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Select 100: Education & Enlightenment

This list was compiled by tabulating nominations by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty, staff and students. They were asked to state which books they had "found to be so useful and important that no one could consider himself/herself an educated or enlightened person without having read them".
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
2
George Orwell
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
3
Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
4
William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
5
Ayn Rand
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha
6
Various
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
7
Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
8
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
9
Voltaire
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
10
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
11
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
12
J.D. Salinger
The City in History (Lewis Mumford)
The City in History
13
Lewis Mumford
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
14
Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
15
Alice Walker
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto
16
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
17
William Shakespeare
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
18
John Kennedy Toole
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
19
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
20
Arthur Miller
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country
21
Alan Paton
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
22
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
23
Dante Alighieri
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
24
Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote
25
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The Double Helix (James Watson)
The Double Helix
26
James Watson
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
27
Frank Herbert
The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr., Maira Kalman and E.B. White)
The Elements of Style
28
William Strunk Jr., Maira Kalman and E.B. White
Entropy (Jeremy Rifkin)
Entropy
29
Jeremy Rifkin
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
30
Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
31
Ray Bradbury
Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Farewell to Arms
32
Ernest Hemingway
Faust (Goethe)
Faust (Goethe)
33
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
34
Hunter S. Thompson
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist Papers
35
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)
Flatland
36
Edwin A. Abbott
Forbidden Colours (Yukio Mishima)
Forbidden Colours
37
Yukio Mishima
Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Foundation
38
Isaac Asimov
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
39
Ayn Rand
Free to Choose (Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman)
Free to Choose
40
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
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