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The 100 Best Penguin Classics ever, from the London Times
THE BEST CRAZIES
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
The Diary of a Madman/ Nikolai Gogol
Wide Sargasso Sea/ Jean Rhys
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE BEST SEX
Story of the Eye/ Georges Bataille ^^^
A Spy in the House of Love/ Anaïs Nin ^^^
Lady Chatterley’s Lover/ D. H. Lawrence ^^^
Venus In Furs/ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
The Canterbury Tales/ Geoffrey Chaucer
THE BEST VILLAINS
The Brothers Karamazov/ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness/ Joseph Conrad
Diamonds are Forever/ Ian Fleming
The Master and Margarita/ Mikhail Bulgakov
The Secret Agent/ Joseph Conrad
THE BEST LOVERS
A Room with a View/ E. M. Forster
Wuthering Heights/ Emily Brontë
Don Juan/ Lord Byron
Love In A Cold Climate/ Nancy Mitford
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/ Tennessee Williams
THE BEST HEROES
David Copperfield/ Charles Dickens
Middlemarch/ George Eliot
She/ H. Rider Haggard
The Fight/ Norman Mailer ^^^
No Easy Walk to Freedom/ Nelson Mandela
THE BEST TEARJERKERS
Of Mice and Men/ John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence/ Edith Wharton
Notre-Dame De Paris/ Victor Hugo
Jude the Obscure/ Thomas Hardy
The Old Curiosity Shop/ Charles Dickens
THE BEST SPINE-TINGLERS
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula/ Bram Stoke
Frankenstein/ Mary Shelley
The Castle of Otranto/ Horace Walpole
The Turn of the Screw/ Henry James
THE BEST MINXES
Vanity Fair/ William Makepeace Thackeray
Lolita/ Vladimir Nabokov
Baby Doll/ Tennessee Williams
Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ Truman Capote
Emma/ Jane Austen
THE BEST JOURNEYS
On the Road/ Jack Kerouac ^^^
The Odyssey/ Homer
The Grapes of Wrath/ John Steinbeck
Three Men in a Boat/ Jerome K. Jerome
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ Lewis Carroll
THE BEST DECADENCE
The Great Gatsby/ F. Scott Fitzgerald ^^^
Vile Bodies/ Evelyn Waugh
The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
The Beautiful and Damned/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Against Nature/ J. K. Huysmans
THE BEST REBELS
The Autobiography of Malcolm X/ Malcolm X
The Outsider/ Albert Camus
Animal Farm/ George Orwell
The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Les Misérables/ Victor Hugo
THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION
The Time Machine/ H. G. Wells
The Man in the High Castle/ Philip K. Dick
The Invisible Man/ H. G. Wells
The Day of the Triffids/ John Wyndham ^^^
We/ Yevgeny Zamyatin
THE BEST VIOLENCE
A Clockwork Orange/ Anthony Burgess
Hell’s Angels/ Hunter S. Thompson
A Tale of Two Cities/ Charles Dickens
Another Country/ James Baldwin
In Cold Blood/ Truman Capote
THE BEST HIGHS
Junky/ William S. Burroughs ^^^ [Why not Naked Lunch?]
The Moonstone/ Wilkie Collins
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater/ Thomas De Quincey
The Subterraneans/ Jack Kerouac
Monsieur Monde Vanishes / Georges Simenon
THE BEST SUBVERSION
1984/ George Orwell
The Monkey Wrench Gang/ Edward Abbey
The Prince/ Niccolo Machiavelli
Bound for Glory/ Woody Guthrie
Death of a Salesman/ Arthur Miller
THE BEST CRIMES
Maigret and the Ghost / Georges Simenon
The Woman in White/ Wilkie Collins
The Big Sleep/ Raymond Chandler
A Study in Scarlet/ Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps/ John Buchan
THE BEST ADULTERY
Madame Bovary/ Gustave Flaubert
Thérèse Raquin/ Emile Zola
Les Liaisons dangereuses / Choderlos de Laclos
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anna Karenina/ Leo Tolstoy
THE BEST DEBAUCHERY
I, Claudius/ Robert Graves
Hangover Square/ Patrick Hamilton
The Beggar’s Opera/ John Gay
The Twelve Caesars/ Suetonius
Guys and Dolls/ Damon Runyon
THE BEST ACTION
Treasure Island/ Robert Louis Stevenson
The Iliad/ Homer
The Count Of Monte Cristo/ Alexandre Dumas
From Russia with Love/ Ian Fleming
War and Peace/ Leo Tolstoy
THE BEST LAUGHS
Cold Comfort Farm/ Stella Gibbons
The Diary of a Nobody/ George and Weedon Grossmith ^^^
The Pickwick Papers/ Charles Dickens
Scoop/ Evelyn Waugh
Lucky Jim/ Kingsley Amis
Bold: I've read
Woah, I am an illerate oaf. Some of those books are on my shelf waiting to be read (Treasure Island, The Odyssey and The Illiad) but overall I have failed.
