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Harvard Book Store, Top 100 Books [2010]

114 entries: 110 monographical, four otherwise

Ranked

The Harvard Book Store's list of the staff's "favorite books of all time" is one of the few ranked lists documented here , created much like album lists in popular music: each participant submitted a list in order of preference, then all of the books listed were transferred to a single list, their position determined by how highly they ranked in the individual lists. Presumably, a first-place finish gave a book a certain number of points, a second-place finish a slightly-smaller number, and so on; the description does not go into such detail. Nor is there a list of which staff members participated. Similar collective ranked lists included at Greater Books are those put together by Raymond Queneau, in Nineteen-Fifties France, and more recently by the Norwegian Book Club and J. Peder Zane.

  1. Charlotte Brontë

    2. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English
    *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  2. Jane Austen

    3. Pride and Prejudice_30
    originally anonymously published 1813—English
    *Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  3. Kurt Vonnegut

    4. Breakfast of Champions_1
    1973—English
    *Harvard*

  4. Gabriel García Márquez

    5. Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translation—Spanish
    *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*

  5. Murakami Haruki

    6. Nejimaki-Dori Kuronikuru_3
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    originally published in three volumes, 1994-5—Japanese
    *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*

  6. Virginia Woolf

    7. To the Lighthouse_12
    1927 —English
    *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*

  7. Vladimir Nabokov

    8. Lolita_11
    1955—English
    *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*

  8. J R R Tolkien

    9. The Lord of the Rings_6
    published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-5—English
    *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  9. Ralph Ellison

    10. Invisible Man_12
    1952—English
    *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*

  10. Toni Morrison

    11. Beloved_9
    1987—English
    *Recommended* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Harvard* *Deposit*

  11. Jorge Luis Borges

    12. Ficciones_6
    originally entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan, published 1941; expanded 1944 and 1956—Spanish
    *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Harvard*

  12. Dante

    13. La Divina Commedia_33
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian
    *Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*

  13. Margaret Atwood

    14. The Handmaid's Tale_5
    1985—English
    *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard*

  14. Michael Chabon

    15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_1
    2000—English
    *Harvard*

  15. Virginia Woolf

    16. Mrs. Dalloway_11
    published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English
    *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*

  16. Mikhail Bulgakov

    17. Mástyer i Margaríta_6
    The Master and Margarita
    published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translation—Russian
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*

    Lewis Carroll
  17. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17

    18. 1865—English
    *Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*

  18. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10

    19. 1871—English
    *Powys* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*

  19. George Eliot

    20. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
    originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English
    *Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*

  20. Madeleine L'Engle

    21. A Wrinkle in Time_1
    1962—English
    *Harvard*

  21. John Irving
    A Prayer for Owen Meaney_3
    1989—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit*

    • Joan Didion

    22. Slouching Toards Bethlehem_1
    essays originally published 1961-7 in the Saturday Evening Post, the New York Times, Holiday, Vogue, and the American Scholar—English
    *Harvard*

  22. Italo Calvino

    23. Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore_5
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
    1979—Italian
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Harvard* *Educated*

  23. Harper Lee

    24. To Kill a Mockingbird_5
    1960—English
    *Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*

  24. Charles Dickens

    25. Great Expectations_15
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English
    *Classics* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*

    J K Rowling
  25. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_4

    26. 1997—English
    *Guardian* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  26. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_3

    27. 1998—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  27. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_3

    28. 1999—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_3

    29. 2000—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  29. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_3

    30. 2003—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_3

    31. 2005—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_3

    32. 2007—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  32. Leo Tolstoy

    33. Anna Karenina_20
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian
    *Eliot* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  33. James Joyce

    34. Dubliners_10
    1914—English
    *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*

  34. Salman Rushdie

    35. Midnight's Children_7
    1981—English
    *Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit*

  35. Amitav Ghosh

    36. Sea of Poppies_1
    2008—English
    *Harvard*

  36. Don DeLillo

    37. White Noise_3
    1985—English
    *Bloom* *Harvard* *Educated*

  37. Tracy Kidder

    38. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World_1
    2003—English
    *Harvard*

  38. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    39. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian
    *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  39. Joseph Heller

    40. Catch-22_10
    1961—English
    *List* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Deposit*

  40. Phillip Pullman

    41. His Dark Materials_4
    originally published in three volumes: Northern Lights, 1995 (U S title: The Golden Compass); The Subtle Knife, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, 2000—English
    *Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  41. Carson McCullers

    42. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter_3
    1940—English
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*

  42. Louisa M Alcott

    43. Little Women_6
    originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English
    *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*

  43. Ursula K Le Guin

    44. A Wizard of Earthsea_2
    1968—English
    *Harvard* *Deposit*

  44. Ernest Hemingway

    45. A Moveable Feast_2
    1964—English
    *Harvard* *Newman*

  45. Kurt Vonnegut

    46. Cat's Cradle_3
    1963—English
    *Bloom* *Recommended* *Harvard*

  46. Douglas Adams

    47. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_3
    1979 novel based on 1978 radio play—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  47. Herodotus

    48. Historiē_24
    History
    Fifth Century B C—Greek
    *Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World*

  48. William Faulkner

    49. The Sound and the Fury_13
    1929—English
    *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*

  49. Murakami Haruki

    50. Hitsuji o Meguru Boken_1
    A Wild Sheep Chase
    1982—Japanese
    *Harvard*

  50. F Scott Fitzgerald

    51. The Great Gatsby_17
    1925—English
    *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  51. Zora Neale Hurston

    52. Their Eyes Were Watching God_7
    1937—English
    *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Zane* *Harvard*

  52. Norton Juster

    53. The Phantom Tollbooth_1
    1961—English
    *Harvard*

  53. Marilynne Robinson

    54. Housekeeping_1
    1980—English
    *Harvard*

  54. Patricia C Wrede

    55. Dealing With Dragons_1
    published in part, 1987, as 'The Improper Princess', in Spaceships and Spells; in its entirety, 1990—English
    *Harvard*

  55. Sylvia Plath

    56. The Bell Jar_5
    originally published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, 1963—English
    *Ward* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Graphic*

  56. John Steinbeck

    57. Cannery Row_1
    1945—English
    *Harvard*

  57. Murakami Haruki

    58. Sekai no Owari to Hadoboirudo Wandarando_1
    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    1985—Japanese
    *Harvard*

  58. J D Salinger

    59. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction_1
    1961; two novellas originally published in the New Yorker, 1955 and 1959, respectively—English
    *Harvard*

    Gene Wolfe
  59. The Shadow of the Torturer_1

    60. first volume of four-volume The Book of the New Sun, 1980
    *Harvard*

  60. The Claw of the Conciliator_1

    61. second volume of four-volume The Book of the New Sun, 1981
    *Harvard*

  61. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    62. The Scarlet Letter_21
    1850—English
    *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  62. Alan Moore
    Watchmen_1
    originally published serially 1986-7—English
    *Harvard*

    • Flannery O'Connor

    63. The Complete Stories_3
    1971; includes A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955; Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965; plus 12 stories previously published in periodicals or anthologies—English
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*

  63. Virginia Woolf

    64. Orlando: A Biography_4
    1928—English
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman*

  64. Herman Melville

    65. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
    1851—English
    *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*

  65. Nick Hornby

    66. High Fidelity_1
    1995—English
    *Harvard*

  66. Richard Adams

    67. Watership Down_3
    1972—English
    *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Harvard*

  67. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    68. Half of a Yellow Sun _1
    2006—English
    *Harvard*

  68. Junot Díaz

    69. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao_1
    2007—English
    *Harvard*

  69. Albert Camus

    70. L'Étranger_14
    The Stranger
    1942—French
    *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*

  70. Vladimir Nabokov

    71. Pale Fire_8
    1962—English
    *List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*

  71. Anne Frank

    72. Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944_4
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    1947—Dutch
    *Recommended* *Campbell* *Harvard* *Deposit*

