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Wow. That's some list...
by DrNo

...but here goes:

#1 The Bible...yes
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain...yes
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes...yes
#4 The Koran...no
#5 Arabian Nights...yes
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain...yes
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift...yes
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer...yes
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne...yes
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman...no
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli...no
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe...yes
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank...no
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert...no
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens...yes
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo...yes
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker...yes
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin...no
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding...yes
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne...no
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck...yes
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon...no
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy...yes
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin...no
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce...yes
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio...no
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell...yes
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell...no
#29 Candide by Voltaire...no
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee...yes
#31 Analects by Confucius...no
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce...yes
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck...yes
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway...yes
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal...no
#36 Capital by Karl Marx...no
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire...no
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...yes
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence...yes
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley...yes
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser...no
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell...no
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair...no
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque...no
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx...no
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding...yes
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys...yes
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway...yes
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy...no
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury...yes
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak...yes
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant...yes
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey...yes
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus...no
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...yes
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X...no
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker...no
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger...yes
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke...no
#60 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison...no
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe...yes
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...yes
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck...yes
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison...yes
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou...yes
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau...no
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais...no
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes...no
#69 The Talmud...no
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau...no
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson...no
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence...yes
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser...no
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler...no
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles...yes
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath...yes
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck...no
#78 Popol Vuh...no
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith...no
#80 Satyricon by Petronius...yes
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl...yes
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...yes
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright...no
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu...no
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut...yes
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George...no
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle...no
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder...no
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin...no
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse...yes
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene...no
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner...no
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner...no
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin...yes
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig...no
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...no
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud...no
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood...yes
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown...yes
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess...yes
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines...no
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau...no
#103 Nana by Émile Zola...yes
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier...no
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin...no
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...yes
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein...yes
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck...no
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark...no
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes...yes

Note: I'm trying to be scrupulously honest here, so only answered yes to works I have read in entirety.

If I included works of which I've read part or most, they would include all but a few of this list.

So: 54 in entirety; 90ish in entirety or part.

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