MSU TOP 100 BOOKS 2001

O the mind,
mind has mountains;
cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer
no-man fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "No Worst There is None"

Mountains & Minds
Montana State University
TOP 100 BOOKS 2001

1. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
2. THE BIBLE
3. DON QUIXOTE, Miguel de Cervantes
4. ILIAD/ ODYSSEY, Homer
5. METAMORPHOSES, Ovid
6. FINNEGANS WAKE, James Joyce
7. ORESTEIAN TRILOGY, Aeschylus
8. TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu
9. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll
11. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Virginia Woolf
12. ULYSSES, James Joyce
13. PALE FIRE, Vladimir Nabokov
14. DIVINE COMEDY, Dante Alighieri
15. COLLECTED POEMS, Wallace Stevens
16. ARABIAN NIGHTS, Anonymous
17. WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy
18. BELOVED, Toni Morrison
19. COLLECTED FICTIONS, Jorge Luis Borges
20. CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer
21. ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, Isak Dinesen
22. THEBAN TRILOGY, Sophocles
23. MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND
HARMONY, Roberto Calasso
24. KATHASARITSAGARA, Somadeva
25. SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekov
26. BHAGAVAD GITA, Anonymous
27. 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel García Márquez
28. GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
29. INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison
30. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, William Faulkner
31. WOMEN IN LOVE, D.H. Lawrence
32. LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov
33. DIALOGUES, Plato
34. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Marcel Proust
35. THE TIN DRUM, Günter Grass
36. COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, Flannery O'Connor
37. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens
38. THREE NOVELS, Samuel Beckett
39. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, Sigmund Freud
40. HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad
41. FOUR QUARTETS, T.S. Eliot
42. MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert
43. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie
44. TRISTRAM SHANDY, Laurence Sterne
45. COLLECTED POEMS, W.B. Yeats
46. THE GOLDEN BOUGH, James G. Frazer
47. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING
EARNEST, Oscar Wilde
48. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen
49. THE BLACK PRINCE, Iris Murdoch
50. THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN
SARAGOSSA, Jan Potaki
51. THE BACCHAE, Euripides
52. VANITY FAIR, William Thackeray
53. METAMORPHOSIS, Franz Kafka
54. THE AENEID, Vergil
55. TRISTAN AND ISEULT, Anonymous
56. COLLECTED POEMS, William Blake
57. THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald
58. ENDGAME/ WAITING FOR GODOT, Samuel Beckett
59. COLLECTED POEMS, Emily Dickinson
60. MOBY DICK, Herman Melville
61. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS
EXPERIENCE, Willliam James
62. MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather
63. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger
64. FATHERS AND CHILDREN, Ivan Turgenev
65. LIVES OF A CELL, Lewis Thomas
66. A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen
67. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame
68. A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Ernest Hemingway
69. CHARLOTTE'S WEB, E.B. White
70. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain
71. LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman
72. IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A
TRAVELER, Italo Calvino
73. JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë
74. THE STORYTELLER, Mario Vargas Llosa
75. EPIC OF GILGAMESH, Anonymous
76. THE IDIOT, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
77. CATCH 22, Joseph Heller
78. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë
79. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES,Thomas Hardy
80. THE MAGUS, John Fowles
81. CEREMONY, Leslie Silko
82. WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau
83. NATIVE SON, Richard Wright
84. NATURE, Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. FAUST, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
86. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee
87. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Darwin
88. PARADISE LOST, John Milton
89. TOM JONES, Henry Fielding
90. THE GOLDEN ASS, Apuleius
91. THE ART OF MEMORY, Francis Yeats
92. MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot
93. AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, Peter Matthiessen
94. INNER CHAPTERS, Chuang Tzu
95. CANDIDE, Voltaire
96. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, Friedrich Nietzsche
97. PASSAGE TO INDIA, E.M. Forster
98. THE SEA, THE SEA, Iris Murdoch
99. TRISTES TROPIQUES, Claude Lévi-Strauss
100. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston

Created by students in Literary Criticism Spring 1999, under the direction of Michael Sexson. Revised Spring 2001.