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        • 50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library
        • Waterstones 100 Books of the Century
        • Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time
        • The Celebrity Reading List
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        • The Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
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110 best books: The perfect library by The Telegraph

1/10/2022

 
1. The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the m…


2. The Iliad by Homer
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e…


3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was …


4. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serve…


5. Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
e vita Caesarum (Latin, direct translation: On the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman …


6. Confessions by Augustine
Confessions is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published …


7. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Unknown
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The annals were initially created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during…


8. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a mo…


9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the …


10. Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the death of Arthur”) is Sir Thomas Malory’s compilation of …


11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was origi…


12. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as time, love, beauty and mutability. They were proba…


13. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after th…


14. Paradise Lost by John Milton
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve…


15. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship’s surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an enchanting fantasy;…


16. L’Encyclopédie by Diderot
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts) was a general encyclopedia publish…


17. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of th…


18. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. …


19. Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte…


20. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first…


21. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. It defen…


22. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The book is narrated in free indirect speech following the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic socie…


23. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
He’s one of English literature’s all-time heavyweights, but most of what we know about Samuel Johnson, the man, comes from his friend Boswell’s hearty anecdotal biog.


24. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the ‘ghost story’ that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the…


25. On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
Vom Kriege is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in…


26. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengt…


27. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his “tales…


28. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her senti…


29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane’s childhood at Gateshead…


30. The Prelude by William Wordsworth
The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind is an autobiographical, “philosophical” poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote the first version of the poem when he w…


31. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The story of the abandoned waif who learns to survive through challenging encounters with distress and misfortune.


32. The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious cathedral town of Barchester. These classics of Victorian literature concern th…


33. The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte’s lov…


34. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for “offenses against morality and religion.” What shoc…


35. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelation…


36. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title…


37. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (German pronunciation: [das kapiˈtaːl]) (Capital, in the English translation) is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German by Karl Ma…


38. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of fi…


39. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nem…


40. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final i…


41. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The story centres on Isabel Archer, an attractive American whom circumstances have brought to Europe. Isabel refuses the offer of marriage to an English peer and to a bulldog-like New Englander, to…


42. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long…


43. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.


44. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently…


45. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 — and everything had changed. H.G. Wells’s famous novel of one man’s astonishi…


46. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
This book introduces Freud’s theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. Dreams, in Freud’s view, were all forms of “wish-fulfillment” — attempts by the unconscious to resolve a…


47. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
The Railway Children is a children’s book by Edith Nesbit, originally published in 1906. The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a resu…


48. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori, as it was originally known i…


49. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
A classic in children’s literature The Wind in the Willow is alternately slow moving and fast paced. The book focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. T…


50. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust’s seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narr…


51. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (the oldest member of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. It…


52. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land is a 434 line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called “one of the most important poems of the 20th century.” Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem — i…


53. Ulysses by James Joyce
Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer’s Odyss…


54. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO (16 August 1888–19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British military officer renowned especially for his liaison role dur…


55. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Wi…


56. Odes by John Keats
John Keats is perhaps most famous for his Odes, poems written in 1819 at a particularly harsh time of his life, when he had already been stricken with the tuberculosis that would eventually kill h…


57. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognised as a c…


58. Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves. First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves’ d…


59. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, …


60. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and was first published in 1930. It is set in the Lake District between the two World Wars. At the tim…


61. Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
Babar the Elephant is a very popular French children’s fictional character who first appeared in Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 and enjoyed immediate success. An English language ver…


62. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embod…


63. Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.


64. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
I, Claudius deals sympathetically with the life of the Roman Emperor Claudius and cynically with the history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44…


65. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
What more can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, thirteen likely suspects, an incomparably brilliant dete…


66. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation o…


67. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca is considered to be one of her best works. Some observers have noted parallels with Jane Eyre. Much of the novel was written while she was staying in Alexandria, Egypt, where her husband wa…


68. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep (1939) is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and a…


69. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is …


70. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
If This Is a Man is a work of witness by the Italian author Primo Levi. It was influenced by his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. It can be described …


71. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime’s propaganda by falsifying records and political literatur…


72. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
World War II has just begun and four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, are evacuated from London in 1940 to escape the Blitz. They are sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke, who …


73. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young America…


74. A History of the Crusades by Stephen Runciman
A History of the Crusades is the work that historian Stephen Runciman is arguably most noted for. A cursory glance at the body of Runciman’s work would lead many to believe that his passion for hi…


75. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick’s film version and published after the release of the film. The story…


76. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together …


77. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels, this was the first publi…


78. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier, less complex children’…


79. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and her former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Ca…


80. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor and poet. It tells the story of a man to…


81. The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a novel written in 1960 by the Scottish author Muriel Spark. It tells the story of a devilish Scottish migrant, Dougal Douglas, who moves to Peckham in London and wr…


82. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Rabbit, Run depicts five months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.


83. The Origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor
Was Hitler all that bad? Wasn’t he just an opportunist who took advantage of Anglo-French dithering and appeasement? The label ‘iconoclastic’ applies to few historians so well as it does to Taylor.


84. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the 20th century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning car…


85. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot …


86. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
Master and Commander is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian. First published in 1969 (US) (1970 in UK), it is first in the Aubrey-Maturin series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the na…


87. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. First published in 1970 as “Jona…


88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, working a dead-end job and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, …


89. How to Cook by Delia Smith
Delia’s How to Cook is a simple-to-follow cooking course for people of all ages and abilities. In this comprehensive two-part book series, Delia returns to the very roots of cooking to look at the …


90. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is the first of Robert M. Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality. The 1974 book describes, in first person,…


91. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974. It is the first volume of a three-book series informally known as The Karla Trilogy, followed by The Honourabl…


92. The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy


93. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the title of the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of th…


94. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a relat…


95. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon is a novel by Thomas Harris. It was the first novel to feature Harris’ iconic character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a sociopathic, murderous cannibal and ex-forensic psychiatrist; though he pla…


96. Diaries by Alan Clark
Alan Clark started keeping a regular diary in 1955 which lasted until August 1999, during his second spell as a Member of Parliament, when he was incapacitated due to the onset of the brain tumour …


97. Neuromancer by William Gibson
The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Gibson explores artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, …


98. Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison…


99. Killshot by Elmore Leonard
Killshot, the 1989 novel by author Elmore Leonard, tells the story of a married couple who find themselves in Cape Girardeau, Missouri while on the run from a pair of hitmen.


100. Citizens by Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama. It was published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and like many other works in that year, w…


101. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence is autobiographical novel by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. It was adapted into a television miniseries starring John Thaw and Li…


102. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behavi…


103. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Beauty Myth examines beauty as a demand and as a judgment upon women. Subtitled How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Wolf examines how modern conceptions of women’s beauty impact the sp…


104. A Child Called ‘It’ by Dave Pelzer
A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive is Dave Pelzer’s 1995 autobiographical account of his alleged abuse as a child by an alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva.


105. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The story involves fantasy elements such as witches and armoured polar bears, and alludes to a broad range of ideas from fields such as physics, philosophy, theology and spirituality. It follows th…


106. A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
This multi-award book is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, “A People’s Tragedy” offers a…


107. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers he is a …


108. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term: “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” The book seeks to explain and describe the “mysterious” sociological change…


109. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Human Stain is set in 1990s America, the time of the culture wars, political correctness and the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. The story is told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives …


110. Schott’s Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
Schott’s Miscellanies are a trio of best-selling books by Ben Schott. They consist of a collection of trivia generally centred on the culture of the United Kingdom (and to a lesser extent the rest …


111. Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4’s Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctua…


112. Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes was an English poet and children’s writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984…


Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect-library.html

88 Books That Shaped America

1/10/2022

 
The Library of Congress List
  1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  2. Alcoholics Anonymous by anonymous (1939)
  3. American Cookery by Amelia Simmons (1796)
  4. The American Woman’s Home by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
  5. And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts (1987)
  6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)
  7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
  8. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  9. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (1970)
  10. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
  11. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (1957)
  12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
  13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
  14. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952)
  15. Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
  16. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock (1946)
  17. Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
  18. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible by anonymous (1788)
  19. The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968)
  20. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1907)
  21. Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
  22. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
  23. Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger (1914)
  24. The Federalist by anonymous (1787)
  25. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
  26. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
  27. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
  28. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  29. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
  30. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language by Noah Webster (1783)
  31. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
  32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  33. Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
  34. The History of Standard Oil by Ida Tarbell (1904)
  35. History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis (1814)
  36. How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (1890)
  37. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
  38. Howl by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
  39. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill (1946)
  40. Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures by Federal Writers’ Project (1937)
  41. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
  42. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
  43. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer (1931)
  44. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)
  45. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855)
  46. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820)
  47. Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
  48. Mark, the Match Boy by Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
  49. McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer by William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
  50. Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)
  51. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1845)
  52. Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
  53. New England Primer by anonymous (1803)
  54. New Hampshire by Robert Frost (1923)
  55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  56. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (1971)
  57. Our Town: A Play by Thornton Wilder (1938)
  58. Peter Parley’s Universal History by Samuel Goodrich (1837)
  59. Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
  60. Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
  61. Pragmatism by William James (1907)
  62. The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
  63. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
  64. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
  65. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912)
  66. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
  67. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
  68. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
  69. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
  70. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
  71. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
  72. Spring and All by William Carlos Williams (1923)
  73. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
  74. A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
  75. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947)
  76. A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America by Christopher Colles (1789)
  77. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  78. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
  79. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
  80. A Treasury of American Folklore by Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
  81. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
  82. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  83. Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader (1965)
  84. Walden; or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
  85. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (1925)
  86. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
  87. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
  88. The Words of Cesar Chavez by Cesar Chavez (2002)

50 Essential Historical Fiction Books

1/10/2022

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​1. The Book Thief Markus Zusak
2. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
3. Outlander Diana Gabaldon
4. The Help Kathryn Stockett
5. The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
6. The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory
7. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
9. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
10. Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
11. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
12. Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon
13. Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein
14. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
15. Sarah’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay
16. The White Queen Philippa Gregory
17. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne
18. Voyager Diana Gabaldon
19. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
20. The Constant Princess Philippa Gregory
21. Fall of Giants Ken Follett
22. World Without End Ken Follett
23. Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline
24. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See
25. Salt to the Sea Ruta Sepetys
26. The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd
27. Drums of Autumn Diana Gabaldon
28. The Paris Wife Paula McLain
29. The Queen’s Fool Philippa Gregory
30. The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
31. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón
32. Atonement Ian McEwan
33. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
34. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
35. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
36. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
37. The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon
38. The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom
39. The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman
40. The Red Queen Philippa Gregory
41. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
42. 11/22/63 Stephen King
43. Burial Rites Hannah Kent
44. The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
45. Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
46. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. The Miniaturist Jessie Burton
48. Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson
49. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
50. Shōgun James Clavell
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100 Most Recommended Books By Startup Founders

