1000 Books You Would Save

[Don_Draper]

1. Holy Bible: New International Version

2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.

3. And Tango Makes Three

4. The Boy Scout Handbook

5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle

6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s

9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco

10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy

11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes

12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat

13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1

14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2

15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3

16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4

17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5

18. On The Road - Kerouac

19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson

20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan

21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton

22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky

23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand

24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated

25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens

26. The collected works of Lope de Vega.

27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival

29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein

30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed

31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew

32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan

33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre

36. Euclid’s Elements

37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury

38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner

39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot

40. Principia Mathematica, Newton

41. War and Peace, Tolstoy

42. Night, Elie Wiesel

43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry

44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian

47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

50. 1984, George Orwell

51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft

53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison

54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson

55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne

56. Oxford English Dictionary

57. The Complete Far Side

58. Watchmen, Alan Moore

59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition)

60. Animal Farm, George Orwell

61. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition.

62. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

63. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

64. Koran (Why just the Bible?)

65. the Bhagavad Gita

66. Ulysses - James Joyce

67. the Iliad - Homer

68. the Odyssey - Homer

69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell

[Trepa_Mayfield]

1. Holy Bible: New International Version
2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.
3. And Tango Makes Three
4. The Boy Scout Handbook
5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s
9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco
10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy
11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2
15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3
16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4
17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5
18. On The Road - Kerouac
19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan
21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton
22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated
25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
26. The collected works of Lope de Vega.
27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival
29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed
31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew
32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan
33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre
36. Euclid’s Elements
37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot
40. Principia Mathematica, Newton
41. War and Peace, Tolstoy
42. Night, Elie Wiesel
43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian
47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
50. 1984, George Orwell
51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft
53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison
54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson
55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne
56. Oxford English Dictionary
57. The Complete Far Side
58. Watchmen, Alan Moore
59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition)
60. Animal Farm, George Orwell
61. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition.
62. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
63. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
64. Koran (Why just the Bible?)
65. the Bhagavad Gita
66. Ulysses - James Joyce
67. the Iliad - Homer
68. the Odyssey - Homer
69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell
70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis

I figure, we’ve got to have one piece of horribly written turgid heap of purple prose that isn’t controversial, so that when we rebuild our literature, people will know what not to do. Plus, entertainment value.

[42fish]

1. Holy Bible: New International Version
2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.
3. And Tango Makes Three
4. The Boy Scout Handbook
5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s
9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco
10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy
11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2
15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3
16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4
17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5
18. On The Road - Kerouac
19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan
21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton
22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated
25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
26. The collected works of Lope de Vega.
27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival
29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed
31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew
32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan
33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre
36. Euclid’s Elements
37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot
40. Principia Mathematica, Newton
41. War and Peace, Tolstoy
42. Night, Elie Wiesel
43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian
47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
50. 1984, George Orwell
51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft
53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison
54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson
55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne
56. Oxford English Dictionary
57. The Complete Far Side
58. Watchmen, Alan Moore
59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition)
60. Animal Farm, George Orwell
61. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition.
62. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
63. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
64. Koran (Why just the Bible?)
65. the Bhagavad Gita
66. Ulysses - James Joyce
67. the Iliad - Homer
68. the Odyssey - Homer
69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell
70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis
71. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
72. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
73. The Kama Sutra

Notes:
71. All that radiation might raise the dead; better safe than sorry
72. The survivors get to see whether or not the novel was accurate
73. Those nights are gonna get long and lonely

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

@42fish

73. Those nights are gonna get long and lonely

and…limber.

[Trepa_Mayfield]

1. Holy Bible: New International Version
2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.
3. And Tango Makes Three
4. The Boy Scout Handbook
5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s
9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco
10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy
11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1
14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2
15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3
16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4
17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5
18. On The Road - Kerouac
19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan
21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton
22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated
25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
26. The collected works of Lope de Vega.
27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival
29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed
31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew
32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan
33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre
36. Euclid’s Elements
37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot
40. Principia Mathematica, Newton
41. War and Peace, Tolstoy
42. Night, Elie Wiesel
43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian
47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
50. 1984, George Orwell
51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft
53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison
54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson
55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne
56. Oxford English Dictionary
57. The Complete Far Side
58. Watchmen, Alan Moore
59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition)
60. Animal Farm, George Orwell
61. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition.
62. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
63. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
64. Koran (Why just the Bible?)
65. the Bhagavad Gita
66. Ulysses - James Joyce
67. the Iliad - Homer
68. the Odyssey - Homer
69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell
70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis
71. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
72. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
73. The Kama Sutra
74. The Art of War - Sun Tzu

The undisputed last word on war tactics for hundreds of years. Even today, its lessons are still useful. And I figure, if we survive a nuclear war, we’ll probably have to fight a bunch of mutants at some point.

[Gukumatz]

Look, Curtis Lemay, update the list once or twice per page, not every single post. You’re making the hampsters clock in overtime - if not now, especially when each post runs to 900+ lines of text.

Gukumatz,
Game Room Moderator.

[Ann_Onimous]

I’d hate to see the page if the list made it to 1000.

75. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

[Hawkeyeop]

76. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss

Unless we want to teach kids to read with the kama sutra…

[robz]

77. The Second World War Winston Churchill

[Mahaloth]

78. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
79. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
80. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
81. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
82. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
83. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
84. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[Hoopy_Frood]

@Hawkeyeop

76. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss

Unless we want to teach kids to read with the kama sutra…

That’s true, we need more kids books.

85. Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
86. The Westing Game, Ellin Raskin
87. The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs
88. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
89. Matilda, Roald Dahl
90. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell

[Sternvogel]

Can’t believe nobody before me has added these:

91. The Straight Dope, Cecil Adams
92. Return of the Straight Dope, Cecil Adams
93. More of the Straight Dope, Cecil Adams
94. Triumph of the Straight Dope, Cecil Adams
95. The Straight Dope Tells All, Cecil Adams
96. Know It All!, Ed Zotti

[Qin_Shi_Huangdi]

97. 1421, Gavin Menzies
98. Holy Bible, King James Version
99. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
100. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
101. The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

[koeeoaddi]

102. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
103. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
104. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

[foolscap]

We were asked to keep adding to the list in long format, but, this is getting hard
to read

102. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
103. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
104. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
105. The Art Of War By Jomini

Notes on 105
everybody knows about Sun Tzu, But I prefer this work by a russian general instead
Sun Tzu is about the philosophy of war, Jommini is about the mechanics.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

102. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

103. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin

104. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

105. The Art Of War By Jomini

106. Catch-22, Joseph Heller*

107. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

108. Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, P.G. Wodehouse

*how did this not get nominated already?

[Hoopy_Frood]

109. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
110. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
111. The Princess Bride, William Goldman

[Mahaloth]

112. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
113. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
114. Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis
115. The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
116. The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
117. The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
118. The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
119. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

I’m counting His Dark Materials as one book, which might be cheating.

[Trepa_Mayfield]

1. Holy Bible: New International Version
2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.
3. And Tango Makes Three
4. The Boy Scout Handbook
5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s
9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco
10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy
11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
    13-17. Bloom County Complete Library Volumes 1-5
13. On The Road - Kerouac
14. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
15. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan
16. Happy Endings - Jim Norton
17. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
18. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
19. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated
20. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
21. The collected works of Lope de Vega.
22. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
23. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival
24. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
25. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed
26. The Bible, in the original Hebrew
27. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan
28. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre
31. Euclid’s Elements
32. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
33. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
34. The Waste Land, TS Eliot
35. Principia Mathematica, Newton
36. War and Peace, Tolstoy
37. Night, Elie Wiesel
38. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
39. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
40. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
41. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian
42. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
43. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
44. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
45. 1984, George Orwell
46. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
47. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft
48. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison
49. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson
50. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne
51. Oxford English Dictionary
52. The Complete Far Side
53. Watchmen, Alan Moore
54. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition)
55. Animal Farm, George Orwell
56. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition.
57. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
58. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
59. Koran (Why just the Bible?)
60. the Bhagavad Gita
61. Ulysses - James Joyce
62. the Iliad - Homer
63. the Odyssey - Homer
64. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell
65. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis
66. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
67. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
68. The Kama Sutra
69. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
70. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
71. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss
72. The Second World War Winston Churchill
    78-84. The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
73. Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
74. The Westing Game, Ellin Raskin
75. The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs
76. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
77. Matilda, Roald Dahl
78. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
    91-95. The Straight Dope collection, Cecil Adams
79. Know It All!, Ed Zotti
80. 1421, Gavin Menzies
81. Holy Bible, King James Version
82. His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
83. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
84. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
85. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
86. The Art Of War By Jomini
87. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
88. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
89. Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, P.G. Wodehouse
90. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
91. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
92. The Princess Bride, William Goldman
    110-116. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
    117-119. Dante’s Divine Comedy

[42fish]

A couple of practical ones…

120. First Aid, The American Red Cross
121. Victory Gardens, US Dept. of Agriculture