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110 best books - The Perfect Library

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. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
by Homer
  
2.
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 The Barchester Chronicles
by Anthony Trollope
  
3. Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
5. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
6.
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 War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
7. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
8. Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
9. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
10. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
  
11.
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 Shakespear's Sonnets  
12. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
13. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
14.
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 William Wordsworth's the Prelude (Modern Critical Interpretations)  
15.
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 The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
by Helen Vendler
  
16.
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 The Waste Land and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by T. S. Eliot
  
17. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
18. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
  
19. Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books)
by W. B. Yeats
  
20.
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 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
by T Hughes
  
21. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
22. A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu
by Marcel Proust
  
23. Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Don Gifford
  
24. For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
  
25. The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
26. The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Muriel Spark
  
27.
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 The Rabbit Series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Rabbit Remembered)
by John Updike
  
28. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
29. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
30. Human Stain
by Philip Roth
  
31. Rebecca
by Daphne, Dame Du Maurier
  
32. Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Sir Thomas Malory
  
33. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  
34. I, Claudius: Classic Collection
by Robert Graves
  
35. The Alexander Trilogy
by Mary Renault
  
36. Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
by Patrick O'Brian
  
37. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
38. Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
39. Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
40.
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 The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy  
41. Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
by Arthur Ransome
  
42. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
43. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
44.
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 His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
  
45. The Story of Babar (Babar Books (Random House))
by Jean De Brunhoff
  
46. The Railway Children (Dover Juvenile Classics)
by E. Nesbit
  
47. Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
  
48. Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
by Rowling J. K.
  
49. The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
50. Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
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Created by Kiwiria on Apr 23, 2008.