George Orwell
[ranking: 1]
1984, Animal Farm
Michel de Montaigne
[ranking: 2]
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Samuel Johnson
[ranking: 3]
A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, Life of Mr Richard Savage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[ranking: 4]
The fortune of the Republic, English traits, Representative Men
James Baldwin
[ranking: 5]
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Mark Twain
[ranking: 6]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
G. K. Chesterton
[ranking: 7]
The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Everlasting Man
Francis Bacon
[ranking: 8]
Novum organum, New Atlantis, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
Evelyn Waugh
[ranking: 9]
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall
C. S. Lewis
[ranking: 10]
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Screwtape Letters
Christopher Hitchens
[ranking: 11]
God Is Not Great
Jorge Luis Borges
[ranking: 12]
Labyrinths, Ficciones, The Aleph
David Hume
[ranking: 13]
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Four Dissertations, Essays
Charles Lamb
[ranking: 14]
The prose works of Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia, The last essays of Elia
Virginia Woolf
[ranking: 15]
To the Lighthouse, Mrs.
T. S. Eliot
[ranking: 16]
The Waste Land, The Love Song of J.
Joan Didion
[ranking: 17]
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, The Year of Magical Thinking
E. B. White
[ranking: 18]
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Elements of Style
William Hazlitt
[ranking: 19]
Characters of Shakespear's Plays, The Doubtful Plays Of William Shakespeare, On the Pleasure of Hating
Bertrand Russell
[ranking: 20]
A History of Western Philosophy, The Analysis of Mind, Why I Am Not a Christian
David Foster Wallace
[ranking: 21]
nfinite Jest, The Pale King, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Giacomo Leopardi
[ranking: 22]
Pensieri, Detti memorabili di Filippo Ottonieri, Scritti e frammenti autobiografici
Arthur Schopenhauer
[ranking: 23]
On the Suffering of the World, The World as Will and Representation, The Art of Being Right
Leo Tolstoy
[ranking: 24]
Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Susan Sontag
[ranking: 25]
Duet for Cannibals, Promised Lands, Brother Carl
Benjamin Franklin
[ranking: 26]
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Swift
[ranking: 27]
Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub
Victor Hugo
[ranking: 28]
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Joseph Addison
[ranking: 29]
The evidences of the Christian religion, The doctrine of the passions explained and improved, The vision of Mirzah
Matthew Arnold
[ranking: 30]
Poems of Wordsworth, guide to English literature and Essay on Gray, Matthew Arnold's books
Flannery O'Connor
[ranking: 31]
Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away
Aldous Huxley
[ranking: 32]
Alice in Wonderland, Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice
Henry James
[ranking: 33]
The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl
F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ranking: 34]
The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, This Side of Paradise
Jacques Barzun
[ranking: 35]
A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
Ralph Ellison
[ranking: 36]
Invisible Man, The collected essays of Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act
Graham Greene
[ranking: 37]
The Third Man, The Fallen Idol, The Power and the Glory
Yukio Mishima
[ranking: 38]
Confessions of a Mask, Acts of Worship
William H. Gass
[ranking: 39]
Late Harvest, Habitations of the Word, Test of Time
Clive James
[ranking: 40]
Cultural Amnesia, Unreliable Memoirs
Annie Dillard
[ranking: 41]
Late Harvest, For the Time Being, Annie Dillard Reader
Václav Havel
[ranking: 42]
Letters to Olga, Politics and Conscience, The Art of the Impossible
David Sedaris
[ranking: 43]
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Dress Your Children In Corduroy and Denim, Naked
Cynthia Ozick
[ranking: 44]
Fame & Folly: Essays, Quarrel & Quandary, The Din in the Head: Essays
Zadie Smith
[ranking: 45]
Piece of Flesh, The May Anthologies
Martin Amis
[ranking: 46]
Experience, Time's Arrow, Yellow Dog
John Updike
[ranking: 47]
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux
George Saunders
[ranking: 48]
Tenth of December: Stories
Joseph Epstein
[ranking: 49]
Snobbery: The American Version, Pertinent Players, Friendship: An Exposé
Phillip Lopate
[ranking: 50]
achelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body
Willa Cather
[ranking: 51]
Death Comes for the Archbishop, A Lost Lady, My Ántonia
Alice Walker
[ranking: 52]
The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar
Edward Hoagland
[ranking: 53]
Cat Man, Sex and the River Styx
Gretel Ehrlich
[ranking: 54]
To Touch the Water, Heart Mountain
Dubravka Ugrešić
[ranking: 55]
In the Jaws of Life, Kultura laži, Thank you for not reading
Geoff Dyer
[ranking: 56]
But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
Jo Ann Beard
[ranking: 57]
The Boys of My Youth, In Zanesville
John Jeremiah Sullivan
[ranking: 58]
Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son, Farrar, Pulphead: Essays
Nora Ephron
[ranking: 59]
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman, Wallflower at the Orgy, Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
Henry Louis Gates
[ranking: 60]
Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Pasts, Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man
Camilo Castelo Branco
[ranking: 61]
Mistérios de Lisboa, Amor de Perdição
Simon Leys
[ranking: 62]
Daniela Gioseffi
[ranking: 64]
Women on War, Eggs in the Lake, Word Wounds & Water Flowers
Daniel Hoffman
[ranking: 65]
An Armada of Thirty Whales
Roger Kimball
[ranking: 66]
The Future of the European Past, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
Aleksandar Hemon
[ranking: 67]
The Lazarus Project
Bharati Mukherjee
[ranking: 68]
The Holder of the World, The Tree Bride, The Middleman and Other Stories
Aaron Shurin
[ranking: 69]
Involuntary Lyrics, King of Shadows, Into Distances
Elizabeth Alexander
[ranking: 70]
American Sublime, The Venus Hottentot, Power and Possibility
Bruce Benderson
[ranking: 71]
My Father Is Coming, The United Nations of Times Square
Walter Kirn
[ranking: 72]
Lost in the Meritocracy, The Unbinding, Up in the Air
A. D. Hope
[ranking: 73]
Selected Poems
Hal Crowther
[ranking: 74]
Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-Millennial South
T. Coraghessan Boyle
[ranking: 75]
Drop City, A Friend of the Earth, The Tortilla Curtain
Ellen Willis
[ranking: 76]
Don't Think, Smile!, Questions Freshmen Ask
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