110 best books: The perfect library
From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… we present the ultimate reading list. Illustrations by David Juniper
CLASSICS
The Illiad and The Odyssey
Homer
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
POETRY
Sonnets
Shakespeare
Divine Comedy
Dante
Odes
John Keats
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake
LITERARY FICTION
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
ROMANTIC FICTION
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Lord of the Rings
J.R. R. Tolkien
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
SCI-FI
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
1984
George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
CRIME
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