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EveDallas's "Books that everybody should read"

These are books that I highly recommend people read. I read many in school, and I am very glad that I did. Some are not what I would normally read, but all are excellent books for anybody to read. It is still incomplete, so expect more books to be added on soon.
1. The Scarlet Pimpernel  
2. History of the Conquest of Mexico (Modern Library Classics)
by William H. Prescott
  
3. Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
by Walter Scott
  
4. The Odyssey by Homer
by Homer
  
5. The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Homer
  
6. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
7. Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
by Honore de Balzac
  
8. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
9. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
10. Secret Garden (Children's Classics)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
11. Gideon's Trumpet
by Anthony Lewis
  
12. A Civil Action (Vintage Books)
by Jonathan Harr
  
13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
14.
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 Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, Volume 2)
by C. S. Lewis
  
15. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C.S. Lewis
  
16. The Silver Chair (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
17. The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia)
by C.S. Lewis
  
18. The Chronicles of Narnia - The Horse and His Boy (The Horse and His Boy, Book 3)
by C.S. Lewis
  
19. The Last Battle (paper-over-board) (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
20. Perceval or the Story of the Grail
by de Troyes Chretien
  
21. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
22. Oedipus Rex: Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
  
23. Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles
  
24. Antigone
by Sophocles
  
25. The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
26. The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
27. Discourse On Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
28. Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics)
by Plutarch
  
29. Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
30. The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
by Stendhal
  
31. The Prince (Penguin Classics)
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
32. On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics)
by Lucretius
  
33. Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis
  
34. The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
by C. S. Lewis
  
35. Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2)
by C.S. Lewis
  
36. Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book One)
by C.S. Lewis
  
37. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3)
by C.S. Lewis
  
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Created by EveDallas on Nov 04, 2006.