The 20 Best Books Ever Written | Cecily Carver’s Picks

*- Cecily's list is pasted below -*

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1800s

The Earthquake in Chile - Heinrich von Kleist

1810s

Persuasion - Jane Austen

1820s

The Tale of Kieu - Nguyen Du

1830s

The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin

1840s

Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac

1850s

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

1860s

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

1870s

Middlemarch - George Eliot

1880s

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

1890s

The Seagull - Anton Chekhov

1900s

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

1910s

In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

1920s

The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

1930s

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

1940s

Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain

1950s

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

1960s

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

1970s

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

1980s

Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

1990s

A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel

0:00 Introduction

2:42 Cecily arrives

6:47 1800s

11:21 1810s

15:05 1820s

19:02 1830s

22:37 1840s

30:00 1850s

33:52 1860s

37:57 1870s

42:38 1880s

46:42 1890s

50:51 1900s

56:57 1910s

1:04:03 1920s

1:10:12 1930s

1:13:58 1940s

1:19:04 1950s

1:26:01 1960s

1:30:47 1970s

1:34:37 1980s

1:40:00 1990s

1:49:31 Conclusion