The Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books

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WorkOrder Label
Collected Poems, 1909–1962 (1963) by T. S. Eliot
22
The Koran Interpreted (Arberry, 1957) (1955) by A. J. Arberry
24
Collected Poems (1974) by W. B. Yeats
33
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (1638) by Galileo Galilei
34
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) by Sophocles
35
Mahābhārata (R. K. Narayan ed.) (1978) by Vyasa
36
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
37
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
39
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) by David Hume
42
Stories (1889) by Anton Chekhov
43
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot (1751) by Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
49
Confessions (397) by Saint Augustine
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) by Samuel Beckett
The Decameron (1469) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Fictions (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
The Divine Comedy (1308) by Dante Alighieri
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faust I & II (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Histories (420 BCE) by Herodotus
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
The Odyssey (750 BCE) by Homer
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The Complete Stories (1971) by Franz Kafka
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
Holy Bible (King James Version) (1400) by King James Version
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Das Kapital (1861) by Karl Marx
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Principia Mathematica (1729) by Isaac Newton
The Republic (380 BCE) by Plato
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
On the Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
King Lear (1608) by William Shakespeare
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft

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