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List: Amazon.com Top 100 Books of the Millenium

The Inferno (1314) - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  (Grade:A+)

The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953) - Isaac Asimov (1/02/1920 -4/06/1992)  (Grade:A-)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (2/25/1917 -11/22/1993)  (Grade:A)

Don Quijote (Part 1--1605, Part 2--1615) (1615) - Miquel de Cervantes (9/29/1547 -4/22/1616)  (Grade:A+)

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:A)

The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (6/19/1900 -7/31/1944)  (Grade:B)

The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (6/12/1929 -February 1945)  (Grade:A)

Neuromancer (1984) - William Gibson (1948-)  (Grade:C+)

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C)

The Firm (1991) - John Grisham (02/08/1955-)  (Grade:D)

A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1/08/1942 -03/14/2018)  (Grade:B-)

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)  (Grade:A)

Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (10/08/1920 -2/11/1986)  (Grade:A+)

Les Miserables (1862) - Victor Hugo (2/26/1802 -5/22/1885)  (Grade:A)

Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941)  (Grade:F)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016) (Grade:A+)

The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469 -6/21/1527) (Grade:A+)

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (-) (Grade:B+)

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+)

The Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism (1964) - Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 -03/06/1982)  (Grade:B+)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010) (Grade:A+)

The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (01/03/1892 -09/02/1973)  (Grade:A+)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/111922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C)

9)   The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A-)

11)   The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B)

19)   Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Jerry B. Jenkins (-) - Tim LaHaye (-)  (Grade:C+)

22)   A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-)  (Grade:C)

27)   One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-)  (Grade:F)

28)   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (11/30/1835 -4/21/1910)  (Grade:A-)

29)   Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819 -9/28/1891)  (Grade:A)

32)   Ender's Game (1985) - Orson Scott Card (-)  (Grade:A)

35)   Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:F)

36)   Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A)

37)   On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969)  (Grade:F)

38)   Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A)

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The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:A+)

47)   The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F)

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+)

52)   Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-)  (Grade:C)

53)   I Know This Much is True (1998) - Wally Lamb (-)  (Grade:F)

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Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A+)

62)   Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994)  (Grade:C)

65)   The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:C-)

67)   The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)  (Grade:B+)

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Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+)

72)   Outlander (1991) - Diana Gabaldon (1952-)  (Grade:C-)

76)   Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999) - Mick Foley (1965-)  (Grade:C)

83)   The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932-)  (Grade:B+)

86)   Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Last Great Lesson (1997) - Mitch Albom (-)  (Grade:C-)

88)   The Celestine Prophecy (1993) - James Redfield ( -)  (Grade:F)

88)   The Notebook (1996) - Nicholas Sparks (1965-)  (Grade:D)

97)   The Green Mile (1997) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:A-)

100)   Midnight's Children (1980) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:C-)