| Rank |
Title | Author | Points |
|
1 |
To Kill a Mockingbird* (4) | Harper Lee |
246 |
|
2 |
Hamlet* | William Shakespeare |
222 |
|
3 |
1984* | George Orwell |
206 |
|
4 |
The Fellowship of the Ring* | J.R.R. Tolkien |
174 |
|
5 |
Lolita* (2) | Vladimir Nabokov |
170 |
|
6 |
The Return of the King* | J.R.R. Tolkien |
161 |
|
7 |
Catch-22* | Joseph Heller |
152 |
|
8 |
The Catcher in the Rye* | J.D. Salinger |
141 |
|
9 |
Ender's Game* (2) | Orson Scott Card |
139 |
|
10 |
Night* | Elie Wiesel |
125 |
|
11 |
The Hobbit* (2) | J.R.R. Tolkien |
121 |
|
12 |
The Bible (2) | ? |
115 |
| The Great Gatsby* | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
115 |
|
|
14 |
A Prayer for Owen Meany* | John Irving |
114 |
|
15 |
Brave New World* (1) | Aldous Huxley |
111 |
|
16 |
The Handmaid's Tale* | Margaret Atwood |
107 |
|
17 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude* (1) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
99 |
|
18 |
I, Robot* | Isaac Asimov |
97 |
|
19 |
The Grapes of Wrath* (1) | John Steinbeck |
94 |
|
20 |
Dune* | Frank Herbert |
93 |
|
21 |
Love in the Time of Cholera* | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
88 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
88 |
|
|
23 |
Stranger in a Strange Land* (2) | Robert Heinlein |
87 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* | Douglas Adams |
87 |
|
|
25 |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* | C.S. Lewis |
85 |
|
26 |
Siddhartha* | Hermann Hesse |
81 |
|
27 |
The Stand | Stephen King |
80 |
|
28 |
Ulysses* (2) | James Joyce |
77 |
|
29 |
Paradise Lost | John Milton |
72 |
|
30 |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1) | Robert Pirsig |
71 |
| Watership Down* (1) | Richard Adams |
71 |
|
|
32 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* | Mark Twain |
67 |
|
33 |
The Sound and the Fury* | William Faulkner |
65 |
|
34 |
Gone with the Wind (1) | Margaret Mitchell |
64 |
| Roots* | Alex Haley |
64 |
|
|
36 |
The Giver* (1) | Lois Lowry |
63 |
| The Two Towers* | J.R.R. Tolkien |
63 |
|
| Great Expectations* | Charles Dickens |
63 |
|
|
39 |
Cat's Cradle* (1) | Kurt Vonnegut |
58 |
|
40 |
Cry, the Beloved Country* | Alan Paton |
57 |
| Animal Farm* | George Orwell |
57 |
|
|
42 |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
56 |
|
43 |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
55 |
|
44 |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
54 |
|
45 |
The World According to Garp (1) | John Irving |
53 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
53 |
|
|
47 |
Atlas Shrugged (1) | Ayn Rand |
52 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* | Lewis Carroll |
52 |
|
|
49 |
Black Hawk Down (1) | Mark Bowden |
50 |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
50 |
|
| A Theory of Justice* | John Rawls |
50 |
|
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
50 |
|
|
53 |
Fahrenheit 451* | Ray Bradbury |
49 |
|
54 |
Moby Dick* (1) | Herman Melville |
48 |
|
55 |
Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
47 |
| Mrs. Dalloway* | Virginia Woolf |
47 |
|
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino |
47 |
|
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
47 |
|
| Inherit the Wind* | Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee |
47 |
|
|
60 |
The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
46 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* | Ken Kesey |
46 |
|
|
62 |
The Inferno | Dante Alighieri |
44 |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
44 |
|
|
64 |
Invisible Man* (1) | Ralph Ellison |
43 |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
43 |
|
|
66 |
Death in Venice and Other Stories | Thomas Mann |
42 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling |
42 |
|
| Les Miserables* | Victor Hugo |
42 |
|
|
69 |
The Trial (1) | Franz Kafka |
41 |
| Ada | Vladimir Nabokov |
41 |
|
| Middlemarch | George Elliot |
41 |
|
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein |
41 |
|
| Godel, Escher, Bach* | Douglas Hofstadter |
41 |
|
| Hocus Pocus | Kurt Vonnegut |
41 |
|
|
75 |
The Way Things Work | David Macauly |
40 |
| Mother Night* | Kurt Vonnegut |
40 |
|
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
40 |
|
| Jurassic Park* | Michael Crichton |
40 |
|
|
79 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
39 |
| Confessions* | St. Augustine of Hippo |
39 |
|
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche |
39 |
|
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berndt |
39 |
|
| David Copperfield* | Charles Dickens |
39 |
|
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
39 |
|
| My Name is Asher Lev | Chaim Potok |
39 |
|
|
86 |
The Poisonwood Bible* | Barbara Kingsolver |
38 |
| A People's History of the United States* | Howard Zinn |
38 |
|
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
38 |
|
|
89 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
37 |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
37 |
|
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman |
37 |
|
| Neuromancer | William Gibson |
37 |
|
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert Heinlein |
37 |
|
|
94 |
Prufrock and Other Observations* | T.S. Eliot |
36 |
| Run with the Horsemen | Ferrol Sams |
36 |
|
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
36 |
|
|
97 |
The Guns of August* | Barbara Tuchman |
35 |
| Exodus | Leon Uris |
35 |
|
| The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Roald Dahl |
35 |
|
| Anarchy, State and Utopia* | Robert Nozick |
35 |
|
| 101 |
Pale Fire* (1) | Vladimir Nabokov | 34 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 34 |
|
| Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne | 34 |
|
| 104 |
A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | 33 |
| Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood | 33 |
|
| 106 |
The Chosen | Chaim Potok | 32 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 32 |
|
| All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | 32 |
|
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Tom Stoppard | 32 |
|
| The Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 32 |
|
| 111 |
The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 31 |
| Traveling Mercies | Anne Lamott | 31 |
|
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 31 |
|
| 114 |
The Iliad | Homer | 30 |
| Now We are Six | A.A. Milne | 30 |
|
| Starship Troopers | Robert Heinlein | 30 |
|
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 30 |
|
| 118 |
Anne of Green Gables* (1) | L.M. Montgomery | 29 |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman | Richard Feynman | 29 |
|
| The Whisper of the River | Ferrol Sams | 29 |
|
| A Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L'Engle | 29 |
|
| The Things They Carried* | Tim O'Brien | 29 |
|
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 29 |
|
| 124 |
Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson | 28 |
| The Silver Chair | C.S. Lewis | 28 |
|
| The Federalist Papers | James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay | 28 |
|
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 28 |
|
| The Winds of War | Herman Wouk | 28 |
|
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 28 |
|
| 130 |
The Mists of Avalon* | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 27 |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 27 |
|
| A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 27 |
|
| 133 |
Beach Music (1) | Pat Conroy | 26 |
| Compassion Fatigue* | Susan Moeller | 26 |
|
| Waiting for Godot* | Samuel Beckett | 26 |
|
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 26 |
|
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 26 |
|
| The Last Battle | C.S. Lewis | 26 |
|
| 139 |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1) | Sherman Alexie | 25 |
| The Loom of Language (1) | Frederick Bodmer | 25 |
|
| Cathedral (1) | Raymond Carver | 25 |
|
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1) | Anne Tyler | 25 |
|
| Babar the King* (1) | Jean De Brunhoff | 25 |
|
| "Master Harold"...and the Boys* (1) | Athol Fugard | 25 |
|
| Creating Minds (1) | Howard Gardner | 25 |
|
| Random House Dictionary of the American Language* (1) | Jess Stein (ed.) | 25 |
|
| The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (1) | Abbie Hoffman | 25 |
|
| Tao Te Ching (1) | Lao Tzu | 25 |
|
| Anna Karenina (1) | Leo Tolstoy | 25 |
|
| Leaves of Grass (1) | Walt Whitman | 25 |
|
| The Anatomy of Melancholy (1) | Robert Burton | 25 |
|
| The Bloody Sun (1) | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 25 |
|
| At Dawn We Slept (1) | Gordon W. Prange | 25 |
|
| Naked Lunch (1) | William S. Burroughs | 25 |
|
| Everything is Illuminated (1) | Jonathan Safran Foer | 25 |
|
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 25 |
|
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | 25 |
|
| 158 |
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 24 |
| The Urantia Book | Urantia Foundation | 24 |
|
| Ravelstein | Saul Bellow | 24 |
|
| Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | 24 |
|
| The Foxfire Book | Eliot Wigginton (ed.) | 24 |
|
| The Great American Novel | Philip Roth | 24 |
|
| Surprised by Joy | C.S. Lewis | 24 |
|
| V | Thomas Pynchon | 24 |
|
| Reagan: A Life in Letters | Ronald Reagan | 24 |
|
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 24 |
|
| The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | William L. Shirer | 24 |
|
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | 24 |
|
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 24 |
|
| The Confusion | Neal Stephenson | 24 |
|
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Dr. Seuss | 24 |
|
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | 24 |
|
| 174 |
Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Greene | 23 |
| The 12 Chairs | Ilya Ilf & Evgeni Petrov | 23 |
|
| Fathers and Crows | William T. Vollman | 23 |
|
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles | 23 |
|
| Endgame | Samuel Beckett | 23 |
|
| Chuang Tsu | Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (trans.) | 23 |
|
| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 23 |
|
| Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman | 23 |
|
| The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are | Alan Watts | 23 |
|
| When We Were Very Young | A.A. Milne | 23 |
|
| Love's Executioner | Irvin D. Yalo | 23 |
|
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | 23 |
|
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 23 |
|
| The Four Loves | C.S. Lewis | 23 |
|
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | 23 |
|
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust | 23 |
|
| Master and Commander | Patrick O'Brian | 23 |
|
| The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | 23 |
|
| The Valley of Adventure | Enid Blyton | 23 |
|
| Burr | Gore Vidal | 23 |
|
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 23 |
|
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 23 |
|
| John Adams | David McCullough | 23 |
|
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 23 |
|
| The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff | 23 |
|
| 199 |
Dubliners | James Joyce | 22 |
| Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voight | 22 |
|
| Personal History | Katharine Graham | 22 |
|
| King Matt the First | Janusz Korczak | 22 |
|
| Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke | 22 |
|
| Illuminatus! | Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea | 22 |
|
| Purple America | Rick Moody | 22 |
|
| Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | 22 |
|
| Tree In the Trail | Holling Clancy Holling | 22 |
|
| The Cider House Rules | John Irving | 22 |
|
| The Missing Piece | Shel Silverstein | 22 |
|
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 22 |
|
| My Land, My People | the Dalai Lama | 22 |
|
| Man on Superman | George Bernard Shaw | 22 |
|
| Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy | 22 |
|
| The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule | 22 |
|
| The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 22 |
|
| My Life in Christ | St. John of Kronstadt | 22 |
|
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 22 |
|
| The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 22 |
|
| Beowulf | ? | 22 |
|
| It's a Magical World | Bill Watterson | 22 |
|
| The Blessing of Pan | Lord Dunsany | 22 |
|
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | 22 |
|
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | 22 |
|
| Cunt | Inga Muscio |