The Times (London) Top Twenty Written Works

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Chosen by some of today’s leading contemporary writers.

  1. 1.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  2. 2.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  3. 3.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  4. 4.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  6. 6.
    Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  7. 7.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  8. 8.
    In Search of Lost Time
    by Marcel Proust

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  9. 9.
    Stories of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Chekhov

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  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  11. 11.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  12. 12.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
    by Herman Melville

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  13. 13.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

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  14. 14.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  15. 15.
    The Odyssey by Homer
    by Homer

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  16. 16.
    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  17. 17.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  18. 18.
    King Lear (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
    by William Shakespeare

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  19. 19.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  20. 20.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Created by geogeo on Mar 02, 2007.
 

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