The World’s Greatest Literature

     *There is one way to live beyond your years, to travel to the past, to see things through other’s eyes and minds; books! Here is a list I’ve put together from several sources. If you have any suggestions for additions, please let me know.

 

GREAT LITERATURE

 

NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS:

(1). The Iliad Homer X

(2). The Odyssey Homer X

(3). The Aeneid Virgil

(4). Beowulf Unknown

(5). The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri X

(6). The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo X

(7). Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer X

(8). Don Quixote Cervantes X

(9). Paradise Lost John Milton X

(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 Prosper Merimee

(26). Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

(27). Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

(28). Vanity Fair William 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 Turgenev

(41). Crime and Punishment Fedor Dostoyevsky

(42). The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky

(43). Little Women Louisa May Alcott

(44). Far From the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy

(45). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain

(46). The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain

(47). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

(48). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain

(49). Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

(50). War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS

(51. The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy

(52). Tess of the D’Ubervilles Thomas Hardy

(53). The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

(54). The Turn of the Screw Henry James

(55). Treasure Island Robert Louis 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). The 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

SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION

(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

PLAYS

(78). Prometheus Bound Aeschylus

(79). Oedipus Rex Sophocles

(80). The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare

(81). Hamlet William Shakespeare

(82). Othello William Shakespeare

(83). Macbeth William Shakespeare

(84). The Tempest 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

PHILOSOPHY

(93). The Nicomachaen Ethics Aristotle

(94). MeditationsRene Descartes

(95). Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant

(96). The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer

(97). Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson

(98). Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson

(99). Walden Henry David Thoreau

(100). How We Think John Dewey

 

100 BEST NONFICTION

PANEL                                             

READERS

1.             THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams*                                

1.             THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by AYN RAND

2.             THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James*               

2.             DIANETICS:THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH by L. RON HUBBARD

3.             UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington*                              

3.             OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND by LEONARD PEIKOFF

4.             A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN by Virginia Woolf                             

4.             101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION by CLAIRE WOLFE

5.             SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson                                    

5.             THE GOD OF THE MACHINE by ISABEL PATERSON

6.             SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot                                  

6.             AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE by MICHAEL PAXTON

7.             THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson                                                       

7.             THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE by JULIAN SIMON

8.             SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov                                                           

8.             ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON by HENRY HAZLITT

