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Lists of Bests - The Guardian's "100 Best Books of All Time"



Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library) 
   
    2
    by Virginia Haviland


Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) 
   
    3
    by Jane Austen


Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable 
   
    5
    by Samuel Beckett


The Decameron (Signet Classics) 
   
    6
    by Giovanni Boccaccio


Collected Fictions 
   
    7
    by Jorge Luis Borges


Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) 
   
    8
    by Emily Brontë


The Stranger 
   
    9
    by Albert Camus


Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan 
   
    10
    by Paul Celan


Journey to the End of the Night 
   
    11
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine


Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) 
   
    12
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) 
   
    13
    by Geoffrey Chaucer


Selected Stories (Signet Classics) 
   
    14
    by Anton Chekhov


Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) 
   
    15
    by Joseph Conrad


The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) 
   
    16
    by Dante Alighieri


Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) 
   
    17
    by Charles Dickens

LDL Staff Picks

Elvis and the Dearly Departed
3 of 5 stars true
If you are or ever were an Elvis fan you will appreciate these books by Peggy Webb. Elvis is a hound dog (of course) who thinks he is the real Elvis. ~LDL Staff
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fast-Food-Fueled Car, and a Cross-Country Trip in Search of a Greener Future
3 of 5 stars true
Two friends set across the United States in their previously diesel-fueled car that was converted to run on cooking oil in order to examine alternatives for cleaner energy. The friends learn that Al Gore lives in an energy-hogging mansio...
Winter Garden
3 of 5 stars true
This book is beautifully written and I learned a great deal about what happened in Russia during the reign of Stalin. My favorite book, of late. ~LDL Staff
Poison Study
4 of 5 stars true
Fast-paced, this book is hard to put down. ~LDL Staff

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