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The Telegraph's 110 Best Books

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. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
by Homer
  
2.
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 The Barsetshire Chronicles: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
  
3. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
5. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
6. War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
7. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
8. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
9. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
10. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
11. The Complete Sonnets (Penguin Classics)
by William Shakespeare
  
12. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
by Dante Alighieri
  
13. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
14. The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
by William Wordsworth
  
16.
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 John Keats' Odes  
17. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land  
18. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
19. Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
by William Blake
  
20. Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
by W. B. Yeats
  
21. Collected Poems
by Ted Hughes
  
22. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
23. A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
by Proust
  
24. Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Joyce
  
25. For Whom the Bell Tolls (A Penguin Modern Classic)
by Ernest Hemmingway
  
26. The Sword of Honour
by Evelyn Waugh
  
27. The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Muriel Spark
  
28.
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 The Rabbit Series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Rabbit Remembered)
by John Updike
  
29. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
30. Beloved: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Toni Morrison
  
31. Human Stain
by Philip Roth
  
32. Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
33.
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 Sir Thomas Malory (Collector's Library)
by Sir Thomas Malory
  
34. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  
35. I, Claudius (Penguin Classics S.)
by Robert Graves
  
36. The Alexander Trilogy
by Mary Renault
  
37. Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
by Patrick O'Brian
  
38. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
39. Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
40. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
41.
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 The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy  
42. Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
  
43. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
44. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
45.
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 His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
  
46. Bonjour, Babar! : The Six Unabridged Classics by the Creator of Babar
by Jean De Brunhoff
  
47. The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics)
by E. Nesbit
  
48. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
by A. A. Milne
  
49. Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
by Rowling J. K.
  
50. The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
51. Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
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