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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

67,891 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

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

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,439 members

867 reviews

3.9

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

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,347 members

584 reviews

3.9

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

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,748 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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

5

Pride and Prejudice

93,903 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

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

6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,822 members

489 reviews

3.8

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

7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,337 members

369 reviews

3.9

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

8

by William Shakespeare

37,301 members

335 reviews

4.2

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

9

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,840 members

308 reviews

½ 3.7

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

10

by William Shakespeare

30,187 members

261 reviews

4

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

11

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,801 members

1,303 reviews

3.8

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

12

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,820 members

478 reviews

3.9

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

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,051 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

14

The Call of the Wild

22,797 members

346 reviews

3.8

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

15

by William Shakespeare

17,131 members

168 reviews

4.1

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

16

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,239 members

62 reviews

4

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

17

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

7,444 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

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

18

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,155 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

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

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,331 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

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

20

by William Shakespeare

19,451 members

151 reviews

4

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

21

by Pearl S. Buck

15,294 members

290 reviews

4

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

22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,543 members

245 reviews

4.1

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

23

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

10,612 members

62 reviews

½ 4.6

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

24

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,640 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

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

25

by Henrik Ibsen

6,181 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

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

26

by George Orwell

69,939 members

1,007 reviews

4

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

27

by Mary Shelley

51,100 members

811 reviews

3.8

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

28

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,561 members

724 reviews

3.9

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

29

by Herman Melville

41,676 members

618 reviews

3.8

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

30

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,078 members

518 reviews

4.1

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

31

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,326 members

562 reviews

3.8

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

32

by Charles Dickens

28,402 members

273 reviews

3.8

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

33

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,840 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

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

34

by Dante Alighieri

27,624 members

230 reviews

4.1

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

35

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,309 members

203 reviews

4

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

36

by William Shakespeare

15,877 members

191 reviews

3.9

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

37

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,605 members

189 reviews

3.9

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

38

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

14,250 members

205 reviews

½ 3.6

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

39

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,438 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

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

40

by William Shakespeare

12,533 members

131 reviews

4

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

41

by Edith Wharton

10,652 members

241 reviews

½ 3.6

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

42

Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare

2,828 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

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

43

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,290 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,816 members

534 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, JFGrenier

45

by Gustave Flaubert

29,776 members

427 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Beowulf Poet

29,210 members

362 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

23,106 members

345 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,618 members

264 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

49

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,168 members

125 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

by Charles Dickens

11,987 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

51

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,168 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

44,298 members

579 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

54

by Albert Camus

40,767 members

580 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

55

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,688 members

319 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

56

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,644 members

281 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, steller0707

57

The Republic of Plato

25,543 members

163 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,127 members

325 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

59

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,522 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,568 members

369 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,032 members

442 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

62

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,567 members

222 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

63

by Albert Camus

21,069 members

281 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

64

16,691 members

129 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963

65

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,216 members

205 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

66

by John Steinbeck

15,220 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by George Eliot

12,889 members

170 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, JFGrenier

68

10,230 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

by Christopher Marlowe

5,659 members

88 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

70

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,582 members

52 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

71

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

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,326 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

72

62,438 members

521 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

73

47,494 members

447 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

74

The Aeneid (translations)

26,735 members

229 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

75

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,663 members

374 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,284 members

385 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

77

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,480 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

78

The Joy Luck Club

19,291 members

220 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Ralph Ellison

18,390 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1

80

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,520 members

259 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

81

by William Faulkner

16,882 members

238 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, steller0707

82

by Upton Sinclair

13,364 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

83

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,422 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

84

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

10,061 members

103 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

85

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,195 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by William Shakespeare

8,682 members

77 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

87

by William Shakespeare

7,021 members

100 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

88

3,995 members

91 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

2,251 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

90

by Arthur Miller

17,840 members

186 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

91

by Toni Morrison

15,887 members

271 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

92

by Hermann Hesse

15,191 members

214 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

93

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,376 members

113 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

94

by Joseph Conrad

10,165 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

95

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6,116 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

96

by Richard Wright

8,757 members

112 reviews

4

97

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,099 members

133 reviews

4.1

98

by Herman Melville

3,004 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

99

Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus

448 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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