Easton Press' The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (2006)
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| Rank | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 |
| 2 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 |
| 3 | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 |
| 4 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 |
| 5 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 |
| 6 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 |
| 7 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 |
| 8 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 |
| 9 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1894 |
| 10 | The Odyssey | Homer | |
| 11 | The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 1678 |
| 12 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 |
| 13 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667 |
| 14 | One Thousand and One Nights | Various Authors | |
| 15 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 |
| 16 | Candide | Voltaire | 1759 |
| 17 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | |
| 18 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo | 1831 |
| 19 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | 1826 |
| 20 | The Sea-Wolf | Jack London | 1904 |
| 21 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | 1897 |
| 22 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 23 | Collected Poems | Robert Browning | |
| 24 | The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 25 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 |
| 26 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 |
| 27 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 |
| 28 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1892 |
| 29 | Collected Poems | John Keats | |
| 30 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 |
| 31 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1605 |
| 32 | Collected Poems | Robert Frost | |
| 33 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1820 |
| 34 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 |
| 35 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 1847 |
| 36 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | 1773 |
| 37 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 |
| 38 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 |
| 39 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 |
| 40 | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1862 |
| 41 | The Iliad | Homer | |
| 42 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 1928 |
| 43 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas pere | 1844 |
| 44 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 |
| 45 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | |
| 46 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 1900 |
| 47 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 1791 |
| 48 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 |
| 49 | Politics and the Poetics | Aristotle | |
| 50 | The Aeneid | Virgil | |
| 51 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 |
| 52 | The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 |
| 53 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1847 |
| 54 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | |
| 55 | Pygmalion and Candida | ||
| Candida | George Bernard Shaw | 1894 | |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | 1913 | |
| 56 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 |
| 57 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| 58 | The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters | ||
| Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | 1900 | |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 1904 | |
| 59 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | |
| 60 | The Analects of Confucius | Confucius | |
| 61 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | |
| 62 | Collected Poems | William Butler Yeats | |
| 63 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 |
| 64 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 |
| 65 | The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | |
| 66 | Beowulf | Anonymous | |
| 67 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1873 |
| 68 | The Necklace | Guy de Maupassant | 1884 |
| 69 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 1895 |
| 70 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 1862 |
| 71 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 |
| 72 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 |
| 73 | The History of Early Rome | Livy | |
| 74 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1869 |
| 75 | The Talisman | Sir Walter Scott | 1825 |
| 76 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 1891 |
| 77 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 |
| 78 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 |
| 79 | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyam | |
| 80 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 |
| 81 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 |
| 82 | The Republic | Plato | |
| 83 | Collected Poems | Emily Dickinson | |
| 84 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| 85 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1749 |
| 86 | The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | 1788 |
| 87 | Silas Marner | George Eliot | 1861 |
| 88 | The Rights of Man | Thomas Paine | 1791 |
| 89 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 |
| 90 | Billy Budd | Herman Melville | 1924 |
| 91 | The Confessions | St. Augustine | |
| 92 | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 93 | Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | 1819 |
| 94 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 1903 |
| 95 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 |
| 96 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 |
| 97 | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm | 1812 |
| 98 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 |
| 99 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 |
| 100 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 |