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Pure Pleasure: The 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books (John Carey)

These 50 titles were selected from columns written for The Sunday Times by English professor and critic John Carey, and published by Faber in 2000. They are in chronological order.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1
Doyle
The Immoralist (André Gide)
The Immoralist
2
André Gide
Traffics and Discoveries (Rudyard Kipling)
Traffics and Discoveries
3
Rudyard Kipling
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
The Secret Agent
4
Joseph Conrad
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
A Room With a View
5
E.M. Forster
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday
6
G.K. Chesterton
The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)
The Old Wives' Tale
7
Arnold Bennett
The History of Mr Polly
The History of Mr Polly
8
My Childhood Maxim Gorky
My Childhood Maxim Gorky
9
Satires of Circumstance (Thomas Hardy)
Satires of Circumstance
10
Thomas Hardy
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
11
James Joyce
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (D. H. Lawrence)
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays
12
D. H. Lawrence
Prufrock and Other Observations (T.S. Eliot)
Prufrock and Other Observations
13
T.S. Eliot
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
14
The Garden Party (Katherine Mansfield)
The Garden Party
15
Katherine Mansfield
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Švejk
16
Jaroslav Hašek
Those Barren Leaves (Aldous Huxley)
Those Barren Leaves
17
Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
18
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
A Country Doctor's Notebook
19
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mr. Fortune's Maggot (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
Mr. Fortune's Maggot
20
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
Decline and Fall
21
Evelyn Waugh
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
Goodbye to All That
22
Robert Graves
Seven Types of Ambiguity (William Empson)
Seven Types of Ambiguity
23
William Empson
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
24
William Butler Yeats
Mr Norris Changes Trains (Christopher Isherwood)
Mr Norris Changes Trains
25
Christopher Isherwood
The House in Paris (Elizabeth Bowen)
The House in Paris
26
Elizabeth Bowen
Of Men and Mice - John Steinbeck (1937)
Of Men and Mice - John Steinbeck (1937)
27
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock
28
Graham Greene
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
29
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
Coming Up for Air
30
George Orwell
Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)
Alamein to Zem Zem
31
Keith Douglas
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Thomas Mann)
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
32
Thomas Mann
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis; Introduction by David Lodge)
Lucky Jim
33
Kingsley Amis; Introduction by David Lodge
The Inheritors (William Golding)
The Inheritors
34
William Golding
The Mystic Masseur (V.S. Naipaul)
The Mystic Masseur
35
V.S. Naipaul
The Best of S.J. Perelman (S.J. Perelman)
The Best of S.J. Perelman
36
S.J. Perelman
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (W.H. Auden)
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
37
W.H. Auden
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass, Trans. Breon Mitchell)
The Tin Drum
38
Günter Grass, Trans. Breon Mitchell
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39
Muriel Spark
Words (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Words
40
Jean-Paul Sartre
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