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List of Books Considered the Greatest - Page 2

Based on several lists and trimmed down to a nice, tidy 101 books, this is a list of works of fiction considered the greatest ever written.
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Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
41
Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
42
Joseph Conrad
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
43
Isabel Allende
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
44
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
45
Homer
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
46
Marcel Proust
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
47
Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
48
Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
49
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
50
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Kindred
51
Octavia Butler
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
52
Walt Whitman
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
53
Victor Hugo
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
Like Water for Chocolate
54
Laura Esquivel
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
55
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
56
J.R.R.Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
57
Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
58
Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
59
Thomas Mann
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata
60
Vyasa
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
61
Franz Kafka
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
62
George Eliot
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
63
Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
64
Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
65
Virginia Woolf
Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
Nervous Conditions
66
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
67
George Orwell
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From Underground
68
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
69
Homer
The Oedipus Trilogy
The Oedipus Trilogy
70
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
71
Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
72
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
73
Anonymous
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
74
Aeschylus
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
75
Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
76
John Milton
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
77
E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
78
James Joyce
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of a Lady
79
Henry James
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
80
Jane Austen
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