Evergreens: ABC’s Best Ever Books

In 2007 ABC celebrated its 35th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we chose 35 outstanding books that had been an intrinsic part of ABC since we opened in 1972 : ABC Evergreens.

 We think these books are so great that we want everyone to have a chance to read them, so we’ve lowered their price as much as we can, and we’ve made them easy to find in our stores by displaying them prominently and giving them all an Evergreen stamp. The list has more than doubled in size since 2007, but the criteria remains the same: great reads at a great price!

Fiction

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett
• The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time by Mark Haddon
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• What is The What by Dave Eggers
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• The Catcher in The Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• On the Road (the original scroll) by Jack Kerouac
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Vampire Chronicles Collection by Anne Rice
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Magician Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
• Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
• Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) by Philip K. Dick
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Psychology, Philosophy & Spirituality

• Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama Bstan-‘dzin-Rgya-Mtsho
• How to Walk in High Heels : the Girl’s Guide to Everything by Camilla Morton
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson

Science

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Golder, Escher and Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

History & Culture

• Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City by Geert Mak
• The Undutchables by Colin White and Laurie Boucke
• The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
• The Island at The Center of The World by Russell Shorto
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Sociology, Politics and Economics

• Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith & Alan B. Kreuger
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaku

Comics & Graphic Novels

• The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Children’s Fiction

• Anne Of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
• Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Everything Else

• The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead by Max Brooks
• PostSecret by Frank Warren
• The SAS Survival Guide by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman
• The Story of O by Pauline Réage
• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue