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Pure Pleasure: The 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books (John Carey)

These 50 titles were selected from columns written for The Sunday Times by English professor and critic John Carey, and published by Faber in 2000. They are in chronological order.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
2
The Immoralist (André Gide)
The Immoralist (André Gide)
3
Traffics and Discoveries (Rudyard Kipling)
Traffics and Discoveries (Rudyard Kipling)
4
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
5
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
6
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday
7
The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)
The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)
8
The History of Mr Polly
The History of Mr Polly
9
My Childhood Maxim Gorky
My Childhood Maxim Gorky
10
Satires of Circumstance (Thomas Hardy)
Satires of Circumstance (Thomas Hardy)
11
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
12
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (D. H. Lawrence)
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (D. H. Lawrence)
13
Prufrock and Other Observations (T.S. Eliot)
Prufrock and Other Observations (T.S. Eliot)
14
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
15
The Garden Party (Katherine Mansfield)
The Garden Party (Katherine Mansfield)
16
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
17
Those Barren Leaves (Aldous Huxley)
Those Barren Leaves (Aldous Huxley)
18
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
19
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
20
Mr. Fortune's Maggot (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
Mr. Fortune's Maggot (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
21
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
22
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
23
Seven Types of Ambiguity (William Empson)
Seven Types of Ambiguity (William Empson)
24
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats)
25
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Mr Norris Changes Trains
26
The House in Paris (Elizabeth Bowen)
The House in Paris (Elizabeth Bowen)
27
Of Men and Mice - John Steinbeck (1937)
Of Men and Mice - John Steinbeck (1937)
28
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
29
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
30
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air
31
Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)
Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)
32
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Thomas Mann)
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Thomas Mann)
33
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis; Introduction by David Lodge)
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis; Introduction by David Lodge)
34
The Inheritors (William Golding)
The Inheritors (William Golding)
35
The Mystic Masseur (V.S. Naipaul)
The Mystic Masseur (V.S. Naipaul)
36
The Best of S.J. Perelman (S.J. Perelman)
The Best of S.J. Perelman (S.J. Perelman)
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (W.H. Auden)
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (W.H. Auden)
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The Tin Drum (Günter Grass, Trans. Breon Mitchell)
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass, Trans. Breon Mitchell)
39
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
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Words (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Words (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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