Top 99 Reads

1. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
2. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
3. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
4. Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
5. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
6. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
7. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
8. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
9. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
10. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
11. A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
12. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
13. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
14. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
15. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
16. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
17. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
18. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories by Charles Bukowski
19. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
20. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
22. The Paper Boy by Pete Dexter
23. Bible
24. Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
25. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
26. The Magus by John Fowles
27. North Toward Home by Willie Morris
28. Light in August by William Faulkner
29. Providence of Night by Wiliam Gay
30. You Can Never Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
31. Fay by Larry Brown
32. The Shining by Stephen King
33. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
34. Catfish Mandala by Andrew X Pham
35. The Swimmer by John Cheever
36. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
37. Greasy Lake by T.C. Boyle
38. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
39. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
40. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
41. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
42. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
43. The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
44. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
48. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
49. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
50. The Deliverance by James Dickey
51. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
52. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
53. Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
54. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats
55. Mount Blanc by Percy bysshe Shelley
56. Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
57. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
58. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
60. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
61. Into the Wild by John Krakauer
62. Ulysses by James Joyce
63. Dubliners by James Joyce
64. The Stand by Stephen King
65. The Firm by John Grisham
66. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
67. Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
68. Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
69. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
70. Native Son by Richard Wright
71. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
72. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
73. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
74. Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
75. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
76. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
77. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
78. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
79. The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
80. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
81. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
82. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
83. Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Education by Robert Inchausti
84. McTeague by Frank Norris
85. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
86. Ask the Dust by John Fante
87. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
88. Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
89. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
90. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
91. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
92. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
93. A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins
94. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
95. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
96. Black Boy by Richard Wright
97. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
98. Wolf by Jim Harrison
99. The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy