The List

#1  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

#2  Shibumi 

by Trevanian

#3  The Sword and the Stone
by T. H. White

#4  Gulliver's Travels 
by Jonathan Swift

#5  The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde

#6  Dubliners
by James Joyce

#7  Anthem
by Ayn Rand

#8  A Short History of the World
by H. G. Wells

#9 The River Ki

by Sawako Ariyoshi