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Book awards: The Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books

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Titles	Order
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Bible: King James Version by Anonymous
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Das Kapital, Gateway Edition by Karl Marx
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) by Galileo Galilei
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Histories by Herodotus
The Iliad by Homer
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Koran Interpreted: A Translation by A. J. Arberry
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Odyssey by Homer
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot by Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
The Republic by Plato
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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