker: //The Prince of Nothing// - China Mieville: //Perdido Street Station// - Viktor Frankl: //Man's Search for Meaning// - TS Elliot: //The Wasteland// - Khaled Hosseini: //The Kite Runner// - [kick books]: //Pi to 5 million places// - Steven Pinker: //The Blank Slate// - Ursula K. Le Guin: //The Dispossessed// - Chuck Palahniuk: //Guts// - Søren Kierkegaard: //fear and trembling// - **Ken Kesey: //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest//** - **Haruki Murakami: //Kafka on the Shore//** - James Joyce: //Ulysses// - **Shakespeare: //Macbeth//** - Thomas Sowell: //Basic Economics// - George H. Smith: //Atheism: The Case Against God// - Margaret Atwood: //The Handmaids Tale// - Ernest Hemingway: //For Whom the Bell Tolls// - **Jostein Gaarder: //Sophie's World//** - Charles Bukowski: //Women// - Kim Stanley Robinson: //Red Mars// - Lionel Shriver: //We Need To Talk About Kevin// - Sherwin B. Nuland: //How We Die// - Ludwig Wittgenstein: //Philosophical Investigations// - **Ray Kurzweil: //The singularity is near//** - John Wyndham: //The Day of the Trifids// - Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman): //The Long Walk// - Cormac McCarthy: //Blood Meridian// - Alan Watts: //The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are// - Robert Jordan: //The Wheel of Time// - Brian Green: //The Elegant Universe// - Vikram Seth: //A Suitable Boy// - Gene Wolfe: //Book of the New Sun// - Shakespeare: //King Lear// - Joseph Campbell: //The Power of Myth// - Apollonius of Rhodes: //The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica// - Neal Stephenson: //The Baroque Cycle// - Aristotle: //Nichomachean ethics// - Nelson Mandela: //Long Walk to Freedom// - David Mitchell: //Cloud Atlas// - Mikhail Bulgakov: //The Master and Margarita// - John Wyndham: //The Chrysalids// - Colin Wilson: //The Occult// - Carl Sagan: //Cosmos// - Ayn Rand: //The Fountainhead// - Shakespeare: //Hamlet// - Joseph Campbell: //The Hero with a Thousand Faces// ===== Information is Beautiful on the books everyone must read ===== [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/14/information-beautiful-books-read-100|source]] - To Kill a Mockingbird - 1984 - Catch-22 - Crime and Punishment - One Hundred Years of Solitude - The Catcher in the Rye - The Great Gatsby - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Moby-Dick - The Lord of the Rings - War and Peace - Animal Farm - Anna Karenina - Lolita - Lord of the Flies - Pride and Prejudice - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Grapes of Wrath - The Stranger - Brave New World - Don Quixote - Fahrenheit 451 - Harry Potter - His Dark Materials - Jane Eyre - Les Misérables - Life of Pi - On the Road - Remembrance of Things Past - Slaughterhouse-Five - Wuthering Heights - A Clockwork Orange - A Confederacy of Dunces - Beloved - David Copperfield - For Whom the Bell Tolls - Gone With the Wind - Heart of Darkness - Little Women - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - The Chronicles of Narnia - The Color Purple - The Handmaid's Tale - The Hobbit - The Kite Runner - The Old Man and the Sea - The Road - **The Time Traveler's Wife** - A Prayer for Owen Meany - A Tale of Two Cities - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - All Quiet on the Western Front - Atonement - Dune - Emma - Ender's Game - Invisible Man - Love in the Time of Cholera - Madame Bovary - Memoirs of a Geisha - Middlemarch - Midnight's Children - Of Mice and Men - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Rebecca - The Bell Jar - The Fountainhead - The Good Earth - The Leopard - The Little Prince - The Master and Margarita - The Scarlet Letter - The Sound and the Fury - The Three Musketeers - Ulysses - A Farewell to Arms - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Anne of Green Gables - Atlas Shrugged - Blood Meridian - Cold Comfort Farm - Crash - Disgrace - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Dracula - East of Eden - Foundation - Frankenstein - Great Expectations - Lonesome Dove - Middlesex - Of Human Bondage - Oscar and Lucinda - Persuasion - Possession - Scoop - Sense and Sensibility - Siddhartha - Stranger in a Strange Land - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - The Brothers Karamazov - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - The Da Vinci Code - The Glass Bead Game - The Jungle - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - The Name of the Rose - The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Remains of the Day - The Tin Drum - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - The Wind in the Willows - Twilight - Underworld - Vanity Fair - Watership Down - Winnie the Pooh - 7th heaven - A Bend in the River - A Christmas Carol - A Dance to the Music of Time - A darker domain - A Fine Balance - A most wanted man - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - A Suitable Boy - A Thousand Acres - All the colours of darkness - American Gods - American Pastoral - Andersonville - As I Lay Dying - Austerlitz - Bleak House - Breakfast of Champions - Breathing Lessons - Brideshead Revisited - Bridget Jones's Diary - Candide - Charlotte's Web - Cider with Rosie - Cloud Atlas - Cranford - Cry, the Beloved Country - Cryptonomicon - Decline and Fall - Eclipse - Exit Music - Far From the Madding Crowd - Fight Club - Flowers for Algernon - Foreign Affairs - Gilead - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Gravity's Rainbow - Gulliver's Travels - Gypsy - How Late it Was, How Late - Humboldt's Gift - Hunger - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Independence Day - Infinite Jest - Invisible Cities - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Jude the Obscure - La Condition Humaine - Le Grand Meaulnes - Life: A User's Manual - Little Dorritt - London Fields - Lucky Jim - Mrs Dalloway - My Name Is Asher Lev - My Name is Red - Naked Lunch - New Moon - Night - Oliver Twist - One of Ours - Pale Fire - Paths of glory - Robinson Crusoe - Schindler's Ark - Star Maker - Staying On - Suite Francaise - Tales of the South Pacific - The Adventures of Augie March - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Age of Innocence - The Big Sleep - The Blind Assassin - The Caine Mutiny - The Cairo Trilogy - The Count of Monte Cristo - The Famished Road - The Gathering - The God of Small Things - The Golden Notebook - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - The Home and the World - The Hound of the Baskervilles - The House of Mirth - The Idiot - The Line of Beauty - The Lovely Bones - The Magic Mountain - The Magnificent Ambersons - The Man Without Qualities - The Moonstone - The Piano Teacher - The Pillars of the Earth - The Poisonwood Bible - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - The Red and the Black - The Savage Detectives - The Secret Garden - The Secret History - The Shipping News - The Sorrows of Young Werther - The Sound and the Fury - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - The Sun Also Rises - The Tale of Genji - The Trial - The War of the Worlds - The Wasp Factory - The White Tiger - The Woman in White - Things Fall Apart - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - To the Lighthouse - Tom Jones - Treasure Island - True History of the Kelly Gang - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Under the Volcano - Walden - Where the Wild Things Are - Wolf Hall - Zazie in the Metro - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ===== The 100 Essential Books You Should Have Read in College ===== [[http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/07/30/the-100-essential-books-you-should-have-read-in-college/|source]] - Anonymous: //Beowulf// - Homer: //The Iliad// - Homer: //The Odyssey// - Plato: //The Republic// - Aeschylus: //Oresteia// - Sophocles: //Oedipus Rex// - Virgil: //The Aeneid// - George Orwell: //1984// - Joseph Conrad: //Heart of Darkness// - Jonathan Swift: //Gulliver's Travels// - Voltaire: //Candide// - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: //Crime and Punishment// - Miguel de Cervantes: //Don Quixote// - William Faulkner: //The Sound and the Fury// - Gustave Flaubert: //Madame Bovary// - Joseph Heller: //Catch 22// - **Mary Shelley: //Frankenstein//** - Herman Melville: //Bartleby, the Scrivener// - Ernest Hemingway: //The Sun Also Rises// - Franz Kafka: //In the Penal Colony// - Milan Kundera: //The Unbearable Lightness of Being// - Aldous Huxley: //A Brave New World// - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: //One Hundred Years of Solitude// - Vladamir Nobokov: //Lolita// - F. Scott Fitzgerald: //The Great Gatsby// - John Steinbeck: //Cannery Row// - John Steinbeck: //The Grapes of Wrath// - Charles Dickens: //A Tale of Two Cities// - Kurt Vonnegut: //Slaughterhouse Five// - James Fenimore Cooper: //The Last of the Mohicans// - Erich Maria Remarque: //All Quiet on the Western Front// - Ernest Hemingway: //A Farewell to Arms// - Upton Sinclair: //The Jungle// - Tim O'Brien: //The Things They Carried// - David Foster Wallace: //Infinite Jest// - Nikolai Gogol: //Dead Souls// - Richard Adams: //Watership Down// - Ray Bradbury: //Dandelion Wine// - Bohumil Hrabal: //I Served the King of England// - J.R.R. Tolkein: //Lord of the Rings// - Cormac McCarthy: //The Road// - Haruki Murakami: //The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle// - Zadie Smith: //V// - Anthony Burgess: //A Clockwork Orange// - Mikhail Bulgakov: //The Master and Margarita// - Chinua Achebe: //Things Fall Apart// - Toni Morrison: //Beloved// - Ralph Ellison: //Invisible Man// - Alice Walker: //The Color Purple// - Richard Wright: //Native Son// - Willa Cather: //My Antonia// - Charlotte Bronte: //Jane Eyre// - **Harriet Beecher Stowe: //Uncle Tom's Cabin//** - Frederick Douglass: //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass// - Benjamin Franklin: //The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin// - Karl Marx: //The Communist Manifesto// - Niccolo Machiavelli: //The Prince// - Thomas Paine: //The Rights of Man// - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: //The Social Contract// - Booker T. Washington: //Up From Slavery// - **Albert Camus: //The Stranger//** - //The Bible// - Edith Hamilton: //Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes// - Saint Augustine: //Confessions// - Herman Hesse: //Siddhartha// - **Immanuel Kant: //Critique of Pure Reason//** - Friedrich Nietzsche: //Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All// - Jean-Paul Sartre: //Being and Nothingness// - Ayn Rand: //Atlas Shrugged// - The Dalai Lama: //The Art of Happiness// - William James: //The Varieties of Religious Experience// - James George Frazer: //The Golden Bough// - Samuel Beckett: //Waiting for Godot// - Anton Chekov: //The Cherry Orchard// - Dante: //The Divine Comedy// - Tennessee Williams: //The Glass Menagerie// - William Shakespeare: //Hamlet// - **John Milton: //Paradise Lost//** - Moliere: //The Misanthrope// - **Johann von Goethe: //Faust//** - Henrik Ibsen: //A Doll's House// - Bertolt Brecht: //Mother Courage and Her Children// - Charles Darwin: //Origin of Species// - Stephen Hawking: //A Brief History of Time// - Jared Diamond: //Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies// - Rachel Carson: //Silent Spring// - **James D. Watson: //The Double Helix//** - Richard Dawkins: //A River Out of Eden// - Stephen Jay Gould: //The Mismeasure of Man// - **Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell: //Principia Mathematica//** - Walter Benjamin: //Illuminations// - Vasari: //The Lives of the Artists// - Alberti: //On Painting// - Aristotle: //Poetics// - Ernest H. Gombrich: //Art and Illusion// - Henry David Thoreau: //Walden// - Malcolm Gladwell: //The Tipping Point// - Strunk and White: //The Elements of Style// - Sun Tzu: //The Art of War// - Sigmund Freud: //Civilization and Its Discontents// ===== The 100 greatest novels of all time ===== [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction|source]] - Miguel De Cervantes: //Don Quixote// - John Bunyan: //Pilgrim's Progress// - Daniel Defoe : //Robinson Crusoe// - Jonathan Swift : //Gulliver's Travels// - Henry Fielding : //Tom Jones// - Samuel Richardson: //Clarissa // - Laurence Sterne : //Tristram Shandy // - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos : //Dangerous Liaisons// - Jane Austen: //Emma// - **Mary Shelley : //Frankenstein//** - Thomas Love Peacock: //Nightmare Abbey // - Honore De Balzac : //The Black Sheep// - Stendhal: //The Charterhouse of Parma// - Alexandre Dumas : //The Count of Monte Cristo// - Benjamin Disraeli : //Sybil // - Charles Dickens: //David Copperfield// - Emily Bronte : //Wuthering Heights // - Charlotte Bronte : //Jane Eyre // - William Makepeace Thackeray : //Vanity Fair // - Nathaniel Hawthorne : //The Scarlet Letter // - Herman Melville: //Moby-Dick // - Gustave Flaubert : //Madame Bovary// - Wilkie Collins : //The Woman in White // - Lewis Carroll : //Alice's Adventures In Wonderland // - Louisa M. Alcott : //Little Women// - Anthony Trollope : //The Way We Live Now // - Leo Tolstoy : //Anna Karenina// - George Eliot : //Daniel Deronda // - Fyodor Dostoevsky : //The Brothers Karamazov // - Henry James : //The Portrait of a Lady // - Mark Twain : //Huckleberry Finn // - Robert Louis Stevenson : //Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde // - Jerome K. Jerome : //Three Men in a Boat // - Oscar Wilde: //The Picture of Dorian Gray // - George Grossmith : //The Diary of a Nobody // - Thomas Hardy : //Jude the Obscure // - Erskine Childers: //The Riddle of the Sands// - Jack London: //The Call of the Wild// - Joseph Conrad : //Nostromo// - Kenneth Grahame : //The Wind in the Willows // - Marcel Proust : //In Search of Lost Time// - D. H. Lawrence : //The Rainbow// - Ford Madox Ford : //The Good Soldier// - John Buchan : //The Thirty-Nine Steps// - James Joyce : //Ulysses// - Virginia Woolf : //Mrs Dalloway// - E. M. Forster: //A Passage to India// - F. Scott Fitzgerald : //The Great Gatsby// - Franz Kafka : //The Trial// - Ernest Hemingway : //Men Without Women// - Louis-Ferdinand Celine : //Journey to the End of the Night // - William Faulkner : //As I Lay Dying // - Aldous Huxley : //Brave New World// - Evelyn Waugh : //Scoop// - John Dos Passos : //USA// - Raymond Chandler : //The Big Sleep// - Nancy Mitford : //The Pursuit Of Love // - Albert Camus : //The Plague// - George Orwell : //Nineteen Eighty-Four// - Samuel Beckett : //Malone Dies // - J.D. Salinger : //Catcher in the Rye // - Flannery O'Connor: //Wise Blood// - E. B. White : //Charlotte's Web // - J. R. R. Tolkien: //The Lord Of The Rings // - Kingsley Amis : //Lucky Jim// - William Golding : //Lord of the Flies// - Graham Greene : //The Quiet American// - Jack Kerouac : //On the Road// - Vladimir Nabokov : //Lolita// - **Gunter Grass : //The Tin Drum//** - Chinua Achebe : //Things Fall Apart // - Muriel Spark : //The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie// - Harper Lee: //To Kill A Mockingbird // - Joseph Heller: //Catch-22// - Saul Bellow: //Herzog// - Gabriel Garcia Marquez : //One Hundred Years of Solitude// - Elizabeth Taylor : //Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont// - John Le Carre : //Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy // - Toni Morrison : //Song of Solomon // - Beryl Bainbridge : //The Bottle Factory Outing // - Norman Mailer : //The Executioner's Song// - Italo Calvino: //If on a Winter's Night a Traveller // - V. S. Naipaul : //A Bend in the River// - J.M. Coetzee : //Waiting for the Barbarians// - Marilynne Robinson: //Housekeeping // - Alasdair Gray: //Lanark // - Paul Auster : //The New York Trilogy// - Roald Dahl : //The BFG // - Primo Levi : //The Periodic Table // - Martin Amis: //Money // - Kazuo Ishiguro : //An Artist of the Floating World // - Peter Carey : //Oscar And Lucinda // - Milan Kundera : //The Book of Laughter and Forgetting // - Salman Rushdie: //Haroun and the Sea af Stories // - James Ellroy : //La Confidential // - Angela Carter: //Wise Children // - Ian McEwan : //Atonement // - Philip Pullman : //Northern Lights // - Philip Roth : //American Pastoral// - W. G. Sebald : //Austerlitz // ===== 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library ===== [[http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/print|source]] - F. Scott Fitzgerald: //The Great Gatsby// - Niccolo Machiavelli: //The Prince// - Kurt Vonnegut: //Slaughterhouse-Five// - George Orwell: //1984// - Plato: //The Republic// - Fyodor Dostoevsky: //Brothers Karamazov// - J.D. Salinger: //The Catcher in the Rye// - **Adam Smith: //The Wealth of Nations//** - Ernest Hemingway: //For Whom the Bell Tolls// - Oscar Wilde: //The Picture of Dorian Gray// - John Steinbeck: //The Grapes of Wrath// - Aldous Huxley: //Brave New World// - **Dale Carnegie: //How To Win Friends And Influence People//** - Jack London: //Call of the Wild// - Edmund Morris: //The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt// - Johann David Wyss: //Swiss Family Robinson// - Jack Kerouac: //Dharma Bums// - Homer: //The Iliad and Odyssey// - Joseph Heller: //Catch-22// - Henry David Thoreau: //Walden// - William Golding: //Lord of the Flies// - by Mikhail Bulgakov: //The Master and Margarita // - Kurt Vonnegut: //Bluebeard // - Ayn Rand: //Atlas Shrugged // - Franz Kafka: //The Metamorphosis// - Tom Robbins: //Another Roadside Attraction// - Don Delillo: //White Noise// - James Joyce: //Ulysses// - William Alcott: //The Young Man's Guide// - Cormac McCarthy: //Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West// - Denis Johnson: //Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond// - Fyodor Dostoevsky: //Crime And Punishment// - Herman Hesse: //Steppenwolf// - Christine De Pizan: //The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry// - Sun Tzu: //The Art of Warfare// - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: //Don Quixote// - Jon Krakauer: //Into the Wild// - Dante Alighieri: //The Divine Comedy// - JRR Tolkien: //The Hobbit// - Theodore Roosevelt: //The Rough Riders// - John Steinbeck: //East of Eden// - Thomas Hobbes: //Leviathan// - James Jones: //The Thin Red Line// - Mark Twain: //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// - Aristotle: //The Politics// - //The Boy Scout Handbook// - Edmond Rostand: //Cyrano de Bergerac// - Henry Miller: //Tropic of Cancer// - Winston Churchill: //The Crisis// - Norman Mailer: //The Naked and The Dead// - Gary Paulsen: //Hatchet// - George Orwell: //Animal Farm// - Edgar Rice Burroughs: //Tarzan of the Apes// - Freidrich Nietzsche: //Beyond Good and Evil // - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: //The Federalist Papers// - Herman Melville: //Moby Dick // - Peter Post: //Essential Manners for Men// - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly: //Frankenstein// - Shakespeare: //Hamlet // - Roger Kahn: //The Boys of Summer// - John Knowles: //A Separate Peace // - Ernest Hemingway: //A Farewell To Arms// - **Albert Camus: //The Stranger//** - Daniel Dafoe: //Robinson Crusoe// - John Steinbeck: //The Pearl // - Jack Kerouac: //On the Road// - Robert Louis Stevenson: //Treasure Island// - John Kennedy Toole: //A Confederacy of Dunces// - **Umberto Eco //Foucault's Pendulum//** - Paul Theroux: //The Great Railway Bazaar// - Soren Kierkegaard: //Fear and Trembling// - Stephen Ambrose: //Undaunted Courage// - John Milton: //Paradise Lost// - John Steinbeck: //Cannery Row// - //American Boys' Handy Book// - Jon Krakauer: //Into Thin Air// - H. Rider Haggard: //King Solomon's Mines// - Fyodor Dostoevsky: //The Idiot// - Norman F. Maclean: //A River Runs Through It// - H.G. Wells: //The Island of Dr. Moreau// - //The Autobiography of Malcolm X// - Edmund Morris: //Theodore Rex// - Alexandre Dumas: //The Count of Monte Cristo// - Erich Maria Remarq: //All Quiet on The Western Front// - Stephen Crane: //The Red Badge of Courage// - Plutarch : //Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans// - Theodore Roosevelt: //A Strenuous Life// - Larry McMurtry: //Lonesome Dove// - Dashiell Hammett: //The Maltese Falcon// - Raymond Chandler: //The Long Goodbye// - Harper Lee: //To Kill a Mockingbird// - Conn and Hal Iggulden: //The Dangerous Book for Boys// - Michael Shaara: //The Killer Angels// - //The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin// - Herodotus: //The Histories// - James Jones: //From Here to Eternity// - Frederick Jackson