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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 (1920-1992)  (Grade:A-)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)  (Grade:A)

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)  (Grade:A)

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

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

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

Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (1920-1986)  (Grade:A+)

Les Miserables (1862) - Victor Hugo (1802-1885)  (Grade:A)

Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (1882-1941)  (Grade:F)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (1926-) (Grade:A+)

The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) (Grade:A+)

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

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

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

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

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

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-)  (Grade:A+)

9)   The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)  (Grade:A-)

11)   The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)  (Grade:B)

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

20)   Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999)  (Grade:A)

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 (1835-1910)  (Grade:A-)

29)   Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)  (Grade:A)

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

35)   Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-)  (Grade:F)

36)   Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)  (Grade:A)

37)   On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)  (Grade:F)

38)   Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)  (Grade:A)

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

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

47)   The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (1897-1962)  (Grade:F)

50)

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  (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 (1902-1968)  (Grade:A+)

62)   Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)  (Grade:C)

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

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

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Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  (Grade:A+)

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

74)   The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944)  (Grade:B)

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

81)   Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993)  (Grade:C)

81)   A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1942-)  (Grade:B-)

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 (1947-)  (Grade:A-)

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