Telegraph "110 Best Books: The Perfect Library"

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1-10: Classics

11-20: Poetry

21-30: Literary Fiction

31-40: Romantic Fiction

41-50: Children’s Books

51-60: SCI-FI

61-70: Crime

71-80: Books that Changed the World

81-90: Books that Changed Your World

91-100: History

101-110: Lives

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  1. 1.
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    The Illiad and Odyssey of Homer
    by Homer
  2. 2.
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    The Barchester Chronicles
    by Anthony Trollope
  3. 3.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
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    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift
  5. 5.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte
  6. 6.
    War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  7. 7.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  8. 8.
    Vanity Fair
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  9. 9.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot
  11. 11.
    The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Penguin Classics)
    by William Shakespeare
  12. 12.
    The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri
  13. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. 14.
    The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
    by William Wordsworth
  15. 15.
    The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
    by Helen Vendler
  16. 16.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot
  17. 17.
    Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics)
    by John Milton
  18. 18.
    Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
    by William Blake
  19. 19.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats
  20. 20.
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    Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
    by Ted Hughes
  21. 21.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  22. 22.
    A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (French Edition)
    by Marcel Proust
  23. 23.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  24. 24.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway
  26. 26.
    The Ballad of Peckham Rye (New Directions Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
  28. 28.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  29. 29.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison
  30. 30.
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth
  31. 31.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier
  32. 32.
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    Malory, Morte D’Arthur

  33. 33.
    Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  34. 34.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
  35. 35.
    The Alexander Trilogy
    by Mary Renault
  36. 36.
    Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    by Patrick O'Brian
  37. 37.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  38. 38.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  39. 39.
    Tess of the d Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy
  40. 40.
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    The Plantagent Saga
    by Jean Plaidy
  41. 41.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  44. 44.
    His Dark Materials Trilogy
    by Philip Pullman
  45. 45.
    The Story of Babar
    by Jean De Brunhoff
  46. 46.
    The Railway Children
    by Edith Nesbit
  47. 47.
    The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne
  48. 48.
    Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
    by J. K. Rowling
  49. 49.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame
  50. 50.
    Treasure Island (Puffin Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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