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141.Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
142. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
143. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
144. King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
145. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
146. Middlemarch by George Eliot
147. Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
148. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
149. The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
150. In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
151. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
152. The Enchanted Wanderer by Nicolai Leskov
153. Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
154. The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
155. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
156. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
157. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
158. Drunkard by Emile Zola
159. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
160. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

121. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
122. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
123. Great Expectations b Charles Dickens
124. Silas Marner by George Eliot
125. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
126. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
127. The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
128. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
129. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
130. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
131. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
132. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
133. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
134. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
135. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
136. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
137. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
138. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
139. Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont
140. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

For those readers not from Saskatchewan, Regina is the capital city of the province (right in the middle of Canada). To celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2008, they compiled this list of most memorable and favourite reads from their voting patrons.

1. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
9. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
13. Little Women by L.M. Alcott
14. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
16. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
17. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
18. Dracula by Bram Stoker
19. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
23. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
24. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
25. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
26. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
27. Matilda by Roald Dahl
28. Persuasion by Jane Austen
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
31. The Poisonwood Bible by Barabra Kingsolver
32. The Stone Angel by  Margaret Laurence
33. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
34. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
35. Blindness by Jose Saramago
36. Emma by Jane Austen
37. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
38. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
39. Jurassic Park by Micheal Crichton
40. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
41. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
42. Roots by Alex Haley
43. The Bible
44. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
45. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
46. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
47. The Husband by Dean Koontz
48. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
49. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
50. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
51. The Stand by Stephen King
52. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
53. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
54. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
55. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
56. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
57. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
58. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
59. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
60. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
61. Cirque de Freak by Darren Shan
62. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
63. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
64. Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen
65. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
66. Exodus by Leon Uris
67. Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
68. Five Smooth Stones by Anne Fairbairn
69. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
70. Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill by Ralph Martin
71. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
72. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
73. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
74. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
75. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
76. North and South by John Jakes
77. Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
78. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. Sabriel by Garth Nix
80. Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
81. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
82. Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
83. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
84. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
85. The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
86. The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
87. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
88. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
89. Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
90. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
91. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
92. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
93. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
94. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
95. Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
96. The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
97. True History f the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
98. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
99. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Even though these authors didn’t make Burt’s Top 100 list, he thought he’d include them anyway as ‘honorable mentions’ (this is his way of saying, “I know I didn’t include anyone actually breathing on my top 100 list.”

So, here it is along with any Britty reviews, if applicable:

Chinua Achebe
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Edward Albee
Matthew Arnold
Miguel Angel Asturias
Margaret Atwood
W. H. Auden
Isaac Babel
James Baldwin
Amiri Baraka
Saul Bellow
Elizabeth Bishop
Heinrich Boll
Bertolt Brecht
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mikhail Bulgakov
Robert Burns
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Aime Cesaire
Kate Chopin
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pierre Corneille

Ruben Dario
Denis Diderot
Birago Diop
Jose Donoso
John Dos Passos
John Dryden
Ford Madox Ford
Robert Frost
Carlos Fuentes
Ghalib
Andre Gide
Allen Ginsberg
Nikolai Gogol
Nadine Gordimer
Knut Hamsun
Heinrich Heine
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Horace
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Eugene Ionesco
Ben Johnson
Kalidasa
Kawabata Yasunari
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Milan Kundera
Marie de la Vergne. comtesse de La Fayette
Giacomo Leopardi
Mikhail Lermontov
Doris Lessing
Li Po
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Naguib Mahfouz
Norman Mailer
Stephanie Mallarme
Sir Thomas Malory
Marguerite de Navarre
Christopher Marlow
Matsuo Basho
Guy de Maupassant
Arthur Miller
Gabriela Mistral
Toni Morrison
V.S. Naipaul
Natsume Soseki
George Orwell
Petronius
Pindar
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello
Ezra Pound
Thomas Pychon
Samuel Richardson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Arthur Rimbaud
Pierre de Ronsard
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sa’di
J.D. Salinger
Sappho
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich von SChiller
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Wole Soyinka
Edmund Spenser
John Steinbeck
Tom Stoppard
Tawfiq Al-Hakim
Dylan Thomas
Ivan Turgenev
Paul Valery
Lope de Vega
Paul Verlaine
Francois Villon
Edith Wharton
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams

This book claims to be “a ranking of the most influential novelists, playwrights and poets of all time.” Do you agree?

Britty Book reviews are attached where available.

1.  William Shakespeare
2.   Dante Alighieri
3.  Homer
4.  Leo Tolstoy
5.  Geoffrey Chaucer
6.  Charles Dickens
7.  James Joyce
8.  John Milton
9.  Virgil
10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda
12. Murasaki Shikibu
13. Sophocles
14. William Faulkner
15. Feodor Dostoevsky
16. T.S. Eliot
17. Marcel Proust
18. Jane Austen
19. George Eliot
20. William Butler Yeats

21. Alexander Pushkin
22. Euripedes
23. John Donne
24. Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor
25. John Keats
26. Ovid
27. Tu Fu
28. William Blake
29. Aeschylus
30. Gustave Flaubert
31. Franz Kafka
32. Moliere
33. William Wordsworth
34. Aristophanes
35. Thomas Mann
36. Henrik Ibsen
37. Anton Chekhov
38. Henry James
“Daisy Miller: A Case Study”
Portrait of a Lady
39. Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
40. Walt Whitman
“Songs of Myself”

41. Honore de Balzac
42. Jonathan Swift
43. Stendhal
44. Thomas Hardy
45. George Bernard Shaw
46. Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
47. D. H. Lawrence
48. Charles Baudelaire
49. Samuel Beckett
50. Virginia Woolf
51. Alexander Pope
52. Francois Rabelais
53. Francesco Petrarch
54. Emily Dickinson
55. Edgar Allan Poe
56. Henry Fielding
57. Joseph Conrad
58. Robert Browning
59. Albert Camus
60. Charlotte Bronte

61. Emily Bronte
62. Jean Racine
63. Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
64. August Strindberg
65. Emile Zola
66. Jorge Luis Borges
67. Cao Xueqin
68. Giovanni Boccaccio
69. Voltaire
70. Laurence Sterne
71. William Makepeace Thackeray
72. Percy Bysshe Shelley
73. Eugene O’Neill
74. Wallace Stevens
75. George Gordon, Lord Byron
76. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
77. Walter Scott
78. Pablo Neruda
79. Robert Musil
80. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

81. Flannery O’Connor
82. Catullus
83. Federico Garcia Lorca
84. Nathaniel Hawthorne
85. Theodore Dreiser
86. Ralph Ellison
87. Anthony Trollope
88. F. Scott Fitzgerald
89. Victor Hugo
90. Rabindranath Tagore
91. Daniel Defoe
92. Gunter Grass
93. Lu Xun
94. E.M. Forster
95. Isaac Bashevis Singer
96. Tanizaki Jun’Ichiro
97. Richard Wright
98. Gertrude Stein
99. Zeami Motokiyo
100.Oscar Wilde

Burt also include a few pages of honorable mentions which are included in another post.

101.  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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102.  Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
103.  Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
104. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
105.  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
106.  Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
107.  The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
108.  The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
109.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
110.  Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
111.  Villette by Charlotte Bronte
112.  Bleak House by Charles Dickens
113.  Walden by Henry David Thoreau
114.  Hard Times by Charles Dickens
115.  North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
116.  Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
117.  Adam Bede by George Eliot
118.  Oblomovka by Ivan Goncharov
119.  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
120.  Max Havelaar by Multatuli

81.  Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac

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82.  Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
83.  The Nose by Nikolay Gogol
84.  Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
85.  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
86.  The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
87.  The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
88.  Dead Souls by Nickolay Gogol
89.  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
90.  Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
91.  The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
92.  Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
93.  The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
94.  The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
95.  La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
96.  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
97.  Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
98.  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
99.  Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

41.  Humphry Clinker by Tobias George Smollett

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42.  The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
43.  Evelina by Fanny Burney
44.  Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
45.  Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
46.  Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
47.  Cecelia by Fanny Burney
48.  The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
49.  Vathek by William Beckford
50.  Justine by Marquis de Sade
51.  The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
52.  The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
53.  The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ratcliffe
54.  Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
55.  The Monk by M.G. Lewis
56.  Camilla by Fanny Burney
57.  Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
58.  The Nun by Denis Diderot
59.  Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin

14.  A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

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15.  Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
16.  Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
17.  Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
18.  Roxana by Daniel Defoe
19.  Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  20.  A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
21.  Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
22.  Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
23.  Pamela by Samuel Richardson
24.  Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
25.  Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett
26.  Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
27.  Fanny Hill by John Cleland
28.  Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
29.  Amelia by Henry Fielding
30.  The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
31.  Candide by Voltaire
32.  Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
33.  Julie; or, the New Eloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
34.  Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
35.  Emile; or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
36.  The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
37.  The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
38.  Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
39.  A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
40.  The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie

1. Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
   

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2. Metamorphoses by Ovid
3. Chaireas and Kallirhoe by Chariton
4. Aithiopika by Heliodorus
5. The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
6. The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
7. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
8. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly
9. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
10. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
11. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
12. The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
13. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn