Newsweeks Top 100 Books; Meta-lista; 1. Razboi si pace Lev Tolstoi, 1869 2. 1984 George Orwell, 1949 3.

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