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.
    The Iliad / The Odyssey
    by Homer
  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  5. 5.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  6. 6.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  7. 7.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  8. 8.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  9. 9.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  11. 11.
    The Complete Sonnets (Penguin Classics)
    by William Shakespeare
  12. 12.
    The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
    by Dante Alighieri
  13. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. 14.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth
  15. 15.
    ?
    John Keats' Odes

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

  17. 17.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  18. 18.
    Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
    by William Blake
  19. 19.
    Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
    by W. B. Yeats
  20. 20.
    Collected Poems
    by Ted Hughes
  21. 21.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  22. 22.
    A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
    by Proust
  23. 23.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  24. 24.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (A Penguin Modern Classic)
    by Ernest Hemmingway
  25. 25.
    Sword of Honour (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  26. 26.
    The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
  28. 28.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Marquez
  30. 30.
    Human Stain
    by Philip Roth
  31. 31.
    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  32. 32.
    Morte d' Arthur (Collector's Library Editions)
    by Thomas Malory
  33. 33.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  35. 35.
    The Alexander Trilogy
    by Mary Renault
  36. 36.
    Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    by Patrick O'Brian
  37. 37.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  38. 38.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  39. 39.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  40. 40.
    ?
  41. 41.
    Swallows and Amazons
    by Arthur Ransome
  43. 43.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  45. 45.
  46. 46.
    The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by E. Nesbit
  47. 47.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne
  48. 48.
    Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set: Books #1-7
    by J. K. Rowling
  49. 49.
    The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame
  50. 50.
    Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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