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120 Timeless Books

Many of these books already have achieved timeless status by virtue of their influence on later generations of writers and on Western thought in general, e.g. the works of Homer and Plato. Others I have found are frequently referred to in contemporary works. And a handful or two are books that, having read them myself, I feel deserve this special status through the insights they provide and the quality of their writing.
I imposed a limit of two books per author.
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The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
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Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
4
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
5
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
6
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
7
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf (Anonymous)
8
The Book of Job (Anonymous)
The Book of Job (Anonymous)
9
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
10
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
11
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
12
Five Plays (Anton Chekhov)
Five Plays (Anton Chekhov)
13
Clouds (Aristophanes)
Clouds (Aristophanes)
14
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
15
The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)
The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)
16
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
17
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
18
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
19
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
20
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
21
The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
22
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
23
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
24
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
25
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
26
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
27
Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Euripides)
28
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
29
The New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
The New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
30
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
31
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
32
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
33
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
34
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
35
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
36
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
37
The Pilgrim Hawk (Glenway Wescott)
The Pilgrim Hawk (Glenway Wescott)
38
The Third Man (Graham Greene)
The Third Man (Graham Greene)
39
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
40
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
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