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Here’s the “Simon & Schuster 100,” in chronological order:

1924 – The Cross Word Puzzle Book by F. Gregory Hartswick, Prosper Buranelli, and Margaret Petherbridge (Simon & Schuster)\\

1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner)\\

1926 – The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (Simon & Schuster)\\

1929 – A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)\\

1936 – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Scribner)\\

1936 – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Simon & Schuster)\\

1938 – The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)\\

1939 – The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Pocket Books)\\

1940 – How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler (Simon & Schuster)\\

1946 – The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock (Pocket Books)\\

1947 – Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis (Aladdin/Rand McNally)\\

1947 – Stone Soup by Marcia Brown (Scribner)\\

1948 – Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Scribner)\\

1955 – Eloise by Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight (Simon & Schuster)\\

1960 – The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (Simon & Schuster)\\

1960 – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (Simon & Schuster)\\

1961 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Simon & Schuster)\\

1965 – Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner (Free Press)\\

1966 – Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster)\\

1967 – The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Simon & Schuster)\\

1967 – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)\\

1967 – From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)\\

1969 – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)\\

1970 – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume (Macmillan/Bradbury Press)\\

1970 – Time and Again by Jack Finney (Simon & Schuster)\\

1973 – The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (Margaret K. McElderry Books)\\

1973 – The Denial of Death by Ernest Beck (Scribner/Free Press)\\

1974 – On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (Scribner)\\

1974 – All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)\\

1975 – Looking for Mister Goodbar by Judith Rossner (Simon & Schuster)\\

1975 – Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola (Prentice-Hall)\\

1975 – Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)\\

1977 – for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (Macmillan)\\

1977 – The Women’s Room by Marilyn French (Summit Books)\\

1977 – Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Douglas Kent Hall (Simon & Schuster)\\

1978 – The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck (Simon & Schuster)\\

1982 – The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)\\

1982 – Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster)\\

1983 – Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster)\\

1985 – Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)\\

1986 – Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Macmillan/Bradbury Press)\\

1987 – The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster)\\

1987 – The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster)\\

1987 – Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster)\\

1988 – Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)\\

1989 – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)\\

1989 – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Simon & Schuster)\\

1990 – Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (Atheneum)\\

1991 – Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins (Summit)\\

1991 – Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)\\

1992 – Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster)\\

1992 – Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton (Simon & Schuster)\\

1992 – The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (Free Press)\\

1992 – She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (Pocket Books)\\

1992 – Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)\\

1993 – The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Scribner)\\

1994 – Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)\\

1994 – No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)\\

1996 – Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (Scribner)\\

1996 – It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)\\

1997 – Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner)\\

1997 – Term Limits by Vince Flynn (Pocket Books)\\

1997 – Underworld by Don DeLillo (Scribner)\\

1999 – The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah (Pocket Books)\\

2000 – Olivia by Ian Falconer (Atheneum)\\

2000 – On Writing by Stephen King (Scribner)\\

2001 – Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)\\

2001 – An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster)\\

2001 – The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (Scribner)\\

2002 – The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)\\

2003 – Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire (Free Press)\\

2004 – Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster)\\

2004 – He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)\\

2005 – And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)\\

2005 – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)\\

2006 – Pelé: The Autobiography by Pelé (Simon & Schuster UK)\\

2006 – The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Atria)\\

2007 – City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books)\\

2009 – Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin)\\

2009 – The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)\\

2010 – The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)\\

2010 – Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)\\

2011 – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)\\

2012 – Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)\\

2013 – Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (Touchstone)\\

2014 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)\\

2014 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Atria)\\
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?\\

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.\\

2016 – It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria)\\

2016 – Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster)\\

**2016** – The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (Gallery / Scout Press)\\
“A classic "paranoid woman" story with a modern twist in this tense, claustrophobic mystery...The cast of characters, their conversations, and the luxurious but confining setting all echo classic Agatha Christie; in fact, the structure of the mystery itself is an old one: a woman insists murder has occurred,everyone else says she's crazy. But Lo is no wallflower; she is a strong and determined modern heroine who refuses to doubt the evidence of her own instincts.” \\

2017 – Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)\\

2017 – Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (Scribner UK)\\

2017 – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)\\

2018 – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)\\

2018 – The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster)\\

2019 – From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle (Simon & Schuster Canada)\\

2019 – Tell Me Why by Archie Roach (Simon & Schuster Australia)\\

2019 – Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (Avid Reader Press)\\

2022 – I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)\\

2023 – How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (37 Ink)\\

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