1/10/2022

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  1. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (2014)
  2. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (2014)
  3. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal (2014)
  4. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (2011)
  5. Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups — Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000 by Jason Calacanis (2017)
  6. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman (2013)
  7. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (2014)
  8. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)
  9. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2011)
  10. Rework by Jason Fried (2010)
  11. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp (2016)
  12. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (2016)
  13. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen (2013)
  14. Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug (2014)
  15. Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (2016)
  16. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (2013)
  17. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (2006)
  18. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (2015)
  19. Man’s Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl (1946)
  20. The State of Nonprofit America by Lester M Salamon (2012)
  21. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown (2014)
  22. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (2009)
  23. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016)
  24. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins (2001)
  25. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker (2017)
  26. Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss (2016)
  27. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins (2004)
  28. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (2015)
  29. Pride and Persistence by Jeanna Ellsworth (2014)
  30. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (2009)
  31. As A Man Thinketh by James Allen (2010)
  32. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove (1983)
  33. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim (2015)
  34. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dr. Dan Ariely (2009)
  35. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore (2014)
  36. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler (2008)
  37. Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk (2009)
  38. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant (2013)
  39. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
  40. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin (2003)
  41. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (2009)
  42. Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success by Sean Ellis (2017)
  43. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt (2014)
  44. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller (2013)
  45. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink (2017)
  46. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger (2013)
  47. Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll (2013)
  48. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau (2012)
  49. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen (2015)
  50. The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank (2013)
  51. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg (2015)
  52. Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story by Sam Walton (1992)
  53. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder (2010)
  54. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (2014)
  55. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet (2013)
  56. Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Tony Robbins (2017)
  57. Losing My Virginity: the Autobiography by Sir Richard Branson (1998)
  58. UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products by Brad Nunnally (2016)
  59. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (2016)
  60. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising by Ryan Holiday (2014)
  61. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron (2016)
  62. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want by Alexander Osterwalder (2014)
  63. Principles of Marketing by Philip T. Kotler (2017)
  64. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen (2013)
  65. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (2009)
  66. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley PhD (2014)
  67. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank (2012)
  68. The Marketing Blueprint: Lessons to Market & Sell Anything by Jules Marcoux (2015)
  69. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
  70. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2008)
  71. Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow (2014)
  72. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle (2009)
  73. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike (2012)
  74. Debt: Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (2014)
  75. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove (1996)
  76. 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall (2013)
  77. The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli (2013)
  78. INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan (2017)
  79. Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps by Daniel Drescher (2017)
  80. Growth Hacking: The Definitive Guide of Growth Hacking Tactics by James Jackson (2016)
  81. The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham (2005)
  82. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money — That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki (2009)
  83. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff (2011)
  84. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock (2015)
  85. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh (2009)
  86. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos (2015)
  87. The Greatest Salesman in World by OG MANDINO (2002)
  88. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (2017)
  89. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold (1999)
  90. Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Edition by Granger E. Westberg (2010)
  91. The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know — by Alejandro Cremades by Alejandro Cremades (2016)
  92. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (2016)
  93. Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition by David Newman (2013)
  94. The Great Big Fitness Quote Book: Over 365 Motivational Quotes To Get Back In Shape! by Cameron M. Clark (2015)
  95. Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins (1986)
  96. Mastery by Robert Greene (2012)
  97. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (2012)
  98. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier (2016)
  99. New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development by Mike Weinberg (2012)
  100. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal (2011)
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100 Must-Read Scottish Highland Romance Novels

