뉴스위크의 100대 명저

시사주간지 뉴스위크가 세계 100대 명저를 선정하여 발표하였다 합니다. 일별해 둘 필요가 있으리라 생각합니다. "도대체 뭔 책을 뽑은 거야?" 하고 말입니다. 아니 이 100권 중에 제대로 읽은 책이 한 권도 없다면? 지금부터 죽을 때까지 읽을 거야 하고 마음이라도 먹으면 좋겠지만, 꼭 다 읽어야 하는 것은 아닐 것입니다.

 

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뉴스위크가 선정한 세계 100대 명저

 

미국 시사주간지 뉴스위크는 역대 세계 최고의 저서로 러시아 작가 레오 톨스토이의 소설 `전쟁과 평화'를 선정하는 등 주요 언론사와 대형 도서관 등의 추천 도서 목록과 관련 기록 등을 토대로 100대 명저를 뽑아 공개했다.

30일 뉴스위크에 따르면 19세기 나폴레옹의 러시아 침공을 시대 배경으로 전쟁의 참상과 사랑을 그린 소설인 `전쟁과 평화'가 1위에 올랐고 조지 오웰의 `1984년'(2위), 제임스 조이스의 `율리시스'(3위) 등이 뒤를 이었다. 10대 명저 내에는 러시아 출신의 작가 블리디미르 나보코프의 `롤리타', 윌리엄 포크너의 `음향과 분노', 랠프 엘리슨의 `보이지 않는 사람', 버지니아 울프의 `등대로', 고대 그리스 작가 호메로스의 `일리아드와 오디세이', 제인 오스틴의 `오만과 편견', 단테의 `신곡' 등이 포함됐다.

제프리 초서의 `캔터베리 이야기', 조너선 스위프트의 `걸리버 여행기', 제롬 데이비드 샐린저의 `호밀밭의 파수꾼', 마거릿 미첼의 `바람과 함께 사라지다', 스콧 피츠제럴드의 `위대한 개츠비' 등이 11~20위에 들었다.  21∼30위에는 존 스타인벡의 `분노의 포도', 인도 출신의 작가 살만 루시디의 `자정의 아이들', 알렉시스 토크빌의 `미국의 민주주의', 버지니아 울프의 `댈러웨이 부인', 찰스 다윈의 `종의 기원', 장 자크 루소의 `사회 계약론', 칼 마르크스의 `자본론' 등이 뽑혔다.  

 

마키아벨리의 `군주론', 토머스 홉스의 `리바이어던', 조 로널드 루얼 톨키엔의 `반지의 제왕', 플로베르의 `마담 보바리', 존 밀턴의 `실락원', 톨스토이의 `안나 카레리나', 헤밍웨이의 `누구를 위하여 종은 울리나', 조지 오웰의 `동물 농장', 프로이드의 `꿈의 해석', 존 메이너드 케인즈의 `고용, 이자, 화폐의 일반이론' 등도 100대 명저에 이름을 올렸다.

셰익스피어는 `햄릿', `리어왕', `오셀로', `소네트' 등 작품 4개가 49~52위에 나란히 오르는 등 가장 많은 작품을 100대 명저에 올렸고 톨스토이와 버지니아 울프, 윌리엄 포크너, 조지 오웰, 헤밍웨이 등은 각각 저서 2권 이상이 100대 명저에 뽑혔다.(김성용 특파원)

*기사출처: http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/international/2009/07/01/0601330100AKR20090701033200091.HTML?template=2089

 

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*아래 원문 기사출처: http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

Declaring the best book ever written is tricky business. Who's to say what the best is? We went one step further: we crunched 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. It's a list of lists — a meta-list. Let the debate begin.

Newsweek Web Exclusive

Jun 29, 2009 | Updated: 12:01  p.m. ET Jun 29, 2009

 

1.	War and Peace (F) War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in...	Leo Tolstoy	1869	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List, Wikipedia
2.	1984 (F) George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.	George Orwell	1949	The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
3.	Ulysses (F) Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel...	James Joyce	1922	The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
4.	Lolita (F) The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores...	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
5.	The Sound and the Fury (F) First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told...	William Faulkner	1929	The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
6.	Invisible Man (F) Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A...	Ralph Ellison	1952	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
7.	To the Lighthouse (F) A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores the subjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides...	Virginia Woolf	1927	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
8.	The Illiad and The Odyssey (F) Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles....	Homer	8th century B.C.	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
9.	Pride and Prejudice (F) Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy...	Jane Austen	1813	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
10.	Divine Comedy (F) Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the...	Dante Alighieri	1321	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
11.	Canterbury Tales (F) With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval...	Geoffrey Chaucer	15th century	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
12.	Gulliver's Travels (F) The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of...	Jonathan Swift	1726	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
13.	Middlemarch (F) It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in...	George Eliot	1874	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
14.	Things Fall Apart (F) Chinua Achebe's tragic novel of pre-colonial Igbo society was a major literary and cultural event when it was published in 1958....	Chinua Achebe	1958	Newsweek, The Guardian, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time
15.	The Catcher in the Rye (F) Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story...	J. D. Salinger	1951	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
16.	Gone with the Wind (F) Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of...	Margaret Mitchell	1936	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time
17.	One Hundred Years of Solitude (F) One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the...	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1967	The Telegraph, The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club, Wikipedia, NYPL
18.	The Great Gatsby (F) A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess,Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned...	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
19.	Catch-22 (F) Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even...	Joseph Heller	1961	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
20.	Beloved (F) Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and...	Toni Morrison	1987	The Telegraph, The Guardian, Radcliffe, Time

