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This list was made by taking the numbered lists from the old Everyman’s Library, the new Everyman’s, the Oxford world Classics and the numbered list at the back of a Modern Library book I have and algorithming them up to this list. Geeky, but fun. And now I’m reading them. Feel free to join in.

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  1. 1.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  2. 2.
    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  3. 3.
    Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  4. 4.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte
  5. 5.
    The Warden
    by Anthony Trollope
  6. 6.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil
  7. 7.
    The Tragedies of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  8. 8.
    Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  9. 9.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  10. 10.
    The Histories and Poems
    by William Shakespeare
  11. 11.
    Barchester Towers (Nonsuch Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  12. 12.
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    by Edgar Allen Poe
  13. 13.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  14. 14.
    ?
    Comedies (v.1) (Everyman Signet Shakespeare S)
    by William Shakespeare
  15. 15.
    Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes
  17. 17.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  18. 18.
    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  20. 20.
    Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  21. 21.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  22. 22.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  23. 23.
    ?
    Adam Bede (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by George Eliot
  24. 24.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  25. 25.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  26. 26.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius
  27. 27.
    The Complete Poetry of John Milton
    by John Milton
  29. 29.
    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (The World's Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  30. 30.
    Virgil: Eclogues & Georgics
    by R. Deryck Williams
  31. 31.
    Complete Poems
    by John Keats
  33. 33.
    Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  34. 34.
    Oliver Twist
    by Charles Dickens
  35. 35.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America)
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  36. 36.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  37. 37.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  38. 38.
    The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)
    by Adam Smith
  39. 39.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  40. 40.
    Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  41. 41.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by George Eliot
  42. 42.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  43. 43.
    Essays (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Francis Bacon
  44. 44.
    ?
    Plato's Republic (Modern Library, 153)
    by Plato
  45. 45.
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin
  47. 47.
  48. 48.
    Northanger Abbey
    by Jane Austen
  49. 49.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  50. 50.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Robert Browning
  51. 51.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  52. 52.
    Hard Times (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
    by Charles Dickens
  53. 53.
    Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac
  54. 54.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  55. 55.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  56. 56.
    THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
    by Samuel Butler
  57. 57.
    Natural History of Selbourne (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Gilbert White
  58. 58.
    Tennyson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  59. 59.
    My Life (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Benvenuto Cellini
  61. 61.
    Villette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  63. 63.
    Nostromo (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  64. 64.
    Boswell's Life of Johnson
    by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (ed)
  65. 65.
    Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  66. 66.
    The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table
    by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  69. 69.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan
  72. 72.
    The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Oliver Goldsmith
  73. 73.
    Lavengro
    by George Borrow
  74. 74.
    Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  75. 75.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  76. 76.
    The Romany Rye
    by George Borrow
  77. 77.
    CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH
    by CHARLES READE
  78. 78.
    Cranford (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell
  79. 79.
    The Bible In Spain
    by George Borrow
  80. 80.
    Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
    by Sophocles
  81. 81.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  82. 82.
    ?
    The French Revolution: A History By Thomas Carlyle
    by Thomas Carlyle
  83. 83.
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  84. 84.
    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  85. 85.
    Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
    by Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoi)
  86. 86.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  87. 87.
    The Portable Chekhov (Portable Library)
    by Anton Chekhov
  88. 88.
    The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  89. 89.
    Eugenie Grandet (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Honore De Balzac
  90. 90.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table
    by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  91. 91.
    The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  92. 92.
    The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
    by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  93. 93.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  95. 95.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  96. 96.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  98. 98.
    ?
    HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS.
    by Robert. Herrick
  99. 99.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  100. 100.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  101. 101.
    Framley Parsonage
    by Anthony Trollope
  102. 102.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  103. 103.
    Wild Wales: Its People, Language And Scenery
    by George Henry Borrow
  104. 104.
  105. 105.
    The New Testament

  106. 106.
    The Pathfinder: Or the Inland Sea (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  107. 107.
    ?
    The life and discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
    by Joshua Reynolds
  109. 109.
    The Analogy of Religion
    by Joseph Butler
  110. 110.
    Mary Barton (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell
  112. 112.
    Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners
    by William Hazlitt
  113. 113.
    ?
    The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon
    by Washington Irving
  114. 114.
    ?
    the Rise of the Dutch Republic: a History (complete in 3 volumes)
    by John Lothrop Motley
  115. 115.
    The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Pepys
  116. 116.
    The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
    by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  117. 117.
    Mann: Doctor Faustus (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Michael Beddow
  118. 118.
    ?
    Scarlet and Black (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Stendhal
  119. 119.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine
  120. 120.
    The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pÃ..re
  121. 121.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  122. 122.
    The Analects of Confucius
    by Arthur Waley
  123. 123.
    A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  124. 124.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  126. 126.
    ?
    The shorter poems of William Wordsworth
    by William Wordsworth
  127. 127.
    The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Modern Library)
    by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  128. 128.
    ?
    A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  129. 129.
    Doctor Thorne (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  130. 130.
  131. 131.
    The Professor
    by Charlotte Bronte
  132. 132.
    ?
  134. 134.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  136. 136.
    Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
    by R. D. Blackmore
  138. 138.
    ?
    Representative Man
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  139. 139.
    A Doll's House and Other Plays
    by Henrik Ibsen
  141. 141.
    The Imitation of Christ (Pure Gold Classic)
    by Thomas a Kempis
  142. 142.
    Notre-Dame of Paris (Penguin Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  143. 143.
  144. 144.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce
  145. 145.
    Middlemarch (Everyman Classics)
    by George Eliot
  147. 147.
  148. 148.
    ?
  149. 149.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  150. 150.
    Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Benedict de Spinoza
  151. 151.
    ?
  153. 153.
    ?
    Mr. Midshipman Easy
    by Frederick Marryat
  155. 155.
    Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  156. 156.
    Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  157. 157.
    Typee: Romance of the South Sea
    by Herman Melville
  158. 158.
    Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
    by Aristophanes
  159. 159.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton
  160. 160.
  161. 161.
    ?
    THE NIGGER OF THE 'NARCISSUS': TYPHOON: THE SHADOW-LINE.
    by Joseph. Conrad
  163. 163.
    A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
    by Washington Irving
  165. 165.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  166. 166.
    The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  167. 167.
    Palgrave's Golden Treasury

  168. 168.
    Letters From High Latitudes
    by Lord Dufferin
  169. 169.
    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket and Other Stories
    by Honore de Balzac
  170. 170.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  171. 171.
    The Mabinogion (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Everyman's Library
  172. 172.
    Omoo
    by Herman Melville
  173. 173.
  174. 174.
    Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  175. 175.
    ?
    THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  176. 176.
    The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus
  177. 177.
    The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker (Clear Print)
    by Tobias Smollett
  178. 178.
    Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Hans Christian Andersen
  179. 179.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  180. 180.
    Confessions (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  181. 181.
    Sylvia's Lovers
    by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  182. 182.
    The Eustace Diamonds (Penguin Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  184. 184.
    The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
    by Henry Kingsley
  186. 186.
    ?
    The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon
    by Edward; Saunders, Dero A. (ed.) Gibbon
  187. 187.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  188. 188.
    ?
    Tales from Shakespeare By Charles and Mary Lamb
    by WIlliam, Lamb, Charles and Mary, Rolfe, William J. (Editor) Shakespeare
  189. 189.
    Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  190. 190.
    Kim (Thrift Edition)
    by Rudyard Kipling
  191. 191.
    Selected Works (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  192. 192.
    Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
    by Robert Southey
  193. 193.
    Le Morte D'Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, Illustrated Edition
    by Sir Thomas Malory
  195. 195.
    ?
    Cousin Phillis [& other tales], (Everyman's library)
    by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  196. 196.
    ?
    The Religio Medici & Other Writings (Everyman's Library, No. 92)
    by Sir Thomas Browne
  197. 197.
    ?
    Westward Ho!
    by Charles Kingsley
  198. 198.
    ?
    The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  199. 199.
    Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
    by Jerome K. Jerome
  200. 200.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  201. 201.
    Tom Brown's School-Days
    by Thomas Hughes
  202. 202.
    Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Honoré de Balzac
  203. 203.
    The Heroes: or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
    by Charles Kingsley
  204. 204.
    The Bride of Lammermoor
    by Walter, Sir Scott
  205. 205.
    North and South (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell
  206. 206.
    The Last Days of Pompeii
    by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
  207. 207.
    The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science)
    by Francis Bacon
  208. 208.
    The Spirit Of The Age
    by William Hazlitt
  209. 209.
    ?
    Sermons
    by Hugo Latimer
  210. 210.
    ?
    Cressy & poictiers : the story of the Black Prince's page
    by John G. Edgar
  211. 211.
    Les Miserables (Everyman's Library)
    by Victor Hugo
  212. 212.
    The Cossacks (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  213. 213.
    The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue
    by Fernando de Rojas
  214. 214.
    ?
    The Small House At Allington
    by Anthony Trollope
  215. 215.
    ?
    THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS: OR MIRTH AND MARVELS.
    by Thomas. Ingoldsby
  216. 216.
    The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm
  218. 218.
    The Black Dwarf
    by Walter, Sir Scott
  221. 221.
    ?
    The talisman./ Sir Walter Scott;
    by Walter Scott
  222. 222.
    ?
    The Old Testament

  223. 223.
    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford
  224. 224.
    Kenilworth (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  225. 225.
    A Hero of Our Time (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
    by Mikhail Lermontov
  226. 226.
    The Black Tulip
    by Alexandre Dumas
  228. 228.
    The Luck of Roaring Camp
    by Bret Harte
  229. 229.
    Matthew Arnold Eman Poet Lib #53 (Everyman Poetry)
    by Matthew Arnold
  230. 230.
    The Book of Snobs
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  231. 231.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  232. 232.
    Masterman Ready
    by Captain Marryat
  233. 233.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  234. 234.
    Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  235. 235.
    The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  236. 236.
    John Halifax, Gentleman (Broadview Edition)
    by Dinah Mulock Craik
  238. 238.
    Rob Roy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  239. 239.
    The Deerslayer
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  240. 240.
    Tao Te Ching (Everyman's Library)
    by Lao Tzu
  241. 241.
    The Little Flowers of St. Francis

  242. 242.
    ?
    Travels Through France and Italy
    by Tobias Smollet
  244. 244.
    Guy Mannering (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  245. 245.
    The Song Of Hiawatha
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  246. 246.
    Redgauntlet
    by Sir Walter Scott
  247. 247.
    Sketches by Boz
    by Charles Dickens
  248. 248.
    Under Western Eyes
    by Joseph Conrad
  250. 250.
    ?
  251. 251.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
  252. 252.
    The Atheist's Mass
    by Honore de Balzac
  253. 253.
    The Pioneers (Penguin Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  255. 255.
    Shirley (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  256. 256.
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Mary Wollstonecraft
  257. 257.
  258. 258.
    ?
    The Water Babies and Glaucus. Everyman's Library No. 277
    by Charles Kingsley
  259. 259.
    The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James
  260. 260.
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne
  261. 261.
    American Notes For General Circulation
    by Charles Dickens
  262. 262.
    A Child's History Of England
    by Charles Dickens
  263. 263.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James
  264. 264.
    The Itinerary Of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales
    by Giraldus Cambrensis
  265. 265.
    The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant
  266. 266.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  267. 267.
    ?
    KINGLAKE'S EOTHEN
    by H. Gorvett Smith
  268. 268.
    Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
    by Samuel Butler
  269. 269.
    Biographia Literaria (Everyman Paperback Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  270. 270.
    ?
    Marius the Epicurean (Everyman's library)
    by Walter Pater
  271. 271.
    A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
    by Laurence Sterne
  272. 272.
    The Laws of Plato
    by Plato
  273. 273.
    History Of The Conquest Of Peru
    by William Hickling Prescott
  274. 274.
    ?
    Ruth
    by Elizabeth Gaskell
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