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100 World Classics

Description: These are the 100 world classics listed in The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics by W. John Campbell.

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1

by Charlotte Brontë

68,311 members

1,020 reviews

4.2

10 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,760 members

872 reviews

3.9

9 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,613 members

588 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,986 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

9 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

5

Pride and Prejudice

94,536 members

1,514 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,077 members

493 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,583 members

370 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

8

by William Shakespeare

37,510 members

337 reviews

4.2

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

9

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

33,033 members

307 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

10

by William Shakespeare

29,945 members

261 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

11

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,228 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle,cej1027

12

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

44,042 members

481 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,113 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

14

The Call of the Wild

22,951 members

348 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

15

by William Shakespeare

17,236 members

168 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, foobar2020

16

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,325 members

62 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, foobar2020

17

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

7,486 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jasmaynard, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

18

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,702 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,515 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by William Shakespeare

19,535 members

151 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

by Pearl S. Buck

15,365 members

289 reviews

4

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, JFGrenier, foobar2020

22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,594 members

244 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

23

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

10,701 members

62 reviews

½ 4.6

6 Members: aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

24

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,686 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aulsmith, gtross, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

25

by Henrik Ibsen

6,219 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by George Orwell

70,399 members

1,009 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

by Mary Shelley

51,434 members

814 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

28

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,775 members

727 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

by Herman Melville

42,007 members

622 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

30

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,330 members

523 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,599 members

565 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

32

by Charles Dickens

28,567 members

274 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

33

by Niccolò Machiavelli

28,036 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

34

by Dante Alighieri

27,814 members

231 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,440 members

202 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

36

by William Shakespeare

15,801 members

191 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,696 members

191 reviews

3.9

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

38

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

14,315 members

205 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

39

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,515 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

40

by William Shakespeare

12,566 members

132 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

41

by Edith Wharton

10,706 members

244 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

42

Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare

2,846 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,598 members

821 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36,033 members

533 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, JFGrenier

45

by Gustave Flaubert

29,965 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Beowulf Poet

29,453 members

363 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

23,226 members

344 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,747 members

265 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

49

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,243 members

126 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

by Charles Dickens

12,028 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

51

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,172 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, jasmaynard, ahef1963, JFGrenier

52

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

53

by Joseph Heller

44,528 members

580 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

54

by Albert Camus

41,051 members

584 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

55

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,833 members

321 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

56

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,747 members

282 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, steller0707

57

The Republic of Plato

25,701 members

165 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,212 members

326 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

59

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,609 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,696 members

371 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,089 members

443 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

62

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,656 members

223 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

63

by Albert Camus

21,223 members

281 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

64

16,830 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963

65

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,288 members

205 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

66

by John Steinbeck

15,238 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by George Eliot

12,988 members

172 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, JFGrenier

68

10,285 members

209 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

by Christopher Marlowe

5,694 members

88 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

70

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,604 members

51 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

71

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,335 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

72

63,106 members

532 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

73

47,875 members

449 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

74

The Aeneid (translations)

26,958 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

75

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,826 members

375 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,444 members

391 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

77

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,614 members

249 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

78

The Joy Luck Club

19,364 members

219 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Ralph Ellison

18,478 members

232 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1

80

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,641 members

261 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

81

by William Faulkner

16,928 members

239 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, steller0707

82

by Upton Sinclair

13,368 members

147 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

83

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,470 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

84

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

10,049 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

85

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,233 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by William Shakespeare

8,727 members

77 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

87

by William Shakespeare

7,072 members

99 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

88

4,007 members

91 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

2,263 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

90

by Arthur Miller

17,967 members

187 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

91

by Toni Morrison

16,026 members

273 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

92

by Hermann Hesse

15,290 members

215 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

93

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,437 members

113 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

94

by Joseph Conrad

10,210 members

129 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

95

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6,147 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

96

by Richard Wright

8,781 members

113 reviews

4

97

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,145 members

133 reviews

4.1

98

by Herman Melville

3,021 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

99

Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus

451 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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