1. 101 Masterpieces of Literature in
25. Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
English
1. Beowulf (anon, abt. 8th century)
26. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
2. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (bef. 1400)
27. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)
28. James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
3. Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (abt.1589)
4. Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene (1590)
29. Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
5. Philip Sidney - Astrophil and Stella (bef. 1591)
6. William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream (abt. 1596)
30. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (1847)
7. William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (abt. 1597)
31. Emily Brontë - Wuthering heights (1847)
8. William Shakespeare - Hamlet (abt. 1602)
32. William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (1848)
9. William Shakespeare - Othello (abt. 1604)
33. Herman Melville - Moby-Dick (1851)
10. Ben Jonson - Volpone (1605)
34. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
11. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (1651)
35. Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers (1857)
12. Samuel Pepys - The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669)
36. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
37. Edward FitzGerald - The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
13. John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667)
38. Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White (1860)
14. John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
39. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (1860-1861)
15. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719)
40. George Eliot - Silas Marner (1861)
16. Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders (1722)
41. Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage (1861)
17. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
42. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
18. Alexander Pope - Essay on Man (1734)
19. Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman (1759-1767)
43. George Eliot - Middlemarch (1871-1872)
20. Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
21. Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey Through France and
44. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Italy (1768)
22. William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789- 45. Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native (1878)
1794) 46. Henry James - Daisy Miller (1878)
23. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Lyrical
47. Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)
Ballads (1798)
48. Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
24. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (1811)

2. 49. Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) 75. Robert Graves - I, Claudius (1934)
50. Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
76. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Hyde (1886)
77. William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
51. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 78. J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937)
52. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
53. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) 79. Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
80. John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
54. Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897) 81. George Orwell - Animal Farm (1945)
55. Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) 82. Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)
56. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (1899) 83. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (1949)
57. Rudyard Kipling - Kim (1901) 84. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
58. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) 85. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
86. Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
59. Henry James - The Ambassadors (1903) 87. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (1954)
60. J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan (1904) 88. William Golding - Lord of the Flies (1954)
61. E. M. Forster - Howards End (1910) 89. J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)
62. G.K. Chesterton - The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911) 90. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)
91. Jack Kerouac - On the Road (1957)
63. George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1912) 92. Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
64. James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
93. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (1961)
94. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
65. Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (1920)
95. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (1965)
66. T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land (1922)
67. James Joyce - Ulysses (1922) 96. Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
68. E. M. Forster - A Passage to India (1924) 97. Charles Bukowski - Post Office (1971)
98. Raymond Carver - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976)
69. Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
99. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979-
70. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)
1992)
71. A. A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
100. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
72. D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
101. Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (1993)
73. Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (1929)
74. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)