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LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH 
List of "100 Must Read" Books

Categories of Works:

1. Cornerstones:
2. Beginnings:
3. Fiction in English:
4. Plays:
5. Modern Fiction in English:
6. Entertainment:
7. Translations:
8. Poetry:
9. Postscripts:
    

1. Cornerstones:

• The Bible authorised version
• The Iliad by Homer
• Odes by Horace
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Inferno by Dante
• Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
• The Plays by William Shakespeare
• Don Quixote by Cervantes
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
• On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
• History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

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• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Hobbitt by J R R Tolkien
• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C S Lewis
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Just William by Richmai Crompton
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

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• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
• Chance by Joseph Conrad
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
• The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells
• To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
• Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

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• Tartuffe by Moliere
• Love for Love by William Congreve
• The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov
• Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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• The Power and The Glory by Grahame Greene
• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
• Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Catcher in The Rye by J D Salinger
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul
• Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
• The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
• Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

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• Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
• Madame Bovary by Gustaye Flaubert
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Le Grande Maeulne by Alain-Fournier
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Dead Souls by
• Confessions of the Confidence Trickster Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
• Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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• The New Oxford Book of English Verse editorHelen Gardner
• Poems by John Keats
• Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth & Coleridge
• Don Juan by George Byron
• Idylls of the King by Tennyson
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
• Collected Poems by T S Elliot
• Collected Poems by W Auden
• High Windows by Philip Larkin
• Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire

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• Father and Son Edmund Gosse
• Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey
• Goodbye to All That Robert Graves

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