Nature's Realm

1. "The Life of the Bee," Maurice Maeterlinck (1901)

2. "Treatise on Radioactivity," Marie Curie (1910)

3. "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein (1922)

4. "A Field Guide to the Birds," Roger Tory Peterson (1908)

5. "A Sand County Almanac," Aldo Leopold (1949)

6. "King Solomon's Ring," Konrad Lorenz (1949)

7. "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson (1962)

8. "Smoking and Health (The Surgeon General's Report)" (1964)

9. "The Double Helix," James Watson (1968)

10. "The Diversity of Life," Edward O. Wilson (1992)

Protest and Progress

1. "The Battle With the Slum," Jacob Riis (1902)

2. "The Souls of Black Folk," W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

3. "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair (1906)

4. "Twenty Years at Hull-House," Jane Addams (1910)

5. "The House on Henry Street," Lillian Wald (1915)

6. "The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens," Lincoln Steffens (1931)

7. "U.S.A.," John Dos Passos (1937)

8. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck (1939)

9. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," James Agee and Walker Evans (1941)

10. "Strange Fruit," Lillian Smith (1944)

11. "Growing Up Absurd," Paul Goodman (1960)

12. "The Fire Next Time," James Baldwin (1963)

13. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Malcolm X (1965)

14. "And the Band Played On," Randy Shilts (1987)

15. "There Are No Children Here," Alex Kotlowitz (1991)

Colonialism and Its Aftermath

1. "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad (1900)

2. "Kim," Rudyard Kipling (1901)

3. "Non-Violent Resistance," Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1921-40)

4. "A Passage to India," E.M. Forster (1924)

5. "The Stranger," Albert Camus (1942)

6. "United Nations Charter" (1945)

7. "Cry, The Beloved Country," Alan Paton (1948)

8. "The Family of Man: The Photographic Exhibition Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art" (1955)

9. "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe (1958)

10. "The Wretched of the Earth," Frantz Fanon (1961)

11. "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys (1966)

12. "Season of Migration to the North," Tayeb El-Salih (1969)

13. "Guerrillas," V.S. Naipaul (1975)

14. "The Bride Price," Buchi Emecheta (1976)

15. "The Emperor," Ryszard Kapuscinski (1978)

16. "I, Rigoberta Menchu," Rigoberta Menchu (1983)

17. "The Lover," Marguerite Duras (1984)

Mind & Spirit

1."Suicide: A Study in Sociology," Emile Durkheim (1897)

2. "The Interpretation of Dreams," Sigmund Freud (1900)

3. "Studies in the Pyschology of Sex," Havelock Ellis (1901-28)

4. "The Varieties of Religious Experience," William James (1902)

5. "The Prophet," Kahlil Gibran (1923)

6. "Why I Am Not a Christian," Bertrand Russell (1927)

7. "Coming of Age in Samoa," Margaret Mead (1928)

8. "Being and Nothingness," Jean-Paul Sartre (1943)

9. "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," Dr. Benjamin (McLane) Spock (1946)

10. "The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version" (1952)

11. "The Courage to Be," Paul Tillich (1952)

12. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Ken Kesey (1962)

13. "The Politics of Ecstasy," Timothy Leary (1968)

14. "Death and Dying," Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1969)

15. "The Uses of Enchantment," Bruno Bettelheim (1976)

Popular Culture & Mass Entertainment

1. "Dracula," Bram Stoker (1897)

2. "The Turn of the Screw," Henry James (1898)

3. "The Hound of the Baskervilles," Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

4. "Tarzan of the Apes," Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

5. "Riders of the Purple Sage," Zane Grey (1912)

6. "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," Agatha Christie (1920)

7. "How to Win Friends and Influence People," Dale Carnegie (1936)

8. "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Mitchell (1936)

9. "The Big Sleep," Raymond Chandler (1939)

10. "The Day of the Locust," Nathanael West (1939)

11. "Peyton Place," Grace Metalious (1956)

12. "The Cat in the Hat," Dr. Seuss (1957)

13. "Stranger in a Strange Land," Robert Heinlein (1961)

14. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller (1961)

15. "In Cold Blood: A True Account of Multiple Murder and Its Consequences," Truman Capote (1965)

