Book awards: Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-ListWorks (107)| Titles | Order | | The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli | | | The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 2009, No. 1 | | War and Peace (1/2) by Leo Tolstoy | 2009, No. 1 | | War and Peace (2/2) by Leo Tolstoy | 2009, No. 1 | | 1984 by George Orwell | 2 | | Ulysses by James Joyce | 2009, No. 3 | | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 2009, No. 4 | | The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 2009, No. 5 | | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 2009, No. 6 | | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 2009, No. 7 | | The Iliad by Homer | 2009, No. 8 | | The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer | 2009, No. 8 | | The Odyssey by Homer | 8 | | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 2009, No. 9 | | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | 10 | | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | 2009, No. 11 | | Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 2009, No. 12 | | Middlemarch by George Eliot | 2009, No. 13 | | Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 2009, No. 14 | | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 2009, No. 15 | | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | 2009, No. 16 | | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 2009, No. 17 | | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2009, No. 18 | | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 2009, No. 19 | | Beloved by Toni Morrison | 2009, No. 20 | | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 2009, No. 21 | | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie | 2009, No. 22 | | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 2009, No. 23 | | Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 2009, No. 24 | | Native Son by Richard Wright | 2009, No. 25 | | Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville | 2009, No. 26 | | On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | 2009, No. 27 | | The Histories by Herodotus | 2009, No. 28 | | On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 2009, No. 29 | | Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1: The Process of Production of Capital by Karl Marx | 2009, No. 30 | | Confessions by Augustine | 2009, No. 32 | | Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes | 2009, No. 33 | | The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides | 2009, No. 34 | | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 2009, No. 35 | | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | 2009, No. 36 | | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis | 2009, No. 37 | | A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 2009, No. 38 | | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 2009, No. 39 | | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | 2009, No. 40 | | The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) by Zondervan | 2009, No. 41 | | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | 2009, No. 42 | | Light in August by William Faulkner | 2009, No. 43 | | The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois | 2009, No. 44 | | Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | 2009, No. 45 | | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 2009, No. 46 | | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | 2009, No. 48 | | Hamlet by William Shakespeare | 2009, No. 49 | | King Lear by William Shakespeare | 2009, No. 50 | | Othello by William Shakespeare | 2009, No. 51 | | The Sonnets by William Shakespeare | 2009, No. 52 | | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | 2009, No. 53 | | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 2009, No. 54 | | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | 2009, No. 55 | | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 2009, No. 56 | | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | 2009, No. 57 | | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | 2009, No. 58 | | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway | 2009, No. 59 | | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 2009, No. 60 | | Animal Farm by George Orwell | 2009, No. 61 | | Lord of the Flies by William Golding | 2009, No. 62 | | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | 2009, No. 63 | | The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing | 2009, No. 64 | | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 2009, No. 65 | | The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | 2009, No. 66 | | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 2009, No. 67 | | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway | 2009, No. 68 | | I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 2009, No. 69 | | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 2009, No. 70 | | Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | 2009, No. 71 | | All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | 2009, No. 72 | | Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin | 2009, No. 73 | | Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | 2009, No. 74 | | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 2009, No. 75 | | Night by Elie Wiesel | 2009, No. 76 | | Rabbit, Run by John Updike | 2009, No. 77 | | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 2009, No. 78 | | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | 2009, No. 79 | | An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | 2009, No. 80 | | The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West | 2009, No. 81 | | Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller | 2009, No. 82 | | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett | 2009, No. 83 | | The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman | 2009, No. 84 | | The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman | 2009, No. 84 | | His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman | 2009, No. 84 | | The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman | 2009, No. 84 | | Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 2009, No. 85 | | The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud | 2009, No. 86 | | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | 2009, No. 87 | | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung | 2009, No. 88 | | The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James | 2009, No. 89 | | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 2009, No. 90 | | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | 2009, No. 91 | | The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes | 2009, No. 92 | | Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad | 2009, No. 93 | | Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves | 2009, No. 94 | | The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith | 2009, No. 95 | | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | 2009, No. 96 | | The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X | 2009, No. 97 | | Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey | 2009, No. 98 | | The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 2009, No. 99 | | The Second World War {complete} by Winston S. Churchill | 2009, No. 100 |
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Award descriptionNewsweek's "Top 100 Books: The Meta-List," published in June 2009, "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." ( Source | Methodology)  | |
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