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1. 1.

   Chinua Achebe

   recommended
   • Things Fall Apart and others
2. 2.

   Jane Austen

   recommended
   • Pride and Prejudice and others
3. 3.

   Robert Michael Ballantyne

   • The Young Fur-Traders, 1856
   • The Coral Island, 1857
   • The World of Ice, 1859
   • Ungava: A Tale of Eskimo Land, 1857
   • The Dog Crusoe, 1860
   • The Lighthouse, 1865
   • Fighting the Whales, 1866
4. 4.

   Georges Bernanos

   • Diary of a Country Priest
5. 5.

   Richard Blackmore

   • Lorna Doone; and others
6. 6.

   Ray Bradbury

   recommended
   • Fahrenheit 451
7. 7.

   Charlotte Brontë

   recommended
   • Jane Eyre
8. 8.

   Geoffrey Chaucer

   • The Canterbury Tales
9. 9.

   Anton Chekhov

   • Stories; and other plays
10. 10.

    G.K. Chesterton

    recommended
    • Father Brown series
    • The Everlasting Man
    • The Man Who Was Thursday
11. 11.

    Charles Dickens

    recommended
    • Oliver Twist
    • Great Expectations
    • A Christmas Carol
    • David Copperfield
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Hard Times
12. 12.

    Feodor Dostoyevsky

    recommended
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Brothers Karamazov and others
13. 13.

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    recommended
    • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
14. 14.

    Alexander Dumas

    • The Count of Monte Cristo
15. 15.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • The Great Gatsby, 1925
16. 16.

    William Golding

    recommended
    • Lord of The Flies
17. 17.

    Ernest Hemingway

    recommended
    • The Old Man and the Sea
18. 18.

    Homer

    • The Iliad8th Century BC
19. 19.

    Victor Hugo

    • Les Miserables
20. 20.

    Zora Neale Hurston

    recommended
    • Their Eyes Were Watching God
21. 21.

    Harper Lee

    recommended
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
22. 22.

    Jack London

    • The Call of the Wild, 1903
23. 23.

    George MacDonald

    recommended
    • The Princess and the Goblin, 1872
    • The Princess and Curdie, 1883The sequel to The Princess and the Goblin
    • At the Back of the North Wind, 1871
    • The Wise Woman: A Parable, 1875Also known as The Lost Princess
    • Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, 1871
    • The Light Princess, 1864
    • The Golden Key, 1867
    • The Day Boy and the Night Girl, 1882
    • The Giant's Heart, 1867
24. 24.

    Madeleine L'Engle

    recommended
    • A Wrinkle in Time
25. 25.

    Herman Melville

    • Moby Dick; Billy Budd; and others
26. 26.

    George Orwell

    • Animal Farm
27. 27.

    Howard Pyle

    recommended
    • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, 1902
28. 28.

    J.D. Salinger

    recommended
    • The Catcher In The Rye
29. 29.

    Kate Seredy

    recommended
    • The White Stag
30. 30.

    William Shakespeare

    recommended
    • HamletSide by side modern English translation
    • Julius CaesarSide by side modern English translation
    • MacbethSide by side modern English translation
    • Romeo and JulietSide by side modern English translation
    • Taming of the ShrewSide by side modern English translation
    • As You Like ItSide by side modern English translation
31. 31.

    Mary Shelley

    recommended
    • Frankenstein
32. 32.

    John Steinbeck

    recommended
    • Of Mice and Men
    • The Grapes of Wrath
33. 33.

    Bram Stoker

    • Dracula
34. 34.

    Leo Tolstoy

    recommended
    • War and Peace; and others
35. 35.

    Evelyn Waugh

    • Brideshead Revisited
36. 36.

    T.H. White

    recommended
    • The Sword in the Stone, 1938
    • The Witch in the Wood, 1939
    • The Ill-Made Knight, 1940
    • The Candle in the Wind, 1940
    • The Book of Merlyn, 1977

The Kenneth Clark series Civilisation. Clark published a book with illustrations and the text of the series. And most important, visits to museums and galleries.

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