How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time? (2024)

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Ulysses James Joyce, 1922 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, 1951 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, 1949 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust, 1913 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, 1960 Moby Dick Herman Melville, 1851 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, 1813 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë, 1847 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, 1877 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, 1939 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, 1869 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954 Catch-22 Joseph Heller, 1961 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1857 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner, 1929 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll, 1865 Middlemarch George Eliot, 1871 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1884 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad, 1899 Beloved Toni Morrison, 1987 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri, 1321 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, 1952 The Odyssey Homer, 740BC Frankenstein Mary Shelley, 1818 The Stranger Albert Camus, 1942 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880 Great Expectations Charles Dickens, 1860 The Bible 1400BC To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, 1927 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf, 1925 The Iliad Homer, 750BC Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie, 1981 The Trial Franz Kafka, 1925 On the Road Jack Kerouac, 1957 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967 Brave New World Aldous Huxley, 1932 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann, 1924 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift, 1726 David Copperfield Charles Dickens, 1850 Les Misérables Victor Hugo, 1862 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway, 1926 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston, 1937 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, 1958 The Color Purple Alice Walker, 1982 The Red and the Black Stendhal, 1830 A Passage to India E.M. Forster, 1924 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, 1969 Lord of the Flies William Golding, 1954 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner, 1936 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier, 1938 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne, 1759 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank, 1947 Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James, 1881 Candide Voltaire, 1759 Little Women Louisa May Alcott, 1868 One Thousand and One Nights 800 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner, 1930 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, 1916 Native Son Richard Wright, 1940 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 1985 Walden Henry David Thoreau, 1854 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, 1979 Animal Farm George Orwell, 1945 The Aeneid Virgil, 19BC In Cold Blood Truman Capote, 1966 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, 1719 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath, 1963 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway, 1940 Oedipus the King Sophocles, 429BC The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway, 1952 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy, 1891 Hamlet William Shakespeare, 1600 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808 Dracula Bram Stoker, 1897 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess, 1962 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton, 1920 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman, 1855 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 Tom Jones Henry Fielding, 1749 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1891 The Tin Drum Günter Grass, 1959 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing, 1962 Emma Jane Austen, 1815 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett, 1952 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey, 1962 Charlotte's Web E.B. White, 1952 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges, 1944 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler, 1939 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer, 1476 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas, 1844 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, 1953 Paradise Lost John Milton, 1667 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, 1980 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1869 Dune Frank Herbert, 1965 Essays Michel de Montaigne, 1580 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez, 1985 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys, 1966 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera, 1984 The Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov, 1900 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway, 1929 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford, 1915 My Ántonia Willa Cather, 1918 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry, 1947 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin, 1859 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, 1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, 1915 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence, 1913 First Folio William Shakespeare, 1623 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame, 1908 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers, 1940 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak, 1957 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 Rabbit, Run John Updike, 1960 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev, 1862 The Castle Franz Kafka, 1926 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling, 1997 The Plague Albert Camus, 1947 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol, 1842 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison, 1977 Antigone Sophocles, 441BC Lord Jim Joseph Conrad, 1900 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley, 1965 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett, 1930 The Republic Plato, 379BC The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud, 1899 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil, 1930 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1872 Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf, 1928 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse, 1927 Confessions St Augustine, 397 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann, 1901 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton, 1905 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth, 1969 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré, 1963 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann, 1947 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith, 1955 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu, 1010 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, 1969 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, 1844 Howards End E.M. Forster, 1910 The Call of the Wild Jack London, 1903 The Long Goodbye: A Novel Raymond Chandler, 1953 Bleak House Charles Dickens, 1852 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser, 1925 Light in August William Faulkner, 1932 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins, 1860 Winnie the Pooh A.A Milne, 1926 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren, 1946 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende, 1982 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA James D. Watson, 1968 Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories Franz Kafka, 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson, 1971 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 1985 