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Newsweek's Top 100 Books (2009)

This list is a work in process. Feel free to update (it's been a while since I last reviewed this list).

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#1 - War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

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DB026275 Read by Gordon Gould. Reading time: 60 hours, 52 minutes.
DB067136 Read by Conrad Feininger. Reading time: 63 hours, 28 minutes. 2007 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

ANNOTATION: Epic historical novel portrays five aristocratic families against the background of Russian social life during the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1814). Depicts campaign battles, the burning of Moscow, and the French army's winter retreat.

#2 - 1984 (1949) by George Orwell

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DB034268 Read by Alexander Scourby. Reading time: 11 hours, 15 minutes.

ANNOTATION: A satirical, frightening novel about a future time under a totalitarian regime, where the people believe ignorance is strength and war is peace. For high school and older readers.

#3 - Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce

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DB019994 Read by Alexander Scourby. Reading time: 30 hours, 43 minutes.

ANNOTATION: Deals with a single day–June 16, 1904–in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters.

#4 - Lolita (1955) by Vladmir Nabokov

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DB067388 Read by David Hartley-Margolin. Reading time: 14 hours, 34 minutes.

ANNOTATION: Incarcerated and awaiting trial, widowed middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert tells of his erotic obsession with preadolescent girls–particularly twelve-year-old Dolly Haze, whom he calls Lolita. Humbert details his fascination with Lolita and describes their bizarre road trip.

#5 - The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner

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DB049885

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#6 - Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison

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DB056346

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#7 - To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

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DB067708

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#8 - The Iliad (8th century B.C.) by Homer

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DB066356

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#8 - The Odyssey (8th century B.C.) by Homer

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DB072052

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#9 - Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

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DB050549

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#10 - Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri

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DB030589

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#11 - Canterbury Tales (14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer

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DB020461

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#12 - Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

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DB023150

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#13 - Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot

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DB020078 - “IN PROCESS”

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#14 - Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

RC 47510

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#15 - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

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DB047480

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#16 - Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell

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DB033082

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#17 - One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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DB059490

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#18 - The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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DB016147

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#19 - Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

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DB048063

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#20 - Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

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DB026026

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#21 - The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

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DB068308

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#22 - Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie

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DB016993

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#23 - Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley

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DB059911

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#24 - Mrs. Dalloway Reader (1925) by Virginia Woolf

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DB058332

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#25 - Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

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DB041552

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#26 - Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Volume 1 (1835)

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DB061828

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Volume 2 (1840)

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DB014245

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#27 - Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin

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RC 15937

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#28 - The Histories (440 B.C.) by Herodotus

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DB058293

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#29 - The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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RC 23561

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#30 - Das Kapital, or Capital by Karl Marx

Volume 1 (1867)

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RC 39627

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Volume 2 (1885)

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RC 39628

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Volume 3 (1894)

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RC 39629

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#31 - The Prince (1532) by Niccolo Machiavelli

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DB067703

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#32 - Confessions (397-398) by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

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DB039444

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#33 - Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes

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RC 48622

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#34 - The History of the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.) by Thucydides

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DB042452

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#35 - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Book 1: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

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DB047486

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Book 2: The Two Towers (1954)

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DB047487

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Book 3: The Return of the King (1955)

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DB047488

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#36 - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne

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DB048132

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#37 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis

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DB050083

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#38 - A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster

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DB021242

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#39 - On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac

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DB031675

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#40 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

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DB036414

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#41 - The Holy Bible

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

DB068777 Read by Alexander Scourby.

