The World's 100 Greatest Books

Submitted by diaskeaus on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 10:44
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  1. The Iliad - Homer
  2. The Odyssey - Homer
  3. The Aeneid - Virgil
  4. Beowulf - Unknown
  5. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  6. The Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
  7. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Don Quixote - Cervantes
  9. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  10. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  11. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  12. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
  13. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  14. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  15. Candide - Voltaire
  16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. The Tragedy of Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  18. The Lady of the Lake - Sir Walter Scott
  19. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  20. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  21. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  22. The Red and the Black - Stendahl
  23. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  24. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  25. Carmen - Prosper Merimee
  26. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  27. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  28. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  29. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  30. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  31. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  32. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. Camille - Alexandre Dumas
  34. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  35. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  36. Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
  37. Silas Marner - George Eliot
  38. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  39. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  40. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
  41. Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  43. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  44. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  46. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
  47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
  49. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  50. War and Peace - Leo Tolstory
  51. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
  52. Toss of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  53. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  54. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  55. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  57. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
  58. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  59. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  60. Call of the Wild - Jack London
  61. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
  62. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
  63. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  64. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  65. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  66. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  67. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  68. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  69. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  70. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  71. The Republic - Plato
  72. The Prince - Machiavelli
  73. The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  74. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  75. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  76. Das Kapital - Karl Marx
  77. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
  78. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
  79. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
  80. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
  81. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  82. Othello - William Shakespeare
  83. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  84. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
  85. Tartuffe - Moliere
  86. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
  87. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  88. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  89. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
  90. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
  91. Our Town - Thornton Wilder
  92. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  93. The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
  94. Meditations - Rene Descartes
  95. The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
  96. The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer
  97. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  98. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  99. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  100. How We Think - John Dewey
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