On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Justine / Lawrence Durrell -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native sons / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus --
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon
The origin of species / Charles Darwin
The histories / Herodotus
The Federalist Papers / Hamilton, Madison, Jay
The annals of imperial Rome / Tacitus
The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
Making hard work easy (The great popularizers): Only yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen
Microbe hunters / Paul de Kruif
Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead
The outermost house / Henry Beston
The amiable Baltimoreans / Francis F. Beirne
What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland
Gods, graves, and scholars / C.W. Ceram
The stress of life / Hans Selye
The Greek way / Edith Hamilton
Not Robinson Crusoe, not Brave new world: A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe
The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley
Elective affinities / John Wolfgang von Goethe
Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell
Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud
Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis
Lighter fare (Good reads, best sellers): A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle
The song of Hiawatha / H.W. Longfellow
The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan
Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer
Mr. Pottermack's oversight / R. Austin Freeman
A bell for Adano / John Hersey
The Martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Gentleman's agreement / Laura Z. Hobson
"But I know what I like": The ten books of architecture / Vitruvius
The lives of the most eminent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors / Giorgio Vasari
The seven lamps of architecture /John Ruskin
The nude: a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark
The elements of style / Strunk and White
One-of-a-kinds: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
The American language / H.L. Mencken
The little prince / Antoine de Saint Éxupery
The education of Henry Adams
Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neal Hurston
A mathematician's apology / Godfrey H. Hardy
The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn
The realm of the spirit (Holy and human): Gilgamesh: Babylonian epic
Confessions / Saint Augustine
The Golem / Gustav Meyrink
The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham
The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton
Death be not proud / John Gunther
Ecclesiastes: Old Testament
Lost horizon / James Hilton
The Bhagavad Gita: Sanskrit poem
The varieties of religious experience / William James.
