110 best books: The perfect library

From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… we present the ultimate reading list. Illustrations by David Juniper

The Illiad and The Odyssey

The Barchester Chronicles

Pride and Prejudice

Gulliver's Travels

Jane Eyre

War and Peace

David Copperfield

Vanity Fair

Madame Bovary

Middlemarch

POETRY

Sonnets

Divine Comedy

Canterbury Tales

The Prelude
William Wordsworth

Odes

The Waste Land

Paradise Lost

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Collected Poems
W. B. Yeats

Collected Poems
Ted Hughes

LITERARY FICTION

The Portrait of a Lady

A la recherche du temps perdu
Proust

Ulysses
James Joyce

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Sword of Honour trilogy

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Rabbit series

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Beloved

The Human Stain

Rebecca

Le Morte D'Arthur

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

I, Claudius

Alexander Trilogy

Master and Commander

Gone with the Wind

Dr Zhivago

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The Plantagenet Saga

Swallows and Amazons

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe