Lists of Bests: Penguin Canada's "Best Books Ever Written" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/49311 "From their library of over 3,000 literary classics, Penguin Canada has chosen 52 as the best books ever written--and they're challenging Canadians to read one a week in 2008. Their inaugural selection, The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, is a fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature. Readers can look forward to works by Russian masters Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, along with the lesser-known Mikhail Bulgakov, and seminal works by Miguel Cervantes and James Joyce praised by many but read by few." Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:20:43 GMT en-us 0 50 49 0 0 Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59602568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3519 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3519"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439653.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2746386 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2746386"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0808563319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Somerset Maugham</div> Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3333 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3333"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906548 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449574.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39751849_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos</div> Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147565 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147565"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014303961X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356829 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356829"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3541 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3476 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> At Swim-two-birds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3837674 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3837674"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510-cHKJ%2BGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flann O'Brien</div> Bleak House (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3522 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3522"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> The Idiot (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60683 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60683"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044792X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3331 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3331"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra</div> On the Road (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Lives of Girls and Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4135097 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4135097"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QAT49B1DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61215018_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3187 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3187"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140434186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421255_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1973222 <div id="position">24</div><div 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with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66508 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66508"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447873.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> Metamorphosis (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2552829 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2552829"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014180193X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188838_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772442 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772442"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441593.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47180840_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stella Gibbons</div> Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/498092 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/498092"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044923X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Nietzsche</div> Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202889 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202889"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73443 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73443"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3721"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1489915 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1489915"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141185074.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433283 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433283"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141181427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65730761_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> Dracula (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83850 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014143984X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34548261_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41396 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439777.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437247.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> The Prince (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905184 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905184"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672760_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3512 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3512"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439548.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676360_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141181222.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081450747_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745178 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. T. A. V. Hoffmann</div> The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67200 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67200"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014043268X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div>