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Everyman's Library: 100 Essential Books

These books were selected as the 'Essentials' by Everyman's Library.
Some books on this list have multiple short novels within.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas
2
V.S. Naipaul
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
3
E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4
James Joyce
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
5
Charles Dickens
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
6
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
7
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8
Black Mischief, Scoop, the Loved One, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Evelyn Waugh)
Black Mischief, Scoop, the Loved One, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
9
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
10
Evelyn Waugh
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
11
Geoffrey Chaucer
Carried Away (Alice Munro)
Carried Away
12
Alice Munro
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
13
Joseph Heller
Collected Stories (Raymond Chandler)
Collected Stories
14
Raymond Chandler
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
15
Collected Stories (Franz Kafka)
Collected Stories
16
Franz Kafka
Collected Stories (W. Somerset Maugham)
Collected Stories
17
W. Somerset Maugham
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
19
Charles Dickens
Democracy in America (Alexis De Tocqueville)
Democracy in America
20
Alexis De Tocqueville
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
21
Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
22
Miguel De Cervantes
The Dubliners (James Joyce)
The Dubliners
23
James Joyce
Essays (George Orwell)
Essays
24
George Orwell
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
25
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
26
Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
27
Charlotte Bronte
Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers
28
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
29
Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
30
Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
31
Gustave Flaubert
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
32
Marcus Aurelius
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
33
Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
34
Herman Melville
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable (Samuel Beckett)
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
35
Samuel Beckett
Mr. Sampath --The Printer of Malgudi, the Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma (R. K. Narayan)
Mr. Sampath --The Printer of Malgudi, the Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma
36
R. K. Narayan
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
37
Virginia Woolf
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
38
Willa Cather
Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring
39
Penelope Fitzgerald
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
40
Charles Dickens
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