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.
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
*Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*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*
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions_1
1973English
*Harvard*
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Murakami Haruki
Nejimaki-Dori Kuronikuru_3
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
originally published in three volumes, 1994-5Japanese
*Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 English
*Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita_11
1955English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- J R R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings_6
published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-5English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Toni Morrison
Beloved_9
1987English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones_6
originally entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan, published 1941; expanded 1944 and 1956Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Harvard*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*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*
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale_5
1985English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_1
2000English
*Harvard*
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*
- Mikhail Bulgakov
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 translationRussian
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*
Lewis Carroll
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871English
*Powys* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
*Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time_1
1962English
*Harvard*
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meaney_3
1989English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit*
Slouching Toards Bethlehem_1
essays originally published 1961-7 in the Saturday Evening Post, the New York Times, Holiday, Vogue, and the American ScholarEnglish
*Harvard*
- Italo Calvino
Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore_5
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1979Italian
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird_5
1960English
*Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
*Classics* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
J K Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_4
1997English
*Guardian* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_3
1998English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_3
1999English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_3
2000English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_3
2003English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_3
2005English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_3
2007English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Leo Tolstoy
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 translationRussian
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- James Joyce
Dubliners_10
1914English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children_7
1981English
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies_1
2008English
*Harvard*
- Don DeLillo
White Noise_3
1985English
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World_1
2003English
*Harvard*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Joseph Heller
Catch-22_10
1961English
*List* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Phillip Pullman
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, 2000English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter_3
1940English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*
- Louisa M Alcott
Little Women_6
originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*
- Ursula K Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea_2
1968English
*Harvard* *Deposit*
- Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast_2
1964English
*Harvard* *Newman*
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle_3
1963English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Harvard*
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_3
1979 novel based on 1978 radio playEnglish
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Herodotus
Historiē_24
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
*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*
- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929English
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Murakami Haruki
Hitsuji o Meguru Boken_1
A Wild Sheep Chase
1982Japanese
*Harvard*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God_7
1937English
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Zane* *Harvard*
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth_1
1961English
*Harvard*
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping_1
1980English
*Harvard*
- Patricia C Wrede
Dealing With Dragons_1
published in part, 1987, as 'The Improper Princess', in Spaceships and Spells; in its entirety, 1990English
*Harvard*
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar_5
originally published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, 1963English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Graphic*
- John Steinbeck
Cannery Row_1
1945English
*Harvard*
- Murakami Haruki
Sekai no Owari to Hadoboirudo Wandarando_1
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1985Japanese
*Harvard*
- J D Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction_1
1961; two novellas originally published in the New Yorker, 1955 and 1959, respectivelyEnglish
*Harvard*
Gene Wolfe
- The Shadow of the Torturer_1
first volume of four-volume The Book of the New Sun, 1980
*Harvard*
- The Claw of the Conciliator_1
second volume of four-volume The Book of the New Sun, 1981
*Harvard*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Alan Moore
Watchmen_1
originally published serially 1986-7English
*Harvard*
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 anthologiesEnglish
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*
- Virginia Woolf
Orlando: A Biography_4
1928English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
*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*
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity_1
1995English
*Harvard*
- Richard Adams
Watership Down_3
1972English
*Fadiman* *Guardian* *Harvard*
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun _1
2006English
*Harvard*
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao_1
2007English
*Harvard*
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire_8
1962English
*List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944_4
The Diary of a Young Girl
1947Dutch
*Recommended* *Campbell* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch_1
1990English
*Harvard*
C S Lewis
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_3
1950English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard*
- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia_2
1951English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_2
1952English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- The Silver Chair_2
1953English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- The Horse and His Boy_2
1954English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- The Magician's Nephew2
1955English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- The Last Battle_2
1956English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
1940English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute_1
1974English
*Harvard*
- Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories_1
1990English
*Harvard*
- Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity_1
2002English
*Harvard*
- Umberto Eco
Baudolino_1
2000Italian
*Harvard*
- Richard Fariña
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me_1
1966English
*Harvard*
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Robert Graves
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B C, Murdered and Deified A D 54_5
1934English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time_3
1924; expanded 1925English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*
- Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow_1
2000English
*Harvard*
- John Crowley
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament_2
1981English
*Bloom* *Harvard*
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- Popul Vuh_2
Harvard Book Store specifies the Dennis Tedlock translationK'iche'
*Harvard* *Graphic*
- Ursula K Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness_2
1969English
*Bloom* *Harvard*
- Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_1
1883English
*Harvard*
- W Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge_2
1944English
*Kanigel* *Harvard*
- Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea_1
1978English
*Harvard*
- Milan Kundera
Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí_2
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
French translation, L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'Être, 1984; Czech original, 1985Czech
*Bloom* *Harvard*
- Keri Hulme
The Bone People_1
1984English
*Harvard*
Nine Stories_4
originally published 1948-53 in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Information World ReviewEnglish
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Zane* *Harvard*
Drown_1
ten stories, six of which originally published in Story, the New Yorker, Time Out New York, and the Paris ReviewEnglish
*Harvard*
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet_27
1602English
*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*
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest_2
1996English
*Harvard* *Graphic*
- Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence_6
1920English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Robin McKinley
The Blue Sword_1
1982English
*Harvard*
- Homer
Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*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*
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon_4
1977English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead_1
2004English
*Harvard*
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 1905English
*Dirda* *Harvard*
- Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present_2
1980; expanded and revised through fifth edition, 2005English
*Utne* *Harvard*
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables_18
1862French
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- Ken Kesey
Sometimes a Great Notion_1
1964English
*Harvard*
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas_2
2004English
*Guardian* *Harvard*
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*