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The Telegraph's Perfect Library

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The Illiad (Homer)
The Illiad
1
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
2
Homer
The Warden (Anthony Trollope)
The Warden
3
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
4
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne (Anthony Trollope)
Doctor Thorne
5
Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage
Framley Parsonage
6
The Small House at Allington
The Small House at Allington
7
The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope)
The Last Chronicle of Barset
8
Anthony Trollope
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
9
Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
10
Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
11
Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
12
Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
13
Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
14
William Makepeace Thackeray
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
15
Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
16
George Eliot
Sonnets (Shakespeare)
Sonnets
17
Shakespeare
Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Divine Comedy
18
Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
19
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Prelude
The Prelude
20
Odes of John Keats
Odes of John Keats
21
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
22
T.S. Eliot
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
23
John Milton
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
24
William Blake
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
25
W.B. Yeats
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
26
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
27
Henry James
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
28
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
29
James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
30
Ernest Hemingway
The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Evelyn Waugh)
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
31
Evelyn Waugh
The Ballad of Peckham Rye- Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye- Muriel Spark
32
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run
33
John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike)
Rabbit Is Rich
34
John Updike
Rabbit Redux (John Updike)
Rabbit Redux
35
John Updike
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
36
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
37
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
The Human Stain
38
Philip Roth
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
39
Daphne Du Maurier
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
40
Sir Thomas Malory
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