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Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
1.  Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by John Keats
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  "Keats' genius was his ability to make the reader feel the same emotions he had felt, just through words on the page.  He was the greatest poet of the greatest generation of poetry."
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Anna Karenin (Classics)
2.  Anna Karenin (Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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  "The best book I have ever read.  Tolstoy 's understanding of the human mind was astounding and Anna is the ultimate heroine."
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Dover Thrift)
3.  The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Dover Thrift) by Oscar Wilde
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  "This incredibly moving with the jovial rhyme scheme becoming strangely eerie after a while."
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Catch-22
4.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "The greatest war parody ever, not to mention extremely witty."
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
5.  Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
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  "Better known for his prose but his poetry is fantastically ironic, amusing and satirical in one respect and demure, atmospheric and tragic in another."
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Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
6.  Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
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  "Eliot's greatest work."
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Ariel
7.  Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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  "Plath's poetry was amazingly sad and moving.  'Daddy' is wonderfully powerful."
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The Rachel Papers
8.  The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
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  "Classic Amis.  Fantastic portrayal of adolescent relationships and very funny."
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Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (Casebook)
9.  Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (Casebook) by Margaret Bottrall
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  "This is perhaps the most simplistic aspect of Blake but it contains some of the most beautiful and savage verse ever written."
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To Kill A Mockingbird
10.  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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  "I defy anyone to read this book and not be touched by the message and style."
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The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
11.  The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
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  "Wilfred Owen was the greatest writer of the horrors of war - bar none."
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Vintage classics)
12.  Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Vintage classics) by Patrick Hamilton
The list author says:
  "This is three novels combined into one by the much overlooked Patrick Hamilton.  His genius was his understanding of the underclasses of London.  A 20th Century Dickens."
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Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)
13.  Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by William Yeats
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  "Read the 'long-legged fly'."
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
14.  Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
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  "Brilliant both as an allegory for the corruption of revolution and simply as a story."
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Penguin Great Ideas : Why I Write
15.  Penguin Great Ideas : Why I Write by George Orwell
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  "His essays give a better understanding of Orwell himself.  It is rare that a book truly changes the way one thinks but this did."
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Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
16.  Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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  "T.S. Eliot wrote hauntingly of human nature."
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Selected Poems
17.  Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
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  "He wrote brilliantly of all aspects of society and was wonderfully profound."
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Heart Of Darkness
18.  Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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  "An amazing chronicle on the effects of imperialsm, human nature and the subconscious.  Read in tandem with T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men'."
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Macbeth (Penguin Popular Classics)
19.  Macbeth (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
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  "Shakepeare always appers on lists such this, and for a reason.  Macbeth, for me, his his most atmospheric, passionate work with some extraordinary verse."
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A Streetcar Named Desire
20.  A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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  "Tennessee Williams was the greatest playwright of modern times and the power, lust, desire and fantastic analysis of human weakness and superficiality in this, make it his finest work."
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