The Globe and Mail's "50 Greatest Books"

1. 1. Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

2. 2. ? In Search of Lost Time (Everyman's Library Classics) by Marcel Proust Drag me to re-order

3. 3. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Thrift Edition) by Charles Darwin Drag me to re-order

4. 4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Don Quixote (P.S.) by Miguel de Cervantes Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Ulysses by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 3 (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx Drag me to re-order

9. 9. The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions) by St. Augustine Drag me to re-order

10. 10. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Drag me to re-order

11. 11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund, Freud Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift Drag me to re-order

16. 16. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Drag me to re-order

17. 17. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics) by Immanuel Kant Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set by Homer Drag me to re-order

21. 21. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

22. 22. T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1st U.S. Edition) by T.S. Eliot Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Drag me to re-order

24. 24. The Koran (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges Drag me to re-order

27. 27. The Histories by Herodotus Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Drag me to re-order

30. 30. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka Drag me to re-order

31. 31. ? The King James Bible (1611) by William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king Drag me to re-order

32. 32. ? Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton by Isaac Newton Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats Drag me to re-order

34. 34. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) by Galileo Drag me to re-order

35. 35. ? The Theban Trilogy of Sophocles by Rev W Linwood Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Mahabharata by William Buck Drag me to re-order

37. 37. ? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll Drag me to re-order

38. 38. ? Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drag me to re-order

41. 41. ? Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Anton Chekov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Drag me to re-order

43. 43. ? An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume Drag me to re-order

44. 44. War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Drag me to re-order

45. 45. ? A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft Drag me to re-order

46. 46. The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Drag me to re-order

48. 48. ? The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki Drag me to re-order

49. 49. ? a diderot pictorial encyclopedia Drag me to re-order

50. 50. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James Drag me to re-order