Penguin's Top 50

Penguin Classics' Best Books Ever Written 
1. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
2. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
3. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
4. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
7. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
8. The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso by Nathanael West
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
11. At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien
12. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
13. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
14. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
17. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
19. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
20. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
21. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
22. Tales from One Thousand and One Nights (Author Unknown)
23. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
24. Ulysses by James Joyce
25. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
26. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
27. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
28. Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
29. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
30. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
32. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
33. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
35. Paradise Lost by John Milton
36. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
38. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. The Plague by Albert Camus
40. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
41. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
42. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
43. Dracula by Bram Stoker
44. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
45. Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
46. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
47. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
48. Middlemarch by George Eliot
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
50. Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George
51. Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker by Jack Zipes
52. Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin