The 20th Century's Greatest Hits
by Paul Williams
| 1. | "Things We Said Today" | The Beatles | (1964) |
| 2. | "Sister Ray" | The Velvet Underground | (1968) |
| 3. | "Girl before a Mirror" | Pablo Picasso | (1932) |
| 4. | The I Ching or Book of Changes | translated by Richard Wilhelm | (1923) |
| 5. | Ulysses | James Joyce | (1922) |
| 6. | "God Bless the Child" and "I Cover the Waterfront" | Billie Holiday | (1941) |
| 7. | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Eleanor Roosevelt et al. | ( 1948) |
| 8. | Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | (1926) |
| 9. | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | (1964) |
| 10. | "Howl" | Allen Ginsberg | (1956) |
| 11. | Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | (1966) |
| 12. | Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha | Thích Nhât Hanh | (1991) |
| 13. | "The Dance" | Henri Matisse | (1910) |
| 14. | 2001: A Space Oddyssey | Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke | (1968) |
| 15. | concert performance | Umm Kulthúm | (1942) |
| 16. | "The Bear" and "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" | William Faulkner | (1942, 1949) |
| 17. | Renaldo & Clara | Bob Dylan | (1978) |
| 18. | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | (1973) |
| 19. | concert performance | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | (1995) |
| 20. | The Anatomy of Dependence | Takeo Doi, M.D. | (1971) |
| 21. | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | (1957) |
| 22. | For a Few Dollars More | Sergio Leone | (1965) |
| 23. | "Mr. Costello, Hero" and "And Now the News..." | Theodore Sturgeon | (1953, 1956) |
| 24. | Horses | Patti Smith | (1975) |
| 25. | Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | (1971) |
| 26. | concert performance | Grateful Dead | (1969) |
| 27. | Krazy Kat Sunday page | George Herriman | (1920) |
| 28. | "Smokestack Lightnin'" | Howlin' Wolf | (1956) |
| 29. | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | (1965) |
| 30. | Impressions, side one | John Coltrane | (1963) |
| 31. | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | (1961) |
| 32. | "The Lottery in Babylon" and "The Wall and the Books" | Jorge Luis Borges | (1945, 1950) |
| 33. | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | (1943) |
| 34. | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley | (1982) |
| 35. | The Rolling Stones, Now! | The Rolling Stones | (1965) |
| 36. | Dune | Frank Herbert | (1965) |
| 37. | "Oh Happy Day" | The Edwin Hawkins Singers | (1969) |
| 38. | Kundun | Martin Scorcese | (1998) |
| 39. | A Private Correspondence | Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell | (1963) |
| 40. | "Lost Highway" | Hank Williams | (1949) |