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by Louisa May Alcott

26,541 members

401 reviews

4

6 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, valeriepatton

2

Pride and Prejudice

80,873 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,347 members

1,172 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,780 members

527 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

59,182 members

921 reviews

4.2

7 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

6

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,677 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, valeriepatton

7

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,417 members

559 reviews

4.1

7 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

8

by William Shakespeare

32,902 members

305 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

9

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,131 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

10

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,626 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

11

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)

by Emily Brontë

5,016 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

12

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,045 members

424 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

13

The Diary of a Young Girl

28,406 members

514 reviews

4.1

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, valeriepatton

14

by Margaret Wise Brown

18,880 members

695 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

15

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,114 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

16

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey

10,750 members

184 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

17

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

22,875 members

1,069 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

18

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,168 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

19

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,917 members

767 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

20

by George Orwell

60,186 members

889 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,607 members

436 reviews

3.9

6 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, valeriepatton,MissJessie

22

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,220 members

433 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, valeriepatton

23

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst

14,376 members

652 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

24

The Time Machine

17,737 members

339 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

25

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,523 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

26

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,513 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

27

Sense and Sensibility

38,210 members

529 reviews

4.1

5 Members: ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

28

by George Eliot

11,368 members

152 reviews

3.8

5 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, valeriepatton

29

by William Shakespeare

26,157 members

230 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Ludwig Bemelmans

10,653 members

259 reviews

4.2

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

31

Charlotte's Web

36,221 members

1,025 reviews

4.2

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, valeriepatton

32

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,825 members

330 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

33

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,018 members

328 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

34

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

12,277 members

181 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

35

James and the Giant Peach

19,789 members

362 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Pearl S. Buck

13,875 members

264 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, JFGrenier

37

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

25,501 members

258 reviews

4

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

38

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,076 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, valeriepatton

39

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)

758 members

12 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

40

26,594 members

239 reviews

3.9

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

41

The Silver Chair

24,017 members

195 reviews

3.9

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

42

The Magician's Nephew

29,443 members

364 reviews

3.9

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

43

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,385 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, HeyMimi, JFGrenier, valeriepatton

44

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

by Betty MacDonald

4,736 members

41 reviews

4.1

5 Members: mkbird, cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

45

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,028 members

773 reviews

3.9

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

46

by Peggy Parish

7,626 members

207 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

47

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

11,202 members

170 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

48

Frog and Toad are Friends

by Arnold Lobel

10,544 members

263 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,662 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Harry the Dirty Dog

3,763 members

113 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

51

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,528 members

161 reviews

4

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

52

The Little Engine That Could

10,841 members

197 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

10,977 members

287 reviews

3.8

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

54

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

14,086 members

223 reviews

4.2

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

55

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,166 members

480 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,308 members

288 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

57

38,099 members

507 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

58

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,090 members

452 reviews

4.1

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

59

Are You My Mother?

by P. D. Eastman

12,582 members

263 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, valeriepatton

60

by Ezra Jack Keats

14,795 members

759 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

15,107 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Book of Three

by Lloyd Alexander

7,925 members

168 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Else Holmelund Minarik

7,094 members

66 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

64

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,261 members

76 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Poky Little Puppy

by Janette Sebring Lowrey

5,140 members

77 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

66

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,868 members

178 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

6,777 members

92 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

68

by Wilkie Collins

10,820 members

251 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Metamorphosis

12,535 members

222 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

70

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,883 members

148 reviews

4

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

71

by George Eliot

17,758 members

331 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

72

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

4,208 members

38 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

73

Green Eggs and Ham

22,783 members

717 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, valeriepatton,ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Herman Melville

35,673 members

543 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier,MissJessie

75

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

739 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

76

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,638 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

by George Orwell

82,182 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

78

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

by David Macaulay

2,930 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,186 members

18 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

80

Bedtime for Frances

by Russell Hoban

3,210 members

35 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,386 members

475 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

82

Holy Sonnets and Other Divine Poems

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

83

by William Shakespeare

8,661 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

84

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,854 members

215 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

85

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,131 members

403 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, valeriepatton

86

The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

460 members

7 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

87

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,862 members

124 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,666 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

89

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,128 members

70 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henry David Thoreau

14,159 members

193 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, kara.shamy, valeriepatton

91

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,404 members

183 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy

92

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,886 members

138 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, valeriepatton

93

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

15,300 members

548 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

94

by David Macaulay

3,221 members

48 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

95

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

10,717 members

83 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

96

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

by Laura Joffe Numeroff

15,535 members

657 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

97

The House at Pooh Corner

8,484 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

7,052 members

111 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

99

by Mary Shelley

42,787 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

100

The Story about Ping

by Marjorie Flack

5,253 members

60 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, valeriepatton

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