100 Most Personally Influential Books (that I've read so far)
Fiction
Novels:
1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
3. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
4. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
5. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
6. Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse
7. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
8. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
9. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
10. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
11. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
12. The Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
13. Geek Love – Katherine Dunn
14. World’s End – T. Corraghessan Boyle
15. Libra – Don DeLillo
16. Light In August – William Faulkner
17. The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander
18. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
19. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
20. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
21. The Fixer – Bernard Malamud
22. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
23. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
24. Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
25. One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Aleksandr Solzenitsyn
26. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
27. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
28. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The World According to Garp – John Irving
30. Ironweed – William Kennedy
31. Ulysses – James Joyce
32. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
33. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
34. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
35. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Wolffe
Short Stories:
1. The Masque of the Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe
2. Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemmingway
3. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
4. A Perfect Day For Bananafish – J. D. Salinger
5. The Swimmer – John Cheever
6. The Things They Carried – Tim O’ Brien
7. A Country Doctor – Franz Kafka
8. A Rose For Emily – William Faulkner
9. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
10. If The River Was Whiskey - T. Corraghessan Boyle
11. Adams – George Saunders
12. Chicxulub - T. Corraghessan Boyle
13. A Painful Case – James Joyce
14. People Like That Are The Only People Here – Lorrie Moore
15. Virga Vay and Allan Cedar – Sinclair Lewis
16. Flight – John Steinbeck
17. Low Men In Yellow Coats – Stephen King
18. A Bottle Of Milk For Mother – Nelson Algren
19. Youth – Joseph Conrad
20. The Shadow over Innsmouth – H. P. Lovecraft
21. Chance – Alice Munro
22. Fat – Raymond Carver
23. The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
24. The Ransom of Red Chief – O’Henry
25. We Didn’t – Stuart Dybek
Drama:
1. Death Of A Salesman – Arthur Miller
2. The Odd Couple – Neil Simon
3. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
4. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
5. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
6. The Drunkard – Eugene O’Neill
7. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
8. The Sandbox – Edward Albee
9. An Enemy Of The People – Henrik Ibsen
10. King Lear – William Shakespeare
Poetry:
1. Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll
2. The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
4. Beowulf – Anonymous
5. The Second Coming – W. B. Yeats
6. My Mistess’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun – William Shakespeare
7. If – Rudyard Kipling
8. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson
9. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
10. Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Non-Fiction
1. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
2. Black Boy – Richard Wright
3. On Writing – Stephen King
4. Out Of Africa – Isak Dinesen
5. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
6. The World Is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman
7. A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
8. Schindler’s List – Thomas Kennealy
9. The Civil War – Shelby Foote
10. The God Delusion – Richard Hawkins
11. Writing Down The Bones – Nathalie Goldberg
12. Einstein - Walter Issacson
13. Blue Highways – William Least Heat-Moon
14. The Great Books – David Denby
15. The Gangs of New York – Herbert Asbury
16. The Drinking Life – Pete Hamill
17. The Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
18. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 3rd Ed.
19. Roget’s Thesaurus
20. The Book of Lists – David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
Novels:
1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
3. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
4. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
5. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
6. Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse
7. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
8. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
9. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
10. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
11. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
12. The Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
13. Geek Love – Katherine Dunn
14. World’s End – T. Corraghessan Boyle
15. Libra – Don DeLillo
16. Light In August – William Faulkner
17. The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander
18. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
19. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
20. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
21. The Fixer – Bernard Malamud
22. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
23. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
24. Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
25. One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Aleksandr Solzenitsyn
26. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
27. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
28. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The World According to Garp – John Irving
30. Ironweed – William Kennedy
31. Ulysses – James Joyce
32. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
33. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
34. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
35. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Wolffe
Short Stories:
1. The Masque of the Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe
2. Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemmingway
3. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
4. A Perfect Day For Bananafish – J. D. Salinger
5. The Swimmer – John Cheever
6. The Things They Carried – Tim O’ Brien
7. A Country Doctor – Franz Kafka
8. A Rose For Emily – William Faulkner
9. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
10. If The River Was Whiskey - T. Corraghessan Boyle
11. Adams – George Saunders
12. Chicxulub - T. Corraghessan Boyle
13. A Painful Case – James Joyce
14. People Like That Are The Only People Here – Lorrie Moore
15. Virga Vay and Allan Cedar – Sinclair Lewis
16. Flight – John Steinbeck
17. Low Men In Yellow Coats – Stephen King
18. A Bottle Of Milk For Mother – Nelson Algren
19. Youth – Joseph Conrad
20. The Shadow over Innsmouth – H. P. Lovecraft
21. Chance – Alice Munro
22. Fat – Raymond Carver
23. The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
24. The Ransom of Red Chief – O’Henry
25. We Didn’t – Stuart Dybek
Drama:
1. Death Of A Salesman – Arthur Miller
2. The Odd Couple – Neil Simon
3. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
4. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
5. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
6. The Drunkard – Eugene O’Neill
7. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
8. The Sandbox – Edward Albee
9. An Enemy Of The People – Henrik Ibsen
10. King Lear – William Shakespeare
Poetry:
1. Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll
2. The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
4. Beowulf – Anonymous
5. The Second Coming – W. B. Yeats
6. My Mistess’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun – William Shakespeare
7. If – Rudyard Kipling
8. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson
9. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
10. Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Non-Fiction
1. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
2. Black Boy – Richard Wright
3. On Writing – Stephen King
4. Out Of Africa – Isak Dinesen
5. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
6. The World Is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman
7. A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
8. Schindler’s List – Thomas Kennealy
9. The Civil War – Shelby Foote
10. The God Delusion – Richard Hawkins
11. Writing Down The Bones – Nathalie Goldberg
12. Einstein - Walter Issacson
13. Blue Highways – William Least Heat-Moon
14. The Great Books – David Denby
15. The Gangs of New York – Herbert Asbury
16. The Drinking Life – Pete Hamill
17. The Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
18. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 3rd Ed.
19. Roget’s Thesaurus
20. The Book of Lists – David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
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