====== 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 =====
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- 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 =====
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- 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//