  72. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

    73. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch_1
    1990—English
    *Harvard*

    C S Lewis
  73. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_3

    74. 1950—English
    *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

  74. Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia_2

    75. 1951—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  75. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_2

    76. 1952—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  76. The Silver Chair_2

    77. 1953—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  77. The Horse and His Boy_2

    78. 1954—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  78. The Magician's Nephew2

    79. 1955—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  79. The Last Battle_2

    80. 1956—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  80. Ernest Hemingway

    81. For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
    1940—English
    *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman*

  81. Grace Paley

    82. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute_1
    1974—English
    *Harvard*

  82. Salman Rushdie

    83. Haroun and the Sea of Stories_1
    1990—English
    *Harvard*

  83. Dave Eggers

    84. You Shall Know Our Velocity_1
    2002—English
    *Harvard*

  84. Umberto Eco

    85. Baudolino_1
    2000—Italian
    *Harvard*

  85. Richard Fariña

    86. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me_1
    1966—English
    *Harvard*

  86. Nikolai Gogol

    87. Mërtvyâ Duši_11
    Dead Souls
    1842—Russian
    *Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*

  87. Robert Graves

    88. I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B C, Murdered and Deified A D 54_5
    1934—English
    *Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit*

  88. Ernest Hemingway

    89. In Our Time_3
    1924; expanded 1925—English
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*

  89. Wendell Berry

    90. Jayber Crow_1
    2000—English
    *Harvard*

  90. John Crowley

    91. Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament_2
    1981—English
    *Bloom* *Harvard*

    --
  91. Popul Vuh_2

    92. Harvard Book Store specifies the Dennis Tedlock translation—K'iche'
    *Harvard* *Graphic*

  92. Ursula K Le Guin

    93. The Left Hand of Darkness_2
    1969—English
    *Bloom* *Harvard*

  93. Howard Pyle

    94. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_1
    1883—English
    *Harvard*

  94. W Somerset Maugham

    95. The Razor's Edge_2
    1944—English
    *Kanigel* *Harvard*

  95. Iris Murdoch

    96. The Sea, the Sea_1
    1978—English
    *Harvard*

  96. Milan Kundera

    97. Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí_2
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    French translation, L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'Être, 1984; Czech original, 1985—Czech
    *Bloom* *Harvard*

  97. Keri Hulme
    The Bone People_1
    1984—English
    *Harvard*

    • J D Salinger

    Nine Stories_4
    originally published 1948-53 in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Information World Review—English
    *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Zane* *Harvard*

    • Junot Díaz

    98. Drown_1
    ten stories, six of which originally published in Story, the New Yorker, Time Out New York, and the Paris Review—English
    *Harvard*

  98. William Shakespeare

    99. Hamlet_27
    1602—English
    *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  99. David Foster Wallace

    100. Infinite Jest_2
    1996—English
    *Harvard* *Graphic*

  100. Edith Wharton

    101. The Age of Innocence_6
    1920—English
    *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*

  101. Robin McKinley

    102. The Blue Sword_1
    1982—English
    *Harvard*

  102. Homer

    103. Odýsseia_36
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek
    *Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

  103. Toni Morrison

    104. Song of Solomon_4
    1977—English
    *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Educated*

  104. Marilynne Robinson

    105. Gilead_1
    2004—English
    *Harvard*

  105. Frances Hodgson Burnett

    106. A Little Princess_2
    originally entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, published serially 1888 in St. Nicholas Magazine; revised and retitled 1905—English
    *Dirda* *Harvard*

  106. Howard Zinn

    107. A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present_2
    1980; expanded and revised through fifth edition, 2005—English
    *Utne* *Harvard*

  107. Victor Hugo

    108. Les Misérables_18
    1862—French
    *Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*

  108. Ken Kesey

    109. Sometimes a Great Notion_1
    1964—English
    *Harvard*

  109. David Mitchell

    110. Cloud Atlas_2
    2004—English
    *Guardian* *Harvard*

  110. Walt Whitman

    111. Leaves of Grass_20
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English
    *Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*