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Penguin Canada's "Best Books Ever Written"

"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."

(found at: http://www.amazon.ca/bestbookseverwritten)
1. Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
by Robertson Davies
  
2. Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
3. Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
5. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
6. Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  
7. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
8. The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Nathanael West
  
9. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
10.
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 The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
11. At Swim-two-birds
by Flann O'Brien
  
12. Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
13. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
14. The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
15. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
16. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
  
17. On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
  
18. Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
  
19. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
20. Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
  
21. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
22. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
23. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
24. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
25. Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
26. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
  
27. Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Penguin Classics)
by Anton Chekhov
  
28. Metamorphosis (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Franz Kafka
  
29. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
30. Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics)
by Stella Gibbons
  
31. Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
  
32. Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
33. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
34. Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
35. Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
36. The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
37. Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
38. East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
39. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Muriel Spark
  
40. Dracula (Penguin Classics)
by Bram Stoker
  
41. Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
42. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
43. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
44. The Prince (Penguin Classics)
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
45. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
  
47. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
48.
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 Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
by E. T. A. V. Hoffmann
  
49. The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Darwin
  
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Created by Athena on Feb 05, 2008.