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1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

6

8.3

2. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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33

7.5

3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

28

6.9

4. Walden and Civil Disobedience: 150th Anniver... - Henry David Thoreau

21

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5. Gulliver's Travels (Wordsworth Classics) - Jonathan Swift

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6. Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Cl... - Herman Melville

8

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7. A Farewell To Arms (Vintage Classics) - Ernest Hemingway

4

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8. Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane_II

by Stephen Crane

18

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9. The Jungle Books (Penguin Popular Classics) - Rudyard Kipling

18

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10. The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics) - Homer,Adam Roberts_IX

5

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11. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

10

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12. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Words... - James Joyce

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13. Paradise Lost (Penguin Popular Classics) - John Milton

8

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14. Arabian Nights: Tales from Arabian Nights

10

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15. Great Expectations (World's Best Reading) - Dickens Charles

by Charles Dickens

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97

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16. Candide - Voltaire

12

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17. Oedipus the King - Sophocles

7

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18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wordsworth Clas... - Victor Hugo

14

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19. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

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20. The Sea-Wolf (Modern Library Classics) - Jack London

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21. Cyrano de Bergerac (Signet Classics) - Edmond Rostand

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22. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) - Geoffrey Chaucer

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23. Poems: A New Edition (Collected Works of Rob... - Robert Browning

3

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24. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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25. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

36

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26. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) - Harriet Beecher Stowe

10

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27. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

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28. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

4

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29. Collected Poems - John. Keats

24

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30. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natura... - Charles Darwin

6

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31. The Adventures of Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

6

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32. The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Po... - Robert Frost

8

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33. Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other Stories fr... - Washington Irving

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34. Animal Farm - George Orwell

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35. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

by Emily Brontë

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36. She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift S.) - Oliver Goldsmith

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37. Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck

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38. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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39. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

50

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40. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

49

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41. The Iliad - Homer

11

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42. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

36

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43. The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classi... - Alexandre Dumas

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44. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

10

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45. Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics) - Aesop

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46. Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics) - Joseph Conrad

14

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47. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dove... - Benjamin Franklin

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48. The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics) - Alexandre Dumas

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49. Aristotles Politics & Poetics - Aristotle

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50. Aeneid - Virgil

The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written according to Easton Press.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collections_from_Easton_Press

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Comments

Posted: 2 weeks, 6 days ago at May 4 5:17

This is some great classic lit but something tells me they're a bit stodgy over at Easton; it's as if they believe people have lost the ability to write amazing literature anymore. ;)

It's still a great list though!

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