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The National Public Library Association's 100 Greatest Books | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Novels, Epics, and Legends The Illiad - Homer The Odyssey - Homer The Aeneid - Virgil Beowulf - Unknown The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri The Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Don Quixote - Cervantes Paradise Lost - John Milton The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Gullliver's Travels - Johnithan Swift Tom Jones - Henry Fielding Candide - Voltaire The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Tragedy of Faust - Goethe The Lady of the Lake - Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Red and the Black - Stendahl The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Carmen - Prosper Merimee Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery David Cooperfield - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Camille - Alexandre Dumas Fils Moby Dick - Herman Melville Madame Bovery - Gustave Flaubert Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson Silas Marner - George Eliot Middlemarch - George Eliot Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky Little Women - Louisa May Scott Far From the Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Time Machine - H.G. Wells Dracula - Bram Stoker The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler Call of the Wild - Jack London Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbaeck To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee |
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Plays Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus Oedipus Rex - Sochocles The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare Hamlet - William Shakespeare Othello - William Shakespeare Macbeth - William Shakespeare The Tempest - William Shakespeare Tartuffe - Moliere Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov Our Town - Thornton Wilder Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller |
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Science and Civilization The Republic - Plato The Prince - Machiavelli The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin Das Kapital - Karl Marx The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler Philosophy The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle Meditations - Rene Descartes Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauser Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson Walden - Henry David Thoreau How We Think - John Dewey |
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