There are so many best of, favorite, etc. lists. I thought this one was interesting for two reasons. First because it is about books, books are pretty much always interesting in my opinion. And second because this bookstore is in Harvard Square which is next to Harvard University. Not only one of the most prestigious colleges in the country, but also a place I used to like to hang out in when I was a kid. So here is The Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books List. I can't believe it! I have only read 29!
How many have you read? Do you know of any books that should be on this list and are not? How about books that are on the list and should not be? Inquiring minds want to know.
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
On the Road Kerouac
Alice in Wonderland Carrol
Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky
The Age of Innocence Wharton
Don Quixote Cervantes
Perfume Suskind
Ulysses Joyce
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Cry the Beloved Country Paton
Dracula Stoker
The Eagles Die Marek
Emotionally Weird Atkinson
The Handmaid's Tale Atwood
Infinite Jest Wallace
Kitchen Yoshimoto
London Fields Amis
Moise and the World of Reason Williams
Movie Wars Rosenbaum
Paradise Lost Milton
Persuasion Austen
Tortilla Curtain Boyle
Visions of Excess Bataille
Where the Wild Things Are Sendak
Wild Sheep Chase Murakami
Beloved Morrison
Counterfeiters Gide
The Bell Jar Plath
Blind Owl Hedayat
Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas
Dealing With Dragons Wrede
The Earthsea Trilogy Le Guin
The Ecology of Fear Davis
Franny and Zooey Salinger
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez
Kabuki: Circle of Blood Mack & Jiang
Of Human Bondage Maugham
The Satanic Verses Rushdie
The Sheltering Sky Bowles
Tristam Shandy Sterne
Well of Loneliness Hall
Wicked Pavilion Powell
Collected Stories of V.S. Pritchett
War and Peace Tolstoy
Babel 17 Delany
Dora Freud
Empire Falls Russo
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
Girl in Landscape Letham
Goodbye to All That Graves
Ham on Rye Bukowski
Life Like
Mao II Delillo
Random Family Leblanc
Revolutionary Road Yates
The Stranger Camus
Humboldt's Gift Bellow
White Noise Delillo
Atlas Shrugged Rand
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills Bukowski
Delta of Venus Nin
Fast Food Nation Schlosser
Ficciones Borges
Go Ask Alice Anonymous
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams
Iliad Homer
On Photography Sontag
Republic Plato
Shockproof Sydney Skate Meaker
Society of the Spectacle Debord
Strangers in Paradise Moore
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
A Wrinkle In Time L'Engle
Dubliners Joyce
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
No Logo Klein
Aeneid Virgil
Ariel Plath
Charlotte's Web White
Curious George Learns the Alphabet Rey
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Paley
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Henry VIII Shakespeare
I, Claudius Graves
The Lost Continent Bryson
Master and Margarita Bulgakov
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I have more of the list on my shelf to be read eventually (like, after I retire). Some I haven't even heard of before.
I better start catching up :)
The Crying of Lot 49
Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
Lolita
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
Alice in Wonderland
Don Quixote
Anna Karenina
Dracula
The Bell Jar
Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Count of Monte Cristo
Franny and Zooey
Of Human Bondage
The Satanic Verses
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Stranger
Atlas Shrugged
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Iliad
The Sun Also Rises
The Breakfast of Champions
...and I'm in the process of reading
History of the Peloponnesian War
Very cool. I'm surprised that Gravity's Rainbow didn't make the list.
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I am ashamed. Only 9. I have started a few, though, and hope to one day be able to finish them.
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster (first one on audio)
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
On the Road Kerouac
Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky
Don Quixote Cervantes
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (amost all)
The Handmaid's Tale Atwood (on audio)
Paradise Lost Milton (read most; heard all on audio)
Tortilla Curtain Boyle (audiobook)
Counterfeiters Gide
The Bell Jar Plath
Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (most)
Franny and Zooey Salinger
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (Most)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez (audio)
Of Human Bondage Maugham
Collected Stories of V.S. Pritchett (some)
Empire Falls Russo
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
Mao II Delillo (audiobook)
The Stranger Camus
Humboldt's Gift Bellow
White Noise Delillo
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Iliad Homer
Republic Plato (most)
A Wrinkle In Time L'Engle
Dubliners Joyce (audio)
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
Aeneid Virgil
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Henry VIII Shakespeare
I, Claudius Graves