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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,084 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by George Eliot

4,209 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Eliot

17,753 members

331 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

38,083 members

507 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,036 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Henry Fielding

8,132 members

95 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Pride and Prejudice

80,851 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,823 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

40,086 members

386 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,277 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,662 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,275 members

494 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Voglerr

13

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,849 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Henrik Ibsen

5,394 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

53,250 members

475 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

16

13,959 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,563 members

452 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,250 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

10,101 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, RyanClark

20

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,289 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,680 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,393 members

34 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Gustave Flaubert

26,264 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

24

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,726 members

276 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

25

by Charles Dickens

10,605 members

133 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

26

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,679 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth

1,141 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

1,636 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

19,720 members

226 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

20,594 members

308 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,827 members

188 reviews

4.1

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

32

2,077 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

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

by The Jewish Publication Society of America

2,458 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RyanClark

34

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,232 members

68 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

35

6,537 members

70 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

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

2,427 members

13 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

37

by Herman Melville

35,663 members

543 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,194 members

51 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

39

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

2,210 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

40

Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis

2,028 members

4 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

41

38,553 members

631 reviews

4.1

Member: NinieB

42

The Red and the Black

9,523 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

43

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,079 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

44

5,767 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

45

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,437 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

46

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

2,555 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Electra and Other Plays

160 members

1 review

3.9

Member: RyanClark

48

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus

53 members

1 review

4.8

Member: hipdeep

49

2,924 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

50

by George Bernard Shaw

1,175 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

51

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by James Boswell

1,472 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

727 members

9 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

53

Nicomachean Ethics

10,144 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,807 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

5,084 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

56

19,923 members

237 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

417 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

58

2,482 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

59

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

680 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

24,135 members

379 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

63

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,512 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Communist Manifesto

15,140 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

65

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,093 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,051 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,976 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

The Song of Roland

5,414 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

11,879 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by George Bernard Shaw

6,760 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

14,781 members

153 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,349 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Henry David Thoreau

14,152 members

192 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by George Bernard Shaw

2,305 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

75

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,404 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,423 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

21,968 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

28,924 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Thomas Hobbes

8,264 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,578 members

331 reviews

½ 4.4

81

by Saint Augustine

22,492 members

157 reviews

3.9

82

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,272 members

162 reviews

4.1

83

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,385 members

107 reviews

3.9

84

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,235 members

101 reviews

4.1

85

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

by Friedrich Nietzsche

10,021 members

77 reviews

3.8

86

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

10,015 members

67 reviews

4.1

87

The Magic Mountain

9,623 members

176 reviews

4.2

88

8,261 members

93 reviews

3.9

89

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,893 members

59 reviews

4

90

Institutes of the Christian Religion

7,386 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

91

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,600 members

44 reviews

3.9

92

by Saint Augustine

6,223 members

33 reviews

3.9

93

The Wealth of Nations

6,119 members

45 reviews

3.9

94

by Honoré de Balzac

5,983 members

109 reviews

3.8

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,778 members

34 reviews

4.2

96

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,682 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

97

by John Stuart Mill

5,556 members

40 reviews

3.9

98

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

5,282 members

47 reviews

3.8

99

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,214 members

36 reviews

3.9

100

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,949 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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