Publisher SeriesEaston Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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The Aeneid by Virgil 22,750 copies, 197 reviews1
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving 2,456 copies, 42 reviews3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 26,771 copies, 476 reviews4
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,545 copies, 247 reviews5
The Analects by Confucius 6,067 copies, 60 reviews6
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 38,230 copies, 622 reviews7
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 7,287 copies, 110 reviews8
The Birds / The Frogs by Aristophanes 224 copies, 2 reviews9
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 53,619 copies, 768 reviews10
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29,306 copies, 324 reviews11
Candide by Voltaire 20,445 copies, 304 reviews12
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 21,848 copies, 168 reviews13
The Complete Plays: The Comedies by William Shakespeare 780 copies, 6 reviews14
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3,117 copies, 30 reviews15
Confessions by Saint Augustine 22,236 copies, 155 reviews16
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 43,895 copies, 492 reviews17
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 20,531 copies, 269 reviews18
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9,942 copies, 120 reviews19
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin 1,581 copies, 14 reviews20
The Essays by Francis Bacon 2,244 copies, 16 reviews23
Essays: First Series and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1,906 copies, 6 reviews24
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 7,532 copies, 80 reviews25
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 8,741 copies, 129 reviews26
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5,033 copies, 38 reviews27
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton 9,923 copies, 66 reviews28
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,216 copies, 432 reviews29
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 1,607 copies, 17 reviews30
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,628 copies, 165 reviews31
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,449 copies, 385 reviews32
The Complete Plays: The Histories by William Shakespeare 445 copies, 7 reviews34
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 42,648 copies, 518 reviews35
The Iliad by Homer 39,682 copies, 386 reviews36
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 12,883 copies, 122 reviews37
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 10,123 copies, 141 reviews38
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 58,574 copies, 912 reviews39
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 3,564 copies, 64 reviews40
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 13,079 copies, 124 reviews41
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 10,198 copies, 85 reviews42
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 5,675 copies, 55 reviews43
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,256 copies, 396 reviews44
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 26,080 copies, 389 reviews46
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,657 copies, 119 reviews47
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,291 copies, 539 reviews48
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,026 copies, 312 reviews49
The Odyssey by Homer 52,694 copies, 470 reviews50
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 6,562 copies, 72 reviews51
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 38,804 copies, 656 reviews52
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 14,251 copies, 121 reviews53
Paradise Lost by John Milton 13,790 copies, 111 reviews54
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 17,346 copies, 170 reviews55
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus 10,148 copies, 67 reviews56
The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 360 copies, 4 reviews57
3 Plays: Bacchae / Hippolytus / Medea by Euripides 148 copies58
An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 161 copies, 1 review59
Bourgeois Gentleman / Tartuffe by Molière 175 copies, 1 review60
Two Plays for Puritans by George Bernard Shaw 189 copies, 1 review61
The Poems of Robert Browning [C. Day Lewis selection] by Robert Browning 88 copies62
The Poems of John Donne by John Donne 66 copies, 1 review63
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats 3,522 copies, 26 reviews65
Politics by Aristotle 5,715 copies, 40 reviews66
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 21,121 copies, 215 reviews67
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce by Albert Wachtel 7 copies67
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,753 copies, 126 reviews68
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 80,089 copies, 1,363 reviews69
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 23,480 copies, 251 reviews70
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 11,079 copies, 127 reviews71
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9,455 copies, 136 reviews72
The Republic by Plato 21,793 copies, 141 reviews73
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,873 copies, 92 reviews74
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 2,314 copies, 13 reviews75
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 24,589 copies, 322 reviews76
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 2,898 copies, 34 reviews77
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,327 copies, 371 reviews78
The Sea Wolf by Jack London 4,330 copies, 53 reviews79
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 1,522 copies, 21 reviews80
Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde 1,265 copies, 13 reviews81
The Short Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens 226 copies, 2 reviews82
Lysis; Phaedrus; Symposium by Plato 182 copies, 2 reviews83
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,419 copies, 455 reviews84
Tales of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant 206 copies, 1 review85
The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness by Sir Richard Francis Burton 105 copies, 1 review86
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 4,173 copies, 37 reviews87
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 1,192 copies, 13 reviews88
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,098 copies, 97 reviews90
4 Plays: King Lear; Macbeth; Othello; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 786 copies, 11 reviews91
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 33,680 copies, 429 reviews92
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,626 copies, 113 reviews93
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 16,857 copies, 190 reviews95
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,608 copies, 191 reviews96
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 14,033 copies, 188 reviews97
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,577 copies, 41 reviews98
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 28,597 copies, 451 reviews100
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 7,363 copies, 89 reviews103
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost 31 copies104
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost 5,135 copies, 18 reviews104
Aesop's Fables: A New Version by Munro Leaf 240 copies, 1 review
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton 331 copies, 8 reviews
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous 865 copies, 14 reviews
Beowulf by Beowulf Poet 25,194 copies, 333 reviews
The Complete Fables by Aesop 3,572 copies, 50 reviews
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père 25,288 copies, 430 reviews
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 21,615 copies, 187 reviews
Dracula by Bram Stoker 34,828 copies, 600 reviews
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 22,287 copies, 243 reviews
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 42,285 copies, 706 reviews
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 32,560 copies, 288 reviews
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] by Titus Livy 3,351 copies, 17 reviews
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 14,062 copies, 176 reviews
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 13,558 copies, 220 reviews
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 8,986 copies, 115 reviews
Poems by Emily Dickinson 931 copies, 12 reviews
Politics and Poetics by Aristotle 373 copies, 2 reviews

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Billy Budd / Benito Cereno by Herman Melville 265 copies, 3 reviews
Pygmalion and Candida by George Bernard Shaw 131 copies

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English: Easton Press: 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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