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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.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Charlotte Brontë

59,371 members

924 reviews

4.2

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

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,179 members

774 reviews

3.9

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

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,261 members

520 reviews

3.9

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

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,796 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

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

5

Pride and Prejudice

81,185 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

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

6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,341 members

439 reviews

3.8

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

7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,143 members

328 reviews

3.9

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

8

by William Shakespeare

33,038 members

308 reviews

4.2

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

9

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,759 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

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

10

by William Shakespeare

26,275 members

231 reviews

4

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

11

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,596 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

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

12

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,718 members

440 reviews

3.9

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

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,097 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

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

14

The Call of the Wild

20,315 members

324 reviews

3.8

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

15

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

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

16

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,258 members

51 reviews

4

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

17

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,632 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

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

18

by George Orwell

82,456 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

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

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,717 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

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

20

by William Shakespeare

17,060 members

132 reviews

4

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

21

by Pearl S. Buck

13,940 members

264 reviews

4

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

22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,748 members

242 reviews

4.1

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

23

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,120 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

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

24

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,694 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

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

25

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

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

26

by George Orwell

60,395 members

892 reviews

4

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

27

by Mary Shelley

42,953 members

714 reviews

3.8

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

28

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,319 members

666 reviews

3.9

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

29

by Herman Melville

35,649 members

545 reviews

3.8

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

30

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,494 members

478 reviews

4.1

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

31

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,874 members

508 reviews

3.8

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

32

by Charles Dickens

24,420 members

242 reviews

3.8

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

33

by Dante Alighieri

24,115 members

213 reviews

4.1

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

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,773 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

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

35

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,943 members

178 reviews

4

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

36

by William Shakespeare

13,884 members

176 reviews

3.9

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

37

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,012 members

161 reviews

3.9

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

38

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,828 members

191 reviews

½ 3.6

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

39

by William Shakespeare

12,539 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

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

40

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,238 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

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

41

by William Shakespeare

10,850 members

113 reviews

4

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

42

by Edith Wharton

9,538 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

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

43

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,919 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,675 members

453 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, JFGrenier

45

by Gustave Flaubert

26,352 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Beowulf Poet

25,554 members

334 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

20,659 members

310 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,290 members

248 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

49

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,498 members

113 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

by Charles Dickens

10,620 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

51

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,262 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, jasmaynard, ahef1963, JFGrenier

52

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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

53

by Joseph Heller

40,177 members

529 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

54

by Albert Camus

35,677 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

55

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,263 members

298 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

56

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,535 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, steller0707

57

22,062 members

142 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

58

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,322 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,154 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

60

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,873 members

342 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,168 members

403 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

62

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,063 members

186 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

63

by Albert Camus

18,599 members

249 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Henry David Thoreau

14,207 members

193 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

65

14,013 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963

66

by John Steinbeck

13,276 members

205 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by George Eliot

11,414 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, JFGrenier

68

9,233 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,086 members

39 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

70

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

71

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

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

72

53,468 members

477 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

73

40,233 members

387 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

74

23,060 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

75

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,252 members

348 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

77

The Joy Luck Club

17,665 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,366 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

79

by Ralph Ellison

16,264 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1

80

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,886 members

225 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

81

by William Faulkner

14,848 members

218 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, steller0707

82

by Upton Sinclair

11,718 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

83

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,551 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

84

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,822 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

85

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,338 members

114 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by William Shakespeare

7,592 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

87

by William Shakespeare

6,264 members

88 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

88

3,624 members

84 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

1,955 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

90

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,435 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

91

by Hermann Hesse

13,612 members

195 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

92

by Toni Morrison

13,563 members

241 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

93

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,273 members

104 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

94

by Joseph Conrad

9,083 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

95

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,477 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

96

by Richard Wright

7,776 members

102 reviews

4

97

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,350 members

129 reviews

4.1

98

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,642 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

99

Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus

419 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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