1book140 Nominations: A Running List
Below is a list of the titles that have been suggested by followers of 1book140, which we'll update once a day until the nominations round ends. It's a simple copy and paste from reader tweets and comments, so some of the authors or titles may be misspelled. If you see a mistake, let us know. To nominate another book, tweet your suggestion with the hashtag #1book140, or leave a comment on the Entertainment channel.
13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Short History of A Small Place by T.R. Pearson
A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahamme-Smith
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) by Lian Hern
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Angels Crest by Leslie Schwartz
Another Country by James Baldwin
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Area 51 by Robert Doherty
ASH: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Bleed by Ed Kurtz
Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Born to Run by Christopher MacDougall
Brainiac by Ken Jennings
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Callisto by Torsten Krol
Candide by Voltaire
Catcher in the Rye
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel by Susan Vreeland
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
Controlled Burn by Scott Wolven
Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Disgrace by J.M. Coetze
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dragon Precinct by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Driving with Plato by Robert Rowland Smith
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Glass Bead Game by Hesse
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Horns by Joe Hill
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish
How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
Howling's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I Am Messenger by Markus Zusak
I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens by Peter Hartshorn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I, Robot Series by Assimov
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
It by Stephen King
It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott
Journey By Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Like Being Killed by Ellen Miller
Lincoln's Melancholy by Johsua Wolf Shneck
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Fridges by Tim Scott
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Magician by Robert E. Feist
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simmonson
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Modern China-The Fall and Rise of a Great Power-From 1850 to Present by Jonathan Fenby
Moment in the Sun by John Sayles
Monstrous Regimen by Terry Pratchett
Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
Noli Mi Tangere by Jose Rizal (Leon Ma. Guerrero translation)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski
Open City by Teju Cole
Oracle Night by Paul Oster
Orientalism by Edward Said
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Panopticon by Jeremy Bantham
Paper Towns by John Green
Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Passages by Connie Wills
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Pride & Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Room by Emma Donoghue
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Solar by Ian McEwan
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Spoon Fed by Kim Severson
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Sula by Toni Morrison
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Big Shift by Marc Freedman
The Birth of Pleasure by Carol Gilligan
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
The City and the City by China Mieville
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
The Forty Rules of Love by Elik Shafak
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Free World by David Bezmozgis
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Glamour by Christopher Priest
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlonidow
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
The Mosntrumologist by Rick Yancey
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The New Cool by Neal Bascomb
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephanie Chbosky
The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution by Amir Taheri
The Point of Origin by Duke and Nancy Kell
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Street by Ann Petry
The Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston
To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Twentysomething: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain Hollingshead
Unexpectedly, Milo by Matthew Dicks
Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wastelands by John Joseph Adams
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
When the World Was Young by Tony Romano
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P W Singer
With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker by David Remnick
Woods Burner by John Pipkin
Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes