100 Solid Reads

Random choice of 100 books. Fiction and nonfiction. All of these books have made a significant impact one way or the other.

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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace

1

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Anna Karenina

2

Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Crime and Punishment

3

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Brothers Karamazov

4

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

Doctor Zhivago

5

Boris Pasternak

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Frankenstein

6

Mary Shelley

1984 (George Orwell)

1984

7

George Orwell

We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

We

8

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Brave New World

9

Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Fahrenheit 451

10

Ray Bradbury

Ulysses (James Joyce)

Ulysses

11

James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

12

James Joyce

Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

Mrs Dalloway

13

Virginia Woolf

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Lolita

14

Vladimir Nabokov

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

To Kill a Mockingbird

15

Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Great Gatsby

16

F. Scott Fitzgerald

East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

East of Eden

17

John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

Slaughterhouse-Five

18

Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

Catch-22

19

Joseph Heller

The Master and the Margarita

The Master and the Margarita

20

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

Beloved

21

Toni Morrison

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

Invisible Man

22

Ralph Ellison

Native Son (Richard Wright)

Native Son

23

Richard Wright

Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)

Go Tell It on the Mountain

24

James Baldwin

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

25

Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

The Color Purple

26

Alice Walker

A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)

A Brief History of Time

27

Stephen Hawking

Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

Outliers

28

Malcolm Gladwell

Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

Cosmos

29

Carl Sagan

Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt)

Freakonomics

30

Steven D. Levitt

Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

Steve Jobs

31

Walter Isaacson

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)

A Short History of Nearly Everything

32

Bill Bryson

The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)

The Selfish Gene

33

Richard Dawkins

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

34

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

35

Autobiography of Malcom X (Malcom X, Alex Haley)

Autobiography of Malcom X

36

Malcom X, Alex Haley

Assata (Assata Shakur)

Assata

37

Assata Shakur

The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)

The Souls of Black Folk

38

W.E.B. Du Bois

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

39

Frederick Douglass

The New Jim Crow (Alexander)

The New Jim Crow

40

Alexander

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