Books William Bortins Wants. Bold = wants most. The numbering
is not significant.
1.The Republic by
Plato
2. 1984 by George
Orwel
3. The Prince by
Niccolo Machiavelli
4. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Catcher in the
Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
7. For Whom The Bells
Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
9. The Grapes of
Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. How to Win
Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
11. Call of the Wilde by Jack London
12. Swiss Family
Robinson by Johann Davis Wyss
13. The Iliad
14. The Odyssey
15. The Aeneid
16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
18. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
19. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. Crime and
Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. The Book of Deeds
of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
23. The Art of War by
Sun Tzu
24. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
25. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
26. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
27. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
29. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
30. Adventure of Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain
31. The Politics by Aristotle
32. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
33. Animal Farm by George Orwell
34. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
35. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
36. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
37. Hamlet/Much
Ado/Henry 5/ Macbeth/ any Shakespeare
38. A Farewell to
Arms by Ernest Hemingway
39. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
40. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
41. Paradise Lost by John Milton
42. The American boys Handy Book
43. King Solomon’s
Mines by H. Rider Haggard
44. The Count of
Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
45. All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
47. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
48. The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
49. The Histories by Herodotus
50. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. Captains
Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
52. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
53. The Man Who Would
Be King by Rudyard Kipling
54. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
55. The Silmarillion
by J.R.R Tolkien
56. 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea by Jules Verne
57. Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
58. The Three Musketeers
by Alexander Dumas
59. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
60. The Sea Wolf by
Jack London
61. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
62. Le Morte D’Arthur
by Sir Thomas Malory
63. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
64. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
65. The Man Eaters of
Tsavo by Colonel Henry Patterson
66. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
67. The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
68. Greek Tragedy by
Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles
69. History of the Peloponnesian
War by Thucydides
70. Gates of Fire: An
Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
71. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical
Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
72. The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
73. Genghis Khan and
the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford.
74. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
75. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon
to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
76. The Liberator by Alex Kershaw
77. Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
78. The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
79. The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved
Wars That Were Lost by Victor Davis Hanson.
80. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
81. How Should We
Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
by Francis August
Schaeffer
82. The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
83. Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey
84. Orthodoxy by G.K.
Chesterton
85. Redeeming Love by
Francine Rivers
86. God in the Docks by C.S. Lewis
87. The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
88. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
89. Invitation to the Classics by Louise Cowan
90. Recovering the Lost tools of learning by Douglas Wilson
91. The Case for Christ by Lee Stroble
92. The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
93. The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
94. Night of the
Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos
95. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
96. The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
97. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
98. Oedipus Rex by James Joyce
99. The Collected
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
100. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and
One Nights
101. The Epic of Gilgamesh
102. The Brothers of Karamazov
