THE GREAT BOOK SLAUGHTER

[Jasper]

He was  totally a proto-hippie, but at least he did it before it was cool. 

[BadBeast]

I love Alan Moore, and it's great to see three of his works in this list, but in an attempt to cut the numbers, I think Promethea is by far and away the more relevant of the three.

[Phox]

ooooh

Not even Civil Disobedience?  I found that particularly good.

That is a good one.

[Placid Dingo]

No numbers means book is off list (got bored of bolding)

The Constitution Of the United States
1. The Tao Teh Ching
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
3 Beowulf.
The Koran (Translation of;)
The Bible. Significance is obvious, but i note that it gets frustrating to read at points.
4. Evasion - Anonymous
5. Flatland - Edward A Abbot. {Presently ressurected}
6. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
7. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
8. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
9. The Skinner - Neil Asher
10. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
11. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
12. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
13. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury {Ressurected for further debate}
Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
14. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
15. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
16. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
17. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
18. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
19. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle Great book, but probably doesn't belong on the final cut.
20. Alice In Wonderland/Alice through the Looking glass
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
21. Don Quixote - Cervantes
22. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
23. Shogun - James Clavel
I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
24. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
25. The Divine Comedy - Dante
26. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
27. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
28. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
29. Mao II - Don Delillo
30. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
31. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
32. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
33. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
34. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
35. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
36. Distress - Greg Egan.
37. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
38. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
39. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
40. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
41. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
42. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
43. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
44. Chaos - James Gleick
45. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
46. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
47. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
48. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
49. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
50. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
51. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
52. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
53. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
54. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
55. The Illiad/The Odyssey - Homer.
56. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
57. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
58. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla {I'm going to be the asshole here having not read it, and ask if this is here through nepotism}
69. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
61. Sock - Penn Jilette
Ulysses - James Joyce
62.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
63. The Trial - Kafka
Amerika - Kafka
64. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
65. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
The Jungle Books - Kipling
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
66. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
67. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
68. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst Oh how we love to kill our idols.
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
69. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
70. Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Promethea - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
71. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
Book of Five Rings - Musashi
72. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
73. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
74. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
75. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
76. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1984 - George Orwell
77. Animal Farm - George Orwell
78. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
79. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Common Sense - Thomas Payne
80. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
81. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
82. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
83. The Republic - Plato.
84. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
85. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
86. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
87. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
88. Software - Rudy Rucker
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
89. No Exit - Sarte
90. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
91. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
92. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
93. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
94. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
95. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
96. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
97. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
98. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb {I note with some dismay that these are two different books yah?}
99. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
Walden - Thoreau
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
100. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
101. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
102. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
103. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
Hellblazer - Various
104. Candide - Voltaire.
105. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
106. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
107. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis I ADORE this, and it's clever, but hardly classic.
108. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
109. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W {Haven't read it, but does this deserve to be here?)
Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
110. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
111. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
112. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

Hmmm... anything i can do is done; all the ones i rejectd i've read (one exception) all those i've left i'll never reject.

I knocked off Koran, Jungle Book, surrendered the other Fear and Loathing.

[Faust]

The Constitution Of the United States
1. The Tao Teh Ching
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
3 Beowulf.
The Koran (Translation of;)
The Bible. Significance is obvious, but i note that it gets frustrating to read at points.
4. Evasion - Anonymous
5. Flatland - Edward A Abbot. {Presently ressurected}
6. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
7. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
8. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
9. The Skinner - Neil Asher
10. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
11. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
12. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
13. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury {Ressurected for further debate}
Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
14. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
15. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
16. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
17. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
18. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
19. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle Great book, but probably doesn't belong on the final cut.
20. Alice In Wonderland/Alice through the Looking glass
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
21. Don Quixote - Cervantes
22. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
23. Shogun - James Clavel
24. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert.
25. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
26. The Divine Comedy - Dante
27. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
28. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
29. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
30. Mao II - Don Delillo
31. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
32. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
33. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
34. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
35. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
36. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
37. Distress - Greg Egan.
38. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
39. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
40. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
4.1 Sandman- Neil Gaiman
42. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
43. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
44. Chaos - James Gleick
45. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
46. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
47. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
48. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
49. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
50. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
51. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
52. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
53. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
54. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
55. The Illiad/The Odyssey - Homer.
56. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
57. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
58. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla {I'm going to be the asshole here having not read it, and ask if this is here through nepotism}
59. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
61. Sock - Penn Jilette
Ulysses - James Joyce
62.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
63. The Trial - Kafka
Amerika - Kafka
64. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
65. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
The Jungle Books - Kipling
66. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
67. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
68. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
69. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst Oh how we love to kill our idols.
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
70. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
71. Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
Watchmen - Alan Moore
72. Promethea - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
73. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
Book of Five Rings - Musashi
74. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
75. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
76. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
77. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
78. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1984 - George Orwell
79. Animal Farm - George Orwell
80. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
81. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Common Sense - Thomas Payne
82. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
83. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
84. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
85. The Republic - Plato.
86. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
87. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
88. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
89. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
90. Software - Rudy Rucker
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
91. No Exit - Sarte
92. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
93. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
94. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
95. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
96. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
97. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
98. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
99. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
100. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb {I note with some dismay that these are two different books yah?}
101. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
Walden - Thoreau
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
102. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
103. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain (short story)
104. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
105. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
106. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
Hellblazer - Various
107. Candide - Voltaire.
108. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
109. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
110. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis I ADORE this, and it's clever, but hardly classic.
111. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
112. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson
113. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W {Haven't read it, but does this deserve to be here?)
Otherland Series - Tad Williams.
114. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
115. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
116. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn

I'd strike both american gods and the road from this, While both are interesting books both lack an excellent writing skill or staying power. Besides The sandman is there in Gaimans case and that is a far better work then his novels.

[Kurt Christ]

Since we're trying to minimize over-representation of single authors, which Hesse novel do people find less impressive/relevant? I've read both, and I was personally more impressed with Siddhartha.

[Placid Dingo]

Have mde the relevant change. AG was already gone; anything without a number is gone.

[Phox]

The list according to the most up-to-date tally by Placid Dingo. I think it's wrong though. 

Also, more books to kill!

