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. 51.
    Frankenstein (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Mary Shelley

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  2. 53.
    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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  3. 54.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  4. 55.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

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  5. 56.
    The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
    by John Wyndham

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  6. 57.
    Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback))
    by Isaac Asimov

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  7. 58.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  8. 60.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  9. 61.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith

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  10. 62.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  11. 63.
    Complete Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  12. 64.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  13. 65.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre

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  14. 66.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

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  15. 69.
    The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  16. 70.
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    Killshot
    by Elmore Leonard

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  17. 71.
    Das Kapital, Gateway Edition
    by Karl Marx

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  18. 73.
    The Social Contract
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  19. 74.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

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  20. 75.
    On War (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Carl von Clausewitz

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  21. 76.
    The Prince (Modern Library Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  22. 77.
    Leviathan
    by Thomas Hobbes

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  23. 78.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

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  25. 82.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    by Richard Bach

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  26. 83.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  27. 84.
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell

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  28. 85.
    The Beauty Myth
    by Naomi Wolf

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  29. 86.
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    Delia's How To Cook.
    by Delia SMITH

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  30. 87.
    A Year in Provence
    by Peter Mayle

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  31. 88.
    A Child Called It
    by Dave Pelzer

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  32. 90.
    Schott's Original Miscellany
    by Ben Schott

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  33. 92.
    History of the English Speaking Peoples
    by Winston S. Churchill

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  34. 93.
    A History of the Crusades (Penguin History)
    by Steven Runciman

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  35. 94.
    The Histories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

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  36. 96.
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence

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  38. 98.
    A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
    by Orlando Figes

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  39. 99.
    Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
    by Simon Schama

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  40. 100.
    The Origins of The Second World War
    by A.J.P. Taylor

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