9.             THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE by H. L. Mencken                                                              

9.             SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ

10.           THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY by John Maynard Keynes          

10.           MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME by JOHN R. LOTT

11.           THE LIVES OF A CELL by Lewis Thomas                                                        

11.           PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL by BRUCE WISEMAN

12.           THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner      

12.           FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by G. HANCOCK

13.           BLACK BOY by Richard Wright                                                                        

13.           CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING by TIBOR MACHAN

14.           ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster                                                     

14.           FREE TO CHOOSE by MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN

15.           THE CIVIL WAR by Shelby Foote*                                                                     

15.           AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF YOU DO by PETER MCWILLIAMS

16.           THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara Tuchman                                                               

16.           THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by F. A. HAYEK

17.           THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND by Isaiah Berlin                                     

17.           FREEDOM IN CHAINS by JAMES BOVARD

18.           THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN by Reinhold Niebuhr                         

18.           AMERICA’S GREAT DEPRESSION by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

19.           NOTES OF A NATIVE SON by James Baldwin                                                                

19.           THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by JOHN T. FLYNN

20.           THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS by Gertrude Stein*             

20.           THE TRUE BELIEVER by ERIC HOFFER

21.           THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by William Strunk and E. B. White     

21.           VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS by THOMAS WEST

22.           AN AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal                                                   

22.           THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by CARL L. BECKER

23.           PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell           

23.           COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS by AARON T. BECK

24.           THE MISMEASURE OF MAN by Stephen Jay Gould                                       

24.           DEATH BY GOVERNMENT by R. J. RUMMEL

25.           THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP by Meyer Howard Abrams                                            

25.           A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF

26.           THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE by Peter B. Medawar                                         

26.           LONGITUDE by DAVA SOBEL

27.           THE ANTS by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson                  

27.           ORDINARILY SACRED by LYNDA SEXSON

28.           A THEORY OF JUSTICE by John Rawls                                                          

28.           SPEAK, MEMORY by VLADIMIR NABOKOV

29.           ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich                                                   

29.           THE ART OF MEMORY by FRANCES YATES

30.           THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS by E. P. Thompson     

30.           DUMBING US DOWN by JOHN TAYLOR GATTO

31.           THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois*                                       

31.           THE GOLDEN BOUGH by JAMES FRAZER

32.           PRINCIPIA ETHICA by G. E. Moore                                                   

32.           UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by STEPHEN E. AMBROSE

33.           PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION by John Dewey                                         

33.           A MODERN PROPHET by HAROLD KLEMP

34.           ON GROWTH AND FORM by D’Arcy Thompson*                                                           

34.           THE FLUTE OF GOD by PAUL TWITCHELL

35.           IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein*                                                      

35.           REAL PRESENCES by GEORGE STEINER

36.           THE AGE OF JACKSON, Arthur Schlesinger by Jr.                                        

36.           OUT OF AFRICA by ISAK DINESEN

37.           THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes                          

37.           WAYS OF SEEING by JOHN BERGER

38.           BLACK LAMB and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West                                         

38.           THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA’S CAMPUSES by ALAN CHARLES KORS

39.           AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by W. B. Yeats                                                                 

39.           PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by JAMES V. DE LONG

40.           SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA by Joseph Needham                      

40.           STORMING HEAVEN by JAY STEVENS

41.           GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves                                                   

41.           THE TEXAN by C. S. BARRIOS

42.           HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell                                                 

42.           HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by GEORGE ORWELL

43.           THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN by Mark Twain                                            

43.           THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM JAMES

44.           CHILDREN OF CRISIS by Robert Coles                                                           

44.           HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS by DARRELL HUFF

45.           A STUDY OF HISTORY by Arnold J. Toynbee                                 

45.           BUT IS IT TRUE? by AARON WILDAVSKY

46.           THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith                                 

46.           A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS

47.           PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson                                           

47.           ANATOMY OF CRITICISM by NORTHROP FRYE

48.           THE GREAT BRIDGE by David McCullough                                                    

48.           THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS by HENRY GRADY WEAVER

49.           PATRIOTIC GORE by Edmund Wilson                                                             

49.           MODERN TIMES by PAUL JOHNSON

50.           SAMUEL JOHNSON by Walter Jackson Bate                                                  

50.           MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS by IRVING STONE

51.           THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X

51.           THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by HENRY ADAMS

52.           THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe                                                                     

52.           THE GREAT BRIDGE by DAVID MCCULLOUGH

53.           EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey*                                                   

53.           AMERICAN GAY by STEPHEN O. MURRAY

54.           WORKING by Studs Terkel                                                                                

54.           THE DOUBLE HELIX by JAMES D. WATSON

55.           DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron                                                            

55.           THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by FRANK KERMODE

56.           THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION by Lionel Trilling                                              

56.           THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by ELAINE PAGELS

57.           THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill                                        

57.           EROS THE BITTERSWEET by ANNE CARSON

58.           OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen*                                                                    

58.           THE WESTERN CANON by HAROLD BLOOM

59.           JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME by Dumas Malone                                                               

59.           THE WHITE GODDESS by ROBERT GRAVES

60.           IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN by William Carlos Williams                  

60.           HEALING OUR WORLD by MARY RUWART

61.           CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner                                                               

61.           SILENT SPRING by RACHEL CARSON

62.           THE HOUSE OF MORGAN by Ron Chernow                                                   

62.           PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by ANNIE DILLARD

63.           THE SWEET SCIENCE by A. J. Liebling                                                            

63.           SEXUAL PERSONAE by CAMILLE PAGLIA

64.           THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES by Karl Popper                                

64.           THINK AND GROW RICH by NAPOLEON HILL

65.           THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates                                                    

65.           A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN by DAVID KELLEY

66.           RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by R. H. Tawney                       

66.           DOORS OF PERCEPTION by ALDOUS HUXLEY

67.           A PREFACE TO MORALS by Walter Lippmann                                                              

67.           THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM by ROSE WILDER LANE

68.           THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence                          

68.           MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT by WALTER WILLIAMS

69.           THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn     

69.           LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER by DAVID BOAZ

70.           THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Vann Woodward                  

70.           BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE by WILLIAM MADDOX AND STUART LILIE

71.           THE RISE OF THE WEST by William H. McNeill                                               

71.           A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by THOMAS SOWELL

72.           THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels                                                     

72.           PARLIAMENT OF WHORES by P. J. O’ROURKE

73.           JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann                                                                  

73.           SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA’S FAMILIES by SHELDON RICHMAN

74.           FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith                                  

74.           THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES by VIRGINIA POSTREL

75.           THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell                         

75.           THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by WILLIAM STRUNK AND E. B. WHITE

76.           THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford                                                       

76.           ORIENTALISM by EDWARD SAID

77.           BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by James M. McPherson                                   

77.           ECOTERROR by RON ARNOLD

78.           WHY WE CAN’T WAIT by Martin Luther King by Jr.                                       

78.           WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WORK by HARRY BROWNE

79.           THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris                         

79.           OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. EDWARDS DEMING

80.           STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY by Erwin Panofsky                                                 

80.           NOT OUT OF AFRICA by MARY LEFKOWITZ

81.           THE FACE OF BATTLE by John Keegan                                                         

81.           THE END OF RACISM by DINESH D’SOUZA

82.           THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND by George Dangerfield    

82.           BEHIND THE MASK by IAN BURUMA

83.           VERMEER by Lawrence Gowing                                                                       

83.           IN A DARK WOOD by ALSTON CHASE

84.           A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan                                                         

84.           PRIVATE PARTS by HOWARD STERN

85.           WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham                                                     

85.           THE TELEPHONE BOOK by AVITAL RONELL

86.           THIS BOY’S LIFE by Tobias Wolff                                                     

86.           THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE by GARY HART

87.           A MATHEMATICIAN’S APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy                                           

87.           WAKING AND DREAMING by JOSEPH HART

88.           SIX EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman                                                       

88.           THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD by LANA CANTRELL

89.           PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard                                                

89.           RADICAL SON by DAVID HOROWITZ

90.           THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James George Frazer                                            

90.           UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN by SUSAN SONTAG

91.           SHADOW AND ACT by Ralph Ellison                                                               

91.           THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X

92.           THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro                                                        

92.           A FEELING FOR BOOKS by JANICE RADWAY

93.           THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION by Richard Hofstadter                 

93.           THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES by JOSEPH CAMPBELL

94.           THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams               

94.           THE JOB by WILLIAM BURROUGHS

95.           THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE by Herbert Croly                                    

95.           SILENT INTERVIEWS by SAMUEL R. DELANY

96.           IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote*                                                              

96.           SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS by MIKE ROYKO

97.           THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm                        

97.           RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS by MICHAEL NOVACK

98.           THE TAMING OF CHANCE by Ian Hacking                                                      

98.           REVERSE ANGLE by JOHN SIMON

99.           OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS by Anne Lamott                                                               

99.           PLACING MOVIES by JONATHON ROSENBAUM

100.         MELBOURNE by Lord David Cecil                                                                    

100.         RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING by PATRICK J BUCHANAN

 

BEST NONFICTION LIST:

1. The Second World War, Winston S. Churchill

Brookhiser: “The big story of the century, told by its major hero.”

2. The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Neuhaus: “Marked the absolute final turning point beyond which nobody could deny the evil of the Evil Empire.”

3. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

Herman: “Orwell’s masterpiece-far superior to Animal Farm and 1984. No education in the meaning of the 20th century is complete without it.”

4. The Road to Serfdom, F. A. von Hayek

Helprin: “Shatters the myth that the totalitarianisms ‘of the Left’ and ‘of the Right’ stem from differing impulses.”

5. Collected Essays, George Orwell

King: “Every conservative’s favorite liberal and every liberal’s favorite conservative. This book has no enemies.”

6. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper

Herman: “The best work on political philosophy in the 20th century. Exposes totalitarianism’s roots in Plato, Hegel, and Marx.”

7. The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis

Brookhiser: “How modern philosophies drain meaning and the sacred from our lives.”

8. Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset

Gilder: “Prophesied the 20th century’s debauchery of democracy and science, the barbarism of the specialist, and the inevitable fatuity of public opinion. Explained the genius of capitalist elites.”

9. The Constitution of Liberty, F. A. von Hayek

O’Sullivan: “A great re-statement for this century of classical liberalism by its greatest modern exponent.”

10. Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman

11. Modern Times, Paul Johnson

Herman: “Huge impact outside the academy, dreaded and ignored inside it.”

12. Rationalism in Politics, Michael Oakeshott

Herman: “Oakeshott is the 20th century’s Edmund Burke.”

13. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Joseph A. Schumpeter

Caldwell: “Locus classicus for the observation that democratic capitalism undermines itself through its very success.”

14. Economy and Society, Max Weber

Lind: “Weber made permanent contributions to the understanding of society with his discussions of comparative religion, bureaucracy, charisma, and the distinctions among status, class, and party.”

15. The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Caldwell: “Through Nazism and Stalinism, looks at almost every pernicious trend in the last century’s politics with stunning subtlety.”

16. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West

Kelly: “For its writing, not for its historical accuracy.”

17. Sociobiology , Edward O. Wilson

Lind: “Darwin put humanity in its proper place in the animal kingdom. Wilson put human society there, too.”

18. Centissimus Annus, Pope John Paul II

19. The Pursuit of the Millennium, Norman Cohn

Neuhaus: “The authoritative refutation of utopianism of the left, right, and points undetermined.”

20. The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Helprin: “An innocent’s account of the greatest evil imaginable. The most powerful book of the century. Others may not agree. No matter, I cast my lot with this child.” Caldwell: “If one didn’t know her fate, one might read it as the reflections of any girl. That one does know her fate makes this as close to a holy book as the century produced.”

21. The Great Terror, Robert Conquest

Herman: “Documented for the first time the real record of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. A genuine monument of historical research and reconstruction, a true epic of evil.”

22. Chronicles of Wasted Time, Malcolm Muggeridge

Gilder: “The best autobiography, Christian confession, and historic meditation of the century.”

23. Relativity, Relativity, Albert Einstein

Lind: “The most important physicist since Newton.”

24. Witness, Whittaker Chambers

Caldwell: “Confession, history, potboiler-by a man who writes like the literary giant we would know him as, had not Communism got him first.”

25. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn

26. Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

Neuhaus: “The most influential book of the most influential Christian apologist of the century.”

27. The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet

28. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.

Helprin: “The infinite riches of the world, presented with elegance, confidence, and economy.”

29. Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell

30. The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton

Lukacs: “A great carillonade of Christian verities.”

31. Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton

O’Sullivan: “How to look at the Christian tradition with fresh eyes.”

32. The Liberal Imagination, Lionel Trilling

Hart: “The popular form of liberalism tends to simplify and caricature when it attempts moral aspiration-that is, it tends to ‘Stalinism.'”

33. The Double Helix, James D. Watson

Herman: “Deeply hated by feminists because Watson dares to suggest that the male-female distinction originated in nature, in the DNA code itself.”

34. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Phillips Feynman

Gelernter: “Outside of art (or maybe not), physics is mankind’s most beautiful achievement; these three volumes are probably the most beautiful ever written about physics.”

35. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe

O’Sullivan: “Wolfe is our Juvenal.”

36. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Albert Camus

37. The Unheavenly City, Edward C. Banfield

Neuhaus: “The volume that began the debunking of New Deal socialism and its public-policy consequences.”

38. The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

39. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

40. The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama

41. Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker

42. The Age of Reform, Richard Hofstadter

Herman: “The single best book on American history in this century, bar none.”

43. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes

Hart: “Influential in suggesting that the business cycle can be modified by government investment and manipulation of tax rates.”

44. God & Man at Yale, William F. Buckley Jr.

Gilder: “Still correct and prophetic. It defines the conservative revolt against socialism and atheism on campus and in the culture, and reconciles the alleged conflict between capitalist and religious conservatives.”

45. Selected Essays, T. S. Eliot

Hart: “Shaped the literary taste of the mid-century.”

46. Ideas Have Consequences, Richard M. Weaver

47. The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs

48. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom

49. Ethnic America, Thomas Sowell

50. An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal

51. Three Case Histories, Sigmund Freud

Gelernter: “Beyond question Freud is history’s most important philosopher of the mind, and he ranks alongside Eliot as the century’s greatest literary critic. Modern intellectual life (left, right, and in-between) would be unthinkable without him.”

52. The Struggle for Europe, Chester Wilmot

53. Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Louis Parrington

King: “An immensely readable history of ideas and men. (Skip the fragmentary third volume-he died before finishing it.)”

54. The Waning of the Middle Ages, Johann Huzinga

Lukacs: “Probably the finest historian who lived in this century. “

55. Systematic Theology, Wolfhart Pannenberg

Neuhaus: “The best summary and reflection on Christianity’s encounter with the Enlightenment project.”

56. The Campaign of the Marne, Sewell Tyng

Keegan: “A forgotten American’s masterly account of the First World War in the West.”

57. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hart: “A terse summation of the analytic method of the analytic school in philosophy, and a heroic leap beyond it.”

58. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Bernard Lonergan

Glendon: “The Thomas Aquinas of the 20th century.”

59. Being and Time, Martin Heidegger

Hart: “A seminal thinker, notwithstanding his disgraceful error of equating National Socialism with the experience of ‘Being.'”

60. Disraeli, Robert Blake

Keegan: “Political biography as it should be written.”

61. Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt

King: “A conservative literary critic describes what happens when humanitarianism over takes humanism.”

62. The Elements of Style, William Strunk & E. B. White

Thernstrom: “If only every writer would remember just one of Strunk & White’s wonderful injunctions: ‘Omit needless words.’ Omit needless words.”

63. The Machiavellians, James Burnham

O’Sullivan: “Burnham is the greatest political analyst of our century and this is his best book.”

64. Reflections of a Russian Statesman, Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev

King: “The ‘culture war’ as seen by the tutor to the last two czars. A Russian Pat Buchanan.”

65. The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin

66. Roll, Jordan, Roll, Eugene D. Genovese

Neuhaus: “The best account of American slavery and the moral and cultural forces that undid it.”

67. The ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound

Brookhiser: “An epitome of the aging aesthetic movement that will be forever known as modernism.”

68. The Second World War, John Keegan

Hart: “A masterly history in a single volume.”

69. The Making of Homeric Verse, Milman Parry

Lind: “Genuine discoveries in literary study are rare. Parry’s discovery of the oral formulaic basis of the Homeric epics, the founding texts of Western literature, was one of them.”

70. The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling, Angus Wilson

Keegan: “A life of a great author told through the transmutation of his experience into fictional form.”

71. Scrutiny , F. R. Leavis

Hart: “Enormously important in education, especially in England. Leavis understood what one kind of ‘living English’ is.”

72. The Edge of the Sword, Charles de Gaulle

Brookhiser: “A lesser figure than Churchill, but more philosophical (and hence, more problematic).”

73. R. E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman

Conquest: “The finest work on the Civil War.”

74. Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises

75. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

Neuhaus: “A classic conversion story of a modern urban sophisticate.”

76. Balzac, Stefan Zweig

King: “On the joys of working one’s self to death. The chapter ‘Black Coffee’ is a masterpiece of imaginative reconstruction.”

77. The Good Society, Walter Lippmann

Gilder: “Written during the Great Depression. A corruscating defense of the morality of capitalism.”

78. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Lind: “For all the excesses of the environmental movement, the realization that human technology can permanently damage the earth’s environment marked a great advance in civilization. Carson’s book, more than any other, publicized this message.”

79. The Christian Tradition, Jaroslav Pelikan

Neuhaus: “The century’s most comprehensive account of Christian teaching from the second century on.”

80. Strange Defeat, Marc Bloch

Herman: “A great historian’s personal account of the fall of France in 1940.”

81. Looking Back, Norman Douglas

Conquest: “Fascinating memoirs of a remarkable writer.”

82. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams

83. Poetry and the Age, Randall Jarrell

Caldwell: “The book for showing how 20th- century poets think, what their poetry does, and why it matters.”

84. Love in the Western World

Brookhiser: “What has become of eros over the last seven centuries.”

85. The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk

86. Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder

87. Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson

88. Henry James , Leon Edel

King: “All the James you want without having to read him.”

89. Essays of E. B. White , E. B. White

Gelernter: “White is the apotheosis of the American liberal now spurned and detested by the Left (and the cultural mainstream). His mesmerized devotion to the objects of his affection-his family, the female sex, his farm, the English language, Manhattan, the sea, America, Maine, and freedom, in descending order-is movingly absolute.”

90. Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov

91. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

92. Darwin’s Black Box, Michael J. Behe

Gilder: “Overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning.”

93. The Civil War, Shelby Foote

94. The Way the World Works, Jude Wanniski

Gilder: “The best book on economics. Shows fatuity of still-dominant demand-side model, with its silly preoccupation with accounting trivia, like the federal budget and trade balance and savings rates, in an economy with $40 trillion or so in assets that rise and fall weekly by trillions.”

95. To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson

Herman: “The best single book on Karl Marx and Marx’s place in modern history.”

96. Civilisation, Kenneth Clark

97. The Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes

98. The Idea of History, R. G. Collingwood

99. The Last Lion, William Manchester

100. The Starr Report, Kenneth W. Starr

Hart: “A study in human depravity.”

 

Pulitzer Prize Winning Books

1.        77 Dream Songs (Farrar)

2.        A Bell for Adano (Knopf)

3.        A Chorus Line conceived

4.        A Confederacy of Dunces

5.        A Constitutional History of the United States

6.        A Daughter of the Middle Border

7.        A Delicate Balance

8.        A Depth In The Family by the late

9.        A Fable

10.     A Further Range

11.     A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

12.     A History of American Magazines

13.     A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

14.     A History of the United States

15.     A Midwife’s Tale

16.     A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

17.     A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

18.     A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

19.     A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday)

20.     A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

21.     A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

22.     A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

23.     A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger

24.     A Witness Tree by Robert Frost (Holt)

25.     Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood

26.     Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)

27.     Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto (Houghton)

28.     Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison

29.     Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

30.     Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

31.     Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell

32.     Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)

33.     All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

34.     All The Way Home by Tad Mosel

35.     American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row)

36.     American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

37.     American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

38.     American Primitive by Mary Oliver (Atlanti’Little)

39.     American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

40.     An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company)

41.     Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

42.     Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.by Marquis James

43.     Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

44.     Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

45.     Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

46.     Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill

47.     Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz

48.     Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)

49.     Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

50.     Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart)

51.     At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)

52.     August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts

53.     Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press)

54.     Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe

55.     Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)

56.     Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf)

57.     Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

58.     Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

59.     Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce

60.     Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

61.     Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)

62.     Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill

63.     Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)

64.     Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)

65.     Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan

66.     Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson

67.     Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

68.     Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day)

69.     Buried Child by Sam Shepard

70.     Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

71.     Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey

72.     Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald

73.     Charles W. Eliot by Henry James

74.     Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)

75.     Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)

76.     Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)

77.     Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)

78.     Collected Poems by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press)

79.     Collected Poems by Marianne Moore (Macmillan)

80.     Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt)

81.     Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Holt)

82.     Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)

83.     Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

84.     Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

85.     Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer (Knopf)

86.     Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)

87.     Conquistador by Archibald Macleish (Houghton)

88.     Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg

89.     Craig’s Wife by George Kelly

90.     Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

91.     Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson

92.     Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker

93.     de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

94.     Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

95.     Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)

96.     Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

97.     Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)

98.     Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies

99.     Divine Comedies by James Merrill (Atheneum)

100.  Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert

101.  Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley

102.  Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

103.  Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

104.  Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

105.  Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father” by John Matteson

106.  Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis

107.  Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays

108.  Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)

109.  Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

110.  Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

111.  Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf)

112.  Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

113.  Fences by August Wilson

114.  Fiddler’s Farewell by Leonora Speyer (Knopf)

115.  Fiorello! Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.

116.  Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

117.  Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp

118.  Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller

119.  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)

120.  Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press)

121.  From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin

122.  George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye

123.  George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman

124.  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

125.  Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

126.  God: A Biography by Jack Miles

127.  Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

128.  Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)

129.  Grant: A Biography by William McFeely

130.  Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan (Rinehart)

131.  Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins

132.  Growing Up by Russell Baker

133.  Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

134.  Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins

135.  Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick

136.  Harvey by Mary Chase

137.  Heart’s Needle by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf)

138.  Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books)

139.  Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes

140.  Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels

141.  Henry James by Leon Edel

142.  His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

143.  History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (Houghton)

144.  Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

145.  House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

146.  How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

147.  How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows

148.  Huey Long by T. Harry Williams

149.  Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

150.  I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

151.  Icebound by Owen Davis

152.  Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood

153.  In Abraham’s Bosom by Paul Green

154.  In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House)

155.  In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (Harper)

156.  In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

157.  Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

158.  Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

159.  Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

160.  J. B. by Archibald Macleish

161.  Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

162.  Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone (Little)

163.  John Adams by David McCullough

164.  John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)

165.  John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit

166.  John Hay by Tyler Dennett

167.  John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate

168.  John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison

169.  John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis

170.  Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

171.  Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

172.  Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall

173.  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

174.  Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

175.  Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar)

176.  Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

177.  Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

178.  Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering

179.  Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering

180.  Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

181.  Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton)

182.  Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

183.  Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

184.  Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings

185.  Lord Weary’s Castle by Robert Lowell (Harcourt)

186.  Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon

187.  Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank

188.  Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg

189.  Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

190.  Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt)

191.  March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

192.  Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

193.  Mary Chesnut’s Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)

194.  Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

195.  Memoirs by George F. Kennan

196.  Men in White by Sidney Kingsley

197.  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

198.  Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

199.  Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Farrar)

200.  Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan

201.  My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (Stokes)

202.  Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)

203.  Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)

204.  Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan)

205.  Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)

206.  New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

207.  New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt)

208.  Night, Mother by Marsha Norman

209.  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

210.  No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone

211.  Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random)

212.  Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

213.  O’Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer

214.  Of Being Numerous by George Oppen (New Directions)

215.  of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

216.  Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin

217.  Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

218.  One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

219.  Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)

220.  Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy (Oxford Univ. Press)

221.  Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf)

222.  Our Town by Thornton Wilder

223.  Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)

224.  Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster)

225.  Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (Houghton)

226.  Pedlar’s Progress by Odell Shepard

227.  People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen (Knopf)

228.  Personal History by Katharine Graham

229.  Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

230.  Picnic by William Inge

231.  Pictures from Brueghel by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions)

232.  Pinckney’s Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns Hopkins)

233.  Poems – North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)

234.  Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press)

235.  Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

236.  Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)

237.  Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson (Norton)

238.  Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

239.  Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (Random)

240.  Proof by David Auburn

241.  Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard)

242.  Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press)

243.  R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman

244.  Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

245.  Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

246.  Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

247.  Rent by the late Jonathan Larson

248.  Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar)

249.  Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech (Harper)

250.  Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson

251.  Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood

252.  Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt)

253.  Ruined by Lynn Nottage

254.  Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press)

255.  Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

256.  Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

257.  Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little)

258.  Seascape by Edward Albee

259.  Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz (Little)

260.  Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)

261.  Selected Poems by Donald Justice (Atheneum)

262.  Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)

263.  Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press)

264.  Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)

265.  Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions)

266.  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Viking)

267.  So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

268.  Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

269.  South Pacific by Richard Rodgers

270.  State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay

271.  Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)

272.  Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill

273.  Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice

274.  Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks)

275.  Sunday in the Park With George; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.

276.  Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper)

277.  Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson

278.  Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck (Scribner)

279.  That Championship Season by Jason Miller

280.  The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

281.  The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden (Random)

282.  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

283.  The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger

284.  The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf)

285.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

286.  The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee

287.  The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell

288.  The American Revolution — A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan)

289.  The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok

290.  The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)

291.  The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press)

292.  The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White

293.  The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper)

294.  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

295.  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

296.  The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

297.  The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin (Atheneum)

298.  The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)

299.  The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press)

300.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

301.  The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner)

302.  The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

303.  the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. GarrowBearing

304.  The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (Macmillan)

305.  The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)

306.  The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press)

307.  The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet (Dodd)

308.  The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor (Little)

309.  The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

310.  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

311.  The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (Harcourt)

312.  The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer (Little)

313.  The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely

314.  The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

315.  The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton)

316.  The Flowering Stone by George Dillon (Viking)

317.  The Flying Change by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)

318.  The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (Little)

319.  The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn

320.  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

321.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

322.  The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler

323.  The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly

324.  The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press)

325.  The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (Harper)

326.  The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)

327.  The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

328.  The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)

329.  The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

330.  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press)

331.  The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter (Harper)

332.  The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

333.  The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan

334.  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

335.  The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

336.  The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

337.  The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf)

338.  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

339.  The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

340.  The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge

341.  The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing

342.  The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller (Harcourt)

343.  The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

344.  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

345.  The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid

346.  The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Farrar)

347.  The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate

348.  The Old Maid by Zoe Akins

349.  The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley (Towers)

350.  The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

351.  The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark)

352.  The People’s Choice by Herbert Agar (Houghton)

353.  The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

354.  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

355.  The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)

356.  The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)

357.  The Raven by Marquis James

358.  The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

359.  The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White

360.  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

361.  The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

362.  The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck (Little)

363.  The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer

364.  The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)

365.  The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner’s Sons)

366.  The Shrike by Joseph Kramm

367.  The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (Holt)

368.  The Simple Truth by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)

369.  The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

370.  The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

371.  The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

372.  The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

373.  The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

374.  The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy

375.  The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (Little)

376.  The Taft Story by William S. White

377.  The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick

378.  The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry

379.  The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)

380.  The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Brton J. Hendrick

381.  The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)

382.  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

383.  The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf)

384.  The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (Little)

385.  The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday)

386.  The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler

387.  The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)

388.  The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton)

389.  The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith (Macmillan)

390.  The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

391.  The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (The Ecco Press)

392.  The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

393.  The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

394.  The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote

395.  Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle

396.  There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood

397.  They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard

398.  Things of This World by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt)

399.  Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)

400.  Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

401.  Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

402.  Time of Your Life, The

403.  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

404.  Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

405.  Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)

406.  Truman by David McCullough

407.  Turtle Island by Gary Snyder (New Directions)

408.  Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday)

409.  Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)

410.  Up Country by Maxine Kumin (Harper)

411.  V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)

412.  Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff

413.  Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf)

414.  Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

415.  Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)

416.  Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press)

417.  Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)

418.  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848″ by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

419.  What’s O’Clock by the late Amy Lowell (Houghton)

420.  Whitman by Emory Holloway

421.  Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams

422.  William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

423.  Wit by Margaret Edson

424.  With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand

425.  Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth

426.  Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker

427.  Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

428.  Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)

429.  You Can’t Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman