110 best books - The Perfect Library

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/06/nosplit/sv_classics06.xml

11 categories, each with 10 books. The categories are: "Classics", "Poetry", "Literary fiction", "Romantic fiction", "Children’s Books", "Sci-fi", "Crime", "Books that changed the world", "Books that changed your world", "History", "Lives".

The books should be added in the order listed on the webpage, so the 10 first will be classics, the 10 next poetry etc.

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  1. 1.
    Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
    by Homer

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    The Barchester Chronicles
    by Anthony Trollope

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  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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

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  5. 5.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  6. 6.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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

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  8. 8.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  9. 9.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Shakespear's Sonnets

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  12. 12.
    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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

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    The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
    by Helen Vendler

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  15. 17.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  16. 18.
    Songs of Innocence and of Experience
    by William Blake

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  17. 19.
    Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
    by W. B. Yeats

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    Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
    by T Hughes

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  19. 21.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  20. 22.
    A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu
    by Marcel Proust

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  21. 23.
    Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition
    by Don Gifford

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  22. 24.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  23. 25.
    The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  24. 26.
    The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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  25. 28.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  26. 29.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  27. 30.
    Human Stain
    by Philip Roth

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  28. 31.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne, Dame Du Maurier

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  29. 33.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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  30. 34.
    I, Claudius: Classic Collection
    by Robert Graves

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  31. 35.
    The Alexander Trilogy
    by Mary Renault

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  32. 36.
    Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    by Patrick O'Brian

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  33. 37.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  34. 38.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  35. 39.
    Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  37. 41.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome

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  38. 43.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  39. 44.
    His Dark Materials
    by Philip Pullman

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  40. 45.
    The Story of Babar (Babar Books (Random House))
    by Jean De Brunhoff

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  41. 46.
    The Railway Children (Dover Juvenile Classics)
    by E. Nesbit

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  42. 47.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne

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  43. 48.
    Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
    by Rowling J. K.

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  44. 49.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  45. 50.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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