Penguin Classics's 100 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die (2004)
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 |
| A Room with a View | E.M. Forster | 1908 |
| A Spy in the House of Love | Anais Nin | 1954 |
| A Study in Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1887 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 |
| Against Nature | Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1884 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1873 |
| Another Country | James Baldwin | 1962 |
| Baby Doll | Tennessee Williams | 1956 |
| Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | 1943 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote | 1958 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | 1955 |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 1932 |
| Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Thomas De Quincey | 1821 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 1782 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | 1949 |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Ian Fleming | 1956 |
| Diary of a Madman | Nikolai Gogol | 1835 |
| Don Juan | Lord Byron | 1819 |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 |
| From Russia with Love | Ian Fleming | 1957 |
| Guys and Dolls | Frank Loesser | 1950 |
| Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton | 1941 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 |
| Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga | Hunter S. Thompson | 1966 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 1895 |
| Junkie | William S. Burroughs | 1953 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 1928 |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1862 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 |
| Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | 1949 |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 1954 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 |
| Maigret and the Ghost | Georges Simenon | 1964 |
| Middlemarch | George Elliot | 1874 |
| Monsieur Monde Vanishes | Georges Simenon | 1945 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 |
| No Easy Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | 1986 |
| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1938 |
| She | H. Rider Haggard | 1887 |
| Story of the Eye | Georges Bataille | 1928 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1920 |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley | 1965 |
| The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1922 |
| The Beggar's Opera | John Gay | 1728 |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1764 |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | 1848 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas pere | 1844 |
| The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | 1951 |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith | 1892 |
| The Fight | Norman Mailer | 1975 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo | 1831 |
| The Iliad | Homer | |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | 1897 |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 1962 |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 |
| The Monkey Wrench Gang | Edward Abbey | 1975 |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 1868 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | 1841 |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 1837 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 1907 |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1943 |
| The Subterraneans | Jack Kerouac | 1958 |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 |
| The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 1895 |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 |
| The Twelve Caesars | Suetonius | 121 |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 1860 |
| Therese Raquin | Emile Zola | 1867 |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | 1889 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 |
| Venus in Furs | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1870 |
| Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh | 1930 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 |
| We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1921 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 1847 |
