Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 edition)"

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Each work of literature listed here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word. These works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others. (Description from Amazon.com)

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  1. 951.
    Caleb Williams
    by William Godwin

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  2. 952.
    Justine
    by Marquis de Sade

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  3. 953.
    Vathek (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Beckford

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  4. 954.
    The 120 Days of Sodom
    by Marquis de Sade

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  5. 955.
    Cecilia, Or Memoirs Of An Heiress
    by Fanny Burney

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  6. 956.
    Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  7. 957.
    Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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  8. 959.
    Evelina
    by Fanny Burney

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  9. 960.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  10. 961.
    Humphrey Clinker (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Tobias George Smollett

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  11. 962.
    The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Mackenzie

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  12. 963.
    A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)
    by Laurence Sterne

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  13. 964.
    Tristram Shandy (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by LAURENCE STERNE

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  14. 965.
    The Vicar of Wakefield (Penguin English Library)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

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  15. 966.
    The Castle of Otranto (Penguin Classics)
    by Horace Walpole

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  16. 967.
    Emile: Or, On Education
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  17. 968.
    Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works
    by Denis Diderot

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  19. 971.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  20. 973.
    Amelia
    by Henry Fielding

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  21. 974.
    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
    by Tobias George Smollett

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  22. 976.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  23. 977.
    The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Tobias Smollett

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  24. 978.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  25. 979.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  26. 981.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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  27. 982.

  28. 983.
    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  29. 984.
    Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  30. 985.
    Moll Flanders
    by Daniel Defoe

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  31. 986.
    Love in Excess
    by Eliza Haywood

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  32. 987.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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  33. 988.
    A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  34. 989.

  35. 990.
    The Princess of Cleves (New Directions Classics)
    by Madame De Lafayette

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  36. 991.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

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  37. 992.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  38. 993.

  39. 995.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  41. 997.
    The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)
    by Apuleius

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  42. 998.
    Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance
    by Heliodorus

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  43. 999.
    Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe
    by Chariton

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  44. 1000.
    The Metamorphoses of Ovid
    by Ovid

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