Book AwardsThe Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books

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Works (50)

TitlesOrder
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain1
The Iliad by Homernot in English Common Knowledge
The Odyssey by Homernot in English Common Knowledge
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust2
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin3
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri4
The Republic by Plato5
Ulysses by James Joyce7
Das Kapital by Karl Marx8
Confessions by Saint Augustine9
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli10
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald11
Middlemarch by George Eliot12
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith13
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud14
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift15
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez16
King Lear by William Shakespeare17
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant18
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen19
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky21
Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot22
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov23
The Koran Interpreted (Arberry, 1957) by A. J. Arberry24
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens25
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges26
The Histories by Herodotus27
Moby Dick by Herman Melville28
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert29
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka30
The Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV) by God31
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton32
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats33
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei34
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles35
Mahābhārata (R. K. Narayan ed.) by Vyasa36
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll37
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau38
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne39
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe40
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson41
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume42
Stories by Anton Chekhov43
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy44
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft45
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio46
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett47
The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki48
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot by Jean Le Rond d'Alembert49
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James50