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1

by George Eliot

4,232 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

2

Pride and Prejudice

81,109 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

3

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,916 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

4

by Toni Morrison

22,972 members

409 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

5

by Sylvia Plath

28,245 members

505 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

6

by Ralph Ellison

16,251 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: NinieB, byrondenham, Elizabethbennet929

7

by Charles Dickens

13,722 members

249 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

8

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,235 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

9

by Thornton Wilder

5,110 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,350 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

11

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,334 members

114 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

12

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,752 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,079 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

14

by Henry Fielding

8,149 members

95 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,836 members

615 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

16

28,859 members

535 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

17

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,765 members

192 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

18

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,308 members

482 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

19

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,522 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,281 members

708 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

21

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,685 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

22

by Charlotte Brontë

59,323 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

23

by William Shakespeare

26,244 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

24

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,776 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

25

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,680 members

438 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

26

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,928 members

178 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

27

35,664 members

630 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

28

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,838 members

315 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

29

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,116 members

328 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

30

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,222 members

317 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

70,136 members

1,084 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

32

by William Shakespeare

33,001 members

307 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

33

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,851 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

34

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,726 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

35

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,503 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

36

by Albert Camus

18,592 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

37

13,990 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

38

38,214 members

506 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

39

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,741 members

637 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

40

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,884 members

527 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

41

6,633 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

42

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

730 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

43

by Gustave Flaubert

26,327 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

44

20,638 members

309 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

45

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,648 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

46

The Turn of the Screw

8,162 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

47

by George Eliot

17,812 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

48

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,601 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

49

by William Shakespeare

13,867 members

176 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

50

by William Shakespeare

15,140 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

51

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,616 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

52

by George Orwell

82,389 members

1,275 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

53

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,084 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

54

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,602 members

697 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

55

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,034 members

339 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

56

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,700 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

57

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,601 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

58

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,261 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,789 members

434 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

60

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,127 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

61

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,304 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

62

The Portrait of a Lady

10,790 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

63

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,880 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

64

by Henrik Ibsen

5,414 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

65

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,459 members

198 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

66

by William Shakespeare

17,041 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

67

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,471 members

478 reviews

4.1

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

68

by Beowulf Poet

25,534 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

69

The Metamorphosis

12,581 members

222 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

70

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,697 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

71

by Albert Camus

35,659 members

509 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

72

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,915 members

104 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

73

The Communist Manifesto

15,173 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

74

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,000 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

75

by Mary Shelley

42,903 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

76

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,810 members

178 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

77

by Virginia Woolf

20,749 members

332 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

78

1,049 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

79

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,479 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

80

19,788 members

227 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

81

by George Orwell

60,341 members

890 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

82

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,539 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

83

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,140 members

773 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

84

by William Shakespeare

12,524 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

85

by William Shakespeare

8,683 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

86

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,884 members

127 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

87

by Charles Dickens

24,389 members

241 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

88

by George Eliot

11,408 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

89

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,924 members

120 reviews

3.8

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

90

9,225 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

91

by Charles Dickens

10,617 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

92

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,520 members

468 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

93

by Daniel Defoe

7,715 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

94

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,845 members

508 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

95

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,064 members

38 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

96

by Louisa May Alcott

26,629 members

402 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

97

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,980 members

302 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

98

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,759 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

99

53,402 members

477 reviews

4

Member: byrondenham

100

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,829 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

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