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Abe, Kobo. Ark Sakura
Abe, Kobo. Kangaroo Notebook
Abe, Kobo. Woman in the Dunes
Aksyonov, Vassily. Generations of Winter
Amis, Martin. Dead Babies
Amis, Martin. Einstein’s Monsters
Amis, Martin. Information
Amis, Martin. London Fields
Amis, Martin. Other People
Amis, Martin. Rachel Papers
Amis, Martin. Success
Amis, Martin. Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
Argueta, Manilio. One Day of Life
Atxaga, Bernardo. Obabakoak
Auden, W. H.. As I Walked Out One Evening
Auden, W. H.. Collected Poems: Auden
Auden, W. H.. Dyer’s Hand
Auden, W. H.. Forewords and Afterwords
Auden, W. H.. Selected Poems
Baldwin, James. The Amen Corner
Baldwin, James. Another Country
Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James. Going to Meet the Man
Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name
Banville, John. Athena
Banville, John. Doctor Copernicus
Banville, John. Ghosts
Banville, John. Kepler
Barnes, Julian. Before She Met Me
Barnes, Julian. Cross Channel
Barnes, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot
Barnes, Julian. History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Barnes, Julian. Letters from London
Barnes, Julian. Metroland
Barnes, Julian. Porcupine
Barnes, Julian. Staring at the Sun
Barnes, Julian. Talking It Over
Bates, H. E.. Feast of July
Berberova, Nina. Italics are Mine
Berger, John. About Looking
Berger, John. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Berger, John. Another Way of Telling
Berger, John. Corker’s Freedom
Berger, John. Fortunate Man
Berger, John. G.
Berger, John. Keeping a Rendezvous
Berger, John. Lilac and Flag
Berger, John. Once in Europa
Berger, John. Pig Earth
Berger, John. Sense of Sight
Berger, John. Success and Failure of Picasso
Berger, John. To the Wedding
Bernieres, Louis De. Corelli’s Mandolin
Bernieres, Louis de. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Bernieres, Louis de. The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts
Blackburn, Julia. Book of Color
Bolt, Robert. Man for All Seasons
Boyd, William. Blue Afternoon
Boyd, William. Destiny of Nathalie X
Brink, Andre. Act of Terror
Broch, Hermann. Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann. Sleepwalkers
Bulgakov, Mikhail. Master and Margarita
Byatt, A. S.. Angels and Insects
Byatt, A.S.. Babel Tower
Byatt, A. S.. Game
Byatt, A. S.. Matisse Stories
Byatt, A. S.. Passions of the Mind
Byatt, A. S.. Possession
Byatt, A. S.. Sugar and Other Stories
Byatt, A. S.. Virgin in the Garden
Calasso, Roberto. Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Calvino, Italo. Numbers in the Dark
Calvino, Italo. Road to San Giovanni
Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millenium
Camus, Albert. Fall
Camus, Albert. First Man
Camus, Albert. Happy Death
Camus, Albert. Myth of Sisyphus
Camus, Albert. Plague
Camus, Albert. Rebel
Camus, Albert. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Camus, Albert. Stranger
Capote, Truman. Answered Prayers
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Capote, Truman. Grass Harp
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman. Music for Chameleons
Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms
Carey, Peter. Bliss
Carey, Peter. Fat Man in History
Carey, Peter. Illywhacker
Carey, Peter. Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter. Tax Inspector
Carey, Peter. Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Cheever, John. Falconer
Cheever, John. Oh What a Paradise It Seems
Cheever, John. Wapshot Chronicle
Coe, Jonathan. Winshaw Legacy
Coetzee, J. M.. Age of Iron
Didion, Joan. After Henry
Didion, Joan. Book of Common Prayer
Didion, Joan. Democracy
Didion, Joan. The Last Thing He Wanted
Didion, Joan. Run River
Didion, Joan. Salvador
Dinesen, Isak. Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
Dinesen, Isak. Last Tales
Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Dinesen, Isak. Seven Gothic Tales
Dinesen, Isak. Winter’s Tales
Doctorow, E. L.. Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E. L.. Loon Lake
Doctorow, E. L.. Ragtime
Dorfman, Ariel. Konfidenz
Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors
Ellison, Ralph. Flying Home
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph. Going to the Territory
Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act
Endo, Shusaku. Scandal
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William. Big Woods
Faulkner, William. Collected Stories
Faulkner, William. Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William. Hamlet
Faulkner, William. If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms)
Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust
Faulkner, William. Light in August
Faulkner, William. Reivers
Faulkner, William. Sanctuary
Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William. Town
Faulkner, William. Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
Faulkner, William. Unvanquished
Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong
Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier
Forster, E M. Howards End
Forster, E M. Longest Journey
Forster, E M. Room with a View
Forster, E M. Where Angels Fear To Tread
Franck, Dan. Separation
Fuentes, Carlos. Christopher Unborn
Gide, Andre. Immoralist
Grass, Gunter. Tin Drum
Graves, Robert. Claudius the God
Herr, Michael. Dispatches
Herr, Michael. Walter Winchell
Hollinghurst, Alan. Folding Star
Hollinghurst, Alan. Swimming Pool Library
Hrabal, Bohumil. I Served the King of England
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Unconsoled
Joyce, James. Dubliners
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James. Ulysses
Judd, Alan. Devil’s Own Work
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Emperor
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Imperium
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Shah of Shahs
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Soccer War
Kawabata, Yasunari. Beauty and Sadness
Kawabata, Yasunari. Master of Go
Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country
Kawabata, Yasunari. Thousand Cranes
Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey
Klima, Ivan. Judge On Trial
Lagerkvist, Par. Barabbas
Lawrence, D.H.. Plumed Serpent
Lawrence, D.H.. Virgin and the Gypsy
Laxness, Halldor. Independent People
Laye, Camara. Radiance of the King
Lessing, Doris. Canopus in Argos
Lessing, Doris. Fifth Child
Levi, Primo. Drowned and the Saved
Mailer, Norman. Barbary Shore
Mailer, Norman. The Deer Park
Mailer, Norman. The Fight
Malan, Rian. My Traitor’s Heart
Malouf, David. The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Malouf, David. Great World
Malouf, David. Harland’s Half Acre
Malouf, David. Imaginary Life
Malraux, Andre. Man’s Fate
Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks
Mann, Thomas. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice
Mann, Thomas. Doctor Faustus
Mann, Thomas. Magic Mountain
March, Michael. Description of a Struggle
Mars-Jones, Adam. Monopolies of Loss
Mars-Jones, Adam. Waters of Thirst
Martinez, Eloy. Santa Evita Tomas
Maxwell, William. All the Days and Nights
Maxwell, William. Ancestors
Maxwell, William. Chateau
Maxwell, William. Folded Leaf
Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow
Maxwell, William. They Came Like Swallows
Maxwell, William. Time Will Darken It
McCarthy, Cormac. All The Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac. Child of God
McCarthy, Cormac. Crossing
McCarthy, Cormac. Orchard Keeper
McCarthy, Cormac. Outer Dark
McCarthy, Cormac. Stonemason
McCarthy, Cormac. Suttree
McEwan, Ian. Cement Garden
McEwan, Ian. Comfort of Strangers
McEwan, Ian. First Love, Last Rites
McEwan, Ian. In Between the Sheets
McGahan, Jerry. Collected Stories
Mehta, Gita. Karma Cola
Milosz, Czeslaw. Captive Mind
Mishima, Yukio. Decay of the Angel
Mishima, Yukio. Runaway Horses
Mishima, Yukio. Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
Mishima, Yukio. Sound of Waves
Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow
Mishima, Yukio. Temple of Dawn
Mishima, Yukio. Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Mistry, Rohinton. Fine Balance
Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey
Mistry, Rohinton. Swimming Lessons
Mosley, Nicholas. Hopeful Monsters
Munif, Abdelrahman. Cities of Salt
Munif, Abdelrahman. Trench
Munif, Abdelrahman. Variations on Night and Day
Murakami, Haruki. Dance Dance Dance
Murakami, Haruki. Elephant Vanishes
Murakami, Haruki. HardBoiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Murray, Albert. The Blue Devils of Nada
Murray, Albert. Hero and the Blues
Murray, Albert. Seven League Boots
Musil, Robert. Man Without Qualities Volume 1
Musil, Robert. Man Without Qualities Volume 2
Nabokov, Vladimir. Ada, Or Ardor
Nabokov, Vladimir. Bend Sinister
Nabokov, Vladimir. Defense
Nabokov, Vladimir. Despair
Nabokov, Vladimir. Enchanter
Nabokov, Vladimir. Eye
Nabokov, Vladimir. Gift
Nabokov, Vladimir. Glory
Nabokov, Vladimir. Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov, Vladimir. King, Queen, Knave
Nabokov, Vladimir. Laughter in the Dark
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita: A Screenplay
Nabokov, Vladimir. Look at the Harlequins!
