The 100 Books Project’s first goal is to make the highest quality English-language books available to Egyptian readers in informal lending libraries. The list on this site, located via the navigation bar above, represents our first, best guess of what a great collection of English-language books might include.

These books will initially be donated to two locations: the 100 Books Knowledge Cafe in Siwa, Egypt, and the Al Balad Cultural Center in Cairo. If you haven’t read the last post, “The Basics”, please do–it will fill you in on what this project is all about.

The list contains more than 100 Books. It is meant as kind of a menu of possible items that could create the cornerstone for a cafe-based lending library in Egypt or elsewhere around the world. What else should the book list contain? Which of your favorite books is missing? What would you like to read?

Post your suggestions and comments here on the site, or by emailing the project at info@100booksproject.org.

The 100 Books are intended as launching pad for discussion, conversation, online dialogue, film showings, and further expansion of the book collection–a kind of a seed from which a tree of knowledge can grow.