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

Eats, Shoots, & Leaves

by Lynne Truss
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
language, humor, writing, English language
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
428.2

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback, 2002
Tags
economics, psychology, sociology, social psychology, business, marketing, change management
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
302

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

by Muriel Spark
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, fiction, English literature, satire, devil
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, English literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, post-apocalyptic, dystopia, aliens, blindness
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Sword of Honour Trilogy

by Evelyn Waugh
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, military, trilogy, World War II, history, Catholicism
Collection
Your library
Series
Sword of Honour (1-3)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Middlemarch

by George Eliot
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Great Books of the Western World 3: Homer

by Homer
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Great Books, Britannica, ancient world, history, Greek literature, fiction, adventure, military, ethics, epic, poetry — 1 more, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1-2)
Status
Available
Call number
809

Great Books of the Western World 41: Boswell

by James Boswell
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Great Books, English literature, fiction, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.609

Great Books of the Western World 44: Tocqueville

by Alexis de Tocqueville
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Great Books, American history, history, American culture, democracy
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
320.973

Great Books of the Western World 51: Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Russian literature, fiction, historical fiction, Great Books, epic, Napoleonic Wars
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

The Histories

by Herodotus
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, ancient world, history, Persia, Greece, Greek literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
930

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

by Dave Pelzer
Paperback, 1995
Tags
child abuse, autobiography, inspirational
Collection
Your library
Series
Dave Pelzer (1)
Status
Available
Call number
362.76092

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, Irish literature, epic, Ireland, modernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Winnie-La-Pu

by A. A. Milne
Hardcover, 1992
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

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

by Simon Schama
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
French Revolution, France, history
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
944.04

The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, juvenile literature, adventure, railroad
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

by Philip K. Dick
Paperback, 1987
Tags
American literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence
Collection
Your library
Series
Blade Runner (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway
Paperback, 1987
Tags
American literature, fiction, other classics series, Spain, Spanish Civil War, modernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Iliad: A New Prose Translation

by Homer
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

by Elizabeth Gaskell
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, adventure, allegory, satire, Irish literature, shipwreck, fantasy, speculative fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Paperback, 1986
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, Middle Ages, satire, epic, unreliable narrator, frame story, poetry
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.1

The Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, political philosophy, French philosophy
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
320.01

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, coming of age, Gothic fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

by Charles Darwin
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, evolution, history of science, history, natural history, biology
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
576

The Woman In White

by Wilkie Collins
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, Gothic fiction, mystery, epistolary, doppelganger
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Middlemarch

by George Eliot
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

by Thomas Hardy
Paperback, 1984
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin English Library, English literature, fiction, rural life
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Neuromancer

by William Gibson
Paperback, 1984
Tags
American literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, trilogy
Collection
Your library
Series
Sprawl (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli
Paperback, 1984
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 2, political philosophy, leadership, Italy, Renaissance, politics, strategy, philosophy, ethics
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
320.1

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
English literature, fiction, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.7

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame
Paperback, 1983
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 2, English literature, fiction, animal story, juvenile literature, fantasy, speculative fiction, {rscn}
Collection
Your library
Series
Wind in the Willows (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley
Paperback, 1983
Tags
Signet Classics 2, Signet Classics, English literature, fiction, horror, speculative fiction, science fiction, Gothic fiction, epistolary, frame story, romanticism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life

by Gustave Flaubert
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, French literature, fiction, women
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.8

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne
Paperback, 1981
Tags
French literature, fiction, Bantam Classics, exploration, adventure, science fiction, speculative fiction, juvenile literature
Collection
Your library
Series
Captain Nemo (1), Captain Nemo Trilogy (2), The Extraordinary Voyages (6)
Status
Available
Call number
843.8

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Series
The Barsetshire Chronicles (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Histories

by Herodotus
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, ancient world, history, Persia, Greece, Greek literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
930

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
808

The Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Bantam Classics, English literature, fiction, Scottish literature, juvenile literature, adventure, seafaring, pirate
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen
Paperback, 1980
Tags
English literature, fiction, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 2
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.7

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, English literature, fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.7

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud
Paperback, 1980
Tags
psychology, sleep & dreams, psychoanalysis
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
150

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin English Library, English literature, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.609

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert Pirsig
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Buddhism, Zen, travel writing, spirituality, memoir, philosophy, ethics, American literature, fiction, eastern philosophy, autobiographical fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Life of Johnson: Unabridged

by James Boswell
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, biography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
828.609

Confessions

by Augustine
Paperback, 1980
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Christianity, theology, autobiography, philosophy, spirituality, Patristics, apologetics, Catholicism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
270.2092
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