Nabokov, Vladimir. Mary
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir. Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory
Nabokov, Vladimir. Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov, Vladimir. Strong Opinions
Nabokov, Vladimir. Transparent Things
Naipaul, V. S.. Bend in the River
Naipaul, V. S.. Guerrillas
Naipaul, V. S.. Turn in the South
Nicol, Mike. Horseman
Nicol, Mike. This Day and Age
O’Neill, Eugene. Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape
O’Neill, Eugene. Three Plays
Ondaatje, Michael. Cinnamon Peeler
Ondaatje, Michael. Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Ondaatje, Michael. Coming Through Slaughter
Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion
Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family
Onetti, Juan Carlos. Body Snatcher
Oz, Amos. Black Box
Ozick, Cynthia. Fame and Folly
Ozick, Cynthia. Metaphor and Memory
Ozick, Cynthia. Shawl
Pavic, Milorad. Dictionary of Khazars
Perkarkova, Iva. Truck Stop Rainbows
Petrushevskaya, Ludmila. Time: Night
Phillips, Caryl. Cambridge
Phillips, Caryl. Crossing the River
Phillips, Caryl. Final Passage
Phillips, Caryl. Higher Ground
Pressburger, Giorgio. Law of White Spaces
Pritchett, V. S.. Complete Collected Stories
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way
Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman
Rezzori, Gregor Von. Memoirs of An AntiSemite
Rezzori, Gregor Von. Orient Express
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poetry of Rilke
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral
Roth, Philip. Anatomy Lesson
Roth, Philip. Breast
Roth, Philip. Counterlife
Roth, Philip. Deception
Roth, Philip. Facts
Roth, Philip. Ghost Writer
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus
Roth, Philip. Great American Novel
Roth, Philip. Letting Go
Roth, Philip. My Life As a Man
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock
Roth, Philip. Patrimony
Roth, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint
Roth, Philip. Prague Orgy
Roth, Philip. Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good
Roth, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound
Rush, Norman. Mating
Rush, Norman. Whites
Rushdie, Salman. East, West
Rushdie, Salman. Moor’s Last Sigh
Salter, James. Light Years
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Age of Reason
Sartre, Jean-Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Reprieve
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Troubled Sleep
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader
Sciascia, Leonardo. Open Doors and Three Novellas
Self, Will. Cock and Bull
Self, Will. My Idea of Fun
Self, Will. Quantity Theory of Insanity
Seth, Vikram. All You Who Sleep Tonight
Seth, Vikram. Golden Gate
Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don
Smart, Elizabeth. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Soueif, Ahdaf. In the Eye of the Sun
Soyinka, Wole. Ake
Soyinka, Wole. Isara
Stone, Robert. Children of Light
Styron, William. Confessions of Nat Turner
Styron, William. Lie Down in Darkness
Styron, William. Long March, In the Clap Shack
Styron, William. Set This House on Fire
Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice
Styron, William. This Quiet Dust
Styron, William. Tidewater Morning
Svevo, Italo. Confessions of Zeno
Swift, Graham. Ever After
Swift, Graham. Last Orders
Swift, Graham. Learning to Swim
Swift, Graham. Out of This World
Swift, Graham. Shuttlecock
Swift, Graham. SweetShop Owner
Swift, Graham. Waterland
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Diary of a Mad Old Man
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Key
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Makioka Sisters
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Quicksand
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Seven Japanese Tales
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Some Prefer Nettles
Tolstaya, Tatyana. On the Golden Porch
Tolstaya, Tatyana. Sleepwalker in a Fog
Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles
Welty, Eudora. Optimist’s Daughter
White, Edmund. Beautiful Room Is Empty
White, Edmund. Burning Library
White, Edmund. Caracole
White, Edmund. Forgetting Elena
White, Edmund. Skinned Alive
Winterson, Jeanette. Art and Lies
Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects
Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body
Oxford World Classics
The March 1999 catalog of Oxford World Classics, published by Oxford University Press.
Random House Modern Library Catalog
“The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennet Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought.
The list below is the catalog as of March 1999, consisting of about 250 titles.
Adair, Virginia Hamilton. Ants on the Melon
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams
Alcott, Louisa May. Modern Magic
Alighieri, Dante. Inferno
Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso
Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg Ohio
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio
Angell, Roger, ed. Nothing But You
Aristotle. Rhetoric and Poetics
Austen, Jane. Complete Novels of Jane Austen V 1
Austen, Jane. Complete Novels of Jane Austen V 2
Austen, Jane. Emma
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane. Persuasion
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
Bradley, Omar. A Soldier’s Story
Baldwin, James. Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On the Mountain
Balzac, Honore de. Lost Illusions
Bausch, Richard. Selected Stories Of Richard Bausch
Beardsley, Monroe C.. European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche
Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson
Boorstin, Daniel J.. Daniel J. Boorstin Reader
Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths
Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Tiein Edition
Bronte, Charlotte. The Professor
Bronte, Charlotte. Shirley
Bronte, Charlotte. Villette
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology Audio
Cupid and Pysche and Other fables
Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Burton, Richard. The Arabian Nights
Burtt, Edwin A.. English Philosophers From Bacon to Mill
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh
Calisher, Hortense. The Novellas of Hortense Calisher
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman. A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & A Thanksgiving Visitor
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa. My Antonia
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
Chandler, Raymond. Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales
Foote, Anton Chekhov edited by Shelby. Early Short Stories
Foote, Anton Chekhov edited by Shelby. Later Short Stories
Chekhov, Anton. Longer Stories from the Last Decade
Chopin, Kate. Awakening and Other Stories
Colette, Rossant. Bella Vista
Colette, Rossant. My Mother’s House and Sido
Confucius. Wisdom of Confucius
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness/Youth/Typhoon
Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent
Cozzens, James Gould. Guard of Honor
Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage
Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage Audio
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders BBC tie-in edition
Donne, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Donne, John. Going to Bed and Other Poems
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species
Darwin, Charles. Origin of the Species
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles. American Notes
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Carol & Other Stories
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles. Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak. Seven Gothic Tales
Doctorow, E.L.. Ragtime
Lincoln, Abraham. The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Best Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Brothers Karamozov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie
Dryden, John. Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans V 1
Dryden, John. Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans V 2
Bois, W. E. B. Du. Souls Of Black Folk
Dumas, Alexandre. Count of Monte Cristo
Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
Ellison, Ralph. Collected Essays
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Selected Writings
Exley, Frederick. A Fan’s Notes
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William. Go Down Moses
Faulkner, William. Selected Short Stories
Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William. Three Novels of the Snopes Family
Faulkner, William. Wild Palms
Feynman, Richard. Character of Physical Law
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones
Fielding, H.. Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, Scott. This Side of Paradise
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Foote, Shelby. Beleaguered City
Foote, Shelby. Gettysburg
Foote, Shelby. Stars In Their Courses
Forman, Sir Denis. A Night at the Opera
Forster, E. M.. Room With A View/Howards End
Fowles, John. The Magus
Freud, Sigmund. Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
Freud, Sigmund. Interpretations of Dreams
Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V 1
Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V 2
Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V 3
Godolphin, Francis. Great Classical Myths
