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Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Preface by Peter Ackroyd, written by over one hundred international critics.

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1. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
  
2. Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin
by Ovid
  
3. Callirhoe (Loeb Classical Library)
by Chariton
  
4.
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 Aithiopika
by Heliodorus
  
5. The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))
by Apuleius
  
6. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
7. Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
by Francois Rabelais
  
8. Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit, 1579; Euphues And His England, 1580 (1868)  
9. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Nashe
  
10. The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Bunyan
  
11. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
12. The Princess of Cleves
by Madame de Lafayette
  
13. Oroonoko: An Authoritative Text Historical Backgrounds Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by Aphra Behn
  
14. A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
15. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
16. Love in Excess
by Eliza Haywood
  
17. Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
18. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
19. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
20. A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Jonathan Swift
  
21. Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry Fielding
  
22.
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 Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
by Scriblerus Club & Charles Kerby-Miller (ed.)
  
23. Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
  
24. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
  
25. The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics)
by Tobias Smollett
  
26. Tom Jones (Norton Critical Editions)
by Henry Fielding
  
27. Fanny Hill: or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Modern Library Classics)
by John Cleland
  
28. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
by Tobias Smollett
  
29. Amelia
by Henry Fielding
  
30. The Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Lennox
  
31. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
32. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Johnson
  
33. La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise : Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
34. Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works
by Denis Diderot
  
35. Emile, or On Education
by John, Jacques Rousseau
  
36. The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Horace Walpole
  
37. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)
by Oliver Goldsmith
  
38. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
39. A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Laurence Sterne
  
40. The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry Mackenzie
  
41. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by Tobias George Smollett
  
42. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
43. Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)
by Frances Burney
  
44.
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 The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquieres: Botanical Writings ; And Letter to Franquieres (Collected Writings of Rousseau)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
45. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  
46. The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
47. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics)
by Frances Burney
  
48. The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
by Marquis De Sade
  
49. Vathek: With the Episodes of Vathek (Broadview Literary Texts)
by William Beckford
  
50. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings
by Marquis De Sade
  
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