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. 51.

  2. 52.
    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  3. 53.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  4. 54.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  5. 55.
    The Beautiful and Damned (Enriched Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  6. 56.
    Against Nature (A Rebours) (Penguin Classics)
    by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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  7. 57.

  8. 58.
    The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  9. 59.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  10. 60.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

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  11. 61.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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  12. 62.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham

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  13. 63.
    We
    by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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  14. 64.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  15. 65.
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
    by Hunter S. Thompson

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  16. 66.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  17. 67.
    Another Country
    by James Baldwin

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  18. 68.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  19. 69.
    Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William S. Burroughs

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  20. 70.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  21. 71.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas De Quincey

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  22. 72.
    Subterraneans
    by Jack Kerouac

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  23. 73.
    Monsieur Monde Vanishes (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Georges Simenon

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  24. 74.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  25. 75.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
    by Edward Abbey

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  26. 76.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  27. 77.
    Bound for Glory
    by Woody Guthrie

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  28. 78.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  29. 79.
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    Maigret and the Ghost (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Georges Simenon

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  30. 80.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  31. 81.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  32. 82.
    A Study in Scarlet
    by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle

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  33. 83.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Buchan

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  34. 84.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  35. 85.
    Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
    by Ãmile Zola

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  36. 86.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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  37. 87.
    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  38. 89.
    Hangover Square
    by Patrick Hamilton

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  39. 90.
    The Beggar's Opera (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Gay

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  40. 91.
    The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)
    by Suetonius

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  41. 92.
    Guys and Dolls

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  42. 93.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  43. 94.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

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  44. 95.
    From Russia with Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ian Fleming

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  45. 96.
    Cold Comfort Farm
    by Stella Gibbons

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  46. 97.
    The Diary of a Nobody (Prion Humor Classics)
    by George Grossmith

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  47. 98.
    Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  48. 99.
    Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  49. 100.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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More Changes — 2 years ago

Changed Diary of a Madman to the Gogol book instead of some other book with the same title.


Untitled — 2 years ago

Changing The Invisible Man to the right book (should be H.G. Wells’ book, not Ralph Ellison’s) and adding the categories to the description.

Also added the missing book: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.


Olga
Ottawa

Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis — 2 years ago

I think it should be added to the list – great novel.


Perlle
East Hampton

Lolita — 3 years ago

While I agree Lolita should be on the list, I’m always offended when reviewers categorize the book according to the pedophile’s perspective (as this list has done by putting the book in the Best Minxes category.) Did we read the same book?!?


Perlle
East Hampton

I found the listsource and added that. — 3 years ago

There were other mistakes with order and incorrect titles that I fixed as well. It should be more accurate now.


Perlle
East Hampton

dups and missing — 3 years ago

Middlemarch is on the list twice at #22 and #27. Not sure what’s missing because there isn’t a listsource.



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