Bookshelf

1. A Brief History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
2. Andersen's Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen
   
3. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
4. Bread Loaf Conference Archives
   
5. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
6. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
   
7. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
8. The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
   
9. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled by Hudson Stuck
10. The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales Edited by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
11. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
    
12. The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational by Rudolph Otto
    
13. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
    
14. The Library 100: The Complete 500 - The top 500 novels compiled by OCLC, "a global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large." I don't agree with this list at a glance. For instance, "The Brother's Karamazov" is considered Dostoevsky's best novel and it is not listed though "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot" are. 
    
15. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka