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    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Iliad / The Odyssey
    by Homer

  3. 3.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  7. 7.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  8. 8.
    Lord of the Rings H/B Slipcased
    by J R R Tolkien

  9. 9.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  10. 10.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12. 12.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  13. 13.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  15. 15.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  16. 16.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

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    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  19. 20.
    Collected Poems 1909-1962
    by T.S. Eliot

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    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  22. 25.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  23. 26.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  24. 27.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  25. 28.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

  26. 29.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  27. 30.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

  29. 32.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  32. 35.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  33. 36.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

  34. 38.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  35. 39.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  36. 40.
    A Fine Balance
    by Mistry Rohinton

  37. 41.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

  38. 42.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  40. 44.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  42. 46.
    Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6)
    by J.K. Rowling

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    Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther)
    by Haruki Murakami

  44. 48.
    The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)
    by John Keats

  45. 49.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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Created by mizoguchi on Dec 17, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 6 years ago

This list is a mix of established classics, critical and popular favourites and personal taste.




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