Turner: //The Frontier in American History// - **Robert Pirsig: //Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance//** - Ralph Waldo Emerson: //Self Reliance// ===== ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher ===== [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEIT-Bibliothek_der_100_B%C3%BCcher|source]] - Die Bibel - Homer: //Odyssee// - Platon: //Apologie// - Vergil: //Aeneis// - Tacitus: //Germania// - Longos: //Daphnis und Chloe// - Augustinus: //Bekenntnisse// - Die Erzählungen aus den tausendundein Nächten - Wolfram von Eschenbach: //Parzival// - Gottfried von Straßburg: //Tristan// - Das Nibelungenlied - Dante Alighieri: //Die Göttliche Komödie// - Giovanni Boccaccio: //Das Decamerone// - Thomas Morus: //Utopia// - François Rabelais: //Gargantua und Pantagruel// - Michel de Montaigne: //Essais// - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: //Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus// - Blaise Pascal: //Pensées// - Daniel Defoe: //Robinson Crusoe// - Jonathan Swift: //Gullivers Reisen// - Henry Fielding: //Tom Jones// - Laurence Sterne: //Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman// - Voltaire: //Candide// - Johann Wolfgang Goethe: //Die Leiden des jungen Werthers// - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: //Anti-Goeze// - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: //Die Bekenntnisse// - Karl Philipp Moritz: //Anton Reiser// - Immanuel Kant: //Zum ewigen Frieden// - Ulrich Bräker: //Der arme Mann im Tockenburg// - Friedrich Schiller: //Ästhetische Schriften// - Denis Diderot: //Jacques der Fatalist und sein Herr// - Jean Paul: //Siebenkäs// - Friedrich Hölderlin: //Hyperion// - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: //Sudelbücher// - Johann Wolfgang Goethe: //Die Wahlverwandtschaften// - Heinrich von Kleist: //Erzählungen// - Johann Peter Hebel: //Das Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreunds// - Die Brüder Grimm: //Kinder- und Hausmärchen// - E. T. A. Hoffmann: //Kater Murr und Kreisler// - Giacomo Casanova: //Geschichte meines Lebens// - Joseph von Eichendorff: //Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts// - Stendhal: //Rot und Schwarz// - Georg Büchner: //Lenz// - Honoré de Balzac: //Verlorene Illusionen// - Charles Dickens: //Oliver Twist// - Nikolaj Gogol: //Die toten Seelen// - Søren Kierkegaard: //Entweder – Oder// - Heinrich Heine: //Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen// - Edgar Allan Poe: //Phantastische Erzählungen// - Herman Melville: //Moby Dick// - Arthur Schopenhauer: //Parerga und Paralipomena// - Karl Marx: //Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte// - Hans Christian Andersen: //Märchen// - Gottfried Keller: //Der grüne Heinrich// - Gustave Flaubert: //Madame Bovary// - Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow: //Oblomow// - Victor Hugo: //Die Elenden// - Lewis Carroll: //Alice im Wunderland// - Iwan Turgenew: //Väter und Söhne// - Wilhelm Raabe: //Abu Telfan oder Die Heimkehr vom Mondgebirge// - Leo Tolstoi: //Krieg und Frieden// - Adalbert Stifter: //Erzählungen// - Fjodor Dostojewski: //Die Dämonen// - Friedrich Nietzsche: //Menschliches, Allzumenschliches// - Émile Zola: //Germinal// - August Strindberg: //Sohn einer Magd// - Knut Hamsun: //Hunger// - Oscar Wilde: //Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray// - Anton Tschechow: //Erzählungen// - Theodor Fontane: //Der Stechlin// - **Thomas Mann: //Buddenbrooks//** - Robert Musil: //Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß// - Rainer Maria Rilke: //Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge// - Heinrich Mann: //Der Untertan// - Marcel Proust: //Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit// - Jaroslav Hašek: //Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk// - James Joyce: //Ulysses// - John Dos Passos: //Manhattan Transfer// - Franz Kafka: //Das Schloss// - **Hermann Hesse: //Der Steppenwolf//** - Alfred Döblin: //Berlin Alexanderplatz// - Ernst Bloch: //Spuren// - Sigmund Freud: //Das Unbehagen in der Kultur// - Leo Trotzki: //Mein Leben// - William Faulkner: //Licht im August// - Franz Kafka: //Erzählungen// - André Gide: //Tagebücher// - Anna Seghers: //Das siebte Kreuz// - Albert Camus: //Der Fremde// - Heinrich Böll: //Erzählungen// - Jean Genet: //Querelle// - Ernest Hemingway: //Der alte Mann und das Meer// - Max Frisch: //Stiller// - Claude Lévi-Strauss: //Traurige Tropen// - Samuel Beckett: //Das letzte Band// - Günter Grass: //Die Blechtrommel// - Jean-Paul Sartre: //Die Wörter// - Bertolt Brecht: //Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner// - Uwe Johnson: //Jahrestage// - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: //Don Quijote// ===== ZEIT-Schülerbibliothek ===== [[http://www.zeit.de/2002/42/200242_sbib_liste_xml|source]] - Bettina von Arnim: //Die Günderode// - Jurek Becker: //Jakob, der Lügner// - Heinrich Böll: //Erzählungen// - Wolfgang Borchert: //Draußen vor der Tür// - Hermann Bote: //Till Eulenspiegel// - Bertolt Brecht: //Leben des Galilei// - Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: //Kinder- und Hausmärchen// - Georg Büchner: //Lenz, Leonce und Lena, Dantons Tod// - Wilhelm Busch: //Ausgewählte Geschichten// - Friedrich Dürrenmatt: //Der Besuch der alten Dame// - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: //Das Gemeindekind// - Josephvon Eichendorff: //Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts// - Michael Ende: //Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer// - Hans Fallada: //Kleiner Mann - was nun?// - Theodor Fontane: //Effi Briest// - Max Frisch: //Biedermann und die Brandstifter// - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: //Faust I// - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: //Die Leiden des jungen Werthers// - Hans J. Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: //Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus// - Sebastian Haffner: //Geschichte eines Deutschen// - Wilhelm Hauff: //Märchen// - E.T.A. Hoffmann: //Das Fräulein von Scuderi, Der Sandmann// - Friedrich Hölderlin: //Hyperion// - Hans Henny Jahnn: //Das Holzschiff// - Anna Maria Jokl: //Die Perlmutterfarbe// - Franz Kafka: //Der Prozess// - Franz Kafka: //Erzählungen// - Marie Luise Kaschnitz: //Erzählungen// - Erich Kästner: //Das fliegende Klassenzimmer// - Gottfried Keller: //Die drei gerechten Kammacher, Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe, Kleider machen Leute// - Heinrich von Kleist: //Michael Kohlhaas, Die Marquise von O., Das Erdbeben in Chili// - Heinrich von Kleist: //Penthesilea// - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: //Nathan der Weise// - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: //Aphorismen// - Martin Luther: //Das Matthäus-Evangelium// - Lyrik I: //Von Walther bis Hölderlin// - Lyrik II: //Von Novalis bis Hoffmann von Fallersleben// - Lyrik III: //Von Droste-Hülshoff bis Nietzsche// - Lyrik IV: //Von Morgenstern bis Bachmann// - Lyrik V: //Balladen// - Heinrich Mann: //Der Untertan// - Thomas Mann: //Mario und der Zauberer, Der Tod in Venedig// - Robert Musil: //Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß// - Joseph Roth: //Hiob// - Friedrich Schiller: //Kabale und Liebe// - Arno Schmidt: //Brand's Haide// - Arthur Schnitzler: //Fräulein Else, Traumnovelle// - Anna Seghers: //Das siebte Kreuz, Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen// - Theodor Storm: //Die Regentrude, Der Schimmelreiter// - Frank Wedekind: //Frühlings Erwachen// ===== Unsere Besten - Das große Lesen ===== [[http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/11/0,1872,2130667,00.html|source]] - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: //Der Herr der Ringe// - Die Bibel - Ken Follett: //Die Säulen der Erde// - Patrick Süskind: //Das Parfum// - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: //Der kleine Prinz// - Thomas Mann: //Buddenbrooks// - Noah Gordon: //Der Medicus// - Paulo Coelho: //Der Alchimist// - Joanne K. Rowling: //Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen// - Donna W. Cross: //Die Päpstin// - Cornelia Funke: //Tintenherz// - Diana Gabaldon: //Feuer und