21.	The Grapes of Wrath (F) Forced from their home, the Joad family is lured to California to find work; instead they find disillusionment, exploitation, and...	John Steinbeck	1939	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
22.	Midnight's Children (F) Winner of the Booker of BookersSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's...	Salman Rushdie	1981	Newsweek, The Guardian, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
23.	Brave New World (F) Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically...	Aldous Huxley	1932	The Telegraph, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
24.	Mrs. Dalloway (F) This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Direct and vivid in her...	Virginia Woolf	1925	The Guardian, St. John's Reading List, Radcliffe, Time
25.	Native Son (F) Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was...	Richard Wright	1940	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
26.	Democracy in America (NF) In the mid-1800s, a French political scientist named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to appraise the meaning and...	Alexis de Tocqueville	1835	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
27.	On the Origin of Species (NF) In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a...	Charles Darwin	1859	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
28.	The Histories (NF) A Greek historian, Herodotus (c.485-425 BC) left his native town of Halicarnassus, a Greek colony, to travel extensively. He...	Herodotus	440 B.C.	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
29.	The Social Contract (NF) The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of...	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
30.	Das Kapital (NF) One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of...	Karl Marx	1867	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
31.	The Prince (NF) A new edition of the highly exalted and infamous discourse containing observations and instructions on the significance of a rise...	Niccolo Machiavelli	1532	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
32.	Confessions (NF) When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world.	St. Augustine	4th century	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
33.	Leviathan (NF) The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained' Hobbes' answer is sovereignty,...	Thomas Hobbes	1651	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
34.	The History of the Peloponnesian War (NF) Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta...	Thucydides	431 B.C.	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
35.	The Lord of the Rings (F) One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the...	J. R. R. Tolkien	1954	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, Radcliffe, Time
36.	Winnie-the-Pooh (F) Edward Bear acquires a new name, Winnie-the-Pooh, and a new life with the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Woods.	A. A. Milne	1926	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe
37.	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (F) They open a door and enter a world.	C. S. Lewis	1950	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Time
38.	A Passage to India (F) When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular...	E. M. Forster	1924	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
39.	On the Road (F) First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life...	Jack Kerouac	1957	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
40.	To Kill a Mockingbird (F) Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face...	Harper Lee	1960	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time

41.	The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. The beloved and timeless King James Version is made available in an affordable edition for Sunday schools, Bible clubs, church...	NA	St. John's Reading List, Wikipedia, NYPL
42.	A Clockwork Orange (F) Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not...	Anthony Burgess	1962	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
43.	Light in August (F) Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the...	William Faulkner	1932	Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
44.	The Souls of Black Folk (NF) In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868'1963) eloquently affirms...	W. E. B. Du Bois	1903	St. John's Reading List, NYPL, Modern Library
45.	Wide Sargasso Sea (F) A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into...	Jean Rhys	1966	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
46.	Madame Bovary (F) Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a...	Gustave Flaubert	1857	The Telegraph, The Guardian
47.	Paradise Lost (F) Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery,...	John Milton	1667	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
48.	Anna Karenina (F) Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky....	Leo Tolstoy	1877	The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club
49.	Hamlet (F) One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the...	William Shakespeare	1603	The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
50.	King Lear (F) A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves...	William Shakespeare	1608	The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
51.	Othello (F) One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy,...	William Shakespeare	1622	The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
52.	Sonnets (F) Shakespeare's sonnets, the greatest of Elizabethan sonnet sequences, were first published in an unauthorized version in 1609....	William Shakespeare	1609	The Telegraph, St. John's Reading List
53.	Leaves of Grass (F) I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite...	Walt Whitman	1855	Newsweek, The Guardian
54.	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (F) The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.	Mark Twain	1885	Newsweek, The Guardian
55.	Kim (F) A white youth in India, becomes friends with an old ascetic priest, the lama. The boy juggles Imperialist life with his spiritual...	Rudyard Kipling	1901	Newsweek, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
56.	Frankenstein (F) Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly...	Mary Shelley	1818	Newsweek, The Telegraph
57.	Song of Solomon (F) Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...	Toni Morrison	1977	Oprah's Book Club, NYPL, Radcliffe
58.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (F) Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that...	Ken Kesey	1962	NYPL, Radcliffe, Time
59.	For Whom the Bell Tolls (F) In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years...	Ernest Hemingway	1940	The Telegraph, NYPL, Radcliffe
60.	Slaughterhouse-Five (F) Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the...	Kurt Vonnegut	1969	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time