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#42 - A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess

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DB015213

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#43 - Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner

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DB020001

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#44 - The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois

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DB063648

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#45 - Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys

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RC 23148

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#46 - Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert

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DB049192

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#47 - Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton

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DB031889

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#48 - Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy

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DB049499

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#49 - Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare

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DB024285

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#50 - King Lear (1608) by William Shakespeare

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DB029214

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#51 - Othello (1622) by William Shakespeare

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DB035241

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#52 - The Sonnets (1609) by William Shakespeare

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DB050129

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#53 - Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

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RC 32177

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#54 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain

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43591]DB043591] * [[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.|57349]DB057349] **ANNOTATION: ** ''.'' ===== #55 - Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling ===== **AVAILABLE FORMATS:** * [[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.35722|DB035722

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#56 - Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

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DB025835

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#57 - Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison

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DB038330

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#58 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey

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DB056351

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#59 - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway

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DB049108

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#60 - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

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DB064540

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#61 - Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell

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RC 38959

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#62 - Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding

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DB048388

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#63 - In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote

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DB022726

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#64 - The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing

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RC 23376

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#65 - Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Book 1: Swann's Way (1913)

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DB023759

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Book 2: Within a Budding Grove (1919)

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DB023759

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Book 3: The Guermantes Way (1921)

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RC 23760

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Book 4: Cities of the Plain (1922)

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RC 23760

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Book 5: The Captive (1923)

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RC 23761

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Book 6: The Fugitive (1925)

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RC 23761

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Book 7: Time Regained (1927)

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RC 23761

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#66 - The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler

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DB032657

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#67 - As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner

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DB049008 IN PROCESS

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#68 - The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway

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DB034114

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#69 - I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves

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DB012463

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#70 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers

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DB058532

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71. - Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.39196”>DB039196</a> 72. - All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.53553”>DB053553</a> 73. - Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.33488”>DB033488</a> 74. - Charlotte's Web (1952) by E.B. White <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.46839”>DB046839</a> 75. - Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.58105”>DB058105</a> 76. - Night (1958) by Elie Wiesel <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.42074”>DB042074</a> IN PROCESS 77. - Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.63882”>DB063882</a> 78. - The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.65343”>DB065343</a> 79. - Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.67856”>DB067856</a> 80. - An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23138”>DB023138</a> 81. - The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.12925”>DB012925</a> 82. - Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller IN PROCESS 83. - The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.16593”>DB016593</a> 84. - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman <ul> <li>#1 Golden Compass (1995) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.44343”>DB044343</a></li> <li>#2 The Subtle Knife (1997) RC 45857</li> <li>#3 Amber Spyglass (2000) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.50939”>DB050939</a> IN PROCESS</li> </ul> 85. - Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.56535”>DB056535</a> 86. - The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.50005”>DB050005</a> 87. - The Education of Henry Adams (1918) by Henry Adams <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.22293”>DB022293</a> 88. - Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1964) by Mao Zedong <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.19940”>DB019940</a> 89. - The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902) by William James <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.14445”>DB014445</a> 90. - Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.53981”>DB053981</a> 91. - Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson RC 20184 92. - The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) by John Maynard Keynes <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.16178”>DB016178</a> 93. - Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.15912”>DB015912</a> 94. - Goodbye to All That (1929) by Robert Graves NOT AVAILABLE 10/21/2011 95. - The Affluent Society (1958) by John Kenneth Galbraith <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.25346”>DB025346</a> 96. - The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.24592”>DB024592</a> 97. - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) by Alex Haley & Malcolm X <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.65510”>DB065510</a> 98. - Eminent Victorians (1918) by Lytton Strachey <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.18557”>DB018557</a> 99. - The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.58842”>DB058842</a> 100. - The Second World War by Winston Churchill <ul> <li>#1 The Gathering Storm (1948) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23699”>DB023699</a></li> <li>#2 Their Finest Hour (1949) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23700”>DB023700</a></li> <li>#3 The Grand Alliance (1950) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23701”>DB023701</a></li> <li>#4 The Hinge of Fate (1950) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23702”>DB023702</a></li> <li>#5 Closing the Ring (1951) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23703”>DB023703</a></li> <li>#6 Triumph and Tragedy (1953) <a href=“http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.23704”>DB023704</a> IN PROCESS</li> </ul>