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The Times Best Classics List

To coincide with Penguin Classics' 60th anniversary in 2006, The Times published their list of the 100 best classics. This is all but three of them. I have been enjoying using this as a guide to my reading in 2014.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1
Ken Kesey
Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman
2
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
3
Jean Rhys
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
4
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5
Story of the Eye
Story of the Eye
6
A Spy in the House of Love
A Spy in the House of Love
7
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
8
D.H. Lawrence
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs
9
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
10
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
11
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
12
Joseph Conrad
Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming)
Diamonds Are Forever
13
Fleming
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
14
Mikhail Bulgakov
Secret Agent
Secret Agent
15
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
A Room With a View
16
E.M. Forster
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
17
Emily Bronte
Don Juan (Lord Byron)
Don Juan
18
Lord Byron
Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
Love in a Cold Climate
19
Nancy Mitford
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennesee Williams)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
20
Tennesee Williams
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
21
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
22
George Eliot
She (H. Rider Haggard)
She
23
H. Rider Haggard
Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
Long Walk to Freedom
24
Nelson Mandela
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
25
John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
26
Edith Wharton
Notre Dame De Paris
Notre Dame De Paris
27
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
28
Thomas Hardy
The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
The Old Curiosity Shop
29
Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
30
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
31
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
32
Mary Shelley
The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
The Castle of Otranto
33
Horace Walpole
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Turn of the Screw
34
Henry James
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
35
William Makepeace Thackeray
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
36
Vladimir Nabokov
Baby Doll
Baby Doll
37
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
38
Truman Capote
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
39
Jane Austen
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
40
Jack Kerouac
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