Book AwardsEaston Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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Works (80)

TitlesOrder
The Aeneid by Virgil1
Fables of Aesop by Aesop2
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll4
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle5
The Analects by Confucius6
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy7
Franklin: Writings (Library of America) by Benjamin Franklin8
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes9
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley10
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky11
Candide by Voltaire12
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer13
The Complete Plays: The Comedies by William Shakespeare14
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau15
Confessions by Saint Augustine16
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky17
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens18
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio19
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin20
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri — not in English Common Knowledge21
The Essays by Francis Bacon23
Essays: First Series and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson24
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire25
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev26
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe27
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton28
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens29
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm30
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift31
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad32
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] by Titus Livy33
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain35
The Iliad by Homer — not in English Common Knowledge36
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott37
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy38
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë39
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe40
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper — not in English Common Knowledge41
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman42
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott44
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad45
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert46
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot47
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck52
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin53
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan55
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce67
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James68
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen69
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane71
The Red and the Black by Stendhal72
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy74
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine75
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne75
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám77
The Sea Wolf by Jack London79
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens84
Poe: Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe87
The Talisman by Walter Scott88
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas89
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding90
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson92
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne93
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne94
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe95
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray96
Walden by Henry David Thoreau97
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler98
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë99
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost104
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — not in English Common Knowledge106
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas107
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde109
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells110
Middlemarch by George Eliot114
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo118
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy120
Dracula by Bram Stoker121
Silas Marner by George Eliot122