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1. Autobiography of Ben Franklin
   Ben Franklin

   Quick Fact: Lived in London for eighteen years of his life.

2. The Jungle
   Upton Sinclair

   Quick Fact: Sinclair was a fervent socialist. His editor cut out most of the
   socialist rant in this book.

3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
   Harriet Ann Jacobs

   Quick Fact: Originally published pseudonymously by the author under the name Linda Brent.

4. The Gallic Wars
   Julius Caesar

   Quick Fact: Caesar’s legions massacre and pillage. A town of 40,000 is reduced
   to 800 survivors.

5. 2BR02B
   Kurt Vonnegut
   Project Gutenburg
   Quick Fact: Life extension is fast approaching. Vonnegut was able to see the
   consequences.
6. The Mutiny of the Bounty
   William Bligh
   Quick Fact:  After being set adrift by the mutineers, he sailed 3618
   nautical miles in a small open boat to civilization.
7. Babbitt
   Sinclair Lewis

   Quick Fact:  A cutting satire of American business.

8. The Wealth of Nations
   Adam Smith

   Quick Fact: A book that changed the world. “Consumption is the sole end and
   purpose of production.”

9. At the Mountains of Madness
   H.P. Lovecraft
   FeedBooks
   Quick Fact: Stephen King described Lovecraft as  the “dark and baroque
   prince” of the horror story.
10. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to my Life
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The mid 18th to the mid 19th century was the golden age of the
    autobiography.
11. Bartleby the Scrivener
    Herman Melville
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Made into a movie in 2001 starring Crispin Glover.
12. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    Suetonius
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Facts: If Suetonius had a tv show today, it would be TMZ.
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop
    Willa Cather
    FeedBooks
    Quick Facts: Willa Cather made the cover of Time magazine in 1931.
14. Dubliners
    James Joyce
    FeedBooks
    Quick Facts: Dubliners was rejected by twenty-two publishers.
15. Eothen
    A.W. Kinglake
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: A 19th century Victorian travel account through Turkey, Cyprus,
    Palestine and Egypt.
16. Erewhon
    Samuel Butler
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: This tale of a topsy turvy land is a thinly disguised attack on
    Victorian England society.
17. Essays on the Art of Writing
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Jorge Luis Borge loved the prose of Stevenson.
18. Essays of Travel
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Robert Louis Stevenson died of a brain hemorrhage in Western
    Samoa in 1894.
19. Fables
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Stevenson said of Treasure Island, “If this don’t fetch the
    kids, they have gone rotten since my day.”
20. Fantomas
    Marcel Allan
    Munsey’s
    Quick Fact: Fantomas is a masked arch-criminal. Incredibly popular in France
    when published, it spawned 31 sequels.
21. Father and Son
    Edmund Gosse
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact:  Gosse writes about growing up with a religous nut as a father.
22. Five Children and It
    Edith Nesbit
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Five children dig up a strange creature that grants wishes.
    Twilight Zone like comedy ensues.
23. Four Just Men
    Edgar Wallace
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Four young wealthy vigilantes take on evil in the the name of
    justice.
24. Growth of the Soil
    Knut Hamsun
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact:  Won Hamsun the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.
25. Herland
    Charlotte Perkins
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Lesbian utopia.
26. History of the Plague
    Daniel Defoe
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Written some years after an outbreak of bubonic plague.
27. Hunger
    Knut Hamsen
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: About a writer who is literally a  starving artist. The story is
    semi-autobiographical.
28. Hunting the Grisly
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact:  “All I saw was his paw as he made a vicious side blow at me.”
29. Just so Stories
    Ruyard Kipling
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Why the leopard has his spots, why the tides follow the moon,
    and why the rhino has a bad temper and rough skin, among others. Written for
    Kipling’s daughter.
30. Botchan
    Natsume Soseki
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: One of Japan’s most popular novels.
31. Life of Johnson
    James Boswell
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The biography started with this book.
32. Madame Bovary
    Gustave Flaubert
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: Flaubert has had a huge influence on many 2oth century writers.
33. Markheim
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact:  A man named Markheim is visited either by a devil or an angel.
    You decide.
34. Martin Hewitt,  Investigator
    Arthur Morrison
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Sherlock Holmes wannabe.
35. McTeague
    Frank Norris
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: O’Henry disliked this author who thought that interesting stuff
    only happened in the big cities.
36. Mystery of the Yellow Rose
    Gaston Leroux
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: The author also wrote Phantom of the Opera.
37. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
    E.M. Berens
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact:  Gods and Goddesses rule.
38. New Grub Street
    George Gissing
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: In the publishing world of the late 19thcentury, society rewards
    commercial savvy over artistic achievement. Not much has changed.
39. Nobody’s Boy
    Hector Malot
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact:  The story is about an eight year old boy sold to a street
    musician and his life on the road.
40. Oblomov
    Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Oblomov is a dude who lacks confidence. He loves Olga because she has a cool name like his but he never busts a move. Enter confident best friend who sees an opening and steals her away. Oblomov ruminates on this. The end.
41. Of Human Bondage
    W. Somerset Maugham
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Maugham’s masterpiece.
42. On Benefits
    Seneca the Younger
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Seneca was an advisor to the lunatic Roman Emperor Nero.
43. On War
    Carl Von Clausewitz
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Required reading at the war colleges.
44. Pan
    Knut Hamsen
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: One of Knut’s most famous works.
45. Plutarch’s Lives
    Plutarch
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: A classical education reading requirement.
46. Quo Vadis
    Henryk  Sienkiewicz
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: One of the most popular novels of the late nineteenth century.
47. Riddle of the Sands
    Erskine Childers
    Project  Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The novel was intended to make a point about the threat to
    Britain’s national security.
48. Sailing Alone Around the World
    Joshua Slocum
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: An account by the first person to sail around the world alone.
49. Siddhartha
    Hermann Hesse
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Siddhartha searches for truth and meaning.
50. Strictly Business
    O. Henry
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Stewie’s saying  “What the deuce?” is in here.  Read the short
    story ‘A Municipal Report’.
51. Swann’s Way
    Marcel Proust
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Proust was a hypersensitive, neurotic asthma sufferer.
52. Tacitus on Germany
    Tacitus
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Tacitus describes the fearsome German barbarians.
53. Ten Days That Shook the World
    John Reed
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: First hand experience of the October Revolution in Russia in
    1917.
54. Tent Life in Siberia
    George Kennan
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: George Kennan was employed by the Russo-American Telegraph
    company to explore Eastern Siberia in 1865.
55. The Analysis of the Mind
    Bertrand Russell
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Clear introspection by a  very influential philosopher and
    mathematician.
56. The Anatomy of the Melancholy
    Richard Burton
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Goes off topic and rambles about life in general.
57. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    Benvenuto Cellini
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Autobiography of a murderer and a shameless adventurer.
58. The Call of Cthulhu
    H.P. Lovecraft
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact:  An ancient being that came from the stars hundreds of millions
    of years ago is discovered.
59. The Chemical History of a Candle
    Michael Faraday
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: Almost as good as the book “Salt”.
60. The Compleat Angler
    Izaak Walton
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Fishing tips from the 17th century. Inside are recipes for nasty
    fish like chub and carp. The recipe is not, however, lightly season the carp
    on a wooden board then throw away the fish and eat the board.   But close.
61. The Confessions
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact:  An autobiography by Jean-Jacques Roussea.
62. The Consolation of Philisophy
    Boethius
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The last great Western work that can be called Classical.
63. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Alexandre Dumas
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: A must read for adventure lovers.
64. The Damnation of Theron Ware
    Harold Frederic
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The spiritual undoing of a minister. Joyce Carol Oates wrote the
    book has “shrewd, disturbing insights into the human pysche.”
65. The Diary of Samuel Pepys
    Samuel Pepys
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: If alive today, Pepys would be tweeting. Witness to the Great
    Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666.
66. The Enormous Room
    E.E. Cummings