supergeeThe 100 Best Penguin Classics ever, from the London Times
THE BEST CRAZIES
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
The Diary of a Madman/ Nikolai Gogol
Wide Sargasso Sea/ Jean Rhys
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE BEST SEX
Story of the Eye/ Georges Bataille ^^^
A Spy in the House of Love/ Anaïs Nin ^^^
Lady Chatterley’s Lover/ D. H. Lawrence ^^^
Venus In Furs/ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
The Canterbury Tales/ Geoffrey Chaucer
THE BEST VILLAINS
The Brothers Karamazov/ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness/ Joseph Conrad
Diamonds are Forever/ Ian Fleming
The Master and Margarita/ Mikhail Bulgakov
The Secret Agent/ Joseph Conrad
THE BEST LOVERS
A Room with a View/ E. M. Forster
Wuthering Heights/ Emily Brontë
Don Juan/ Lord Byron
Love In A Cold Climate/ Nancy Mitford
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/ Tennessee Williams
THE BEST HEROES
David Copperfield/ Charles Dickens
Middlemarch/ George Eliot
She/ H. Rider Haggard
The Fight/ Norman Mailer ^^^
No Easy Walk to Freedom/ Nelson Mandela
THE BEST TEARJERKERS
Of Mice and Men/ John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence/ Edith Wharton
Notre-Dame De Paris/ Victor Hugo
Jude the Obscure/ Thomas Hardy
The Old Curiosity Shop/ Charles Dickens
THE BEST SPINE-TINGLERS
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula/ Bram Stoke
Frankenstein/ Mary Shelley
The Castle of Otranto/ Horace Walpole
The Turn of the Screw/ Henry James
THE BEST MINXES
Vanity Fair/ William Makepeace Thackeray
Lolita/ Vladimir Nabokov
Baby Doll/ Tennessee Williams
Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ Truman Capote
Emma/ Jane Austen
THE BEST JOURNEYS
On the Road/ Jack Kerouac ^^^
The Odyssey/ Homer
The Grapes of Wrath/ John Steinbeck
Three Men in a Boat/ Jerome K. Jerome
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ Lewis Carroll
THE BEST DECADENCE
The Great Gatsby/ F. Scott Fitzgerald ^^^
Vile Bodies/ Evelyn Waugh
The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
The Beautiful and Damned/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Against Nature/ J. K. Huysmans
THE BEST REBELS
The Autobiography of Malcolm X/ Malcolm X
The Outsider/ Albert Camus
Animal Farm/ George Orwell
The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Les Misérables/ Victor Hugo
THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION
The Time Machine/ H. G. Wells
The Man in the High Castle/ Philip K. Dick
The Invisible Man/ H. G. Wells
The Day of the Triffids/ John Wyndham ^^^
We/ Yevgeny Zamyatin
THE BEST VIOLENCE
A Clockwork Orange/ Anthony Burgess
Hell’s Angels/ Hunter S. Thompson
A Tale of Two Cities/ Charles Dickens
Another Country/ James Baldwin
In Cold Blood/ Truman Capote
THE BEST HIGHS
Junky/ William S. Burroughs ^^^ [Why not Naked Lunch?]
The Moonstone/ Wilkie Collins
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater/ Thomas De Quincey
The Subterraneans/ Jack Kerouac
Monsieur Monde Vanishes / Georges Simenon
THE BEST SUBVERSION
1984/ George Orwell
The Monkey Wrench Gang/ Edward Abbey
The Prince/ Niccolo Machiavelli
Bound for Glory/ Woody Guthrie
Death of a Salesman/ Arthur Miller
THE BEST CRIMES
Maigret and the Ghost / Georges Simenon
The Woman in White/ Wilkie Collins
The Big Sleep/ Raymond Chandler
A Study in Scarlet/ Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps/ John Buchan
THE BEST ADULTERY
Madame Bovary/ Gustave Flaubert
Thérèse Raquin/ Emile Zola
Les Liaisons dangereuses / Choderlos de Laclos
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anna Karenina/ Leo Tolstoy
THE BEST DEBAUCHERY
I, Claudius/ Robert Graves
Hangover Square/ Patrick Hamilton
The Beggar’s Opera/ John Gay
The Twelve Caesars/ Suetonius
Guys and Dolls/ Damon Runyon
THE BEST ACTION
Treasure Island/ Robert Louis Stevenson
The Iliad/ Homer
The Count Of Monte Cristo/ Alexandre Dumas
From Russia with Love/ Ian Fleming
War and Peace/ Leo Tolstoy
THE BEST LAUGHS
Cold Comfort Farm/ Stella Gibbons
The Diary of a Nobody/ George and Weedon Grossmith ^^^
The Pickwick Papers/ Charles Dickens
Scoop/ Evelyn Waugh
Lucky Jim/ Kingsley Amis
Bold: I've read
Woah, I am an illerate oaf. Some of those books are on my shelf waiting to be read (Treasure Island, The Odyssey and The Illiad) but overall I have failed.