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh, 1945 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole, 1980 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf, 1929 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor, 1971 The Shining Stephen King, 1977 Watership Down Richard Adams, 1972 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn, 1962 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow, 1953 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon, 1973 The Jungle Upton Sinclair, 1906 Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence, 1928 The Time Machine H.G. Wells, 1895 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, 1890 The Secret History Donna Tartt, 1992 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark, 1961 The Moviegoer Walker Percy, 1961 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973 Nostromo Joseph Conrad, 1904 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie, 1939 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 1848 Herzog Saul Bellow, 1964 The Waste Land T.S. Eliot, 1922 A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968 The Awakening Kate Chopin, 1899 Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais, 1532 U.S.A. Trilogy John Dos Passos, 1930 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle, 1962 A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul, 1961 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio, 1349 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith, 1943 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac, 1835 The Ambassadors Henry James, 1903 Atonement Ian McEwan, 2001 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis, 1950 Dangerous Liaison Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen, 1835 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens, 1836 Kim Rudyard Kipling, 1901 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, 1980 White Teeth Zadie Smith, 2000 Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats, 1933 Medea Euripides, 431BC Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck, 1937 War of the Worlds H.G. Wells, 1898 The World According to Garp John Irving, 1978 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen, 2001 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand, 1957 Macbeth William Shakespeare, 1606 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy, 1997 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller, 1934 The Stand Stephen King, 1978 Women in Love D.H. Lawrence, 1920 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain, 1876 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons, 1932 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy, 1895 The Once and Future King T.H. White, 1958 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis, 1922 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle, 1927 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse, 1922 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens, 1859 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis, 1954 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal, 1839 Molloy Samuel Beckett, 1951 The Good Soldier Svejk Jaroslav Hašek, 1921 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe, 1987 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell, 1791 Disgrace J.M. Coetzee, 1999 American Pastoral Philip Roth, 1997 Man's Fate André Malraux, 1933 Foundation Isaac Asimov, 1951 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, 401BC Oresteia Aeschylus, 458BC If This Is a Man Primo Levi, 1947 Neuromancer William Gibson, 1984 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy, 1886 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon, 2000 Nausea Jean Paul Sartre, 1938 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo, 1923 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien, 1990 King Lear William Shakespeare, 1605 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin, 1953 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin, 1956 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie, 1926 The Counterfeiters André Gide, 1925 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert, 1869 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume, 1970 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott, 1819 Possession A.S. Byatt, 1990 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham, 1915 The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis, 1950 Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery, 1908 The Turn of the Screw Henry James, 1898 The Godfather Mario Puzo, 1969 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino, 1979 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens, 1837 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne, 1870 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein, 1961 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami, 1994 Brighton Rock Graham Greene, 1938 Epic of Gilgamesh 2000BC A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving, 1989 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson, 1959 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 Oblomov Ivan Goncharov, 1859 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson, 1919 The End of the Affair Graham Greene, 1951 Persuasion Jane Austen, 1817 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch, 1978 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire, 1857 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774 A Room With a View E.M. Forster, 1908 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever, 1978 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick, 1968 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino, 1972 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck, 1931 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud, 1873 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien, 1939 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins, 1868 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo, 1955 The Lover Marguerite Duras, 1984 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan, 1989 The Road Cormac McCarthy, 2006 Hunger Knut Hamsun, 1890 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace, 1996 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges, 1962 White Noise Don DeLillo, 1985 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe, 1929 I, Claudius Robert Graves, 1934 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho, 1988 The Tempest William Shakespeare, 1623 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost, 1913 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus, 450BC Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler, 1940 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782 Mahabharata Vyasa, 400BC Children's and Household Tales Brothers Grimm, 1812 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane, 1895 Nightwood Djuna Barnes, 1936 East of Eden John Steinbeck, 1952 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin, 1929 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs, 1959 Money Martin Amis, 1984 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen, 1879 Finnegans Wake James Joyce, 1939 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1937 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati, 1940 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett, 1908 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum, 1900 Metamorphoses Ovid, 8 The Elements of Style E.B. White, William Strunk Jr., 1918 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot, 1860 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov, 1951 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946 A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul, 1979 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, 1953 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren, 1945 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton, 1948 