501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Classic Fiction

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From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews show more themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." show less
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) (9) by Anonymous
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
Vathek (1786) by William Beckford
Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
The Canterbury Tales (14) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Stories (1889) by Anton Chekhov
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) by John Cleland
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster
North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) by Gilgamesh Poet
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
King Solomon's Mines (1882) by H. Rider Haggard
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
The Portrait of a Lady (1908) by Henry James
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
Bliss and Other Stories (1921) by Katherine Mansfield
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
Utopia (1553) by Thomas More
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2017) by Edgar Allan Poe
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
A Sicilian Romance (1790) by Ann Radcliffe
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
Waverley (1814) by Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
The Beast Within (1890) by Émile Zola

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