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As we approached our centennial year, a group of Simon & Schuster staffers took on the daunting challenge of selecting The Simon & Schuster 100: titles from our history that are believed to best represent the breadth and depth of the company’s publishing program, across genres, imprints, and borders.
 
It has been an amazing 100 years of publishing with passion, joy, and innovation that has carried through from our very first days to now.
 
Enjoy perusing the list or download!

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Getting bored is not allowed."
Eloise by Kay Thompson
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
"i’m only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human."
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
"Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back."
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
"I have never been able to do things halfway, and I hungered—literally hungered—for life and all it shades and hues."
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

1990s

".Reading never wears me out."
Olivia by Ian Falconer
"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
"Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.."
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper