A while back, Easton Pres put together its list of the 100 Greatest Books Ever and described the collection as the "most renowned works of literature by history’s greatest authors." It was an interesting mix that includes books going back to ancient times, from around the world, and includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Easton Press used to sell the whole set in its fancy, leather-bound editions. The list is no longer on the Easton Press website and it no longer sells the books as a set, although they are available individually. They are also all available elsewhere in other formats and editions.
Here is the list, with notes about whether I've read a book, it is on my TBR shelf, or it is available as an audiobook from my library. So far, I've read of the 68 of the 100, but don't know if I will ever read them all. How about you?
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne ON OVERDRIVE
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne FINISHED
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson FINISHED
Walden by Henry David Thoreau FINISHED
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift FINISHED
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (reviewed here)* FINISHED
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway FINISHED
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane FINISHED
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling* TBR SHELF
The Odyssey by Homer FINISHED
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan FINISHED
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (reviewed here) FINISHED
Paradise Lost by John Milton FINISHED
Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton ON OVERDRIVE
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (reviewed here) FINISHED
Candide by Voltaire FINISHED
Oedipus the King by Sophocles FINISHED
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo ON OVERDRIVE
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper* TBR SHELF
The Sea Wolf by Jack London TBR SHELF
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer FINISHED
Collected Poems by Robert Browning
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson TBR SHELF
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James FINISHED
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (reviewed here) FINISHED
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson FINISHED
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle FINISHED
Collected Poems by John Keats
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ON OVERDRIVE
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra TBR SHELF
Collected Poems by Robert Frost TBR SHELF
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving FINISHED
Animal Farm by George Orwell FINISHED
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë FINISHED
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith FINISHED
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck FINISHED
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen FINISHED
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky FINISHED
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo ON OVERDRIVE
The Iliad by Homer FINISHED
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence FINISHED
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas* FINISHED
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley FINISHED
Aesop's Fables by Aesop FINISHED
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad FINISHED
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin ON OVERDRIVE
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas* FINISHED
Politics and Poetics by Aristotle TBR SHELF
The Aeneid by Virgil FINISHED
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert FINISHED
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli FINISHED
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë FINISHED
Hamlet by William Shakespeare FINISHED
Pygmalion and Candida by George Bernard Shaw TBR SHELF and FINISHED
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe* FINISHED
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare FINISHED
The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov TBR SHELF
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri FINISHED
The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare FINISHED
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats (reading now)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde FINISHED
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray TBR SHELF
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio FINISHED
Beowulf FINISHED
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy TBR SHELF
The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant TBR SHELF
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells FINISHED
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev FINISHED
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad FINISHED
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy TBR SHELF (reading now)
The History of Early Rome by Livy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott FINISHED
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott TBR SHELF
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy FINISHED
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll FINISHED
Dracula by Bram Stoker (reviewed here) FINISHED
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám FINISHED
The Red and the Black by Stendhal FINISHED
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens FINISHED
The Republic by Plato TBR SHELF
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson TBR SHELF
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe FINISHED
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding* TBR SHELF
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay FINISHED
Silas Marner by George Eliot FINISHED
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine ON OVERDRIVE
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (reading now)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville TBR SHELF
The Confessions by St. Augustine FINISHED
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe FINISHED
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott TBR SHELF
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler* FINISHED
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (reviewed here)* FINISHED
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky FINISHED
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm FINISHED
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain* FINISHED
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley FINISHED
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens FINISHED
NOTES
This is a repost of the list I first posted in 2009. The links needed refreshing.
The original list is no longer available on the Easton Press website, so I don't know why the books are listed in this order. The aren't listed in alphabetical order by title or author, nor are they listed by publication date. They must be listed by Easton Press catalog number or publication date, but I don't remember.
* Marks those that I have in the fancy Easton Press edition, thanks to a lovely Christmas gift from Hubby.
