The Telegraph's 110 Best Books

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The Perfect Library: Classics, Poetry, Literary Fiction, Romantic Fiction, Children’s Books, Sci-Fi, Crime, Books that Changed the World, Books that Changed Your World, History, Lives

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect-library.html

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  1. 1.
    Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
    by Homer

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  2. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  3. 4.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  4. 5.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  5. 6.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  6. 7.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  7. 8.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  8. 9.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  9. 10.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  10. 11.
    The Complete Sonnets (Penguin Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

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  11. 12.
    The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
    by Dante Alighieri

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  12. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  13. 14.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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    John Keats' Odes

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  15. 16.
    T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

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  16. 17.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  17. 18.
    Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
    by William Blake

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  18. 19.
    Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
    by W. B. Yeats

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  19. 20.
    Collected Poems
    by Ted Hughes

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  20. 21.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  21. 22.
    A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
    by Proust

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

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  23. 24.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (A Penguin Modern Classic)
    by Ernest Hemmingway

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  24. 25.
    The Sword of Honour
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  25. 26.
    The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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  26. 28.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  27. 30.
    Human Stain
    by Philip Roth

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  28. 31.
    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Sir Thomas Malory (Collector's Library)
    by Sir Thomas Malory

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  30. 33.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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  31. 34.
    I, Claudius (Penguin Classics S.)
    by Robert Graves

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  32. 35.
    The Alexander Trilogy
    by Mary Renault

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  33. 36.
    Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    by Patrick O'Brian

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  34. 37.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  35. 38.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  36. 39.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    Swallows and Amazons
    by Arthur Ransome

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  39. 43.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  40. 44.
    His Dark Materials
    by Philip Pullman

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    The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by E. Nesbit

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  43. 47.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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  44. 48.
    Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
    by Rowling J. K.

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  45. 49.
    The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  46. 50.
    Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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