101 Favorite Books

101 Great Books for Adults

  1. Andersen, Hans Christian — Fairy Tales
  2. Anonymous — 1001 Nights of Adventure (Arabian Nights)
  3. Aristophanes — Lysistrata
  4. Arnold, Matthew — Culture and Anarchy
  5. Austen, Jane — Emma
  6. Balzac, Honore de — Father Goriot
  7. Blake, William — Poems
  8. Boccaccio, Giovanni — The Decameron
  9. Bronte, Charlotte — Jayne Eyre
  10. Bronte, Emily — Wuthering Heights
  11. Buber, Martin — I and Thou
  12. Carlyle, Thomas — The French Revolution
  13. Cary, Joyce — The Horse’s Mouth
  14. Casanova — Memoirs (translated by Willard Trask)
  15. Cervantes, Miguel de — Don Quixote
  16. Charriere, Henri — Papillon
  17. Dante — The Divine Comedy
  18. Dickens, Charles — Great Expectations
  19. Dostoyevsky, Feodor — The Brothers Karamazov
  20. Durant, Will — The Story of Philosophy
  21. Eliot, George — Middlemarch
  22. Emerson, Ralph Waldo — Essays
  23. Euripides — The Bacchae
  24. Fielding, Henry — Tom Jones
  25. Flaubert, Gustave — Madame Bovary
  26. Forster, E. M. — Howard’s End
  27. Frank, Anne — The Diary of a Young Girl
  28. Franklin, Benjamin — Autobiography
  29. Fromm, Erich — The Art Of Loving
  30. Gandhi — Autobiography
  31. Giono, Jean — The Song of the World
  32. Goethe, J. W. von — Faust
  33. Goethe, J. W. von — Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
  34. Goldsmith, Oliver — The Vicar of Wakefield
  35. Gontcharoff, Ivan — A Common Story
  36. Gorky, Maxim — Autobiography
  37. Haggard, Rider — She
  38. Hamsun, Knut — Growth of the Soil
  39. Hawthorne, Nathaniel — The Scarlet Letter
  40. Herodotus — The Persian Wars
  41. Hesse, Hermann — Narcissus and Goldmund
  42. Homer — The Odyssey
  43. Hudson, William Henry — Green Mansions
  44. Huxley, Aldous — Brave New World
  45. Ibsen, Henrik — Hedda Gabler
  46. Jacobsen, Jens Peter — Niels Lyhne
  47. Joyce, James — Ulysses
  48. Kazantzakis, Nikos — The Odyssey, A Modern Sequel
  49. Kazantzakis, Nikos — Zorba the Greek
  50. Keats, John — Poems
  51. Keller, Helen — The Story of My Life
  52. Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching
  53. Lawrence, D.H. — Women In Love
  54. London, Jack — Martin Eden
  55. Mann, Thomas — The Magic Mountain
  56. Manzoni, Alessandro — The Betrothed
  57. Marx, Karl — Das Kapital
  58. Maskaleris, Thanasis — The Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis
  59. Melville, Herman — Moby Dick
  60. Miller, Henry — The Colossus of Maroussi
  61. Montagu, Ashley — Growing Young
  62. More, Thomas — Utopia
  63. Morris, William — News From Nowhere
  64. Neill, A.S. — Summerhill
  65. Nietzsche, Friedrich — Thus Spake Zarathustra
  66. Oppenheim, E. Phillips — The Great Impersonation
  67. Pastore, Michael — Zen in the Art of Child Maintenance
  68. Pastore, Michael — Thoreau Bound: A Utopian Romance in the Isles of Greece
  69. Plato — The Dialogues
  70. Plutarch — Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
  71. Powys, John Cowper — Wolf Solent
  72. Proust, Marcel — In Search of Lost Time
  73. Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich — Eugene Onegin
  74. Pyle, Howard — Robin Hood
  75. Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel
  76. Read, Herbert — The Green Child
  77. Rolland, Romain — Jean Christophe
  78. Rostand, Edmund — Cyrano de Bergerac
  79. Rousseau, Jean Jaques — Emile
  80. Rushdie, Salman — The Enchantress of Florence
  81. Ruskin, John — Unto This Last
  82. Russell, Bertrand — Autobiography
  83. Sand, George — Consuelo
  84. Sand, Geogre — The Countess of Rudolstadt
  85. Scott, Walter — Ivanhoe
  86. Shakespeare, William — (all his plays and poems)
  87. Shaw, Bernard — Man and Superman
  88. Shaw, Bernard — Saint Joan
  89. Shelley, Mary — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  90. Shelley, Percy Bysshe — Poems
  91. Silone, Ignazio — Bread and Wine
  92. Smith, Huston — The World’s Religions
  93. Steinbeck, John — The Grapes of Wrath
  94. Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle) — The Charterhouse of Parma
  95. Sterne, Lawrence — Tristam Shandy
  96. Thoreau, Henry David — Walden
  97. Tobias, Michael Charles — Adventures of Mr Marigold
  98. Tobias, Michael Charles — The Earth in Fragments : A Memoir by Michael Charles Tobias
  99. Tolstoy, Leo — War and Peace
  100. Turgenev, Ivan — Fathers and Sons
  101. Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  102. Uris, Leon — Exodus
  103. Van Gogh, Vincent — Letters
  104. Voltaire — Candide
  105. Ward, Lynd — (all his graphic novels)
  106. Wells, H.G. — Ann Veronica : A Modern Love Story
  107. West, Nathaniel — Miss Lonelyhearts
  108. Whitman, Walt — Leaves of Grass
  109. Wilde, Oscar — The Importance of Being Earnest
  110. Wolfe, Thomas — Look Homeward Angel
  111. Woolf, Virginia — To The Lighthouse
  112. Wordsworth, William — The Prelude
  113. Yeats, William Butler — Poems
  114. Yezierska, Anzia — Bread Givers
  115. Yutang, Lin — The Importance of Living
  116. Zweig, Stefan — Master Builders
Books to Look At
  • The Forest of Norway … (Murakami Spring Tree)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame … (Victor Hugo)
  • Love of the City … (Zhang Ailing)