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This series contains 93 books.

  1. War and Peace
    Book 1

    War and Peace (1869)

    by Leo Tolstoy

  2. 1984
    Book 2

    1984 (1949)

    by George Orwell

  3. Ulysses
    Book 3

    Ulysses (1922)

    by James Joyce

  4. Lolita
    Book 4

    Lolita (1955)

    by Vladimir Nabokov

  5. The Sound and the Fury
    Book 5

    The Sound and the Fury (1929)

    by William Faulkner

  6. Invisible Man
    Book 6

    Invisible Man (1952)

    by Ralph Ellison

  7. To the Lighthouse
    Book 7

    To the Lighthouse (1927)

    by Virginia Woolf

  8. Pride and Prejudice
    Book 9

    Pride and Prejudice (1813)

    by Jane Austen

  9. The Canterbury Tales
    Book 11

    The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  10. Gulliver's Travels
    Book 12

    Gulliver's Travels (1726)

    by Jonathan Swift

  11. Middlemarch
    Book 13

    Middlemarch (1871)

    by George Eliot

  12. Things Fall Apart
    Book 14

    Things Fall Apart (1958)

    by Chinua Achebe

  13. The Catcher in the Rye
    Book 15

    The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

    by J. D. Salinger

  14. Gone With the Wind
    Book 16

    Gone With the Wind (1936)

    by Margaret Mitchell

  15. One Hundred Years of Solitude
    Book 17

    One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

    by Gabriel García Márquez

  16. The Great Gatsby
    Book 18

    The Great Gatsby (1925)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  17. Catch-22
    Book 19

    Catch-22 (1961)

    by Joseph Heller

  18. Beloved
    Book 20

    Beloved (1987)

    by Toni Morrison

  19. The Grapes of Wrath
    Book 21

    The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

    by John Steinbeck

  20. Midnight's Children
    Book 22

    Midnight's Children (1981)

    by Salman Rushdie

  21. Brave New World
    Book 23

    Brave New World (1932)

    by Aldous Huxley

  22. Mrs. Dalloway
    Book 24

    Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

    by Virginia Woolf

  23. Native Son
    Book 25

    Native Son (1940)

    by Richard Wright

  24. Democracy in America
    Book 26

    Democracy in America (1840)

    by Alexis De Tocqueville

  25. The Origin of Species
    Book 27

    The Origin of Species (1859)

    By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

    by Charles Darwin

  26. The Histories
    Book 28

    The Histories

    by Herodotus

  27. The Social Contract
    Book 29

    The Social Contract (1762)

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  28. The Prince
    Book 31

    The Prince (1532)

    by Niccolò Machiavelli

  29. The Confessions of St. Augustine
    Book 32

    The Confessions of St. Augustine (1960)

    by Saint Augustine of Hippo

  30. Leviathan
    Book 33

    Leviathan (1651)

    or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil

    by Thomas Hobbes

  31. History of the Peloponnesian War
    Book 34

    History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides

  32. Winnie-the-Pooh
    Book 36

    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

    by A. A. Milne

  33. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Book 37

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

    by C. S. Lewis

  34. A Passage to India
    Book 38

    A Passage to India (1924)

    by E. M. Forster

  35. On the Road
    Book 39

    On the Road (1957)

    by Jack Kerouac

  36. To Kill a Mockingbird
    Book 40

    To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

    by Harper Lee

  37. A Clockwork Orange
    Book 42

    A Clockwork Orange (1962)

    by Anthony Burgess

  38. Light in August
    Book 43

    Light in August (1932)

    by William Faulkner

  39. The Souls of Black Folk
    Book 44

    The Souls of Black Folk (1990)

    by W. E. B. Du Bois

  40. Wide Sargasso Sea
    Book 45 This book is based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

    Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

    by Jean Rhys

  41. Madame Bovary
    Book 46

    Madame Bovary (1856)

    by Gustave Flaubert

  42. Paradise Lost
    Book 47

    Paradise Lost (1667)

    by John Milton

  43. Anna Karenina
    Book 48

    Anna Karenina (1876)

    by Leo Tolstoy

  44. Hamlet
    Book 49

    Hamlet (1603)

    by William Shakespeare

  45. King Lear
    Book 50

    King Lear (1606)

    by William Shakespeare

  46. Othello
    Book 51

    Othello (1604)

    by William Shakespeare

  47. Sonnets
    Book 52

    Sonnets (1609)

    by William Shakespeare

  48. Leaves of Grass
    Book 53

    Leaves of Grass (1855)

    by Walt Whitman

  49. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Book 54

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

    by Mark Twain

  50. Kim
    Book 55

    Kim (1901)

    by Rudyard Kipling

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