1: Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment 2: Enlightenment 3: The Private Jefferson 4: Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates 5: Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy 6: John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery 7: Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child 8: Mark Twain: American Radical 9: Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer 10: JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth 11: Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator 12: Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita 13: John Updike, Part One: No Way 14: John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality 15: Vidal Loco 16: America the Banana Republic 17: An Anglosphere Future 18: Political Animals 19: Old Enough to Die 20: In Defense of Foxhole Atheists 21: In Search of the Washington Novel 22: Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity 23: The Men Who Made England: Hilary Mantel's 24: Wolf Hall 25: Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet 26: Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries 27: Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide 28: The Dark Side of Dickens 29: Marx's Journalism: The Grub Street Years 30: Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For 31: Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton 32: On Animal Farm 33: Jessica Mitford's Poison Pen 34: W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie 35: Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent 36: P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy 37: Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity 38: John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father 39: Graham Greene: I'll Be Damned 40: Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene's Bottled Ontology 41: Bottled Ontology 42: Loving Philip Larkin 43: Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool 44: Edward Upward: The Captive Mind 45: C. L. R. James: Mid Off, Not Right On 46: J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist 47: Fraser's Flashman: Scoundrel Time 48: Fleet Street's Finest: From Waugh to Frayn 49: Saki: Where the Wild Things Are 50: Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived 51: Why Women Aren't Funny 52: Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played 53: with Fire 54: As American as Apple Pie 55: So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time 56: The New Commandments 57: In Your Face 58: Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite 59: Charles, Prince of Piffle 60: Afghanistan's Dangerous Bet 61: First, Silence the Whistle-Blower 62: Believe Me, It's Torture 63: Iran's Waiting Game 64: Long Live Democratic Seismology 65: Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny 66: From Abbottabad to Worse 67: The Perils of Partition 68: Algeria: A French Quarrel 69: The Case of Orientalism 70: Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met 71: Have Met 72: The Swastika and the Cedar 73: Holiday in Iraq 74: Tunisia: At the Desert's Edge 75: What Happened to the Suicide Bombers 76: of Jerusalem? 77: Childhood's End: An African Nightmare 78: The Vietnam Syndrome 79: Once Upon a Time in Germany 80: Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four 81: North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves 82: The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty 83: Hugo Boss 84: Is the Euro Doomed? 85: Overstating Jewish Power 86: The Case for Humanitarian Intervention 87: Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition 88: André Malraux: One Man's Fate 89: Arthur Koestler: The Zealot 90: Isabel Allende: Chile Redux 91: The Persian Version 92: Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight 93: Imagining Hitler 94: Victor Klemperer: Survivor 95: A War Worth Fighting 96: Just Give Peace a Chance? 97: W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany 98: When the King Saved God 99: Let Them Eat Pork Rinds 100: Stand Up for Denmark! 101: Eschew the Taboo 102: She's No Fundamentalist 103: Burned Out 104: Easter Charade 105: Don't Mince Words 106: History and Mystery 107: Words Matter 108: This Was Not Looting 109: The Other L-Word 110: The You Decade 111: Suck It Up 112: A Very, Very Dirty Word 113: Prisoner of Shelves

To say that, during the past three decades, the world would have been poorer, duller and altogether a smaller place without Hitchens and his writings would be to utter a cliché of the kind he despises. It would also be true.