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hippie1427's "A condensed list of definitive book lists"

Combines several definitive book lists into 1.
The BookCrossing Top 100+ Books of All Time (2006) (done)
The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (Easton Press) (done)
BBC’s "The Big Read" – Top 100 Books(done)
jsherry’s Recommended Reading list for the well educated adult (done)

  • not all books from the list were added to my list. If I’d never heard of a book, and didn’t see it repeatedly throughout the definitive lists, it was left out, at my whim.

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1. 1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
 
2. Eyewitness Classics: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (DK Classics)
by Jules Verne
 
3. Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
 
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Complete Text With Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays (New Riverside Editions)
by Mark Twain
 
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
6. The Aenid
by Virgil
 
7. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
 
8. Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
 
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
 
10. All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
 
11. All quiet on the western front,
by Erich Maria Remarque
 
12. American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
 
13. Angelas Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
 
14. Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
 
15.
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
 
16. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
 
17. Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
by L. M. Montgomery
 
18. Antigone
by Sophocles
 
19. The Arabian Nights  
20. Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
by Eoin Colfer
 
21. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
 
22. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
 
23. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
24. Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative Reading Text and Genetic Text)
by Herman Melville
 
25. Holy Bible: King James Version Economy  
26. Black Beauty (Unabridged Classics)
by Anna Sewell
 
27. Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
 
28. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
29. A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
 
30. The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
31. Poems of Robert Browning: Riverside (Riverside Editions)
by Robert Browning
 
32. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
 
33. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
by Jack London
 
34. Candide (Modern Library)
by Voltaire
 
35. The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
 
36. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
 
37. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
 
38. Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Play)
by Roald Dahl
 
39. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
 
40. The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
by Anton Chekhov
 
41. The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
by Robert Cormier
 
42. The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
 
43.
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Clan of the Cave Bear/Valley/Mammouth/Plains/Shelters (Earth's Children, 1 through 5)
by Jean M. Auel
 
44. Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
 
45. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
 
46. The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)
by Terry Pratchett
 
47. The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Marx
 
48. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
 
49. The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions)
by St. Augustine
 
50. Confucius Analects (Hackett Classics Series)
by Confucius
 
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Created by hippie1427 on Jul 27, 2006.