London Telegraph Best Books List
Submitted by hub83 on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 01:32
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- 1. CORNERSTONES:
- * The Bible authorised version
- * The Iliadby Homer
- * Odes by Horace
- * The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- * The Infernoby Dante
- * Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
- * The Playsby William Shakespeare
- * Don Quixote by Cervantes
- * Paradise Lost by John Milton
- * The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
- * On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
- * History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- 2. BEGINNINGS:
- * The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- * Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne
- * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- * The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- * The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- * The Hobbitt by J R R Tolkien
- * The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C S Lewis
- * Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson
- * Just William by Richmai Crompton
- * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- 3. FICTION IN ENGLISH:
- * Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- * Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
- * Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- * Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern
- * Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- * Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
- * Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- * Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- * Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- * The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James
- * Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- * The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
- * Chance by Joseph Conrad
- * Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- * A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- * The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- * Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
- * The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells
- * To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- * Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
- * Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
- 4. PLAYS:
- * Tartuffe by Moliere
- * Love for Love by William Congreve
- * The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- * The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- * The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
- * The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov
- * Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
- * Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- 5. MODERN FICTION IN ENGLISH:
- * The Power and The Glory by Grahame Greene
- * Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
- * Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
- * Animal Farm by George Orwell
- * The Catcher in The Rye by J D Salinger
- * Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- * The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- * Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- * A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul
- * Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
- * Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- * The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- * Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- 6. ENTERTAINMENT:
- * Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
- * The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
- * Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
- * Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
- * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- * The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- * The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- * The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- 7. TRANSLATIONS:
- * Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- * Madame Bovary by Gustaye Flaubert
- * The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- * Le Grande Maeulne by Alain-Fournier
- * The Plague by Albert Camus
- * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- * Dead Souls by
- * Confessions of the Confidence Trickster Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
- * Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- * Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- * One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- * Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
- * Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- 8. POETRY:
- * The New Oxford Book of English Verse editorHelen Gardner
- * Poemsby John Keats
- * Lyrical Balladsby Wordsworth & Coleridge
- * Don Juan by George Byron
- * Idylls of the King by Tennyson
- * The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
- * Collected Poems by T S Elliot
- * Collected Poems by W Auden
- * High Windows by Philip Larkin
- * Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire
- 9. POSTSCRIPTS:
- * Father and Son Edmund Gosse
- * Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey
- * Goodbye to All That Robert Graves
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