Daily Telegraph - 100 writers choose their book of the centuryAt 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. (found at: http://www.mrbauld.com/booklist2c.html)
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My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
by J. R. Ackerley
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Collected Poems (Modern Library)
by W.H. Auden
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The Atrocity Exhibition
by J.G. Ballard
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
by Gregory Bateson
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
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Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
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Flesh
by Brigid Brophy
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
by C. P. Cavafy
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The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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The Worm Forgives the Plough
by John Collis Stewart
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
by Cyril Connolly
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by Jim Corbett
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Travels in Arabia Deserta : Volume 1
by Charles Montagu Doughty
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The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
by T. S. Eliot
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
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Mountain Interval
by Robert Frost
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North Of Boston
by Robert Frost
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Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
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Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
by Henry Green
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
by Thomas Hardy
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In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
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Cavaliers and Roundheads
by Christopher Hibbert
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Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
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Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Last Poems
by A. E. Housman
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Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
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The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
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The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
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On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
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Kim (Thrift Edition)
by Rudyard Kipling
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The Leopard (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
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Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
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Story of Ferdinand, The
by Munro Leaf
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If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Primo Levi
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Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sinclair Lewis
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Blasting and Bombardiering.
by Wyndham Lewis
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Van Loon's Lives
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics)
by Rose Macaulay
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