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The Times (London) Top Twenty Written Works

Chosen by some of today’s leading contemporary writers.
1. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
2. Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
  
3. War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
4. Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
6. Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
7. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
8. In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
  
9. Stories of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov
  
10. Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics)
by George Eliot
  
11. Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
12. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
  
13. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
  
14. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
15. The Odyssey by Homer
by Homer
  
16. Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
17. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
18. King Lear (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
by William Shakespeare
  
19. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
20. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
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Created by geogeo on Mar 02, 2007.