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls
Grant, Ulysses S.. Personal Memoirs
Graves, Robert. I, Claudius
Greene, Graham. Quiet American
Hansberry, Lorraine. Raisin In The Sun
Hardy, Thomas. Collected Novels V 1
Hardy, Thomas. Collected Novels V 2
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Complete Novels and Selected Tales V 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Complete Novels and Selected Tales V 2
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Hawthorne Treasury
Holbrooke, Richard. To End a War
Hugo, Victor. Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables
Irving, John. The World According to Garp
Jacobs, Jane. Death and Life of Great American Cities
James, Henry. Washington Square
James, Henry. Wings of the Dove
James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience
Jefferson, Thomas. Life and Selected Writings
Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of The Pointed Firs
Jose, F. Sionil. Dusk
Joyce, James. Dubliners
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James. Ulysses
Jung, Carl G.. Basic Writings
Kafka, Franz. Selected Short Stories
Kant, Emanuel. Philosophy of Emanuel Kant
Keats, John. Complete Poems of Keats
Kempton, Murray. Part of Our Time
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine
Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching
Lawrence, D.H.. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lawrence, D.H.. Sons and Lovers
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques
Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street
Liebling, A. J.. Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Liebling, A.J.. The Road Back to Paris
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire
Mailer, Norman. Executioner’s Song
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte D’Arthur
Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Against Hope
Mann, Thomas. Death In Venice
Mann, Thomas. Dr. Faustus
Mann, Thomas. Magic Mountain
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage
Maxwell, William. They Came Like Swallows
McCullers, Carson. Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
McKeon, Richard. Introduction to Aristotle
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick
Melville, Herman. Piazza Tales
Robinson, E.A.. The Poetry of E.A. Robinson
Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer
Mitchell, Joseph. Bottom of the Harbor
Mitchell, Joseph. Joe Gould’s Secret
Mitford, Nancy. Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate
Murasaki, Lady. Tale of Genji
Murray, Albert. South to a Very Old Place
Naipaul, V.S.. A Bend in the River
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Norris, Frank. McTeague
O’Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra
O’Hara, John. Novellas of John O’Hara
O’Hara, John. A Rage to Live
O’Hara, John. We’ll Have Fun
O’Neill, Eugene. Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill
Thompson, Hunter S.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
Henry, O.. Best Short Stories: O. Henry
Review, The Paris. Beat Writers at Work
Parker, Dorothy. Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe
Percy, Walker. The Last Gentleman
Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant
Plato. Symposium
Plimpton, George, ed. The Writer’s Chapbook
Poe, Edgar Allen. The Raven and the Monkey’s Paw
Poe, Edgar Allen. Complete Tales and Poems
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Prescott, William H.. The History of the Conquest of Mexico
Prescott, William H.. The History of the Conquest of Peru
Pritchett, V. S.. Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil
Pritchett, V. S.. The Pritchett Century Selected and with a Foreward by Oliver Pritchett
Pritchett, V.S.. The Pritchett Century
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time, Volume II
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time, Volume III
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 1 Swann’s Way
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 2 Within a Budding Grove
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 3 Guermantes Way
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 4 Sodom and Gomorrah
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 5 Captive/The Fugitive
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time: V 6 Time Regained/Guide to Proust
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way
Reed, John Avalon. Collected Works of John Reed
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter
Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Naval War of 1812
Ross, Lillian. Picture
Roth, Philip. Goodbye Columbus
Salter, James. Sport and a Pastime
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William. Complete Comedies of Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
Shakespeare, William. Histories and Poems of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William. King Lear
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
