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1. Razboi si pace Lev Tolstoi, 1869

2. 1984 George Orwell, 1949
3. Ulise James Joyce, 1922
4. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
5. Zgomotul si furia William Faulkner, 1929
6. Omul invizibil Ralph Ellison, 1952
7. Spre far Virginia Woolf, 1927
8. Iliada si Odiseea Homer, secolul al VIII-lea inainte de Hristos
9. Mandrie si prejudecata Jane Austen, 1813
10. Divina Comedie Dante Alighieri, 1321
11. Povesti din Canterbury Geoffrey Chaucer, secolul XV
12. Calatoriile lui Gulliver Jonathan Swift, 1726
13. Middlemarch George Eliot, 1874
14. O lume se destrama Chinua Achebe, 1958
15. De veghe in lanul de secara J.D. Salinger, 1951
16. Pe aripile vantului Margaret Mitchell, 1936
17. Un veac de singuratate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
18. Marele Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
19. Catch-22 Joseph Heller, 1961
20. Beloved Toni Morrison, 1987
21. Fructele maniei John Steinbeck, 1939
22. Copiii din miez de noapte Salman Rushdie, 1981

23. Minunata lume noua Aldous Huxley, 1932

24. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf, 1925
25. Native Son Richard Wright, 1940
26. Despre democratie in America Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
27. Originea speciilor Charles Darwin, 1859
28. Istorii Herodot, 440 i.H.
29. Contractul social Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
30. Capitalul Karl Marx, 1867
31. Principele Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532
32. Confesiuni Sfantul Augustin, secolul IV
33. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes, 1651
34. Istoria razboiului peloponeziac Tucidide, 431 i.H.
35. Stapanul inelelor J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
36. Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Mine, 1926
37. Sifonierul, leul si vrajitoarea C.S. Lewis, 1950
38. O calatorie in India E.M. Forster, 1924
39. Pe drum Jack Kerouac, 1957
40. Sa ucizi o pasare cantatoare Harper Lee, 1960
41. Biblia
42. Portocala mecanica Anthony Burgess, 1962
43. Lumina de august William Faulkner, 1932
44. The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903
45. Intinsa Mare a Sargaselor Jean Rhys, 1966

46. Doamna Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1857

47. Paradisul pierdut John Milton, 1667
48. Anna Karenina Lev Tolstoi, 1877
49. Hamlet William Shakespeare, 1603
50. Regele Lear William Shakespeare, 1608
51. Othello William Shakespeare, 1622
52. Sonete William Shakespeare, 1609
53. Fire de iarba Walt Whitman, 1855
54. Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1885
55. Kim Rudyard Kipling, 1901
56. Frankenstein Mary Shelley, 1818
57. Cantecul lui Solomon Toni Morrison, 1977
58. Zbor deasupra unui cuib de cuci Ken Kesey, 1962
59. Pentru cine bat clopotele Ernest Hemingway, 1940
60. Abatorul cinci Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
61. Ferma animalelor George Orwell, 1945
62. Imparatul mustelor William Golding, 1954
63. Cu sange rece Truman Capote, 1965
64. Carnetul de aur Doris Lessing, 1962
65. In cautarea timpului pierdut Marcel Proust, 1913
66. Somnul de veci Raymond Chandler, 1939
67. Pe patul de moarte William Faulkner, 1930
68. Fiesta Ernest Hemingway, 1926

69. Eu, Claudius imparat Robert Graves, 1934

70. Inima-i un vanator singuratic Carson McCullers, 1940
71. Fii si indragostiti D. H. Lawrence, 1913
72. All the Kings Men Robert Penn Warren, 1946
73. Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin, 1953
74. Panza lui Charlotte E.B. White, 1952
75. Inima intunericului Joseph Conrad, 1902
76. Night Elie Wiesel, 1958
77. Fugi, Rabbit John Updike, 1960
78. Varsta inocentei Edith Wharton, 1920
79. Complexul lui Portnoy Philip Roth, 1969
80. O tragedie americana Theodore Dreiser, 1925
81. Ziua lacustei Nathanael West, 1939
82. Tropicul Cancerului Henry Miller, 1934
83. Soimul maltez Dashiell Hammett, 1930
84. Materiile intunecate Philip Pullman, 1995
85. Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather, 1927
86. Interpretarea viselor Sigmund Freud, 1900
87. The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams, 1918
88. Carticica rosie Mao Tzedun, 1964
89. The Varieties of Religious Experience; A Study in Human Nature William James,
1902
90. Intoarcere la Brideshead Evelyn Waugh, 1945
91. Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962

92. Teoria generala a folosirii mainii de lucru, a dobanzii si a banilor John Maynard
Keynes, 1936
93. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad, 1900
94. Goodbye to All That Robert Graves, 1929
95. The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
96. Vantul prin salcii Kenneth Grahame, 1908
97. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley si Malcolm X, 1965
98. Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey, 1918
99. The Color Purple Alice Walker, 1982
100. The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand
Alliance; The Hinge of Fate) Winston Churchill, 1948