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The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

According to Easton Press, this list contains the 100 greatest books of the Western Canon. Of course, nearly everything about that sentence is a lie as in addition to books, this list contains poetry collections, plays, and short stories, plus the current list is 101 AND there's a number of works from non-Western sources as well. What can we trust you with, Easton Press, hmm?
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
1
Homer
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
2
Homer
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables
3
Aesop
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
4
Sophocles
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
5
Plato
Analects of Confucius
Analects of Confucius
6
Poetics
Poetics
7
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
8
Virgil
History of Rome (Livy)
History of Rome
9
Livy
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
10
Saint Augustine
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
11
Anonymous
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
12
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
13
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
14
Dante Alighieri
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
15
Niccolò Machiavelli
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
16
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
17
William Shakespeare
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
18
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
19
Miguel De Cervantes
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
20
John Milton
Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
Pilgrim's Progress
21
John Bunyan
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
22
Anonymous
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
23
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
24
Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
25
Henry Fielding
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
26
Voltaire
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
27
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer
28
The Federalist
The Federalist
29
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
30
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
31
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Children's and Household Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Children's and Household Tales
32
Brothers Grimm
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
33
Jane Austen
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe
34
Sir Walter Scott
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
35
John Keats
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
36
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
37
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
38
Stendhal
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
39
Mary Shelley
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
40
Victor Hugo
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