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by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,760 members

1,191 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

82,216 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Pride and Prejudice

80,924 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,734 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,391 members

1,173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,692 members

1,083 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by George Orwell

60,207 members

889 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,897 members

488 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Ray Bradbury

54,075 members

1,002 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,054 members

773 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,183 members

705 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,580 members

309 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

46,945 members

283 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,394 members

1,332 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,138 members

520 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,488 members

1,147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,654 members

637 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,174 members

665 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Sense and Sensibility

38,241 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

35,568 members

629 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,464 members

559 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,402 members

475 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,046 members

328 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,188 members

481 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,108 members

452 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Richard Adams

24,964 members

472 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,807 members

527 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Truman Capote

23,806 members

467 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,655 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Stephen King

23,250 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,002 members

337 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Toni Morrison

22,906 members

408 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,077 members

424 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,046 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Stephen King

22,005 members

410 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,721 members

433 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Call of the Wild

20,217 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,789 members

339 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

19,189 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,869 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Joy Luck Club

17,639 members

198 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,177 members

317 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,736 members

251 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,391 members

302 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

14,904 members

201 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,397 members

209 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Michael Cunningham

12,738 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Metamorphosis

12,543 members

222 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Invisible Man

10,962 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Stephen King

9,883 members

139 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Stephen King

8,547 members

196 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,866 members

126 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,809 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

6,722 members

90 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Prince of Tides

5,828 members

108 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,173 members

86 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,080 members

171 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Rosemary's Baby

4,644 members

139 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4,462 members

60 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

3,056 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

2,925 members

45 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

62

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2,526 members

49 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Stephen King

994 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Lilies of the Field

by William E. Barrett

822 members

16 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

65

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,758 members

746 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

66

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,792 members

456 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

67

by Herman Melville

35,524 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,806 members

507 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

69

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,586 members

453 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Diary of a Young Girl

28,430 members

515 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

71

by Louisa May Alcott

26,570 members

401 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

72

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,934 members

389 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

73

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,281 members

298 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

74

by Dante Alighieri

23,990 members

213 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

19,942 members

237 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,023 members

186 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

77

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,848 members

381 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

78

by Stephen King

15,377 members

208 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

79

The World According to Garp

15,317 members

196 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

80

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,853 members

171 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Stephen King

14,668 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

82

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,209 members

177 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,942 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Stephen King

12,407 members

164 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

85

by Stephen King

11,705 members

453 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

by John Grisham

11,525 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

87

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,117 members

292 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

88

The Pelican Brief

by John Grisham

11,062 members

83 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

89

10,549 members

190 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by John Grisham

10,149 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

91

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,808 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

92

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

8,989 members

454 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

93

by Stephen King

8,916 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

94

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,471 members

146 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

95

by Dante Alighieri

7,254 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,800 members

246 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

97

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,547 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

98

by Stephen King

6,507 members

341 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

99

by Dante Alighieri

6,193 members

44 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

6,120 members

115 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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