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1

by George Eliot

4,239 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

2

Pride and Prejudice

81,176 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

3

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,925 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

4

by Toni Morrison

23,005 members

409 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

5

by Sylvia Plath

28,267 members

505 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

6

by Ralph Ellison

16,261 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: NinieB, byrondenham, Elizabethbennet929

7

by Charles Dickens

13,731 members

249 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

8

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,258 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

9

by Thornton Wilder

5,116 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,363 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

11

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,337 members

114 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

12

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,791 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,097 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

14

by Henry Fielding

8,168 members

95 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,857 members

616 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

16

28,874 members

535 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

17

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,764 members

193 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

18

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,345 members

482 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

19

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,585 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,322 members

708 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

21

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,690 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

22

by Charlotte Brontë

59,363 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

23

by William Shakespeare

26,273 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

24

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,791 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

25

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,715 members

440 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

26

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,941 members

178 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

27

35,705 members

630 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

28

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,835 members

315 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

29

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,142 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

17,233 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,834 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

32

by William Shakespeare

33,034 members

308 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

33

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,928 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

34

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,755 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

35

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,514 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

36

by Albert Camus

18,597 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

37

14,012 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

38

38,250 members

506 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

39

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,791 members

638 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

40

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,917 members

528 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

41

6,634 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

26,348 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

44

20,655 members

310 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

45

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,672 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

46

The Turn of the Screw

8,170 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

47

by George Eliot

17,825 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

48

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,628 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

49

by William Shakespeare

13,883 members

176 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

50

by William Shakespeare

15,154 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

51

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,633 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

52

by George Orwell

82,452 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

53

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,090 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

54

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,624 members

698 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

55

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,050 members

339 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

56

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,716 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

57

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,652 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

58

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,269 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,809 members

435 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

60

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,150 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

61

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,320 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

62

The Portrait of a Lady

10,796 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

63

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,911 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

64

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

65

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,428 members

198 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

66

by William Shakespeare

17,057 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

67

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,489 members

478 reviews

4.1

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

68

by Beowulf Poet

25,551 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

69

The Metamorphosis

12,598 members

222 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

70

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,705 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

71

by Albert Camus

35,676 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

72

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,924 members

104 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

73

The Communist Manifesto

15,190 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

74

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,012 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

75

by Mary Shelley

42,952 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

76

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,816 members

178 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

77

by Virginia Woolf

20,790 members

332 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

78

1,051 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

79

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,495 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

80

19,789 members

227 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

81

by George Orwell

60,388 members

892 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

82

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,551 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

83

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,176 members

774 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

84

by William Shakespeare

12,536 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

85

by William Shakespeare

8,692 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

86

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,888 members

127 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

87

by Charles Dickens

24,416 members

242 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

88

by George Eliot

11,409 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

89

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,935 members

120 reviews

3.8

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

90

9,231 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

91

by Charles Dickens

10,621 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

92

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,547 members

469 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

93

by Daniel Defoe

7,719 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

94

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,871 members

508 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

95

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,069 members

38 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

96

by Louisa May Alcott

26,662 members

402 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

97

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,985 members

302 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

98

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,770 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

99

53,461 members

477 reviews

4

Member: byrondenham

100

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,847 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

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