Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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The Aeneid (29 BCE) by Virgil
1
The Complete Fables (600 BCE) by Aesop
2
Tales of the Alhambra (1832) by Washington Irving
3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
4
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5
The Analects (70 BCE) by Confucius
6
Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy
7
Franklin: Writings (Library of America) (1987) by Benjamin Franklin
8
The Eleven Comedies (388) by Aristophanes
9
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
10
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
12
The Canterbury Tales (14) by Geoffrey Chaucer
13
The Complete Plays: The Comedies (1944) by William Shakespeare
14
The Confessions (1784) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15
Confessions (397) by Saint Augustine
16
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
18
The Decameron (1469) by Giovanni Boccaccio
19
The Descent of Man (1871) by Charles Darwin
20
The Divine Comedy (1308) by Dante Alighieri
21
The Essays (1597) by Francis Bacon
23
Essays: First Series and Second Series (1934) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
24
The Flowers of Evil (1936) by Charles Baudelaire
25
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
26
Faust I & II (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
27
The Federalist Papers (1787) by Alexander Hamilton
28
Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
29
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob Grimm
30
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
31
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
32
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] (27 BCE) by Titus Livy
33
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
35
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
36
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Walter Scott
37
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
38
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
39
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe
40
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
41
Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman
42
Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
44
Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
45
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
46
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
47
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides (458 BCE) by Aeschylus
51
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
52
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
53
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
55
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
67
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
68
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
69
The Red Badge of Courage (1894) by Stephen Crane
71
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
72
The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy
74
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
75
Rights of Man (1791) by Thomas Paine
75
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1048) by Omar Khayyám
77
The Sea Wolf (1904) by Jack London
79
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
84
Poe: Poetry and Tales (1984) by Edgar Allan Poe
87
The Talisman (1825) by Sir Walter Scott
88
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
89
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
90
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
92
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
93
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne
94
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
95
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
96
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
97
The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
98
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
99
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (1995) by Robert Frost
104
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
106
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
107
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
109
The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells
110
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
114
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
118
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
120
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
121
Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot
122

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