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Five lesser-known classics from your favourite authors.

Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime

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  1. Book cover for Anne of Avonlea

    Anne of Avonlea

    L. M. Montgomery

  2. Book cover for The Aeneid

    The Aeneid

    Virgil

  3. Book cover for Meditations

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

  4. Book cover for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

  5. Book cover for Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  6. Book cover for The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Mark Twain

  7. Book cover for Selected Poems

    Selected Poems

    William Wordsworth

  8. Book cover for The Original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts

    The Original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts

    Douglas Adams

  9. Book cover for The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    Douglas Adams

  10. Book cover for Life, the Universe and Everything

    Life, the Universe and Everything

    Douglas Adams

  11. Book cover for So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

    So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

    Douglas Adams

  12. Book cover for Mostly Harmless

    Mostly Harmless

    Douglas Adams

  13. Book cover for In a Free State

    In a Free State

    V.S. Naipaul

  14. Book cover for Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend

    Charles Dickens

    Marcus Stone

  15. Book cover for The Warden

    The Warden

    Anthony Trollope

    F. C. Tilney

  16. Book cover for Poems of Childhood

    Poems of Childhood

    Gaby Morgan

  17. Book cover for Poems for Happiness

    Poems for Happiness

    Gaby Morgan

  18. Book cover for The Citadel

    The Citadel

    A. J. Cronin

  19. Book cover for My Ántonia

    My Ántonia

    Willa Cather

    W.T. Benda

  20. Book cover for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

    Thomas De Quincey

  21. Book cover for In the Ravine & Other Stories

    In the Ravine & Other Stories

    Anton Chekhov

  22. Book cover for Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    William Blake

  23. Book cover for The Tempest

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

    John Gilbert

  24. Book cover for Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

    John Gilbert

  25. Book cover for Far From the Madding Crowd

    Far From the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy

    Helen Allingham

  26. Book cover for The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

  27. Book cover for The Mill on the Floss

    The Mill on the Floss

    George Eliot

  28. Book cover for Agnes Grey

    Agnes Grey

    Anne Brontë

  29. Book cover for The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

  30. Book cover for The Diary of a Nobody

    The Diary of a Nobody

    George Grossmith

    Weedon Grossmith

  31. Book cover for Selected Poems

    Selected Poems

    John Keats

  32. Book cover for Leaves of Grass

    Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

  33. Book cover for The Fog

    The Fog

    James Herbert

  34. Book cover for The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

    The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

    Henry James

  35. Book cover for The Awakening & Other Stories

    The Awakening & Other Stories

    Kate Chopin

  36. Book cover for Round About the Christmas Tree

    Round About the Christmas Tree

    Becky Brown

  37. Book cover for Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates

    Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates

    Dorothy L. Sayers

  38. Book cover for I Heard the Owl Call My Name

    I Heard the Owl Call My Name

    Margaret Craven

  39. Book cover for The Dead Girls

    The Dead Girls

    Jorge Ibargüengoitia

  40. Book cover for The Flower Beneath the Foot

    The Flower Beneath the Foot

    Ronald Firbank