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Penguin Classics's "101 Best Books Ever Written"

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)

(found at: http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/classics60birthday/whatsyourpassion.html)

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1. The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
2. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
  
4. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
5. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
6. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
7. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
8. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
9. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
10. War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
11. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
12. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
13. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
14. The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Marx
  
15. Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
by Jean Rhys
  
16. Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
  
17. The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
18. Spy In House Of Love: V4 In Nin'S Continuous Novel
by Anais Nin
  
19. Lady Chatterly's Lover
by D.H.Lawrence
  
20. Venus in Furs
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  
21. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
22. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)
by Ian Fleming
  
23. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
24. The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
  
25. A Room With a View
by E. M. Forster
  
26. Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
27. Don Juan
by Lord George Gordon Byron
  
28. Love in a Cold Climate
by Nancy Mitford
  
29. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
  
30.
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 David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
  
31. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
32. She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
by H. Rider Haggard
  
33. The Fight
by Norman Mailer
  
34. No Easy Walk to Freedom (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Nelson Mandela
  
35.
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 Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
  
36. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
37. Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
  
38. The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
39. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
40. Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
  
41. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
42. The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Horace Walpole
  
43. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
44. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
45. Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
46. Baby doll
by Tennessee Williams
  
47. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
48. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Nikolai Gogol
  
49. On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
  
50. Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Jerome K. Jerome
  
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