Shakespeare, William. Othello
Shakespeare, William. Tragedies of William Shakespeare
Steiner, Mary Shelley with an introduction by Wendy. Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Complete Poems of Shelley
Smith, Adam. Wealth of Nations
Smith, Thorne. Topper
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. Cancer Ward
Augustine, St.. City of God
Stein, Gertrude. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal. Red and the Black
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey
Stoker, Bram. Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Styron, William. Confessions of Nat Turner
Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons
Taylor, Peter. Old Forest & Other Stories
Thompson, Hunter S.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings
Thurber, James. Thurber Carnival
Thurman, Wallace. Infants of the Spring
Tobias, Andrew. Best Little Boy in the World
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace
Tomkins, Calvin. Living Well Is the Best Revenge
Toomer, Jean. Cane
Trollope, Anthony. The Way We Live Now
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark. Diary of Adam and Eve
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi
Vidal, Gore. 1876
Vidal, Gore. Burr
Vidal, Gore. Empire
Vidal, Gore. Hollywood
Vidal, Gore. Lincoln
Vidal, Gore. Lincoln
Vidal, Gore. Washington, D.C.
Voltaire, Francois. Candide and Philosophical Letters
Wagner, Phyllis. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler
Walton, Isaak. The Compleat Angler
Wells, H. G.. Island of Dr. Moreau
Welty, Eudora. Selected Stories of Eudora Welty
West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith. New York Novels, with Foreword by Louis Auchincloss
Wheeler, Sara. Terra Incognita
Wheeler, Sara. Travels in a Thin Country
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar. Picture of Dorian Grey
Wilde, Oscar. Salome
Wilson, Edmund. Axel’s Castle
Editor, Sondra Kathryn Wilson,. The Crisis Reader
Yeats, William Butler. Irish Fairy and Folktales
Yourcenar, Margaret. Memoirs of Hadrian
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(from LOA web site, 3/99):
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Random House Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction Books
in 1998, the Modern Library released its list of the best 100 novels of the 20th Century amid much controversy over both what they put in and what they left out.
They’re back – with the Top 100 Nonfiction books of the 20th Century. So go ahead and argue what should have been left out and what deserved to be included.
1. Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams, Edmund Morris
2. Varities of Religious Experiences – William James
3. Up from Slavery – Booker T. Washington
4. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
5. Silent Spring – Rachael Carson, Ellen Burstyn, Rachel L. Carson
6. Selected Essays – T. S. Eliot
7. The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA – James D. Watson
8. Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (Everyman’s Library (Cloth), 188) – Vladimir Nabokov
9. American Language, Supplement One – H. L. Mencken
10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) – John Keynes
11. The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcher – Lewis Thomas
12. The Frontier in American History – Frederick Jackson Turner
13. Black Boy : (American Hunger) (Perennial Classics) – Richard Wright
14. Aspects of the Novel – Edward Morgan Forster
15. The Civil War : A Narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox (3 Vol. Set) – Shelby Foote
16. The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
17. The Proper Study of Mankind : An Anthology of Essays – Henry Hardy(Editor), et al
18. The Nature and Destiny of Man : A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (2 Vol Set)(Library of Theological Ethics) – Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction)
19. Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin
20. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
21. Elements of Style – William Strunk, E. B. White
22. An American Dilemma : The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and African-American Studies) – Gunnar Myrdal, Bok Sissela (Introduction)
23. Principia Mathematica to 56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library) [ABRIDGED] – Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead
24. Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Jay Gould
25. The Mirror and the Lamp : Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. – Meyer Howard. Abrams
26. Pluto’s Republic : Incorporating the Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intutition – Peter Medawar
27. The Ants – Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
28. A Theory of Justice. – John Rawls
29. Art and Illusion : A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation – Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, Ernest H. Gombrich
