In celebration of their 125th anniversary, NYPL crafted a list of 125 titles that inspire a love of reading. The titles we carry are listed below. The full list can be found at nypl.org/125
Literary Fiction
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Call Number: PS3503 .E4488 A66 1953
ISBN: 9780143039570
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Call Number: PS3573 .O526 B6 1988
ISBN: 9780312427573
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Call Number: PS3525 .A1772 H4 1993
ISBN: 0679424741
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Call Number: PS3545 .H16 H6 1975
ISBN: 9781499219425
Lolita by Vladímir Nabokov
Call Number: PS3527 .A15 L65 1955
ISBN: 9780679723165
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Call Number: PS3521.E735 O5 1975
ISBN: 0899661343
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568 .O855 P67
ISBN: 9780679756453
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: Delano Library PS3555.G292 V57 2010
ISBN: 9780307592835
White Noise by Don Delillo
Call Number: PS3554 .E4425 W48 1986
ISBN: 0140077022
Around the World
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552 .A45 G5 1956
ISBN: 9781101907740
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Call Number: Pop
ISBN: 0679457313
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: PS3608.O832 K58 2003
ISBN: 9781573222457
Also in Delano
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: PR6068 .U757 M5 1995
ISBN: 0679444629
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 C513 1995
ISBN: 0679444653
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: PR6059.S5 R46 2012
ISBN: 9780307961440
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Call Number: PQ2605 .A3734 S77 1946
ISBN: 9780679720201
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Call Number: PG5039.21 .U6 N413 1984
ISBN: 9780061148521
Historical Fiction
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Call Number: Pop
ISBN: 9780385721790
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 1998b
ISBN: 0452280621
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: Pop
ISBN: 9780679745204
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Call Number: PR6013 .R44 Q5 1956
ISBN: 9780143039020
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 U53 2016
ISBN: 9780385542364
Modern Classics
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029 .R8 N55 1949b
ISBN: 0899663680
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Call Number: PT2635 .E68 I625 1995
ISBN: 9780449213940
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Call Number: PR6045 .A97 B7 1945
ISBN: 9780316216456
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Call Number: PS3558 .E476 C3 1961
ISBN: 9781606869673
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: PS3537 .A426 C3 1951
ISBN: 9780316769488
Also in Delano
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 1992
ISBN: 0151191549
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 G8 1993
ISBN: 9780670016907
Also in Delano
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: PS3511 .I9 G7 1953
ISBN: 9780743273565
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5 1995
ISBN: 9780679732761
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515 .E37 S9
ISBN: 8087888154
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T639 1990
ISBN: 9780061120060
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 2002
ISBN: 9780060935467
Suspense
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Call Number: PR6005 .H66 A5 1966
ISBN: 1568497369
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Call Number: PS3505.H3224 B5 1986
ISBN: 9780394758282
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Call Number: PR6007 .U47 R4 1938
ISBN: 9780380730407
Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Call Number: PR6057.A319 A84 2011
ISBN: 9780062572110
Dune by Frank Herbert
Call Number: PS3558 .E63 D8 1999
ISBN: 044100590X
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS3503 .R167 F3 1993
ISBN: 0743247221
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR9199.3.A8 H3 1986
ISBN: 038549081X
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Call Number: PZ7.R79835 Har 1998
ISBN: 0590353403
Also in Delano
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Call Number: PR6051.D3352 H5 2017
ISBN: 9780345391803
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Call Number: PS3562 .E42 L39 1994
ISBN: 0802713025
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: PS3552.U827 P37 2000
ISBN: 9780446675505
The Shining by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 S53 1991
ISBN: 0452267226
Graphic Novels
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: DS135.P63 S68 2003
ISBN: 0141014083
Publication Date: 2003-10-02
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: PN6747.S245 P4713 2003
ISBN: 037571457X
Also available in Delano
Short Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Call Number: PS3565 .C57 G66 1955
ISBN: 9780358139560
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Call Number: PS3505 .H6428 A15 1978
ISBN: 0394500873
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver
Call Number: PS3553 .A7894 W4 1982
ISBN: 0679723056
Nonfiction
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Call Number: HV6248.M8 L37 2003
ISBN: 0375725601
Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace
Call Number: F128.3 .B95 1999
ISBN: 0195116348
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Call Number: HV6533.K3 C3
ISBN: 9780679745587
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Call Number: GV199.44 .E85 K725 1997
ISBN: 0679457526
Also in Delano
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Call Number: F294 .S2 B48 1994
ISBN: 0679429220
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Call Number: QH81 .D56 1985
ISBN: 0060912790
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Call Number: QH545.P4 C38 1962
ISBN: 9780618249060
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010
ISBN: 0679444327
Biography & Memoir
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Call Number: E302.6.H2 C48 2004
ISBN: 9781594200090
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Call Number: DT92.7 .S35 2010
ISBN: 9780316001922
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Call Number: CT275 .E37 A3 2001
ISBN: 0375725784
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z466 1970
ISBN: 0394429869
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Call Number: CT275 .K5764 A33 1994
ISBN: 0394400674
Poetry
Ariel by Silvia Plath
Call Number: PS3531.A42 A8 1966
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Call Number: PS3568.A572 A6 2014
ISBN: 1555976905
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes