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Best 128 Books Ever (1st Books Open)

Published in 1994 in the magazine of the El Mundo newspaper. Competition between the best books in history. Probably the best list of books ever published, free from any kind of bias or influence.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
2
Lewis Carroll
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
3
Sophocles
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
4
Miguel De Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
5
Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
6
Joseph Conrad
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
7
William Shakespeare
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
8
D.H. Lawrence
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
9
William Shakespeare
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
10
Jack Kerouac
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
11
William Shakespeare
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
12
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
13
Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
14
J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
15
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
16
Carson McCullers
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
17
Homer
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
18
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
19
Franz Kafka
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
20
Umberto Eco
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
21
Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
22
Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
23
Oscar Wilde
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
24
Stendhal
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
25
Albert Camus
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
26
Emily Brontë
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
27
Aldous Huxley
Bible (Anonymous)
Bible
28
Anonymous
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
29
Herman Melville
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island
30
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
31
James Joyce
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
32
Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
33
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems
34
Edgar Allan Poe
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
35
Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
36
Gustave Flaubert
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Páramo
37
Juan Rulfo
Red Harvest
Red Harvest
38
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
39
Daniel Defoe
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
40
Thomas Mann
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