A List That Actually Is About the 100 Greatest Books of All-Time

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  1. NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS:
  2. The Iliad by Homer
  3. The Odyssey by Homer
  4. The Aeneid by Virgil
  5. Beowulf by Unknown
  6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  7. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  9. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  10. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  12. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  13. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  14. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  15. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  16. Candide by Voltaire
  17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  18. The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  19. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
  20. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  23. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
  24. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  25. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  26. Carmen by Prosper Merimee
  27. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  29. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
  30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  31. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  32. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  33. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  34. Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
  35. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  36. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  37. Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  38. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  39. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  40. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  41. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  42. Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  43. The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  44. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  45. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  46. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  47. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  48. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  49. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by
  50. Mark Twain
  51. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  52. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  53. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  54. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
  55. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  56. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  57. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  58. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  59. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  60. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  61. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  62. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  63. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  64. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  65. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  66. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  67. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  68. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  69. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  70. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  71. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  72. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  73. SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION:
  74. The Republic by Plato
  75. The Prince by Machiavelli
  76. The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  77. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  78. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  79. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
  80. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
  81. PLAYS:
  82. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  83. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  84. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  85. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  86. Othello by William Shakespeare
  87. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  88. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  89. Tartuffe by Moliere
  90. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
  91. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  92. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  93. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  94. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
  95. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  97. PHILOSOPHY:
  98. The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
  99. Meditations by Rene Descartes
  100. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  101. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
  102. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  103. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  104. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  105. How We Think by John Dewey
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A List That Actually Is About the 100 Greatest Books of All-Time