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Top 100 Penguin Classics

These are the top 100 books in the Penguin Classics series on Goodreads. A great collection of classics. I have a lot of reading to do.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
2
Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
3
Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
4
Emily Brontë
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
5
Oscar Wilde
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion
6
Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
7
Alexandre Dumas
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
8
Homer
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
9
William Shakespeare
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
10
Jane Austen
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott,)
Little Women
11
Louisa May Alcott,
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
12
Voltaire
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
13
Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
14
Jane Austen
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
15
Bram Stoker
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
16
Charles Dickens
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
17
John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
18
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
19
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
20
Anonymous
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
21
Jane Austen
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice
22
William Shakespeare
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
23
Lewis Carroll
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
24
John Steinbeck
Beowulf (Michael Alexander (Translator))
Beowulf
25
Michael Alexander (Translator)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
26
Marcus Aurelius
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
27
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
28
Herman Melville
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
29
Anne Brontë
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 (Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
30
Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
31
John Steinbeck
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
32
Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
33
Charles Dickens
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
34
Plato
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
35
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Editor))
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
36
Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Editor)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
37
William Shakespeare
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
38
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White
39
Wilkie Collins
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
40
Jonathan Swift
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