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes, 1651 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee, 1941 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow, 1975 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman, 1995 Clarissa Samuel Richardson, 1748 Pensées Blaise Pascal, 1670 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth, 1993 Relativity Albert Einstein, 1916 Sophie's Choice William Styron, 1979 Death of Virgil Hermann Broch, 1945 Germinal Émile Zola, 1885 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene, 1940 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes, 1936 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan, 1678 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West, 1939 Malone Dies Samuel Beckett, 1951 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell, 1938 The Complete Works of Plato Plato, 387BC A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell, 1951 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking, 1988 Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory, 1485 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, 1987 Rabbit Redux John Updike, 1971 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey, 1951 The Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette, 1678 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1911 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig, 1974 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens, 1864 The Shipping News Annie Proulx, 1993 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, 1776 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith, 1948 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens, 1843 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe, 1968 The Bacchae Euripides, 405BC 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke, 1968 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West, 1941 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike, 1981 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon, 1966 The Waves Virginia Woolf, 1931 Regeneration Pat Barker, 1991 The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 1963 Wings of the Dove Henry James, 1902 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo, 1831 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry, 1995 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth, 1971 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy, 1878 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy, 1906 Nights At The Circus Angela Carter, 1984 Meditations Marcus Aurelius, 161 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz, 2007 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver, 1998 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence, 1915 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset, 1920 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant, 1781 Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan, 1954 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell, 1980 The Civil War Shelby Foote, 1958 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie, 1934 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy, 1886 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis, 1991 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll, 1871 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz, 1937 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan, 1915 Das Kapital Karl Marx, 1867 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell, 1973 Maus Art Spiegelman, 1980 Silas Marner George Eliot, 1861 Main Street Sinclair Lewis, 1920 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James, 1902 Independent People Halldor Laxness, 1934 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally, 1982 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles, 1969 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster, 1961 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith, 1766 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg, 1824 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser, 1900 Underworld Don DeLillo, 1997 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion, 1970 Perfume Patrick Süskind, 1985 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, 1963 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen, 1938 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, 1776 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens, 1954 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin, 1833 Beowulf 1000 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams, 1947 Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee, 1980 The Golden Bowl Henry James, 1904 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams, 1907 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy, 1874 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov, 1840 Solaris Stanislaw Lem, 1961 The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead, 1940 Crash: A Novel J. G. Ballard, 1973 Dubliners James Joyce, 1914 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman, 1980 Electra Sophocles, 409BC The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein, 1933 Gilead Marilynne Robinson, 2004 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe, 1722 The Koran 610 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell, 1957 Black Beauty Anna Sewell, 1877 Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban J.K. Rowling, 1999 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell, 2004 The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse, 1943 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec, 1978 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño, 1998 The Magus John Fowles, 1965 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1953 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov, 1904 We Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison, 1970 Call It Sleep Henry Roth, 1934 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad, 1907 Death in Venice Thomas Mann, 1912 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain, 1934 Analects Confucius, 479BC The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien, 1967 Kindred Octavia E. Butler, 1979 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald, 2001 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett, 1929 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov, 1969 Nine Stories J.D. Salinger, 1953 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand, 1943 The Unnamable Samuel Beckett, 1953 Adam Bede George Eliot, 1859 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe, 1979 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote, 1958 Rabbit at Rest John Updike, 1990 The Art of War Sun Tzu, 475BC The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope, 1875 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje, 1992 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer, 1948 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni, 1827 The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa, 1982 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough, 1977 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus, 479BC Season of Migration to the North Al-Tayyib Salih, 1966 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor, 1952 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 2666 Roberto Bolaño, 2004 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, 1787 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en, 1592 De Rerum Natura Lucretius, 55 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac, 1846 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling, 2000 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl, 1964 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles, 1949 The Sonnets William Shakespeare, 1609 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle, 340BC Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré, 1974 Watchmen Alan Moore, 1987 Effi Briest Theodor Fontane, 1895 References