1/10/2022

 
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  1. Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon
  2. Kiss of the Highlander (Highlander, #4) by Karen Marie Moning
  3. The Bride (Lairds’ Fiancées, #1) by Julie Garwood
  4. Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, #1) by Karen Marie Moning
  5. The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5) by Karen Marie Moning
  6. The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6) by Karen Marie Moning
  7. The Secret (Highlands’ Lairds #1) by Julie Garwood
  8. Ransom (Highlands’ Lairds, #2) by Julie Garwood
  9. Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon
  10. In Bed with a Highlander (McCabe Trilogy, #1) by Maya Banks
  11. Spell of the Highlander (Highlander, #7) by Karen Marie Moning
  12. To Tame a Highland Warrior (Highlander, #2) by Karen Marie Moning
  13. The Wedding (Lairds’ Fiancées, #2) by Julie Garwood
  14. Voyager (Outlander, #3) by Diana Gabaldon
  15. The Highlander’s Touch (Highlander, #3) by Karen Marie Moning
  16. Seduction of a Highland Lass (McCabe Trilogy, #2) by Maya Banks
  17. Never Love a Highlander (McCabe Trilogy, #3) by Maya Banks
  18. Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1) by Maya Banks
  19. Saving Grace by Julie Garwood
  20. The Chief (Highland Guard, #1) by Monica McCarty
  21. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1) by Jennifer Ashley
  22. Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4) by Diana Gabaldon
  23. A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark #2) by Kresley Cole
  24. The Prize by Julie Garwood
  25. A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1) by Judith McNaught
  26. The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5) by Diana Gabaldon
  27. A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6) by Diana Gabaldon
  28. The Hawk (Highland Guard, #2) by Monica McCarty
  29. An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7) by Diana Gabaldon
  30. Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night (Immortals After Dark #4) by Kresley Cole
  31. Pleasure of a Dark Prince (Immortals After Dark #9) by Kresley Cole
  32. Highlander Untamed (MacLeods of Skye Trilogy, #1) by Monica McCarty
  33. Laird of the Mist (MacGregors, #1) by Paula Quinn
  34. Born in Sin (Brotherhood of the Sword #3/MacAllister, #2) by Kinley MacGregor
  35. If You Deceive (MacCarrick Brothers, #3) by Kresley Cole
  36. Highlander Most Wanted (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #2) by Maya Banks
  37. If You Dare (MacCarrick Brothers, #1) by Kresley Cole
  38. Honor’s Splendour by Julie Garwood
  39. Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage (MacKenzies & McBrides, #2) by Jennifer Ashley
  40. The Ranger (Highland Guard, #3) by Monica McCarty
  41. Devil of the Highlands (Devil of the Highlands, #1) by Lynsay Sands
  42. Highland Warrior (Campbell Trilogy, #1) by Monica McCarty
  43. The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) by Susanna Kearsley
  44. Highlander Unmasked (MacLeods of Skye Trilogy, #2) by Monica McCarty
  45. The Viper (Highland Guard, #4) by Monica McCarty
  46. The Many Sins of Lord Cameron (MacKenzies & McBrides, #3) by Jennifer Ashley
  47. If You Desire (MacCarrick Brothers, #2) by Kresley Cole
  48. Almost Heaven (Sequels, #3) by Judith McNaught
  49. Highlander Unchained (MacLeods of Skye Trilogy, #3) by Monica McCarty
  50. Shadow Music (Highlands’ Lairds, #3) by Julie Garwood
  51. Into the Dreaming (Highlander, #8) by Karen Marie Moning
  52. Taming the Highland Bride (Devil of the Highlands, #2) by Lynsay Sands
  53. Highland Outlaw (Campbell Trilogy, #2) by Monica McCarty
  54. On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1) by Samantha Young
  55. Claiming the Highlander (Brotherhood of the Sword #2/MacAllister, #1) by Kinley MacGregor
  56. When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6) by Julia Quinn
  57. Captured by the Highlander (Highlander, #1) by Julianne MacLean
  58. How to Abduct a Highland Lord (MacLean Curse, #1) by Karen Hawkins
  59. Highland Velvet (Velvet Montgomery Annuals Quadrilogy #2) by Jude Deveraux
  60. Taming the Scotsman (Brotherhood of the Sword #4/MacAllister, #3) by Kinley MacGregor
  61. To Beguile a Beast (Legend of the Four Soldiers, #3) by Elizabeth Hoyt
  62. Wishing For A Highlander (Highland Wishes #1) by Jessi Gage
  63. The Duke’s Perfect Wife (MacKenzies & McBrides, #4) by Jennifer Ashley
  64. Ravished by a Highlander (Children of the Mist, #1) by Paula Quinn
  65. Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
  66. The Hellion and the Highlander (Devil of the Highlands, #3) by Lynsay Sands
  67. Highland Bride (Murray Family, #6 & MacEnroys, #1) by Hannah Howell
  68. Claimed by the Highlander (Highlander, #2) by Julianne MacLean
  69. Highland Scoundrel (Campbell Trilogy, #3) by Monica McCarty
  70. Highland Conqueror (Murray Family, #10) by Hannah Howell
  71. Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (Daughters of the Glen, #1) by Melissa Mayhue
  72. Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1) by Pamela Clare
  73. Love Me Forever (Sherring Cross, #2) by Johanna Lindsey
  74. A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey
  75. Sleepless in Scotland (MacLean Curse, #4) by Karen Hawkins
  76. Highland Lover (Murray Family, #12 & Camerons, #3) by Hannah Howell
  77. Hearts Aflame (Haardrad Viking Family, #2) by Johanna Lindsey
  78. Tender Rebel (Malory Family, #2) by Johanna Lindsey
  79. The Warrior (Brotherhood of the Sword #7/MacAllister Series, #4) by Kinley MacGregor
  80. Fires of Winter (Haardrad Viking Family, #1) by Johanna Lindsey
  81. The Pride of Lions (Highlands, #1) by Marsha Canham
  82. The Laird Who Loved Me (MacLean Curse, #5) by Karen Hawkins
  83. A Highlander Never Surrenders (MacGregors, #2) by Paula Quinn
  84. The Guardian (The Return of the Highlanders, #1) by Margaret Mallory
  85. To Scotland, With Love (MacLean Curse, #2) by Karen Hawkins
  86. Seduced by a Highlander (Children of the Mist, #2) by Paula Quinn
  87. The Highlander’s Bride (The McTiernays, #1) by Michele Sinclair
  88. The Raider (Highland Guard, #8) by Monica McCarty
  89. Highland Angel (Murray Family, #7) by Hannah Howell
  90. Highland Destiny (Murray Family, #1) by Hannah Howell
  91. On a Highland Shore (Highland, #1) by Kathleen Givens
  92. Laiden’s Daughter (Clan MacDougall, #1) by Suzan Tisdale
  93. In Bed With A Stranger (McJames, #1) by Mary Wine
  94. To Catch a Highlander (MacLean Curse, #3) by Karen Hawkins
  95. Highland Wedding (Highland Brides, #2) by Hannah Howell
  96. Charming the Highlander (Highlander, #1) by Janet Chapman
  97. Seduced by the Highlander (Highlander, #3) by Julianne MacLean
  98. Highland Promise (Murray Family, #3) by Hannah Howell
  99. The Heir (Reid Family, #1) by Johanna Lindsey
  100. The Bride and the Beast (Once Upon a Time, #2) by Teresa Medeiros
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Source: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4095.Best_Highland_Scotland_Romance_Novels

Top 100 Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Books

1/10/2022

 
  1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  6. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  10. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  11. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  12. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
  13. The Stand by Stephen King
  14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  15. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
  16. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
  17. Matched by Ally Condie
  18. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
  19. Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  20. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  21. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  22. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  23. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
  24. Legend by Marie Lu
  25. Watchmen by Alan Moore
  26. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  27. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
  28. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  29. Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
  30. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  31. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  32. I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
  33. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
  34. The Selection by Kiera Cass
  35. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  36. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
  37. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  38. The Passage by Justin Cronin
  39. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  40. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  41. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
  42. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  43. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
  44. Blindness by José Saramago
  45. Gone by Michael Grant
  46. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  47. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
  48. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  49. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
  50. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  51. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  52. The Children of Men by P.D. James
  53. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
  54. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  55. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  56. Angelfall by Susan Ee
  57. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  58. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
  59. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  60. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  61. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
  62. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  63. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  64. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
  65. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  66. Feed by M.T. Anderson
  67. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
  68. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  69. Utopia by Thomas More
  70. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
  71. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
  72. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  73. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  74. The Postman by David Brin
  75. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
  76. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  77. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  78. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
  79. The Running Man by Richard Bachman
  80. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
  81. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
  82. The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  83. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
  84. Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
  85. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
  86. Cell by Stephen King
  87. Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
  88. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  89. Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
  90. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
  91. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
  92. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  93. Feed by Mira Grant
  94. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
  95. Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan
  96. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  97. The V Girl by Mya Robarts
  98. Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson
  99. The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
  100. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/47.Best_Dystopian_and_Post_Apocalyptic_Fiction

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