16. "Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues," Jim Bouton (1970)

17. "Carrie," Stephen King (1974)

18. "The Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe (1987)

Women Rise

1. "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton (1920)

2. "Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement," Carrie Chapman Catt (1923)

3. "My Fight for Birth Control," Margaret Sanger (1931)

4. "Dust Tracks on a Road," Zora Neale Hurston (1942)

5. "The Second Sex," Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

6. "The Golden Notebook," Doris Lessing (1962)

7. "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Freidan (1963)

8. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou (1969)

9. "Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writingsfrom the Women's Liberation Movement," Robin Morgan, editor (1970)

10. "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape," Susan Brownmiller (1975)

11. "The Color Purple," Alice Walker (1982)

Economics and Technology

1. "The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions," Thorstein Veblen (1899)

2. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," Max Weber (1904)

3. "The Education of Henry Adams," Henry Adams (1907)

4. "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money," John Maynard Keynes (1936)

5. "The Road to Serfdom," Friedrich A. von Hayek (1944)

6. "A Theory of the Consumption Function," Milton Friedman (1957)

7. "The Affluent Society," John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)

8. "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Jane Jacobs (1961)

9. "Superhighway -- Super Hoax," Helen Leavitt (1970)

10. "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered," Ernst F. Schumacher (1973)

11. "The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog," Ed Krol (1992)

Utopias & Dystopias

1. "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells (1895)

2. "The Jewish State," Theodor Herzl (1896)

3. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Lyman Frank Baum (1900)

4. "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," James Matthew Barrie (1906)

5. "Herland," Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)

6. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley (1932)

7. "Lost Horizon," James Hilton (1933)

8. "Walden Two," B.F. Skinner (1948)

9. "Nineteen Eighty-four," George Orwell (1949)

10. "Fahrenheit 451," Ray Bradbury (1953)

11. "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand (1957)

12. "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess (1962)

13. "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood (1985)

War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism

1. "Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation," Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1915)

2. "Ten Days That Shook the World," John Reed (1919)

3. "The War Poems," Siegfried Sassoon (1919)

4. "The Good Soldier Schweik," Jaroslav Hasek (1920-23)

5. "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler (1925)

6. "All Quiet on the Western Front," Erich Maria Remarque (1928)

7. "Requiem," Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreevna Gorenko) (1935-40)

8. For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway (1940)

9. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler (1941)

10. "Hiroshima," John Hersey (1946)

11. "The Diary of a Young Girl," Anne Frank (1947)

12. "The Gathering Storm," Winston Churchill (1948)

13. "The Night," Elie Weisel (1958)

14. "Quotations from Chairman Mao," Mao Zedong (1966)

15. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West," Dee Alexander Brown (1970)

16. "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation," Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1973-75)

17. "Dispatches," Michael Herr (1977)

18. "Maus: A Survivor's Tale," Art Spiegelman (1986-1991)

Optimism, Joy, Gentility

1. "The Country of Pointed Firs," Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)

2. "The Story of My Life," Helen Keller (1903)

3. "The Innocence of Father Brown," Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1911)

4. "Platero and I," Juan Ramon Jimenez (1914)

5. "Pygmalion," George Bernard Shaw (1914)

6. "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home," Emily Post (1922)

7. "The Inimitable Jeeves," P.G. Wodehouse (1923)

8. "Winnie-the-Pooh," A.A. Milne (1926)

9. "Shadows on the Rock," Willa Cather (1931)

10. "The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes With a Casual Culinary Chat," Irma S. Rombauer (1931)

11. "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again," J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

12. "Goodnight Moon," Margaret Wise Brown (1947)

13. "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee (1960)

14. "The Best of Simple," Langston Hughes (1961)

15. "The Complete Poems, 1927-1979," Elizabeth Bishop (1983)

Favorites of Childhood and Youth (this section did not appear in original exhibition)

1. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," Beatrix Potter (1902)

2. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Maggie Smith (1943)

3. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," C.S. Lewis (1950)

4. "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger (1951)

5. "Charlotte's Web," E.B. White (1952)

6. "The Snowy Day," Ezra Jack Keats (1962)

7. "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak (1963)

8. "Sarah, Plain and Tall," Patricia MacLachlan (1985)