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Daily Telegraph - 100 writers choose their book of the century

At the end of the 20th century Daily Telegraph ran a series where a writer (usually British) would name their single choice for the "Book of the Century". 100 writers participated, including Arthur C. Clarke, J.G. Ballard, P.D. James, Patrick O’Brian, Salman Rushdie, Mordecai Richler, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Powell, Anita Desai, John le Carre, Carol Shields, Barbara Cartland, and Ruth Rendell.
There are only 96 books on the list because some were chosen more than once (In Search of Lost Time by three writers, and The Leopard and 1984 each by two writers).

(found at: http://www.mrbauld.com/booklist2c.html)

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1. My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
by J. R. Ackerley
 
2. Collected Poems (Modern Library)
by W.H. Auden
 
3. The Atrocity Exhibition
by J.G. Ballard
 
4. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
by Gregory Bateson
 
5. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
 
6. Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
 
7. Flesh
by Brigid Brophy
 
8. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
 
9. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
 
10. C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
by C. P. Cavafy
 
11. The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
 
12. The Worm Forgives the Plough
by John Collis Stewart
 
13. The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
by Cyril Connolly
 
14. Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by Jim Corbett
 
15. Travels in Arabia Deserta : Volume 1
by Charles Montagu Doughty
 
16. The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
by T. S. Eliot
 
17. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
 
18. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
19. The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
 
20. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
 
21. Mountain Interval
by Robert Frost
 
22. North Of Boston
by Robert Frost
 
23. Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
 
24.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
25. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
26. Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
by Henry Green
 
27. Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
 
28. Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
by Thomas Hardy
 
29. In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
 
30. Cavaliers and Roundheads
by Christopher Hibbert
 
31. Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
 
32. Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
33. Last Poems
by A. E. Housman
 
34. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
 
35. The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
 
36. The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
 
37. Ulysses
by James Joyce
 
38. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
 
39. On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
 
40. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
 
41. Kim (Thrift Edition)
by Rudyard Kipling
 
42. The Leopard (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
 
43. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
 
44. Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
 
45. Story of Ferdinand, The
by Munro Leaf
 
46. If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Primo Levi
 
47. Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sinclair Lewis
 
48.
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Blasting and Bombardiering.
by Wyndham Lewis
 
49.
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Van Loon's Lives
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
 
50. The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics)
by Rose Macaulay
 
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Created by frbrown on Oct 22, 2008.