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The Greatest Books of All Time, Forever - Page 2

Forever ever, ever-ever? Yeah, well... no... but these are 400 books that will probably still be great for a least a little while.
Anyway, these books are taken from multiple "Greatest Books" lists and issued numbers according to their rankings on those lists to create the closest thing to an "objective" list of the greatest books, according English-speaking sources.
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
41
Toni Morrison
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
42
Geoffrey Chaucer
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions
43
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
44
Walt Whitman
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
45
Voltaire
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
46
Charlotte Bronte
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
47
William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
48
Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
49
Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
50
Laurence Sterne
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
51
James Joyce
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of a Lady
52
Henry James
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
53
Sophocles
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
54
Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
55
Harper Lee
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
56
John Milton
The Complete Tales
The Complete Tales
57
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
58
Edgar Allen Poe
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
59
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
60
E.M. Forster
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
61
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
62
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
63
Sophocles
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
64
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
65
Thomas Mann
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
66
Nikolai Gogol
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
67
Franz Kafka
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
68
Salman Rushdie
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
69
Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
70
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
71
Mary Shelley
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
72
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
73
Aeschylus
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
74
Ernest Hemingway
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
75
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
76
Flannery O'Connor
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
77
Malcolm Lowry
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
78
François Rabelais
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
79
Henry Fielding
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales
80
Hans Christian Anderson
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