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Added by Log Lady on 20 May 2010 08:15
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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Pre-1800s

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights - PENGUIN GROUP (UK)
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady - Samuel Richardson
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis
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1800s

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Devil's Pool - Andrew Brown (translator),Victoria Glendinning (foreword),George Sand
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Adam Bede - George Eliot
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There... - Lewis Carroll
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Red Room - August Strindberg
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3)... - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
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