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Back to that list of the world’s greatest books.  I managed to come up with another ten for my personal list. 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Measure for Measure (1603) PG
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) Wikipedia Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) PGA
Various (-) Wikipedia Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1714)
Ovid (43bc-17) Wikipedia Metamorhoses (8)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Wikipedia Metamorphosis (1915) PG
George Eliot (1819-1880) Wikipedia Middlemarch (1871) PG
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Wikipedia Miss Julie (1888)
Nathanael West (1903-1940) Wikipedia Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) PGA
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Wikipedia Moby Dick (1851) PG
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Wikipedia Moll Flanders (1722) PG
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Wikipedia Mother (1907) Freeread
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia Mrs Dalloway (1925) PGA
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Much Ado About Nothing (1598) PG
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Wikipedia My Antonia (1918) Freeread
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Wikipedia Nana (1880)
George Gissing (1857-1903) Wikipedia New Grub Street (1891) Freeread
William Morris (1834-1896) Wikipedia News from Nowhere (1891) Freeread
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Wikipedia Nicholas Nickleby (1839) PG
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia Night and Day (1941) Freeread
George Orwell (1903-1950) Wikipedia Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) PGA
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) Wikipedia North and South (1855) PG
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Wikipedia Northanger Abbey (1818) Freeread
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Wikipedia Nostromo (1904) Freeread
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Wikipedia Notes from the Underground (1864) PG
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Wikipedia O Pioneers! (1913) Freeread
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) Wikipedia Oblomovka (1859)
John Keats (1795-1821) Wikipedia Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820) PGA
John Keats (1795-1821) Wikipedia Ode to a Nightingale (1819) PGA
Sappho (c620bc-c570bc) Wikipedia Ode to Aphrodite (-600)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Wikipedia Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) PG
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Wikipedia Oedipus at Colonus (-401) PG
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Wikipedia Oedipus Tyrannus (-429) PG
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Wikipedia Oliver Twist (1838) PG
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Wikipedia On Liberty (1859)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Wikipedia On the Eve (1860) PG
Lucretius (c94bc-c49bc) Wikipedia On the Nature of Things (-55) PG
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Wikipedia One, None and a Hundred Thousand (1926)
Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) Wikipedia Oresteia (-458) PGA
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia Orlando (1928) PGA
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) Wikipedia Ormond (1817) PG
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Wikipedia Oroonoko (1688) PGA
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Othello (1604) PG
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Wikipedia Our Mutual Friend (1865) PG
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Wikipedia Ozymandias (1819) PG
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Wikipedia Pamela (1742) PG
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) Wikipedia Parade’s End (1928) PGA
John Milton (1608-1674) Wikipedia Paradise Lost (1667) PG
John Milton (1608-1674) Wikipedia Paradise Regained (1671) PG
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Wikipedia Paul’s Case (1905) Freeread
Unknown (-) Wikipedia Pearl (1375)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Wikipedia Peer Gynt (1867) PGA
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Wikipedia Pensees (1670) PG
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Wikipedia Peregrine Pickle (1751) PG
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Wikipedia Persuasion (1818) Freeread
James M Barrie (1860-1937) Wikipedia Peter Pan (1904) PGA
Jean Racine (1639-1699) Wikipedia Phedra (Phaedra, Phedre) (1677) PG
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Wikipedia Phineas Finn (1869) PG
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Wikipedia Pickwick Papers (1836) PG
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Wikipedia Pierre and Jean (1888) PG
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Wikipedia Poetry of Emily Dickinson (1890) PG
William James (1842-1910) Wikipedia Pragmatism (1907) Freeread
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Wikipedia Pride and Prejudice (1813) Freeread
Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) Wikipedia Prometheus Bound (-460) PG
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Wikipedia Prometheus Unbound (1820) PG
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Wikipedia Pygmalion (1913) Freeread
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) Wikipedia Quo Vadis (1896) Freeread
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Wikipedia Rameau’s Nephew (1805) PGA
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) Wikipedia Rashomon (1915)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Wikipedia Rasselas (1759) PG
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Wikipedia Remembrance of Things Past (1913) PGA
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Wikipedia Representative Men (1850) PG
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Wikipedia Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Richard the Second (1595) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Richard the Third (1593) PG
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Wikipedia Rights of Man (1791) PG
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Wikipedia Rip Van Winkle (1819) PG
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Wikipedia Rob Roy (1817) PG
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Wikipedia Robinsoe Crusoe (1719) PG
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Wikipedia Roderick Random (1749) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Romeo and Juliet (1595) PG
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Wikipedia Roxana (1724) PGA
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Wikipedia Sailing to Byzantium (1928) PGA
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Wikipedia Saint Joan (1923) PGA
John Milton (1608-1674) Wikipedia Samson Agonistes (1671)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Wikipedia Sense and Sensibility (1811) Freeread
H Rider Haggard (1856-1925) Wikipedia She (1887) PG
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Wikipedia She Stoops to Conquer (1773) PG
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Wikipedia Shirley (1849) PGA
George Eliot (1819-1880) Wikipedia Silas Marner (1861) PG
Unknown (-) Wikipedia Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1300) PG
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Wikipedia Sister Carrie (1900) Freeread
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Wikipedia Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) PGA
Somerville/Ross (1858/1862-1949/1915) Wikipedia Some Experiences of an Irish R M (1899)
William Blake (1757-1827) Wikipedia Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Sonnets (1609) PG
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Wikipedia Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) PG
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Wikipedia Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia Sons and Lovers (1913) Freeread
André Gide (1869-1951) Wikipedia Strait is the Gate (1909)

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