30. Making of the English Working Class – Edward P. Thompson
31. The Souls of Black Folk – W. E. B. Dubois, et al
32. Principia Ethica (Great Books in Philosophy) – G. E. Moore
33. Philosophy and Civilization. – John Dewey
34. On Growth and Form – D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
35. Ideas and Opinions – Albert Einstein
36. The Age of Jackson – Arthur Meier Schlesinger
37. The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
38. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon : A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics) – Rebecca West
39. Autobiographies (Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Vol 3) – William H. O’Donnell(Editor), et al
40. Science and Civilization in China : Chemistry and Chemical Technology : Part 6 : Military Technology, Missiles and Sieges (Vol 5) – Joseph Needham, et al
41. Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography – Robert Graves
42. Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
43. Autobiography of Mark Twain – Charles Neider(Editor)
44. Children of Crisis – Robert Coles
46. The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
47. Present at the Creation : My Years in the State Department – Dean Acheson
48. The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge – David G. McCullough
49. Patriotic Gore : Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War – Edmund Wilson
50. Samuel Johnson – Walter Jackson Bate
51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X, Alex Haley
52. The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
53. Eminent Victorians – Lytton Strachey
54. Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do – Studs Terkel
55. Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness – William Styron
56. The Liberal Imagination : Essays on Literature and Society – Lionel Trilling
57. Second World War – Winston Churchill, John Keegan (Illustrator)
58. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (Vintage International) – Isak Dinesen
59. Jefferson, the Virginian (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 1) – Dumas Malone
60. In the American Grain – William Carlos Williams, H. Gregory (Designer)
61. Cadillac Desert : The American West and Its Disappearing Water – Mark Reisner, Marc Reisner
62. The House of Morgan : An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance – Ron Chernow
63. Sweet Science – A.J. Liebling
64. The Open Society and Its Enemies : The Spell of Plato – Karl Raimund Popper
65. Art of Memory – Frances A. Yates
66. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism – R. H. Tawney
67. A Preface to Morals – Walter Lippmann
68. The Gate of Heavenly Peace : The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 – Jonathan D. Spence
69. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas S. Kuhn
70. The Strange Career of Jim Crow – Comer Vann Woodward
71. The Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essay – William H. McNeill
72. The Gnostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
73. James Joyce – Richard Ellmann
74. Florence Nightingale : 1820-1910 – Cecil Woodham-Smith
75. Great War and Modern Memory – Paul Fussell
76. The City in History – Lewis Mumford
77. Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era – James M. McPherson
78. Why We Can’t Wait – Martin Luther, Jr. King
79. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris
80. Studies in Iconology Humanistic Themes in the Art – Erwin Panofsky
81. The Face of Battle – John Keegan
82. The Strange Death of Liberal England – George Dangerfield, Peter Stansky
83. Vermeer – Lawrence Gowing, et al
84. A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam – Neil Sheehan
85. West With the Night – Beryl Markham
86. This Boy’s Life : A Memoir – Tobias Wolff
87. A Mathematician’s Apology – G. H. Hardy
88. Six Easy Pieces : Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Helix Book.) – Richard P. Feynman, Paul Davies, Robert B. Leighton
89. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics) – Annie Dillard
90. Golden Bough – James George Frazer
91. Shadow and Act – Ralph Waldo Ellison
92. The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York – Robert A. Caro
93. American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It – Richard Hofstadter
94. Contours of American History – William Appleman Williams
95. The Promise of American Life – Herbert Croly
96. In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences – Truman Capote
97. The Journalist and the Murderer – Janet Malcolm
98. The Taming of Chance – Tim Hacking, Ian Hacking
99. Operating Instructions : A Journal of My Son’s First Year – Anne Lamott
Random House Modern Library Readers’ 100 Best Novels
In response to their list of 100 best novels, the Modern library let the readers respond with their favorite books. This list was derived from an online user poll conducted on the Modern Library web site from July 20 to October 20, 1998, during which 217,520 votes were cast.