1. The Tao Teh Ching
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh.
3 Beowulf.
4. Evasion - Anonymous
5. Flatland - Edward A Abbot.
6. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
7. The house of spirits -  Isabel Allende
8. Über Das Altern - Jean Amery.
9. The Skinner - Neil Asher
10. The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
11. Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
12. Killing Aurora - Helen Barnes.
13. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
14. The Ascent of Man - Bronowski
15. World War Z - Max Brooks Kill one, kill the other.
16. The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
17. A Clockwork Orange (uncut UK edition) - Anthony Burgess
18. The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger - Albert Camus
19. The Rebel - Albert Camus.
20. Alice In Wonderland/Alice through the Looking glass
21. Don Quixote - Cervantes
22. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
23. Shogun - James Clavel
24. I am America and so can you - Stephen Colbert. Not all that great.
25. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
26. The Divine Comedy - Dante
27. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
28. Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari
29. A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze and Guattari.
30. Mao II - Don Delillo
31. Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
32. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Mark Dery
33. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale - Philip k Dick
34. Ubik - Phillip K Dick.
35. Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
36. Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
37. Distress - Greg Egan.
38. A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories - Will Eisner
39. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann - Richard Feynman
40. The Golden Bough-  Sir James Frazer
41. American Gods - Neil Gaiman Isn't this gone?
42. Sandman- Neil Gaiman
43. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
44. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson
45. Chaos - James Gleick
46. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
47. The 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene.
48. Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
49. The Raw Shark Texts- Steven Hall
50. The Secret Teachings of all Ages Manly.P.Hall
51. American Fascism - Christ Hedges
52. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
53. Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
54. Siddatha - Herman Hesse
55. Condensed Chaos- Phil Hine
56. The Illiad/The Odyssey - Homer. I think these should be seperated. Also, Fuck the Odyssey.
57. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
58. Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hofstadter
59. The Wise Book of Baloney - Baron Von Hoopla
60. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
62. Sock - Penn Jilette
63.  Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung
64. The Trial - Kafka
65. The art of demotivation - E.L. Kersten
66. The Seducer's Diary - Kierkegaard
67. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Eh.
68. The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
69. Billion Dollar Bunko/How to Cheat at Everything - Simon Lovell
70. The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli I thought this was gone also.
71. The Incunabula and Ong's Hat Papers - Joseph Matheny et al.
72. Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation - by Mark Millar
73. Promethea - Alan Moore Might as well let it join it's brethren.
74. The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
75. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
76. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
77. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
78. A Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund
79. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
80. Animal Farm - George Orwell Not as good as 1984, pretty much just as commonly praised.
81. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
82. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Didn't want to the first time, but...
83. Rights of Man - Thomas Payne.
84. The Gormenghast trilogy - Marvyn Peake
85. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
86. The Republic - Plato.
87. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
88. Apocalypse: The Musical - Robert Rankin.
89. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
90. The hermetic museum - alchemy & mysticism - Alexander Roob
91. Software - Rudy Rucker
92. No Exit - Sarte
93. Being and Nothingness - Sartre
94. The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
95. Deus X - Norman Spinrad
96. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
97. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
98. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
99. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
100. A Modest Proposal - Johnathan Swift
101. Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
102. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
103. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
104. Cannibalism in the Cars - Mark Twain
105. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain i like Twain, but this one isn't list material.
106. The Art of Memetics - Unruh and Wilson
107. Het allerslechtste van Spekkie Big - M. van der Holst
108. Candide - Voltaire.
109. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
110. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
111. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
112. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh.
113. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, R. A. Wilson Five guesses as to why.
114. The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
115. The Night In Question by Tobias Wolfe
116. Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
117. Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn


Removed:
The Constitution Of the United States
The Koran (Translation of;)
The Bible. Significance is obvious, but i note that it gets frustrating to read at points.
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury.
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Poker Without Cards - Howard Campbell.
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Magicians - by Lev Grossman
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange land by Robert Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Amerika - Kafka
The Jungle Books - Kipling
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Principia Discordia - Mal2 and Omarr Ravenhurst
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Watchmen - Alan Moore
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
Book of Five Rings - Musashi
1984 - George Orwell
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Common Sense - Thomas Payne
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
The Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail- HST
Walden - Thoreau
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Hellblazer - Various
Garfield Minus Garfield - Dan Walsh/Jim Davis
Otherland Series - Tad Williams.

[Don Coyote]

WWZ is good. I think WWZ should stay.

I suggested The survival guide get axed because it really isn't that great.

[Rumckle]

80. Animal Farm - George Orwell Not as good as 1984, pretty much just as commonly praised.

It's been a few years since I read both, but I thought Animal Farm was much better than 1984

[Placid Dingo]

Have  made changes on the most recent list (the post on this page)

I will here speak for Fight Club, The Prince (ABSOLUTLY the Prince) and Animal Farm but

will kill the rest and hesitantly remove mockingbird.

[Jasper]

I wish there was a good book about The Prince that could be substituted.

[Placid Dingo]

I found the Prince essential, if laboured.

[BadBeast]

Since we're trying to minimize over-representation of single authors, which Hesse novel do people find less impressive/relevant? I've read both, and I was personally more impressed with Siddhartha.

Hard to choose, but I think Siddartha has the edge too.

Also, on the "killed" list, how the Hell did "Dune" not shape up?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

and hesitantly remove mockingbird.

You suck.

ETA:  So does Phox.