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Rank	Title	Author	Year	Recommended By
1.	War and Peace (F) War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in...	Leo Tolstoy	1869	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List, Wikipedia
2.	1984 (F) George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.	George Orwell	1949	The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
3.	Ulysses (F) Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel...	James Joyce	1922	The Telegraph, The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library
4.	Lolita (F) The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores...	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
5.	The Sound and the Fury (F) First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told...	William Faulkner	1929	The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
6.	Invisible Man (F) Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A...	Ralph Ellison	1952	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
7.	To the Lighthouse (F) A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores the subjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides...	Virginia Woolf	1927	The Guardian, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
8.	The Illiad and The Odyssey (F) Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles....	Homer	8th century B.C.	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
9.	Pride and Prejudice (F) Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy...	Jane Austen	1813	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
10.	Divine Comedy (F) Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the...	Dante Alighieri	1321	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
11.	Canterbury Tales (F) With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval...	Geoffrey Chaucer	15th century	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
12.	Gulliver's Travels (F) The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of...	Jonathan Swift	1726	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
13.	Middlemarch (F) It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in...	George Eliot	1874	The Telegraph, The Guardian, St. John's Reading List
14.	Things Fall Apart (F) Chinua Achebe's tragic novel of pre-colonial Igbo society was a major literary and cultural event when it was published in 1958....	Chinua Achebe	1958	Newsweek, The Guardian, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time
15.	The Catcher in the Rye (F) Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story...	J. D. Salinger	1951	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
16.	Gone with the Wind (F) Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of...	Margaret Mitchell	1936	The Telegraph, Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Time
17.	One Hundred Years of Solitude (F) One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the...	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1967	The Telegraph, The Guardian, Oprah's Book Club, Wikipedia, NYPL
18.	The Great Gatsby (F) A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess,Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned...	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
19.	Catch-22 (F) Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even...	Joseph Heller	1961	Wikipedia, NYPL, Radcliffe, Modern Library, Time
20.	Beloved (F) Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and...	Toni Morrison	1987	The Telegraph, The Guardian, Radcliffe, Time

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