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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Venerable Bede · 731 AD
Beowulf
Anonymous · 750 AD
Manual (Enchiridion)
Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey · 1011 AD
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400 AD
King James Bible (Authorized Version)
47 scholars, commissioned by King James I · 1611 AD
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon · 1620 AD
Complete Works (First Folio)
William Shakespeare · 1623 AD
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes · 1651 AD
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 AD
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · 1687 AD
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke · 1689 AD
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 AD
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776 AD
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 1776 AD
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 AD
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 AD
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 AD
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 AD
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1859 AD
Great Expectations / David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1861 AD
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 AD
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1890 AD
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer · 1890 AD
Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1891 AD
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 AD
The Jungle Book / Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 1894 AD
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · 1895 AD
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 AD
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton · 1908 AD
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton · 1908 AD
Pygmalion / Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw · 1913 AD
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 1922 AD
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 1922 AD
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 AD
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932 AD
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 AD
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot · 1943 AD
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek · 1944 AD
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 AD
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · 1945 AD
1984
George Orwell · 1949 AD
The Second World War (6 vols)
Winston Churchill · 1953 AD
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954 AD
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 AD
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 AD
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing · 1962 AD
The Homecoming / Betrayal
Harold Pinter · 1965 AD
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 AD
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