100 World’s Best Books

I found this list HERE. I don’t think I’ll read them all; some of them sound really… strange.

1. The Iliad, Homer*
2. The Odyssey, Homer*
3. The Aeneid, Virgil*
4. Beowulf, Unknown*
5. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
6. The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo*
7. Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
8. Don Quixote, Cervantes
9. Paradise Lost, John Milton
10. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan*
11. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe*
12. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
13. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
14. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
15. Candide, Voltaire*
16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge*
17. The Tragedy of Faust, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18. The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott*
19. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott*
20. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*
21. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
22. The Red and the Black, Stendahl
23. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper*
24. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas*
25. Carmen, Porsper Merimee
26. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte*
27. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte*
28. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
29. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens*
30. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens*
31. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens*
32. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne*
33. Camille, Alexandre Dumas Fils
34. Moby Dick, Herman Melville*
35. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
36. Idyls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson
37. Silas Marner, George Eliot*
38. Middlemarch, George Eliot
39. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgeney
41. Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoyevsky
42. The Brothers Karamazov, Feodor Dostoyevsky
43. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott*
44. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy*
45. Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain*
46. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain*
47. Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, Mark Twain*
48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain*
49. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
50. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy*
51. The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
53. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
54. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
55. Treasure Island, Robert Lewis Stevenson*
56. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde*
57. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
58. Dracula, Bram Stoker
59. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
60. Call of the Wild, Jack London*
61. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
62. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
63. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
64. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
65. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
66. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
67. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
68. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
69. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
70. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee*
71. The Republic, Plato
72. The Prince, Machiavelli
73. The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
74. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
75. The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
76. Das Kapital, Karl Marx
77. The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
78. Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus*
79. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles*
80. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare*
81. Macbeth, William Shakespeare*
82. The Tempest, William Shakespeare*
83. Hamlet, William Shakespeare*
84. Othello, William Shakespeare*
85. Tartuffe, Moliere
86. Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen
87. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
88. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde*
89. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
90. The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
91. Our Town, Thornton Wilder
92. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
93. The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
94. Mediatations, Rene Descartes
95. Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
96. The World as Will and Idea, Artur Schopenhauer
97. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
100. How We Think, John Dewey

* I have read these.