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#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights,
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain*
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne

#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital (Das Kapital) by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding*
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger*
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau

#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius

#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I'm not sure if the books marked * actually count as they were read to me in junior school as our book for the term. I did listen, the teachers asked questions afterwards. A few of the others were set books in Grammar School but they were probably the most well read. I knew my Grammar School was forward thinking but giving us banned books for our reading list, Wow %)

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Date: 2004-12-05 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com
They probably weren't banned when you read them--for some it must have been decades or even centuries ago--or if they were, not in the UK.

What's Popol Vuh?

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Date: 2004-12-05 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com
Popol Vuh Hindu{?, certainly Indian} book of the myths of creation and after wards. I wrote an article on the history of Flying Saucers for the school magazine and this book seems to have the first writen mention of 'Lights in the Sky'. They called them flying pearls Reading about that got me reading the rest of it in fits and starts

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Date: 2004-12-05 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
It's not Hindu, it's South American Indian.

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Date: 2004-12-05 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com
After 40 years it's supprising I remembered it was Indian I just got the wrong continent. Senility is setting in.

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Date: 2004-12-05 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
Nah, if you read about it 40 years ago and haven't been a pre-Christian South America enthusiast since, it's no surprise you don't remember it:).

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Date: 2004-12-05 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com
Correction Popul Vuh is south American mythology (my thanks to Snowgrouse for the correction). Pearls in the sky does however come from the Indian sub content, after 40 years I have got my research mixed up but I have read both mythologies.

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Date: 2004-12-05 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com
Ah, von Daeniken and all that! ;-)

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Date: 2004-12-05 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com
Guilty as charged but I was only 14 at the time and mad about sc-fi and space travel.

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Date: 2004-12-05 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
It's Aztec or Maya, I think...or Peruvian... argh, and I just saw the book somewhere...

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Date: 2004-12-05 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com
It doesn't sound Aztec as I've read a lot about them and their language and it's not at all like Nahuatl.

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Date: 2004-12-05 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
This is my favourite site--it covers all world religions, ancient and modern. It even has sites devoted to feminist interpretations of various religions, calling for equality. Everything you ever wanted to know about sacred texts and their inspirations is to be found here:).

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This is my favourite site--it covers all world religions, ancient and modern. It even has sites devoted to feminist interpretations of various religions, calling for equality. Everything you ever wanted to know about sacred texts and their inspirations is to be found here:).

<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com"</a>

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Date: 2004-12-05 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com
Ooh, fascinating site, thanks!

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