**Note from Steph: Consider the first ten entries, and ask yourself if the internet culties weren’t overloading the Modern Library online poll with votes. Damned Scientologists! And, really, who the hell is Charles De Lint, the guy with something like twelve books that made this list? After awhile I just stopped linking to his books.
1. Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged
2. Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead
3. Hubbard, L. Ron. Battlefield Earth
4. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord Of The Rings
5. Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird
6. Orwell, George. 1984
7. Rand, Ayn. Anthem
8. Rand, Ayn. We The Living
9. Hubbard, L. Ron. Mission Earth
10. Hubbard, L. Ron. Fear
11. Joyce, James. Ulysses
12. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
13. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
14. Herbert, Frank. Dune
15. Heinlein, Robert. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
16. Heinlein, Robert. Stranger In A Strange Land
17. Shute, Nevil. A Town Like Alice
18. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
19. Salinger, J. D. The Catcher In The Rye
20. Orwell, George. Animal Farm
21. Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow
22. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes Of Wrath
23. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five
24. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With The Wind
25. Golding, William. Lord Of The Flies
26. Schaefer, Jack. Shane
27. Shute, Nevil. Trustee From The Toolroom
28. Irving, John. A Prayer For Owen Meany
29. King, Stephen. The Stand
30. Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
31. Morrison, Toni. Beloved
32. Eddison, E. R. The Worm Ouroboros
33. Faulkner, William. The Sound And The Fury
34. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
35. De Lint, Charles. Moonheart
36. Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!
37. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage
38. Flannery O’Connor. Wise Blood
39. Lowry, Malcolm. Under The Volcano
40. Davies, Robertson. Fifth Business
41. De Lint, Charles. Someplace To Be Flying
42. Kerouac, Jack. On The Road
43. Conrad, Joseph. Heart Of Darkness
44. De Lint, Charles. Yarrow
45. Lovecraft, H.P.. At The Mountains Of Madness
46. Spillane, Mickey. One Lonely Night
47. De Lint, Charles. Memory And Dream
48. Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse
49. Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer
50. De Lint, Charles. Trader
51. Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
52. McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
53. Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale
54. McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian
55. Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
56. Shute, Nevil. On The Beach
57. Joyce, James. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
58. De Lint, Charles. Greenmantle
59. Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
60. De Lint, Charles. The Little Country
61. Gaddis, William. The Recognitions
62. Heinlein, Robert. Starship Troopers
63. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises
64. Irving, John. The World According To Garp
65. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes
66. Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting Of Hill House
67. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
68. Miller, Henry. Tropic Of Cancer
69. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
70. Windling, Terri. The Wood Wife
71. Fowles, John. The Magus
72. Heinlein, Robert. The Door Into Summer
73. Pirsig, Robert. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
74. Graves, Robert. I, Claudius
75. London, Jack. The Call Of The Wild
76. Flann O’Brien. At Swim-Two-Birds
77. Bradbury, Ray. Farenheit 451
78. Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith
79. Adams, Richard. Watership Down
80. Burroughs, William S.. Naked Lunch
81. Clancy, Tom. The Hunt For Red October
82. Hamilton, Laurell K.. Guilty Pleasures
83. Heinlein, Robert. The Puppet Masters
84. King, Stephen. It
85. Thomas Pynchon. V.
86. Heinlein, Robert. Double Star
87. Heinlein, Robert. Citizen Of The Galaxy
88. Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited
89. Faulkner, William. Light In August
90. Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
91. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms
92. Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky
93. Kesey, Ken. Sometimes A Great Notion
94. Cather, Willa. My Antonia
95. De Lint, Charles. Mulengro
96. McCarthy, Cormac. Suttree
97. Holdstock, Robert. Mythago Wood
98. Bach, Richard. Illusions
99. Davies, Robertson. The Cunning Man
100. Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses
Random House Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels
In 1998 the Modern Library, a division of Random House, New York, released this list of ‘the 100 best novels written in the English language and published since 1900.’ The jurors were Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Styron, and Gore Vidal.