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Richard Horne's "Greatest Books Ever Written"

Taken from the book <i>101 Things To Do Before You Die</i>.

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1. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)
by Mark Twain
  
3. American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
  
4. An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
5. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
6. The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
  
7. Asterix and the Golden Sickle
by Rene de Goscinny and M. Uderzo
  
8. Atomised
by Michel Houellebecq
  
9. BFG
by Roald Dahl
  
10. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
11. The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
  
12. Brighton Rock (Vintage Classics)
by Graham Greene
  
13. Buddha of Suburbia (FF Classics)
by Hanif Kureishi
  
14. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
15. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
16.
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
17. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
  
18. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
by David Bevington
  
19. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition
by Jacob Grimm
  
20. Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
  
21. The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
  
22. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
  
23. The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
  
24. Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl
  
25. David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
26.
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 Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
27. Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
  
28. Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Joyce
  
29. Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
  
30. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
by Peter Biskind
  
31. End of the Affair, The
by Graham Greene
  
32. Explaining Death to the Dog (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)
by Susan Perabo
  
33. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
34. George's Marvellous Medicine
by Roald Dahl
  
35. Girlfriend in a Coma
by Douglas Coupland
  
36. Good Omens
by Neil and Terry Pratchett Gaiman
  
37. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
38. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
39. Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
40. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
41. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
42. Holes
by Louis Sachar
  
43. The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
by John Irving
  
44. Kes
by Lawrence Till
  
45. Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain Fournier
  
46. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Color Gift Edition (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
47. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
48. The Magic Porridge Pot
by Paul Galdone
  
49. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
50. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
by Arthur Golden
  
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Created by laurathereaper on Apr 19, 2007.