Here's the complete list (it's long, so I made it small). I'm going to eliminate some and then see if I can choose from the remaining:
Alcott's The Young Man's Guide
Augustine's Confessions
Beowulf
Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Calvin's The Institutes
Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
Cervantes' Don Quixote
Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
Dante's Divine Comedy
Darwin's Origin of Species
Delillo's White Noise
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens' David Copperfield
Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Eliot's Four Quartets
Ellison's Invisible Man
Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
Gladwell's The Tipping Point
Golding's The Lord of the Flies
Graham's The Wind in the Willows
Heller's Catch-22
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Kerouak's Slaughterhouse-Five
Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses
Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Machiavelli's The Prince
Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martel's Life of Pi
Melville's Moby Dick
Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Morrison's Beloved
Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil
Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
Plato's The Republic
Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Rand's The Fountainhead
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Shalit's A Return to Modesty
Shelley's Frankenstein
Sjoholm's Incognito Street
Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson's Treasure Island
Sun Tzu's The Art of War
Thoreau's Walden
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's War and Peace
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace's Ben Hur
Wharton's The House of Mirth
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Winner's Real Sex
Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Wright's Native Son
First, eliminate British authors. I want a little bit of well-roundedness. That leaves this list:
- Alcott's The Young Man's Guide
- Augustine's Confessions
- Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
- Calvin's The Institutes
- Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Cervantes' Don Quixote
- Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
- Dante's Divine Comedy
- Delillo's White Noise
- Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
- Ellison's Invisible Man
- Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
- Gladwell's The Tipping Point
- Heller's Catch-22
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
- Kerouak's Slaughterhouse-Five
- Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses
- Kingston's The Woman Warrior
- Machiavelli's The Prince
- Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Martel's Life of Pi
- Melville's Moby Dick
- Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
- Morrison's Beloved
- Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil
- Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
- Plato's The Republic
- Rand's Atlas Shrugged
- Rand's The Fountainhead
- Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
- Shalit's A Return to Modesty
- Sjoholm's Incognito Street
- Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- Sun Tzu's The Art of War
- Thoreau's Walden
- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy's War and Peace
- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
- Wallace's Ben Hur
- Winner's Real Sex
- Wharton's The House of Mirth
- Woolf's To the Lighthouse
- Wright's Native Son
...I'm trying again. (read here for the Official List of Excuses: I already started it once. This time I'm wanting to read something I have little to no prior relationship with. I just 'reconciled' with one book.)
Again: 24...that's Melville's Moby Dick.
OooooKay. Yeah, no.
One more try: 38...that's Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. All right. Thaaaat's the one! That's the lucky winner!
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