The Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

Begun in the 1960’s, Easton Press has expanded their list of the 100 Greatest to 125 titles. Many are no longer in print and only available on the secondary market.

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  1. Aeschylus – The Oresteia

  2. Aesop - Aesop’s Fables

  3. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women

  4. Aristophanes – The Birds, The Frogs

  5. Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics

  6. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice

  7. Bacon, Sir Francis – Essays/ Effayes

  8. Baudelaire, Charles – The Flowers of Evil

  9. Beowulf

  10. Boccaccio, Giovanni – The Decameron

  11. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre

  12. Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights

  13. Browning, Robert – Collected Poems

  14. Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress

  15. Burton, Richard – The Arabian Nights

  16. Butler, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh

  17. Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland

  18. Cervantes - Don Quixote

  19. Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales

  20. Chekhov, Anton – Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard/ Three Sisters

  21. Confucius – The Analects of Confucius

  22. Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness

  23. Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim

  24. Cooper, James Fennimore – The Last of the Mohicans

  25. Crane, Stephen – Red Badge of Courage

  26. Dante – The Divine Comedy

  27. Darwin, Charles – The Descent of Man

  28. Darwin, Charles – On The Origin of Species

  29. Defoe, Daniel – Journal of the Plague Year

  30. Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe

  31. Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities

  32. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield

  33. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations

  34. Dickens, Charles – Short Stories

  35. Dickinson, Emily – Collected Poems

  36. Donne, John – Collected Poems

  37. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment

  38. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov

  39. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  40. Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo

  41. Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers

  42. Eliot, George – Middlemarch

  43. Eliot, George – Silas Marner

  44. Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss

  45. Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays

  46. Euripides: Medea – Hippolytus – The Bacchae

  47. Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury

  48. Federalist - Hamilton, Madison, Jay – The Federalist Papers

  49. Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones

  50. Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary

  51. Franklin, Benjamin – Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

  52. Frost, Robert – Collected Poems

  53. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust

  54. Goldsmith, Oliver – She Stoops to Conquer

  55. Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales

  56. Hardy, Thomas – Jude the Obscure

  57. Hardy, Thomas – Return of the Native

  58. Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  59. Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter

  60. Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms

  61. Holy Bible

  62. Homer – Iliad

  63. Homer – Odyssey

  64. Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables

  65. Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame De Paris)

  66. Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World

  67. Ibsen, Henrik – Three Plays

  68. Irving, Washington – The Alhambra

  69. Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories

  70. James, Henry – Portrait of a Lady

  71. Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  72. Keats, John – Collected Poems

  73. Khayyam, Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  74. Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Books

  75. Lawrence, DH – Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  76. Livy – History of Early Rome

  77. London, Jack – The Sea Wolf

  78. Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince

  79. Maupassant, Guy de – The Tales of Guy de Maupassant

  80. Melville, Herman – Billy Budd/ Benito Cereno

  81. Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick

  82. Milton, John – Paradise Lost

  83. Moliere – Two Plays

  84. Orwell, George – Animal Farm

  85. Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man

  86. Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship

  87. Plato – The Republic

  88. Poe, Edgar Allan – Tales of Mystery and Imagination

  89. Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac

  90. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques– The Confessions

  91. Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe

  92. Scott, Walter – The Talisman

  93. Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  94. Shakespeare, William – Hamlet

  95. Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet

  96. Shakespeare, William – The Comedies

  97. Shakespeare, William – The Histories

  98. Shakespeare, William – The Tragedies

  99. Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion and Candida

  100. Shaw, George Bernard – Two Plays for Puritans

  101. Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein

  102. Sophocles – Oedipus the King

  103. St. Augustine – The Confessions of St. Augustine

  104. Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men

  105. Stendhal – The Red and the Black

  106. Sterne, Lawrence – Tristram Shandy

  107. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  108. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island

  109. Stoker, Bram – Dracula

  110. Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  111. Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels

  112. Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair

  113. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden

  114. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina

  115. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace

  116. Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons

  117. Twain, Mark – Huckleberry Finn

  118. Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

  119. Virgil – The Aeneid

  120. Voltaire – Candide

  121. Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine

  122. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass

  123. Wilde, Oscar – Short Stories

  124. Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray

  125. Yeats, W.B. – Collected Poems