The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

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The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library
1
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
67,732 members
1,015 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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2
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,363 members
374 reviews
4
9 Members
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3
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
93,465 members
1,506 reviews
½ 4.4
10 Members
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4
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,534 members
229 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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5
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
50,863 members
813 reviews
3.8
11 Members
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6
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,661 members
367 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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7
The Odyssey
by Homer
62,175 members
521 reviews
4
6 Members
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8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
93,912 members
1,447 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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9
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
40,696 members
487 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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10
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,282 members
865 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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11
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,459 members
314 reviews
4
10 Members
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12
The Iliad
by Homer
47,316 members
445 reviews
4
6 Members
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13
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,699 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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14
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,774 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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16
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
24,981 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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17
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,655 members
130 reviews
4
7 Members
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18
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,888 members
685 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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19
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,331 members
201 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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20
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,404 members
509 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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21
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,759 members
24 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49,570 members
779 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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23
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
14,500 members
374 reviews
4
8 Members
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24
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
20,297 members
389 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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25
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,221 members
221 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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26
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
4,343 members
50 reviews
½ 4.6
5 Members
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27
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
12,110 members
139 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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28
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,554 members
265 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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30
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,040 members
324 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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31
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
53,864 members
852 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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32
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
12,983 members
172 reviews
3.8
6 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72
33
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
15,885 members
223 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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34
On the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5,134 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
6 Members
thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
35
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
6,232 members
55 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72
36
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7,323 members
106 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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37
The Waste Land and Other Poems
by T. S. Eliot
5,060 members
37 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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38
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,821 members
800 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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39
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,418 members
447 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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40
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,501 members
221 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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41
The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
822 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
5 Members
roby72, kara.shamy, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda
42
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,641 members
102 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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43
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,663 members
365 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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44
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,630 members
469 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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45
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
16,533 members
133 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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46
Capital, Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx
3,221 members
30 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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47
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22,106 members
530 reviews
4
4 Members
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48
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
56,809 members
494 reviews
½ 4.5
4 Members
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49
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
9,811 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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50
William Shakespeare: The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
10,043 members
80 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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51
The Histories
by Herodotus
11,484 members
97 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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52
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
by J. K. Rowling
153,428 members
2,210 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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53
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,914 members
417 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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54
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,094 members
180 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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55
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
21,277 members
283 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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56
The Return of the King
by J. R. R. Tolkien
54,457 members
334 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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57
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
23,281 members
438 reviews
4
3 Members
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58
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
12,930 members
241 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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59
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
15,140 members
247 reviews
4
3 Members
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60
The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
6,951 members
87 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
5,443 members
111 reviews
4.2
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
4,556 members
43 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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64
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
8,038 members
57 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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65
The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)
by Helen Vendler
104 members
1 review
3.8
3 Members
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66
Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
4,462 members
96 reviews
4.1
2 Members
cej1027, TheTowers
67
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,316 members
302 reviews
3.9
2 Members
FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda
68
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
7,197 members
109 reviews
3.8
2 Members
kara.shamy, FranzK72
70
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
2,655 members
17 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
71
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth
407 members
2 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
72
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
by Elizabeth Gaskell
1,684 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
73
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
3,360 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
74
A Child Called "It"
by Dave Pelzer
9,376 members
320 reviews
3.9
Member
cej1027
75
A Rabbit Omnibus
by John Updike
414 members
3 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
76
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
9,717 members
253 reviews
4
Member
FlorianKarpfinger
77
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
by Muriel Spark
827 members
25 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
kara.shamy
78
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Siegfried Sassoon
792 members
13 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
79
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
1,213 members
19 reviews
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
80
The Alexander Trilogy
by Mary Renault
335 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
81
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
20,621 members
308 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
82
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
16,648 members
343 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
83
Collected Poems
by Ted Hughes
586 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
mspixieears
84
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Mueller}
by Edward Gibbon
1,229 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
1,947 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
The Twelve Caesars
by Suetonius
7,421 members
84 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
87
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,924 members
69 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
88
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by Homer
7,149 members
53 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
89
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
8,411 members
239 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
90
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,011 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
roby72
91
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
6,054 members
117 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
92
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
1,254 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
93
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf
3,711 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
94
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
by Simon Schama
3,456 members
36 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
95
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,354 members
125 reviews
3.8
96
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
4,159 members
74 reviews
4
97
A History of the Crusades [3-volume set]
by Steven Runciman
811 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
98
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
by Anonymous
76 members
½ 4.7
99
The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant
by Jean de Brunhoff
3,547 members
46 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963,kara.shamy
100
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
23,611 members
343 reviews
3.8