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Before he was a poet, Cummings was an ambulance driver and
    prisoner of war.
67. The Essays of Montaigne
    Michel de Montaigne
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Montaigne practically invented the essay.
68. The Frogs
    Aristophanes
    Project Gutenberg
    Synopsis: Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. You either
    get it or you don’t.
69. The Game of Logic
    Lewis Carroll
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Carroll spent most of his life as a mathematics lecturer.
70. The Golden Ass
    Lucis Apuleius
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: The only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.
71. The Inferno
    Henri Barbusse
    Project Gutenburg
    Quick Fact: Adulterous couples, naked women, homosexuality, childbirth, and
    death seen through a hole in the wall at a hotel.
72. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: His autobiography helped lead to the British abolishment of
    slavery.
73. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Johnson and Boswell’s vacation in Scotland in 1773.
74. The Letters of the Younger Pliny
    Pliny the Younger
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Pliny lived between 63-113 A.D. and writes about all sorts of
    events during ancient Rome in his Letters.
75. Memoires of Casanova
    Giacomo Casanova
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: 120 sexual romps with the fairer sex.
76. The Miracle Mongers
    Houdini
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Contrary to what you may have thought, Houdini didn’t much care
    for psychics.
77. The Moonstone
    Wilkie Collins
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Many believe this book started the detective mystery genre. A
    huge diamond is stolen. Whodunit?
78. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The most famous  slave narrative.
79. The New Arabian Nights
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Feedbooks
    Quick Fact: A collection of short stories by Stevenson.
80. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
    John Speke
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika in Africa.
81. The Pirate’s Who’s Who
    Phillip Gosse
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: The book for pirate devotees.
82. The Praise of Folly
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Human nature has its faults and always will.
83. The Prince
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Political science hasn’t been the same since.
84. The Purple Land
    W.H. Hudson
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact:  The tale of a young Englishman travelling in 19th century
    Uruguay.
85. The Red House of Mystery
    A.A. Milne
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: A locked-room murder mystery. Played the game Clue lately?
86. The Sorrows of Young Werther
    J.W. Goethe
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: One of Napoleon’s favorite books. Goethe said of the ending that
    he had ‘shot his hero to save himself’.
87. The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchnan
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. Innocent man on the run
    novel.
88. The Varieties of Religous Experience
    William James
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: One of the greatest books ever written on religion.
89. The Water-Babies
    Charles Kingsley
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: The book is often mistaken as children’s book. A chimneysweep
    takes a trip down the wrong chimney.
90. The Way We Live Now
    Anthony Trollope
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Still relevant today. One of the 1001 books to read before you
    die.
91. The World I Live In
    Helen Keller
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Helen Keller’s only regret was not being able to speak normally.
92. The Yellow Wall Paper
    Charlotte Perkins Gillman
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: Being locked up in a room with horrible wall paper can drive you
    batty.
93. Three Men in a Boat
    Jerome Klapka Jerome
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: One of the funniest novels ever written.
94. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Roosevelt contracted malaria and almost died during this trip.
95. Thus Spake Zarthustra
    Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche
    FeedBooks
    Quick Fact: “God is dead.” God is not dead literally but science is making
    him less compelling.
96. Tobacco, Its History, Varities, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
    E.R. Billings
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: Tobacco helped to build this country.
97. Two Years Before the Mast
    Richard Henry Dana
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Harrowing sea adventure.
98. Under Fire
    Henri Barbusse
    Project Gutenberg
    Quick Fact: Scenes of front line fighting in the First World War.
99. What Prohibition Has Done to America
    Fabian Franklin
    Book Glutton
    Quick Fact: The war on alcohol is now the war on drugs. History repeats
    itself.
100. Winesburg, Ohio
     Sherwood Anderson
     Project Gutenberg
     Quick Fact: It was Sherwood Anderson who urged William Faulkner to become a
     writer.