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
  2. 2.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
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    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
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    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  6. 6.
    Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  7. 7.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D. H. Lawrence
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    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
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    The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  11. 11.
    At Swim-two-birds
    by Flann O'Brien
  12. 12.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  13. 13.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  14. 14.
    The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  16. 16.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel Cervantes
  17. 17.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  18. 18.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf
  19. 19.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  20. 20.
    Lives of Girls and Women
    by Alice Munro
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    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte
  23. 23.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  24. 24.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  25. 25.
    Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  26. 26.
    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    by Mordecai Richler
  28. 28.
    Metamorphosis (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Franz Kafka
  29. 29.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  30. 30.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics)
    by Stella Gibbons
  31. 31.
    Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  32. 32.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
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    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
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    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
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    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
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    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus
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    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  38. 38.
    East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck
  39. 39.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
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    Dracula (Penguin Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
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    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
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    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
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    The Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
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Created by Athena on Feb 05, 2008.
 

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