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1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2 1984 - George Orwell
3 Dune - Frank Herbert
4 Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
6 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7 The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
8 The Bible - Various
9 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
10 Harry Potter Series -J. K. Rowling
11 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
12 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman
13 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
14 The Foundation Saga - Isaac Asimov
15 Neuromancer - William Gibson
16 Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
17 Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
18 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
19 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
20 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
21 The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
22 Godel, Escher, Bach, An eternal golden braid - Douglas Hofstadter
23 Tao Te Ching - Lao Tse
24 House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielwelski
25 The Giver - Lois Lowry
26 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
29 The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
30 Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
31 A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
32 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
33 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
34 His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
35 The Stranger - Albert Camus
36 Various - Dr. Seuss
37 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
38 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
39 The Monster At The End Of This Book - Jon Stone and Michael Smollin *PDF ONLY *
40 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
41 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
42 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick
43 A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 The Art of War - Sun Tzu
45 How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
46 Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
47 The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
48 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49 The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and th- Various
50 Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
51 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr
52 Odyssey - Homer
53 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
54 A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
55 The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
56 The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
57 Ringworld - Larry Niven
58 A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
60 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
61 Freakonomics - Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
62 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
63 The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
64 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
65 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
66 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
67 Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
68 Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
70 On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
71 The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X with Alex Haley
72 John Dies at the End - David Wong
73 The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
75 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
76 The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
77 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
78 The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
79 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
80 The Stand - Stephen King
81 The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
82 The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
83 Moby Dick- Herman Melville
85 Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer *PDF ONLY *
86 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass M- Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
87 Asimov's Guide to the Bible - Isaac Asimov
88 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
89 Collapse - Jared Diamond *PDF ONLY *
90 Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallave
91 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
93 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
94 Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
95 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
98 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
99 Candide - Voltaire
100 Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
102 In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
103 The Dark Tower - Stephen King
104 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
105 The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
107 The Turner Diaries - Andrew MacDonald
108 The Scar - China Mieville
110 Going Rogue - Sarah Palin
111 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis De Sade
112 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
113 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
114 Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
115 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
116 Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
117 Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
118 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
120 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
122 Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
123 Watership Down - Richard Adams
124 Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
125 Civilization and Capitalism - Fernand Braudel
126 Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
127 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
129 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
130 American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
131 The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
132 The Chomsky Reader - Noam Chomsky
133 The Panda's Thumb - Stephen Jay Gould
134 Flatland - Edwin Abbot
135 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
136 The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
140 Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan
144 Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
145 Sandman - Neil Gaiman
146 The Game - Neil Strauss
147 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
148 Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
149 Walden - Henry David Thoreau
150 The Collapse of Complex Societies - Joseph Tainter
151 Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
152 The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
153 The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
154 The Prince of Nothing - R. Scott Bakker
155 Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
156 Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
157 The Wasteland - TS Elliot
158 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
160 The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
161 The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
162 Guts - Chuck Palahniuk
163 fear and trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
164 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
165 Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
166 Ulysses - James Joyce
167 Macbeth - Shakespeare
170 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
171 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
172 Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
173 Women - Charles Bukowski
174 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
175 We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
178 The singularity is near - Ray Kurzweil
179 The Day of the Trifids - John Wyndham
180 The Long Walk - Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
181 Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
182 The Book_On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
183 The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
184 The Elegant Universe - Brian Green
185 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
186 Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
187 King Lear - Shakespeare
188 The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
189 The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes
190 The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson
191 Nichomachean ethics - Aristotle
192 Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandlla
193 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
194 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
195 The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
197 Cosmos - Carl Sagan
198 The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
199 Hamlet - Shakespeare
200 The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
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