Penguin Classics's "101 Best Books Ever Written"

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From The Sun, Friday, August 4, 2004.
Categories are:
Best Crazies (1-5)
Best Romance (6-10)
Best Villains (11-15)
Best Lovers (16-20)
Best Heroes (21-25)
Best Tearjerkers (26-30)
Best Scares (31-35)
Best Minxes (36-40)
Best Journeys (41-45)
Best Decadence (46-50)
Best Rebels (51-55)
Best Sci-Fi (56-60)
Best Violence (61-65)
Best Highs (66-70)
Best Subversion (71-75)
Best Crimes (76-80)
Best Adultery (81-85)
Best Debauchery (86-90)
Best Action (91-95)
Best Laughs (96-100)

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  1. 1.
    The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  2. 2.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  3. 3.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  4. 4.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  5. 5.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  6. 6.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  7. 7.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  8. 8.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  9. 9.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  10. 10.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  11. 12.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  12. 13.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  13. 14.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

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  14. 15.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  15. 16.
    Story of the Eye
    by Georges Bataille

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  16. 17.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  17. 18.
    Spy In House Of Love: V4 In Nin'S Continuous Novel
    by Anais Nin

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  18. 19.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D.H.Lawrence

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  19. 20.
    Venus in Furs
    by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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  20. 21.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  21. 22.
    Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)
    by Ian Fleming

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  22. 23.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  23. 24.
    The Secret Agent
    by Joseph Conrad

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  24. 25.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

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  25. 26.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  26. 27.
    Don Juan
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

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  27. 28.
    Love in a Cold Climate
    by Nancy Mitford

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  28. 29.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

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  29. 30.
    David Copperfield
    by Charles Dickens

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  30. 31.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  31. 32.
    She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard

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  32. 33.
    The Fight
    by Norman Mailer

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  33. 34.
    No Easy Walk to Freedom (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Nelson Mandela

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  34. 35.
    Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck

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  35. 36.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  36. 37.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas Hardy

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  37. 38.
    The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  38. 39.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  39. 40.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  40. 41.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  41. 42.
    The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Horace Walpole

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  42. 43.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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  43. 44.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  44. 45.
    Notes From Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  45. 46.
    Baby doll
    by Tennessee Williams

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  46. 47.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

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  47. 48.
    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  48. 49.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  49. 50.
    Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jerome K. Jerome

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printing — 1 day ago

can anyone tell me how to print books 51 through 101. For some reason i can not get it to print :(

thanks


101 Best?? — 6 weeks ago

It took until number 82 to get a Sherlock Holmes and no P.G.Wodehouse. Plus we have Malcolm X??? C’mon.


bias against sci-fi? — 31 weeks ago

no kurt vonnegut jr? no frank herbert? not even orson scott card? cat’s cradle should at least be there.


Deleted — 1 year ago

Go Ask Alice which someone had added to list.


classic missing — 1 year ago

where is to kill a mockingbird?


Untitled — 1 year ago

How is the “Diary of Anne Frank” not on this list??


Jane Austin — 1 year ago

can someone please explain to me why the isn’t one single Jane Austin novel in this list!
Pride and Prejudice anyone?... anyone agree


buocl
Medina

List order — 1 year ago

Somehow the list was totally messed up – i fixed it as best I could, but the list source is no longer complete.


marialeigh
Indiana

Question about The Things They Carried — 2 years ago

Is that the right The Things They Carried on the list? It says “Bloom’s Guides.” I wholeheartedly agree it should be on the list, but it seems like the wrong publisher.


survivalisfutile
Virginia Beach

The things they Carried - Tim O'Brien — 2 years ago

Ive read a decent amount of this list, and after going over it I can’t believe that there isn’t a Single Tim O’Brien novel… anyone else agree?



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