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.
    The Iliad / The Odyssey
    by Homer
  2. 2.
    ?
    The Barchester Chronicles
    by Anthony Trollope
  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  5. 5.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  6. 6.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  7. 7.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  8. 8.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  9. 9.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot
  11. 11.
    ?
    Shakespear's Sonnets

  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  15. 15.
    The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
    by Helen Vendler
  17. 17.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  18. 18.
    Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
    by William Blake
  19. 19.
    Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
    by W. B. Yeats
  20. 20.
    Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
    by Ted Hughes
  21. 21.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  22. 22.
    A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (French Edition)
    by Marcel Proust
  23. 23.
    Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
    by Don Gifford
  24. 24.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway
  26. 26.
    The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
  28. 28.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  29. 29.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  30. 30.
    Human Stain
    by Philip Roth
  31. 31.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne, Dame Du Maurier
  33. 33.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  34. 34.
    I, Claudius: Classic Collection
    by Robert Graves
  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 (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  40. 40.
    ?
  41. 41.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome
  43. 43.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  45. 45.
    The Story of Babar (Babar Books (Random House))
    by Jean De Brunhoff
  46. 46.
    The Railway Children (Dover Juvenile Classics)
    by E. Nesbit
  47. 47.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne
  48. 48.
    Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
    by J. K. Rowling
  49. 49.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame
  50. 50.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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