"This list was compiled by tabulating nominations by UWM faculty, staff and students for the Select 100. It includes changes which have resulted from nominations received since the original list was released. We asked you to recommend books which you have found to be so useful and important that no one could consider himself/herself an educated or enlightened person without having read them. This is your cumulative response.''

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. The Odyssey by Homer
11. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
12. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
13. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
14. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. The Iliad by Homer
17. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
19. The Bible by Christian Church
20. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. The Stranger by Albert Camus
22. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
25. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
26. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Candide by Voltaire
29. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
30. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
31. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
32. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
33. Animal Farm by George Orwell
34. Confessions by Augustine
35. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
36. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
37. Paradise Lost by John Milton
38. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
39. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
40. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
41. First Folio by William Shakespeare
42. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
45. The Republic by Plato
46. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
47. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
48. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
49. My Antonia by Willa Cather
50. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
51. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
52. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
53. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
54. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
55. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
56. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
57. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
58. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
59. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
60. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
61. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
62. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
63. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
64. The Plague by Albert Camus
65. The Quran by Various Authors
66. Dune by Frank Herbert
67. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
68. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White
69. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
70. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
71. The Art of War by Sun Zi
72. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
73. The City in History by Lewis Mumford
74. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
75. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
76. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
77. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
78. Hiroshima by John Hersey
79. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
80. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
81. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
82. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
83. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
84. Utopia by Thomas More
85. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
86. Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
87. Future Shock: The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
88. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
89. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
90. The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
91. The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
92. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
93. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
94. Entropy by Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard
95. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
96. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
97. How Democracies Perish by Jean François Revel
98. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
99. The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
100. The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck