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by Ray Bradbury

53,906 members

998 reviews

4

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The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

46,744 members

283 reviews

½ 4.5

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,429 members

309 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,650 members

432 reviews

3.8

10 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,622 members

486 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,538 members

1,079 reviews

3.8

11 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

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by Günter Grass

7,589 members

93 reviews

4

7 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963

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26,484 members

238 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

25,389 members

258 reviews

4

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,640 members

761 reviews

4.1

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Magician's Nephew

29,258 members

362 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Silver Chair

23,977 members

195 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Jack Kerouac

27,929 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, mkbird, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1

14

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,752 members

112 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Steinbeck

23,399 members

423 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, sturlington, ncgraham, thecoroner, alex68

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,704 members

563 reviews

4.1

7 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

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The Horse and His Boy

25,529 members

241 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Last Battle

23,288 members

192 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,927 members

161 reviews

3.9

8 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,589 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, roby72, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, ahef1963,ncgraham

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Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,454 members

125 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,352 members

139 reviews

3.9

7 Members: eromsted, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz

1,158 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68

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The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,630 members

323 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,065 members

98 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, mkbird, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68

26

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,382 members

158 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, Myyst, sturlington, fundevogel, alex68

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Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,526 members

126 reviews

4.2

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,896 members

226 reviews

3.9

6 Members: inge87, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,776 members

147 reviews

4

5 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Isaac Asimov

14,997 members

270 reviews

4

6 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

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2,586 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

32

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,212 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

33

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

971 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

34

The Once and Future King

15,335 members

205 reviews

4.1

7 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, mkbird, sturlington, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963,aulsmith

35

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,711 members

505 reviews

3.8

6 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper,ncgraham

36

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,742 members

431 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,230 members

114 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Simone de Beauvoir

1,745 members

16 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

39

The Adventures of Augie March

3,853 members

73 reviews

3.8

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

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by Ralph Ellison

16,169 members

212 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, alex68, Bretzky1

41

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

by Carlo Emilio Gadda

1,195 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

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by Isaac Asimov

20,565 members

388 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,034 members

182 reviews

4

4 Members: inge87, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Wyndham

4,739 members

122 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, mkbird, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

45

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

8,309 members

220 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,199 members

197 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

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by Boris Pasternak

11,376 members

152 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

48

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,566 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

49

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,283 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner

50

Howl and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

5,564 members

67 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

94 members

1 review

3.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

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by Pauline Réage

3,635 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

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The Grand Sophy

by Georgette Heyer

2,974 members

133 reviews

4.2

4 Members: inge87, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

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Nine Coaches Waiting

by Mary Stewart

1,618 members

46 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, merrystar, ahef1963

55

by Eugène Ionesco

1,410 members

16 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

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by Georgette Heyer

2,163 members

95 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

57

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,451 members

207 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

58

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,202 members

230 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

3,305 members

74 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

60

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,692 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

61

2,535 members

29 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

62

by John Steinbeck

2,847 members

46 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,211 members

80 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

64

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,562 members

86 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

65

by J. D. Salinger

11,743 members

112 reviews

4.1

3 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,046 members

28 reviews

4.1

2 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn

67

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,663 members

92 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

68

The Sound of Waves

by Yukio Mishima

1,805 members

41 reviews

3.8

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

69

Horton Hears a Who!

6,331 members

126 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,124 members

23 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

71

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

624 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

72

The Mousetrap: A Play

by Agatha Christie

101 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963

73

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,101 members

70 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

My Father's Glory

by Marcel Pagnol

852 members

10 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

75

22,425 members

397 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: edwinbcn, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1,sturlington

76

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,522 members

171 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II)

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5,203 members

39 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

78

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,430 members

15 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, Myyst, alex68

79

La lune et les feux

by Cesare Pavese

1,407 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

80

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,774 members

190 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: eromsted, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Pär Lagerkvist

1,403 members

25 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

82

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

10,412 members

125 reviews

4

3 Members: eromsted, alex68, ahef1963

83

27,572 members

573 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

624 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

85

The Dying Earth

1,435 members

35 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mkbird, Myyst, alex68

86

by Flannery O'Connor

3,854 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

87

The Ugly American

by William J. Lederer

1,293 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mkbird, Bretzky1

88

A Time to Keep Silence

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

815 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: inge87, mkbird

89

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,816 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

A Town Like Alice

3,743 members

140 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

91

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,481 members

79 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

92

8,430 members

126 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Unknown Ajax

by Georgette Heyer

1,518 members

55 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

94

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

9,022 members

163 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

95

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,534 members

37 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

96

The Cat in the Hat

20,428 members

526 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

97

by Margery Sharp

1,139 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

98

4,886 members

177 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

99

The City and the Stars

by Arthur C. Clarke

2,979 members

56 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

100

Excellent Women

2,738 members

126 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, alex68

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