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110 best books: The perfect library

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From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… we present the ultimate reading list. Illustrations by David Juniper

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CLASSICS

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The Illiad and The Odyssey
Homer

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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

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POETRY

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Sonnets
Shakespeare

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Divine Comedy
Dante

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Odes
John Keats

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Paradise Lost
John Milton

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Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake

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LITERARY FICTION

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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

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ROMANTIC FICTION

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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

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Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

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The Lord of the Rings
J.R. R. Tolkien

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The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

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SCI-FI

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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

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1984
George Orwell

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

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CRIME

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