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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,257 members

520 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by George Eliot

4,239 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Eliot

17,825 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

38,249 members

506 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,098 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Henry Fielding

8,168 members

95 reviews

3.9

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Pride and Prejudice

81,172 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,903 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

40,234 members

387 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, RyanClark

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,363 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,791 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,450 members

496 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Voglerr

14

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,925 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

53,460 members

477 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

16

14,012 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,672 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,276 members

69 reviews

4

2 Members: mkmcgraw, RyanClark

19

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,320 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

10,129 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, RyanClark

21

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,299 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,769 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,402 members

34 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Gustave Flaubert

26,348 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

25

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,148 members

282 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

26

by Charles Dickens

10,620 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

27

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,704 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth

1,144 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

1,642 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

19,787 members

227 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

20,655 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,911 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: hipdeep: But only for Inferno.

33

2,085 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text

by The Jewish Publication Society of America

2,468 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RyanClark

35

6,568 members

71 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants

2,438 members

14 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

37

by Herman Melville

35,644 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,257 members

51 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

39

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

2,213 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

40

Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis

2,041 members

4 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

41

by León Tolstói

38,667 members

632 reviews

4.1

Member: NinieB

42

The Red and the Black

9,551 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

43

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,108 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

44

5,789 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

45

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,452 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

46

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

2,565 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Electra and Other Plays

161 members

1 review

3.9

Member: RyanClark

48

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus

53 members

1 review

4.8

Member: hipdeep

49

2,938 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

50

by George Bernard Shaw

1,178 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

51

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by James Boswell

1,477 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

by R. B. Bernstein

730 members

9 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

53

Nicomachean Ethics

10,192 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,847 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

5,099 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

56

19,990 members

238 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

421 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

58

2,488 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

59

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

685 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Francis Bacon

434 members

15 reviews

3

Member: hipdeep

61

Metaphysics, books 1-9

158 members

3.9

Member: hipdeep

62

24,229 members

379 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

63

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,518 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Communist Manifesto

15,190 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

65

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,105 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,082 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Jean-Paul Sartre

10,000 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

The Song of Roland

5,431 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

11,933 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by George Bernard Shaw

6,783 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

14,872 members

154 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,364 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Henry David Thoreau

14,204 members

193 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by George Bernard Shaw

2,311 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

75

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,445 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,435 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

22,059 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

by León Tolstói

29,034 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Thomas Hobbes

8,297 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,680 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

81

by Saint Augustine

22,600 members

160 reviews

3.9

82

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,329 members

163 reviews

4.1

83

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,444 members

108 reviews

3.9

84

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,292 members

101 reviews

4.1

85

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

10,047 members

67 reviews

4.1

86

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche

10,045 members

78 reviews

3.8

87

The Magic Mountain

9,658 members

176 reviews

4.2

88

8,291 members

93 reviews

3.9

89

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,928 members

59 reviews

4

90

Institutes of the Christian Religion

7,403 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

91

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,630 members

44 reviews

3.9

92

by Saint Augustine

6,241 members

33 reviews

4

93

The Wealth of Nations

6,147 members

46 reviews

3.9

94

by Honoré de Balzac

5,995 members

109 reviews

3.8

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,815 members

34 reviews

4.2

96

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,702 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

97

by John Stuart Mill

5,605 members

40 reviews

3.9

98

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

5,306 members

47 reviews

3.8

99

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,237 members

36 reviews

3.9

100

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,967 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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