61.	Animal Farm (F) Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the...	George Orwell	1945	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
62.	Lord of the Flies (F) The story that never grows old... Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954,...	William Golding	1954	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
63.	In Cold Blood (NF) On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts...	Truman Capote	1965	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
64.	The Golden Notebook (F) Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the...	Doris Lessing	1962	The Guardian, NYPL, Time
65.	Remembrance of Things Past (F) Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic,...	Marcel Proust	1913	The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL
66.	The Big Sleep (F) When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds...	Raymond Chandler	1939	The Telegraph, NYPL, Time
67.	As I Lay Dying (F) One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and...	William Faulkner	1930	Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library
68.	The Sun Also Rises (F) The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example...	Ernest Hemingway	1926	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
69.	I, Claudius (F) Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus,...	Robert Graves	1934	The Telegraph, Modern Library, Time
70.	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (F) With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary ...	Carson McCullers	1940	Oprah's Book Club, Modern Library, Time
71.	Sons and Lovers (F) Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds....	D. H. Lawrence	1913	The Guardian, Radcliffe, Modern Library
72.	All the King's Men (F) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It...	Robert Penn Warren	1946	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
73.	Go Tell It on the Mountain (F) James Baldwin's portrayal of black people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change.	James Baldwin	1953	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
74.	Charlotte's Web (F) Beloved by generations, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little are two of the most cherished stories of all time. Now, for the first...	E. B. White	1952	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe
75.	Heart of Darkness (F) A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together...	Joseph Conrad	1902	St. John's Reading List, Radcliffe, Modern Library
76.	Night (NF) Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager...	Elie Wiesel	1958	Oprah's Book Club, Wikipedia, NYPL
77.	Rabbit, Run (F) Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is...	John Updike	1960	The Telegraph, Radcliffe, Time
78.	The Age of Innocence (F) Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel of passion and desire. The beautiful Countess Ellen Olenska, fleeing her brutish...	Edith Wharton	1920	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
79.	Portnoy's Complaint (F) Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are...	Philip Roth	1969	NYPL, Modern Library, Time
80.	An American Tragedy (F) The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of...	Theodore Dreiser	1925	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time

81.	The Day of the Locust (F) "Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death...	Nathanael West	1939	NYPL, Modern Library, Time
82.	Tropic of Cancer (F) Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of...	Henry Miller	1934	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
83.	The Maltese Falcon (F) Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel...	Dashiell Hammett	1930	The Telegraph, Radcliffe, Modern Library
84.	His Dark Materials (F) Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy ' The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber...	Philip Pullman	1995	The Telegraph, Wikipedia
85.	Death Comes for the Archbishop (F) Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.	Willa Cather	1927	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
86.	The Interpretation of Dreams (NF) Freud's Revolutionary Theory: This ground-breaking work, which Freud considered his most valuable, forever changed the way we...	Sigmund Freud	1900	The Telegraph, NYPL
87.	The Education of Henry Adams (NF) A scion of the famous Adams family of American statesmen, historian Henry Adams was more drawn to scholarship than to politics. His...	Henry Adams	1918	NYPL, Modern Library
88.	Quotations from Chairman Mao (NF) Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with...	Mao Zedong	1964	Wikipedia, NYPL
89.	The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (NF) After completing his monumental work, The Principles of Psychology, William James turned his attention to serious consideration of...	William James	1902	NYPL, Modern Library
90.	Brideshead Revisited (F) Evelyn Waugh's best-loved novel and the basis for the PBS television production, Brideshead Revisited, the epic story of a great...	Evelyn Waugh	1945	Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
91.	Silent Spring (NF) First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of...	Rachel Carson	1962	NYPL, Modern Library
92.	The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (NF) Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. 'I can think of no single book that...	John Maynard Keynes	1936	NYPL, Modern Library
93.	Lord Jim (F) A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where...	Joseph Conrad	1900	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
94.	Goodbye to All That (NF) In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that...	Robert Graves	1929	The Telegraph, Modern Library
95.	The Affluent Society (NF) Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional...	John Kenneth Galbraith	1958	NYPL, Modern Library
96.	The Wind in the Willows (F) This is the much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his...	Kenneth Grahame	1908	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, Radcliffe
97.	The Autobiography of Malcolm X (NF) If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was...	Alex Haley and Malcolm X	1965	NYPL, Modern Library
98.	Eminent Victorians (NF) An unparalleled manifesto for the modern biographer, Strachey's razor-sharp essays about 4 prominent Victorians brought him...	Lytton Strachey	1918	The Telegraph, Modern Library
99.	The Color Purple (F) Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and...	Alice Walker	1982	NYPL, Radcliffe
100.	The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; (NF) Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal...	Winston Churchill	1948	NYPL, Modern Library