Lists of Bests: The Telegraph's 110 Best Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/52521 The Perfect Library: Classics, Poetry, Literary Fiction, Romantic Fiction, Children's Books, Sci-Fi, Crime, Books that Changed the World, Books that Changed Your World, History, Lives Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect-library.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:14:48 GMT en-us 0 50 112 50 0 Iliad and Odyssey boxed set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Barsetshire Chronicles: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3834079 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> War and Peace (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3282 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3282"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59437823_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Makepeace Thackeray</div> Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3333 <div id="position">9</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> Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3512 <div id="position">10</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> The Complete Sonnets (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470035 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2470035"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140862900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421774_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3004499 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3004499"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01wn3iIAeaL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">13</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> The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907106 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907106"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140433694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Wordsworth</div> John Keats' Odes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3834144 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/253799 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/253799"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0231124252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426698_.jpg" /></a></div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">18</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> Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2728160 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2728160"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1854377299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Blake</div> Collected Poems: Yeats (Picador Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167372 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330316389.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114456658_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. B. Yeats</div> Collected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130400 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130400"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Hughes</div> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3518 <div id="position">22</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> A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/612634 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/612634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2221047435.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Proust</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">24</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> For Whom the Bell Tolls (A Penguin Modern Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844402 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/844402"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F366VO.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57218479_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemmingway</div> The Sword of Honour http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1167158 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1167158"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141184973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3834166 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3834166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41y3HQcZr6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> The Rabbit Series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Rabbit Remembered) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2696868 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118499X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Beloved: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3350099 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3350099"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SMP5QYB0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Human Stain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64710 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64710"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099282194.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0132XSCEEML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> Sir Thomas Malory (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839599 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Thomas Malory</div> Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos</div> I, Claudius (Penguin Classics S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1644702 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1644702"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141188596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65783303_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> The Alexander Trilogy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3007904 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3007904"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01V37RF79RL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Renault</div> Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477677 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/477677"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007XAWB2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick O'Brian</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01x13H3RvmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Dr. Zhivago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2459346 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2459346"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/7560018513.01-A9TFEIUWJWNJK._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Boris Pasternak</div> Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hardy</div> The Plantagenet Saga by Jean Plaidy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3834278 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Swallows and Amazons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769658 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099427338.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Ransome</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1881018 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1881018"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GBFQT8.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000634 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618260293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> His Dark Materials http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2654722 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Pullman</div> Bonjour, Babar! : The Six Unabridged Classics by the Creator of Babar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/759227 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/759227"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375810609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean De Brunhoff</div> The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435361 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435361"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140621628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. Nesbit</div> Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140361219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138680489_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01n-Cyke2mL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rowling J. K.</div> The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122810 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122810"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039091.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> Treasure Island (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642868 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1642868"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62366134_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div>