"100 Greatest List"

Following is Newsweek's Top 100 Books aquired by "crunching the numbers from 10 top books lists (Modern Library, the New York Public Library, St. John's College reading list, Oprah's, and more) to come up with The Top 100 Books of All Time." 

Of these 100 books, The Eclectic Literary Society has read eleven, to date.

1. "War and Peace" - Leo Tolstoy

2. "1984" - George Orwell

3. "Ulysses" - James Joyce

4. "Lolita" - Vladimir Nabokov

5. "The Sound and the Fury" - William Faulkner

6. "Invisible Man" - Ralph Ellison

7. "To the Lighthouse" - Virginia Woolf

8. "The Illiad and the Odyssey" - Homer

9. "Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austin

10. "Divine Comedy" - Dante Alighieri

11. "Canterbury Tales" - Geoffrey Chaucer

12. "Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan Swift

13. "Middlemarch" - George Eliot

14. "Things Fall Apart" - Chinua Achebe

15. "The Catcher in the Rye" -  J.D. Salinger

16. "Gone with the Wind" - Margaret Mitchell

17. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

18. "The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

19. "Catch-22" - Joseph Heller

20. "Beloved" - Toni Morrison

21. "The Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck

22. "Midnight's Children" - Salman Rushdie

23. "Brave New World" - Aidous Huxley

24. "Mrs. Dalloway" - Virginia Woolf

25. "Native Son" - Richard Wright

26. "Democracy in America" - Alexis de Tocqueville

27. "On the Origin of Species" - Charles Darwin

28. "The Histories" - Herodotus

29. "The Social Contract" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

30. "Das Kapital" - Karl Marx

31. "The Prince" - Niccolo Machiavelli

32. "Confessions" - St. Augustine

33. "Leviathan" - Thomas Hobbes

34. "The History of the Peloponnesian War" - Thucydides

35. "The Lord of the Rings" - J.R.R. Tolkien

36. "Winnie-the-Pooh" - A.A. Milne

37. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" - C.S. Lewis

38. "A Passage to India" - E.M. Forster

39. "On the Road" - Jack Kerauac

40. "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee

41. "The Holy Bible"

42. "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess

43. "Light in August" - William Faulkner

44. "The Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. Du Bois

45. "Wide Sargasso Sea" - Jean Rhys

46. "Madame Bovary" - Gustave Flaubert

47. "Paradise Lost" - John Milton

48. "Anna Kerenina" - Leo Tolstoy

49. "Hamlet" - William Shakespeare

50. "King Lear" - William Shakespeare

51. "Othello" - William Shakespeare

52. "Sonnets" - William Shakespeare

53. "Leaves of Grass" - Walt Whitman

54. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Mark Twain

55. "Kim" - Rudyard Kipling

56. "Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley

57. "Song of Solomon" - Toni Morrison

58. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Ken Kessey

59. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Ernest Hemingway

60. "Slaughterhouse-Five" - Kurt Vonnegut

61. "Animal Farm" - George Orwell

62. "Lord of the Flies" - William Golding

63. "In Cold Blood" - Truman Capote

64. "The Golden Notebook" - Doris Lessing

65. "Remembrance of Things Past" - Marcel Proust

66. "The Big Sleep" - Raymond Chandler

67. "As I Lay Dying" - William Faulkner

68. "The Sun Also Rises" - Ernest Hemingway

69. "I, Claudius" - Robert Graves

70. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Carson McCullers

71. "Sons and Lovers" - D.H. Lawrence

72. "All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren

73. "Go Tell it on the Mountain" - James Baldwin

74. "Charlotte's Web" - E.B. White

75. "Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad

76. "Night" - Elie Wiesel

77. "Rabbit, Run" - John Updike

78. "The Age of Innocence" - Edith Wharton

79. "Portnoy's Complaint" - Philip Roth

80. "An American Tragedy" - Theodore Dreiser

81. "The Day of the Locust" - Nathanael West

82. "Tropic of Cancer" - Henry Miller

83. "The Maltese Falcon" - Dashinell Hammett

84. "His Dark Materials" - Philip Pullman

85. "Death Comes for the Archbishop" - Willa Cather

86. "The Interpretation of Dreams" - Sigmund Freud

87. "The Education of Henry Adams" - Henry Adams

88. "Quotations for Chairman Mao" - Mao Zedong

89. "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature" - William James

90. "Brideshead Revisited" - Evelyn Waugh

91. "Silent Spring" - Rachel Carson

92. "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"- John Maynard Keynes

93. "Lord Jim" - Joseph Conrad

94. "Goodbye to All That" - Robert Graves

95. "The Affluent Society"- John Kenneth Galbraith

96. "The Wind in the Willows" - Kenneth Grahame

97. "The Autobiography of Malcom X" - Alex Haley and Malcom X

98. "Eminent Victorians" - Lytton Strachey

99. "The Color Purple" - Alice Walker

100. "The Second World War" - Winston Churchill