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Franklin Library 100 Greatest Books of All Time

This list is the Franklin Library's publication of the one hundred greatest books of all time.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
Virgil
3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
4
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
Henry James
5
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects
Confucius
6
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
7
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud (Sigmund Freud)
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
8
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
Voltaire
9
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
10
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
11
Shakespeare's Comedies (Shakespeare)
Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare
12
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
Saint Augustine
13
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
15
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
16
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
17
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
18
The Education of Henry Adams (Henry Adams)
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
19
Essays of Michel De Montagne
Essays of Michel De Montagne
20
Emerson's Essays
Emerson's Essays
21
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson
22
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
23
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
24
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
25
Children's and Household Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Children's and Household Tales
Brothers Grimm
26
Federalist (Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison)
Federalist
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
27
Five Comedies of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
Five Comedies of Aristophanes
Aristophanes
28
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
29
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
30
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
31
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
33
Histories (William Shakespeare)
Histories
William Shakespeare
34
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
35
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
Homer
36
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
37
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
38
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
39
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
40
Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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