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New Lifetime Reading Plan by Fadiman and Major

Description: This list is based on The New Lifetime Reading Plan (1998) by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. It does not include the "Going Further" recommendations.

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,252 members

520 reviews

3.9

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

2

Pride and Prejudice

81,169 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,340 members

482 reviews

4

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

4

by George Orwell

82,449 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

38,247 members

506 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,888 members

127 reviews

4

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

7

by George Orwell

60,380 members

891 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Charlotte Brontë

59,361 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,317 members

708 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,789 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,712 members

440 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,514 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,620 members

698 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,765 members

193 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,924 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,095 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,749 members

204 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

18

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,985 members

302 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

19

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,337 members

114 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,931 members

120 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,501 members

38 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,173 members

774 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Collected Poems, 1909–1962

3,059 members

23 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,360 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Albert Camus

18,595 members

249 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,009 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Henry Fielding

8,168 members

95 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Anthony Trollope

4,387 members

131 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

29

40,232 members

387 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

30

by Albert Camus

35,672 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,902 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

32

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,717 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,763 members

119 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Gustave Flaubert

26,347 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

23,056 members

199 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

36

by George Eliot

17,824 members

331 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Collected Poems

3,553 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

38

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,147 members

282 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,670 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Charles Dickens

10,620 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

41

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,257 members

51 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

353 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

43

1,433 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

44

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,768 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Henrik Ibsen

5,419 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Edgar Allan Poe

631 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

53,459 members

477 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

48

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

1,810 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

1,985 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)

by Walt Whitman

299 members

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

1,087 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,204 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

53

6,575 members

71 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

23,271 members

254 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,701 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Virginia Woolf

20,783 members

332 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by George Orwell

3,732 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

263 members

4.1

Member: hipdeep

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,808 members

435 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Complete Plays of T.S. Eliot

69 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: hipdeep

61

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,835 members

565 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Iceman Cometh

by Eugene O'Neill

1,398 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

63

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

3,681 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,911 members

188 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

14,871 members

154 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Herman Melville

35,639 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Aristophanes

2,927 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

68

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,542 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,603 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

70

19,988 members

238 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

Nicomachean Ethics

10,192 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

72

Hawthorne's Short Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

465 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

20,654 members

310 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

5,789 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

75

The Red and the Black

9,549 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

76

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,107 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

77

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

5,722 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

78

by Charles Dickens

5,629 members

89 reviews

4

Member: NinieB

79

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,451 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

80

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

2,868 members

58 reviews

4.2

Member: NinieB

81

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,098 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

82

431 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

83

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,250 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill

973 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

280 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

10,129 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Collected Poems

1,511 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

88

22,059 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Thomas Hobbes

8,295 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henrik Ibsen

1,583 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

91

Essays and Lectures

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,004 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,449 members

496 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

93

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,897 members

99 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

94

by George Bernard Shaw

1,178 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

95

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

702 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

5,099 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

97

Medea [in Translation]

2,931 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

98

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

1,594 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories (Classic Club edition)

by Anton Chekhov

186 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

100

by Jorge Luis Borges

6,878 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

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