Stein// - Isabel Allende: //Das Geisterhaus// - Bernhard Schlink: //Der Vorleser// - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: //Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil// - Carlos Ruiz Zafón: //Der Schatten des Windes// - Jane Austen: //Stolz und Vorurteil// - Umberto Eco: //Der Name der Rose// - Dan Brown: //Illuminati// - Theodor Fontane: //Effi Briest// - Joanne K. Rowling: //Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix// - Thomas Mann: //Der Zauberberg// - Margaret Mitchell: //Vom Winde verweht// - Hermann Hesse: //Siddhartha// - Harry Mulisch: //Die Entdeckung des Himmels// - Michael Ende: //Die unendliche Geschichte// - Ulla Hahn: //Das verborgene Wort// - Frank McCourt: //Die Asche meiner Mutter// - Hermann Hesse: //Narziss und Goldmund// - Marion Zimmer Bradley: //Die Nebel von Avalon// - Siegfried Lenz: //Deutschstunde// - Sándor Márai: //Die Glut// - Max Frisch: //Homo faber// - Sten Nadolny: //Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit// - Milan Kundera: //Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins// - Gabriel Garcia Márquez: //Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit// - John Irving: //Owen Meany// - Jostein Gaarder: //Sofies Welt// - Douglas Adams: //Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis// - Marlen Haushofer: //Die Wand// - John Irving: //Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag// - Gabriel Garcia Márquez: //Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera// - Theodor Fontane: //Der Stechlin// - Hermann Hesse: //Der Steppenwolf// - Harper Lee: //Wer die Nachtigal stört// - Thomas Mann: //Joseph und seine Brüder// - Erwin Strittmatter: //Der Laden// - Günter Grass: //Die Blechtrommel// - Erich Maria Remarque: //Im Westen nichts Neues// - Frank Schätzing: //Der Schwarm// - Nicholas Sparks: //Wie ein einziger Tag// - Joanne K.Rowling: //Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban// - Michael Ende: //Momo// - Uwe Johnson: //Jahrestage// - Marlo Morgan: //Traumfänger// - Jerome David Salinger: //Der Fänger im Roggen// - Dan Brown: //Sakrileg// - Otfried Preußler: //Krabat// - Astrid Lindgren: //Pippi Langstrumpf// - Waris Dirie: //Wüstenblume// - Susanna Tamaro: //Geh, wohin dein Herz dich trägt// - Marianne Fredriksson: //Hannas Töchter// - Henning Mankell: //Mittsommermord// - Henning Mankell: //Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers// - John Irving: //Das Hotel New Hampshire// - Leo N. Tolstoi: //Krieg und Frieden// - Hermann Hesse: //Das Glasperlenspiel// - Rosamunde Pilcher: //Die Muschelsucher// - Joanne K. Rowling: //Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch// - Anne Frank: //Tagebuch// - Benoite Groult: //Salz auf unserer Haut// - Christine Brückner: //Jauche und Levkojen// - Jonathan Franzen: //Die Korrekturen// - Corinne Hofmann: //Die weiße Massai// - Siri Hustvedt: //Was ich liebte// - Walter Moers: //Die dreizehn Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär// - Rebecca Gablé: //Das Lächeln der Fortuna// - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: //Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran// - Karl May: //Winnetou// - Annemarie Selinko: //Désirée// - Stefanie Zweig: //Nirgendwo in Afrika// - John Irving: //Garp und wie er die Welt sah// - Emily Brontë: //Die Sturmhöhe// - Cecilia Ahern: //P.S. Ich liebe Dich// - George Orwell: //1984// - Ildiko von Kürthy: //Mondscheintarif// - Isabel Allende: //Paula// - Marc Levy: //Solange du da bist// - Johanns Mario Simmel: //Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein// - Paulo Coelho: //Veronika beschließt zu sterben// - Henning Mankell: //Der Chronist der Winde// - Michail Bulgakow: //Der Meister und Margarita// - Stefan Zweig: //Schachnovelle// - Walter Kempowski: //Tadellöser & Wolff// - Leo N. Tolstoi: //Anna Karenina// - Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski: //Schuld und Sühne// - Alexandre Dumas der Ältere: //Der Graf von Monte Christo// - Tanja Kinkel: //Der Puppenspieler// - Charlotte Brontë: //Jane Eyre// - Barbara Wood: //Rote Sonne, schwarzes Land//