The National Public Library Association's 100 Greatest Books
Novels, Epics, and Legends

The Illiad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Beowulf - Unknown
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Gullliver's Travels - Johnithan Swift
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Candide - Voltaire
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Tragedy of Faust - Goethe
The Lady of the Lake - Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Red and the Black - Stendahl
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Carmen - Prosper Merimee
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
David Cooperfield - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Camille - Alexandre Dumas Fils
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Madame Bovery - Gustave Flaubert
Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky
Little Women - Louisa May Scott
Far From the Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbaeck
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Plays

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex - Sochocles
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Tartuffe - Moliere
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Science and Civilization

The Republic - Plato
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler


Philosophy


The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Meditations - Rene Descartes
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauser
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
How We Think - John Dewey
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