Awards search:The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

I, Claudius

by Robert Graves
Paperback, 1979
Tags
Ancient Rome, historical fiction, fiction, English literature, biography
Collection
Your library
Series
Claudius (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813

The Portable Dante

by Dante Alighieri
Paperback, 1977
Tags
Italian literature, fiction, Viking Portable, portable, epic, cosmology, afterlife
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
851.1

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Paperback, 1977
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, English literature, Middle Ages, satire, short stories, epic, unreliable narrator, frame story, poetry
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.1

The Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Penguin Classics, Pelican Classics, political philosophy, philosophy, American history, history, political science, American Revolution, French Revolution, human rights
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
320.5

The Twelve Caesars

by Suetonius
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Ancient Rome, biography, history
Collection
Your library
Series
The Twelve Caesars (1-12)
Status
Available
Call number
937.070922

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

by T. E. Lawrence
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Penguin Modern Classics, Penguin Classics, Islam, memoir, military history, history, World War I, autobiography, Israel & Palestine, Arabs, Ottoman Empire — 1 more, orientalism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
940.415

The Return of the King

by J.R.R. Tolkien
Paperback, 1974
Tags
English literature, fiction, adventure, fantasy, speculative fiction, epic, trilogy, Middle Earth
Collection
Your library
Series
The Lord of the Rings (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Winnie-la-Pu: An Esperanto Version of A. A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh

by A. A. Milne
Paperback, 1972
Tags
English literature, fiction, animal story, juvenile literature, Esperanto, conlang
Collection
Your library
Series
Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne Original) (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Paperback, 1972
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, French literature, fiction, epistolary, decadence
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.6

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback, 1971
Tags
Latin American literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, epic, Columbian literature, Bard books, family saga
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
863.64

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Comic book, 1969
Tags
Classics Illustrated, comic book
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 1969
Tags
dystopia, speculative fiction, English literature, fiction, Perennial Classic, science fiction, social psychology, satire, totalitarianism, futurism, sleep learning
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy
Paperback, 1968
Tags
Russian literature, fiction, historical fiction, epic, Napoleonic Wars
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes
Paperback, 1968
Tags
Penguin Classics, Pelican Classics, political philosophy, philosophy, empiricism, political science, British philosophy
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
320.1

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1967
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, adventure, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Encyclopedia: Selections

by Denis Diderot
Paperback, 1967
Tags
French literature, fiction, Enlightenment, encyclopedia, Torchbook
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
034

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov
Paperback, 1966
Tags
American literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, space opera, epic
Collection
Your library
Series
Asimov's Universe (13), Foundation (3), Foundation Expanded Universe (11)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition

by Thucydides
Paperback, 1965
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Greece, history, military history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
938.05

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell
Hardcover, 1964
Tags
American literature, fiction, epic, American South, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert
Paperback, 1964
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, French literature, fiction, women, realism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.8

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, American literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.4

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology, Anchor books
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, English literature, fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, French literature, fiction, decadence, epistolary
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback, 1962
Tags
English literature, fiction, Airmont Classics, Scottish literature, juvenile literature, adventure, seafaring, pirate
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

by Keith Baines Rendition
Paperback, 1962
Tags
English literature, fiction, Middle Ages, Arthurian, Mentor book, Holy Grail
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.2

The Iliad: The Story of Achilles

by Homer
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology, Mentor book
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides
Paperback, 1961
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin original, Greece, military history, history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
938.05

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1960
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak
Paperback, 1958
Tags
Russian literature, fiction, historical fiction, epic, Russian Revolution
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1957
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Waste Land and Other Poems

by T. S. Eliot
Paperback, 1955
Tags
American literature, fiction, poetry, modernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.912

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte
Hardcover, 1954?
Tags
English literature, fiction, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell
Hardcover, 1952
Tags
Modern Library Classics, English literature, fiction, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.609

The Complete Writings Of Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides
Hardcover, 1951
Tags
Modern Library Classics, Greek literature, fiction, Greece, history, military history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
938.05

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens
Comic book, 1950
Tags
Classics Illustrated, comic book
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

1984

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1949
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, English literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, alienation, allegory, totalitarianism, science fiction, futurism — 1 more, politics
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens
Hardcover, 1948
Tags
English literature, fiction, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Hardcover, 1946
Tags
English literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, totalitarianism, International Collectors Library, {rscn}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Odyssey

by Homer
Hardcover, 1944
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, Classics Club
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Iliad

by Homer
Hardcover, 1942
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, Classics Club
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1937
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology, Mentor book
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Hardcover, 1934
Tags
English literature, fiction, poetry, International Collectors Library, Middle Ages, {rscn}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.1

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon

by Lytton Strachey
Hardcover, 1933
Tags
Modern Library Classics, Britain, biography, debunking, history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
941.0810922

The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift
Hardcover, 1932
Tags
English literature, fiction, Black's Readers Service
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.5
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