1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck 4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker 6. Ulysses, by James Joyce 7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison 8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 9. 1984, by George Orwell 10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner 11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov 12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck 13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce 15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller 16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley 17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell 18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway 19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner 20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway 21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad 22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston 24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison 25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison 26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell 27. Native Son, by Richard Wright 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey 29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway 31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac 32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway 33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London 34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf 35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin 37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving 38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren 39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster 40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien 41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally 42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton 43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand 44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce 45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair 46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence 49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess 50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin 51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather 52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster 53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote 54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger 55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie 56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison 57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron 58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner 59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster 60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor 62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf 64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence 65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe 66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut 67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles 68. Light in August, by William Faulkner 69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James 70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe 71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams 73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs 74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh 75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence 76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe 77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein 79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett 80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer 81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys 82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo 83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather 84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller 85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells 86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad 87. The Bostonians, by Henry James 88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather 90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame 91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles 94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis 95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling 96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster 99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis 100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
Don’t waste your time asking why such an amazing thing could happen to you, just let it happen. Don’t doubt that you could be loved, just let yourself be loved. If you don’t believe you’re worth of anyone’s time, then you won’t be. Take yourself seriously and others will too. “Why” is a wasteful question. Why? ‘Cause that’s the way it’s supposed to be. That’s the only answer you can have. Accept it. (c)