Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library names 73 books, every one listed here. The most approachable of them is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (difficulty 25/100, about 1.5 hours); the hardest is Ulysses by James Joyce (89/100).

• 1984 by George Orwell (1949) — difficulty 46/100, about 6.5 hours
• A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958) — difficulty 45/100, about 6.5 hours
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) — difficulty 78/100, about 11 hours
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936) — difficulty 79/100, about 18 hours
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972) — difficulty 52/100, about 14 hours
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970) — difficulty 25/100, about 1.5 hours
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) — difficulty 67/100, about 6 hours
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) — difficulty 58/100, about 7.5 hours
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985) — difficulty 70/100, about 13 hours
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) — difficulty 52/100, about 4.4 hours
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945) — difficulty 55/100, about 8.1 hours
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945) — difficulty 44/100, about 3.2 hours
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) — difficulty 62/100, about 15 hours
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927) — difficulty 45/100, about 4.5 hours
• Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) — difficulty 54/100, about 7.5 hours
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952) — difficulty 49/100, about 16 hours
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940) — difficulty 48/100, about 12 hours
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) — difficulty 45/100, about 27 hours
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973) — difficulty 84/100, about 52 hours
• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (1959) — difficulty 61/100, about 11 hours
• Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965) — difficulty 56/100, about 9.8 hours
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980) — difficulty 58/100, about 4.7 hours
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934) — difficulty 49/100, about 7.1 hours
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953) — difficulty 75/100, about 22 hours
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) — difficulty 54/100, about 13 hours
• Light in August by William Faulkner (1932) — difficulty 65/100, about 14 hours
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) — difficulty 69/100, about 12 hours
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) — difficulty 65/100, about 5.8 hours
• Martin Eden by Jack London (1909) — difficulty 65/100, about 13 hours
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) — difficulty 67/100, about 21 hours
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) — difficulty 71/100, about 26 hours
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959) — difficulty 84/100, about 11 hours
• Native Son by Richard Wright (1940) — difficulty 58/100, about 12 hours
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) — difficulty 34/100, about 1.7 hours
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) — difficulty 54/100, about 8.1 hours
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) — difficulty 55/100, about 10 hours
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) — difficulty 57/100, about 5.4 hours
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) — difficulty 52/100, about 8.6 hours
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960) — difficulty 56/100, about 7.5 hours
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1975) — difficulty 71/100, about 8.9 hours
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (1929) — difficulty 56/100, about 4.5 hours
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961) — difficulty 70/100, about 11 hours
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) — difficulty 63/100, about 4.4 hours
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (1913) — difficulty 50/100, about 11 hours
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) — difficulty 59/100, about 12 hours
• Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979) — difficulty 70/100, about 19 hours
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954) — difficulty 58/100, about 19 hours
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1728) — difficulty 53/100, about 10 hours
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) — difficulty 53/100, about 4.6 hours
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927) — difficulty 54/100, about 2.3 hours
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951) — difficulty 58/100, about 5.7 hours
• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1968) — difficulty 56/100, about 11 hours
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966) — difficulty 68/100, about 4.7 hours
• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939) — difficulty 56/100, about 3.1 hours
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) — difficulty 55/100, about 13 hours
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) — difficulty 52/100, about 3.4 hours
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958) — difficulty 64/100, about 7.7 hours
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) — difficulty 51/100, about 36 hours
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950) — difficulty 47/100, about 4.2 hours
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1962) — difficulty 57/100, about 5.1 hours
• The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955) — difficulty 85/100, about 70 hours
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) — difficulty 74/100, about 9.2 hours
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929) — difficulty 80/100, about 15 hours
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) — difficulty 56/100, about 5 hours
• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (1300) — difficulty 41/100, about 7.4 hours
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) — difficulty 63/100, about 5.3 hours
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) — difficulty 42/100, about 6.3 hours
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927) — difficulty 70/100, about 7.4 hours
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) — difficulty 63/100, about 9.4 hours
• Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) — difficulty 89/100, about 47 hours
• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947) — difficulty 72/100, about 16 hours
• White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) — difficulty 65/100, about 9.4 hours
• Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo (1923) — difficulty 70/100, about 15 hours

Questions

How many books are on Everyman's Library?

73, all of them listed here with how hard each is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on Everyman's Library is the easiest to read?

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, difficulty 25/100, about 1.5 hours. The hardest is Ulysses by James Joyce, at 89/100.

How long would it take to read every book on Everyman's Library?

About 880 hours for the 73 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 440 days at two hours a day.

Other lists: Penguin Classics Collection, Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Heinemann African Writers Series, Oxford World's Classics, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. All lists.