Penguin Canada's "Best Books Ever Written"

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"From their library of over 3,000 literary classics, Penguin Canada has chosen 52 as the best books ever written—and they’re challenging Canadians to read one a week in 2008.

Their inaugural selection, The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, is a fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature. Readers can look forward to works by Russian masters Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, along with the lesser-known Mikhail Bulgakov, and seminal works by Miguel Cervantes and James Joyce praised by many but read by few."

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    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

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    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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

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  7. 7.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  10. 11.
    At Swim-two-birds
    by Flann O'Brien

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  11. 12.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  12. 13.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  13. 14.
    The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  14. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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  16. 17.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  17. 18.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  19. 20.
    Lives of Girls and Women
    by Alice Munro

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  21. 22.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  22. 23.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  23. 24.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  24. 25.
    Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  25. 26.
    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    by Mordecai Richler

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  26. 28.
    Metamorphosis (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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  27. 29.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  28. 30.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons

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  29. 31.
    Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  30. 32.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  31. 33.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  32. 34.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  33. 35.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  34. 36.
    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  35. 37.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  36. 38.
    East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  37. 39.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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  38. 40.
    Dracula (Penguin Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  39. 41.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  40. 43.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  41. 44.
    The Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  42. 45.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  43. 46.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  44. 47.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
    by E. T. A. V. Hoffmann

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Created by Athena on Feb 05, 2008.
 

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