100 Life-Changing Books (NBA)

1.   Absalom! Absalom!    by William Faulkner
2.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   by Mark Twain
3.   Alice In Wonderland    by Lewis Carroll
4.   All the Kings Men    by Robert Penn Warren
5.   Arrowsmith    by Sinclair Lewis
6.   The Artist’s Way   by Julia Cameron
7.   As I Lay Dying   by  William Faulkner
8.   Aspects of the Novel  by E.M. Forster
9.   Audubon: A Vision  by Robert Penn Warren
10.   Bastard Out of Carolina  by  Dorothy Allison
11.   Beloved  by Toni Morrison
12.   Black Boy  by Richard Wright
13.   Body Rags  by Galway Kinnell
14.   The Brothers Karamazov  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15.   The Canterbury Tales  by Geoffrey Chaucer
16.   Catcher in the Rye  by J.D. Salinger
17.   Charlotte’s Web  by E.B. White
18.   The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
19.   The Color Purple  by Alice Walker
20.   Confessions  by  St. Augustine
21.   The Counterfeiters  by Andre Gide
22.   Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23.   Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America, edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross
24.   David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens
25.   A Death in the Family  by James Agee
26.   Death of a Lake  by Arthur Upfield
27.   Doktor Faustus  by Thomas Mann
28.   Dracula  by Bram Stoker
29.   Eight Men  by Richard Wright
30.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  by Tom Wolfe
31.   Farewell to Arms  by Ernest Hemingway
32.   Fathers And Sons  by Ivan Turgenev
33.   Finnegan’s Wake  by James Joyce
34.   Of a Fire on the Moon  by Norman Mailer
35.   For Whom the Bell Tolls  by Ernest Hemingway
36.   The Grapes of Wrath  by John Steinbeck
37.   Gravity’s Rainbow  by Thomas Pynchon
38.   Great Dialogues of Plato
39.   Great Expectations  by Charles Dickens
40.   The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
41.   The Fire Next Time  by James Baldwin
42.   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter  by Carson McCullers
43.   The Essential Akutagawa  by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
44.   Henderson the Rain King  by Saul Bellow
45.   Homage to Catalonia  by George Orwell
46.   Horseman, Pass By  by Larry McMurtry
47.   The Idiot  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48.   Kafka’s Other Trial  by Elias Canetti
49.   The King James Bible 
50.   The Left-Handed Woman  by Peter Handke
51.   Legends of the Fall  by Jim Harrison
52.   Les Miserables  by Victor Hugo
53.   Life on the Mississippi  by Mark Twain
54.   Lord of the Flies  by William Golding
55.   The Lottery  by Shirley Jackson
56.   The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony  by Roberto Calasso
57.   Meditations  by Marcus Aurelius
58.   Metamorphoses  by Ovid
59.   A Midsummer Night’s Dream  by William Shakespeare 
60.   Moby Dick  by Herman Melville
61.   Monsenor Quijote  by Graham Greene
62.   The Moviegoer  by Walker Percy
63.   My Book House  edited by Olive Beaupre Miller
64.   My Name Is Aram  by William Saroyan
65.   Native Son  by Richard Wright
66.   The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes, edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee
67.   Of Time and the River  by Thomas Wolfe 
68.   Open Secrets  by Alice Munro
69.   Out of Africa  by Isak Dinesen
70.   Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha  by Roddy Doyle
71.   Paradise Lost  by John Milton 
72.   The Pointed Bone  by Arthur Upfield
73.   The Poorhouse Fair  by John Updike
74.   Portrait of a Lady  by Henry James
75.   Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  by James Joyce
76.   Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austen
77.   The Prince and the Pauper  by Mark Twain
78.   Remembrance of Things Past  by Marcel Proust
79.   The Richard Trilogy  by Paul Horgan
80.   A Season in Hell  by Arthur Rimbaud
81.   The Snow Leopard  by Peter Matthiessen
82.   So Long, See You Tomorrow  by William F. Maxwell
83.   The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake  by Breece D’J Pancake
84.   The Sun Also Rises  by Ernest Hemingway
85.   The Tale of Genji  by Lady Murasaki Shikibu
86.   Tales of the South Pacific  by James A. Michener 
87.   The Tempest  by William Shakespeare
88.   The Temple of the Golden Pavilion  by Yukio Mishima
89.   Things Fall Apart  by Chinua Achebe
90.   The Times Are Never So Bad  by Andre Dubus
91.   Tom Jones  by Henry Fielding
92.   Treasure Island  by Robert Louis Stevenson
93.   The Twelve Caesars  by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
94.   Ulysses  by James Joyce
95.   The Voices of Marrakesh  by Elias Canetti
96.   Walden  by Henry David Thoreau
97.   War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
98.   Watt  by Samuel Beckett
99.   Wuthering Heights  by Emily Bronte
100.   The Yearling  by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings