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Blue Pyramid 1,276 Best Books of All Time

Type: Preset list created by cej1027

Description: http://bluepyramid.org/library/bookcomp.htm

Members: 26 participating members (show all)

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1
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,742 members, 247 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: archanads (1), goldenmoon (1), booksinbed (1), aulsmith (1), kara.shamy (2), ahef1963 (2), FranzK72 (6), thecoroner (12), hipdeep (32), sturlington (109), merrystar (170) — 1 more, ManWithAnAgenda (253)

Score: 32.46

2
Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]
by Charlotte Brontë
1,549 members, 15 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (1), Tess_W (1), Bretzky1 (1), booksinbed (3), MTL (4), ahef1963 (10), ManWithAnAgenda (13), kara.shamy (13), thecoroner (51), sturlington (135), merrystar (162) — 1 more, cej1027

Score: 29.51

3
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
36,269 members, 467 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), goldenmoon (2), booksinbed (2), MTL (2), sturlington (4), hipdeep (10), Bretzky1 (24), aulsmith (42), kara.shamy (133), ManWithAnAgenda (252), cej1027

Score: 26.12

4
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
35,290 members, 472 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: MTL (1), SimiSue75 (1), Elswick1 (2), goldenmoon (3), booksinbed (4), Bretzky1 (5), sturlington (43), hipdeep (52), thecoroner (63), ahef1963 (124)

Score: 25.58

5
Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition]
by Joseph Conrad
2,902 members, 20 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: over.the.edge (1), Sandydog1 (2), aulsmith (3), goldenmoon (5), MTL (5), ahef1963 (5), booksinbed (10), sturlington (114), merrystar (164), ManWithAnAgenda (251), cej1027

Score: 25.41

6
Charlotte's Web
by E B White
28,972 members, 941 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Sandydog1 (1), SimiSue75 (2), Elswick1 (3), MTL (3), ahef1963 (6), goldenmoon (8), booksinbed (8), sturlington (46), merrystar (102), cej1027

Score: 24.94

7
The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Geoffrey Chaucer
485 members, 1 review
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: floremolla (1), booksinbed (5), goldenmoon (6), MTL (14), thecoroner (14), FranzK72 (19), hipdeep (23), sturlington (40), ahef1963 (68), merrystar (101), ManWithAnAgenda (250)

Score: 22.36

8
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,202 members, 319 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (2), goldenmoon (4), MTL (6), ahef1963 (7), Bretzky1 (17), FranzK72 (33), thecoroner (34), kara.shamy (129), merrystar (163), sturlington (231), ManWithAnAgenda (249) — 1 more, cej1027

Score: 22.23

9
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,360 members, 410 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (5), Bretzky1 (7), MTL (8), booksinbed (12), goldenmoon (13), aulsmith (40), thecoroner (47), sturlington (105), kara.shamy (135), ManWithAnAgenda (248), cej1027

Score: 19.71

10
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,616 members, 1,003 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (6), booksinbed (14), ahef1963 (15), goldenmoon (16), MTL (19), thecoroner (19), FranzK72 (30), merrystar (34), Bretzky1 (46), sturlington (106), kara.shamy (136) — 2 more, ManWithAnAgenda (246), cej1027

Thumbs down: friedrb, aulsmith

Score: 18.21

11
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
181 members, 0 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (1), aulsmith (4), goldenmoon (9), merrystar (92), kara.shamy (122), hipdeep (145), sturlington (195)

Score: 17.86

12
Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
4,946 members, 92 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (3), goldenmoon (7), booksinbed (17), MTL (20), ahef1963 (41), FranzK72 (47), thecoroner (52), sturlington (70), merrystar (166), cej1027

Score: 17.84

13
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
21,636 members, 185 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: MTL (7), hipdeep (9), goldenmoon (11), booksinbed (11), merrystar (29), ahef1963 (37), thecoroner (48), kara.shamy (127), sturlington (165), ManWithAnAgenda (245)

Score: 17.35

14
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
33,144 members, 518 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: bluemooses (1), Elswick1 (4), SimiSue75 (6), MTL (10), goldenmoon (23), booksinbed (27), ahef1963 (47), sturlington (170), cej1027

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 17.24

15
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
44,385 members, 875 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (5), hipdeep (6), goldenmoon (12), booksinbed (22), Bretzky1 (26), merrystar (32), MTL (35), sturlington (86), ahef1963 (157), ManWithAnAgenda (262), cej1027

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Score: 17.15

16
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10,501 members, 133 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (2), thecoroner (4), booksinbed (6), Elswick1 (7), FranzK72 (9), aulsmith (16), Bretzky1 (49)

Score: 17.03

17
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,798 members, 1,117 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Elswick1 (9), Bretzky1 (25), ahef1963 (25), aulsmith (33), goldenmoon (48), booksinbed (50), hipdeep (82), ManWithAnAgenda (254)

Score: 16.91

18
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
9,468 members, 157 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (8), hipdeep (8), goldenmoon (18), booksinbed (20), ahef1963 (33), aulsmith (46), FranzK72 (50), kara.shamy (106), sturlington (129), cej1027 (133)

Score: 16.91

19
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,747 members, 119 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), booksinbed (9), goldenmoon (10), hipdeep (11), FranzK72 (43), thecoroner (56), ahef1963 (62), merrystar (91), sturlington (143)

Score: 16.7

20
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
16,663 members, 161 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), ahef1963 (4), goldenmoon (14), booksinbed (16), kara.shamy (36), merrystar (93), cej1027 (125), sturlington (174), ManWithAnAgenda (230)

Score: 16.51

21
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
63,816 members, 1,206 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), Elswick1 (10), booksinbed (13), ahef1963 (13), kara.shamy (14), MTL (30), thecoroner (39), FranzK72 (44), sturlington (216), ManWithAnAgenda (244)

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Score: 16.49

22
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
32,126 members, 446 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), aulsmith (5), booksinbed (7), ahef1963 (9), kara.shamy (19), thecoroner (55), sturlington (236), ManWithAnAgenda (243)

Score: 16.23

23
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,629 members, 155 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: archanads (2), Elswick1 (18), thecoroner (24), goldenmoon (45), booksinbed (47), FranzK72 (63), kara.shamy (116), ahef1963 (162), sturlington (171), ManWithAnAgenda (221)

Score: 16.09

24
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
32,309 members, 543 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (11), thecoroner (20), goldenmoon (21), FranzK72 (24), booksinbed (25), ahef1963 (27), merrystar (98), kara.shamy (117), sturlington (209), ManWithAnAgenda (242)

Score: 15.86

25
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
32,242 members, 841 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), MTL (9), goldenmoon (15), merrystar (16), hipdeep (35), kara.shamy (121), ManWithAnAgenda (241), sturlington (303), cej1027

Score: 15.59

26
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,707 members, 221 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (4), aulsmith (14), merrystar (17), booksinbed (18), ahef1963 (20), Bretzky1 (56), kara.shamy (95), ManWithAnAgenda (240)

Score: 14.46

27
Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
508 members, 5 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (1), FranzK72 (10), goldenmoon (17), thecoroner (17), hipdeep (41), Bretzky1 (43), ManWithAnAgenda (239)

Score: 14.35

28
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
26,561 members, 285 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), MTL (27), goldenmoon (31), booksinbed (33), Bretzky1 (38), ahef1963 (38), hipdeep (55), kara.shamy (87), ManWithAnAgenda (247), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 14.19

29
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
17,550 members, 391 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: MTL (16), goldenmoon (19), booksinbed (21), merrystar (31), ahef1963 (35), hipdeep (37), ManWithAnAgenda (238), sturlington (300), cej1027

Score: 14.11

30
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
66,336 members, 1,303 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), Elswick1 (12), MTL (29), goldenmoon (36), booksinbed (37), ahef1963 (44), merrystar (74), ManWithAnAgenda (237), sturlington (277), cej1027

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Score: 14.11

31
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
23,735 members, 236 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: goldenmoon (20), booksinbed (23), MTL (26), thecoroner (35), ahef1963 (40), FranzK72 (51), kara.shamy (107), merrystar (171), sturlington (227), ManWithAnAgenda (236), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 14.01

32
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,060 members, 306 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (13), MTL (25), booksinbed (35), thecoroner (69), merrystar (75), kara.shamy (97), ahef1963 (97), cej1027 (137), ManWithAnAgenda (231), sturlington (299)

Score: 13.99

33
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,164 members, 141 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), ahef1963 (17), goldenmoon (29), booksinbed (30), FranzK72 (42), merrystar (105), hipdeep (120), ManWithAnAgenda (229), sturlington (282)

Score: 13.99

34
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,749 members, 265 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (6), MTL (15), goldenmoon (22), booksinbed (26), thecoroner (103), merrystar (165), sturlington (213), ManWithAnAgenda (228), ahef1963 (309)

Score: 13.61

35
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
19,802 members, 189 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (2), thecoroner (2), goldenmoon (24), hipdeep (46), merrystar (104), sturlington (132), ManWithAnAgenda (227)

Score: 13.53

36
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
32,895 members, 582 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (15), MTL (21), hipdeep (36), goldenmoon (40), booksinbed (41), thecoroner (68), ahef1963 (95), sturlington (197), ManWithAnAgenda (226)

Score: 13.48

37
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,120 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (16), Bretzky1 (27), sturlington (34), goldenmoon (44), booksinbed (46), merrystar (72), ahef1963 (92), cej1027 (116), ManWithAnAgenda (225)

Score: 13.42

38
Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Lewis Carroll
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: sturlington (9), MTL (42), goldenmoon (43), booksinbed (45), ahef1963 (53), merrystar (106), hipdeep (126), ManWithAnAgenda (224), cej1027

Score: 13.33

39
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,903 members, 195 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: MTL (24), goldenmoon (27), booksinbed (29), merrystar (35), hipdeep (45), cej1027 (104), ahef1963 (140), sturlington (154), ManWithAnAgenda (255)

Score: 13.03

40
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,400 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (12), Elswick1 (17), booksinbed (32), FranzK72 (41), MTL (43), thecoroner (43), merrystar (73), ahef1963 (177), ManWithAnAgenda (223), sturlington (305)

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Score: 12.96

41
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
23,879 members, 380 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6), FranzK72 (7), thecoroner (9), Elswick1 (14), goldenmoon (30), booksinbed (31)

Score: 12.8

42
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
12,598 members, 248 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (8), MTL (12), goldenmoon (34), ahef1963 (51), merrystar (77), sturlington (97), ManWithAnAgenda (222), cej1027

Score: 12.73

43
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
20,639 members, 1,351 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (7), MTL (11), goldenmoon (32), ahef1963 (50), merrystar (94), ManWithAnAgenda (220), sturlington (291), cej1027

Score: 12.52

44
The Iliad
by Homer
32,576 members, 331 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (8), goldenmoon (26), Bretzky1 (42), merrystar (99), kara.shamy (124), sturlington (127)

Score: 12.21

45
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
25,033 members, 339 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: MTL (17), ahef1963 (34), goldenmoon (38), hipdeep (40), Bretzky1 (52), ManWithAnAgenda (219), sturlington (278), cej1027

Score: 11.73

46
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
17,081 members, 520 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), Elswick1 (20), MTL (36), booksinbed (42), merrystar (97), kara.shamy (111), ManWithAnAgenda (218), sturlington (220)

Score: 11.68

47
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
23,977 members, 458 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), ahef1963 (12), kara.shamy (16), booksinbed (19), FranzK72 (31), sturlington (206)

Score: 11.64

48
Candide
by Voltaire
17,619 members, 272 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (21), thecoroner (41), goldenmoon (47), booksinbed (48), FranzK72 (64), ahef1963 (87), kara.shamy (137), ManWithAnAgenda (217)

Score: 11.43

49
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
17,163 members, 371 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (11), sturlington (12), ahef1963 (18), hipdeep (21), goldenmoon (39), booksinbed (39)

Score: 11.36

50
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,439 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), FranzK72 (3), thecoroner (3), goldenmoon (25), ahef1963 (81)

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Score: 11.2

51
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,898 members, 46 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: MTL (18), hipdeep (34), goldenmoon (37), booksinbed (38), kara.shamy (40), ahef1963 (61), sturlington (115)

Score: 11.08

52
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
991 members, 3 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (10), Elswick1 (19), Bretzky1 (32), goldenmoon (41), ahef1963 (300)

Score: 11.06

53
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
19,526 members, 215 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (15), thecoroner (21), FranzK72 (27), kara.shamy (30), hipdeep (48), ManWithAnAgenda (216), sturlington (217)

Score: 10.97

54
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
10,726 members, 181 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), MTL (34), goldenmoon (54), merrystar (103), cej1027 (128), ahef1963 (159), ManWithAnAgenda (215), sturlington (294)

Score: 10.86

55
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
14,291 members, 393 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (4), merrystar (5), booksinbed (92), hipdeep (119), sturlington (208), cej1027

Score: 10.45

56
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,013 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4), Bretzky1 (10), booksinbed (15), FranzK72 (45), thecoroner (67), ahef1963 (93), ManWithAnAgenda (180)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 10.43

57
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
36,370 members, 1,205 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (4), Elswick1 (22), ahef1963 (22), goldenmoon (55), sturlington (276), cej1027

Score: 10.36

58
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,601 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (13), ahef1963 (14), Bretzky1 (16), goldenmoon (35), merrystar (95), kara.shamy (132)

Score: 10.28

59
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
14,391 members, 276 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: goldenmoon (50), Bretzky1 (50), FranzK72 (58), kara.shamy (69), thecoroner (82), ahef1963 (211), ManWithAnAgenda (214), sturlington (259)

Score: 10.27

60
Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
6,565 members, 241 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (23), merrystar (33), thecoroner (40), kara.shamy (80), booksinbed (82), sturlington (274), cej1027

Score: 10.12

61
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,657 members, 225 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Belarmino (1), booksinbed (24), Bretzky1 (34), ahef1963 (89), kara.shamy (113)

Score: 9.99

62
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
3,370 members, 29 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7), ahef1963 (19), kara.shamy (21), goldenmoon (42), merrystar (167), sturlington (251)

Score: 9.93

63
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
10,204 members, 86 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (27), merrystar (37), goldenmoon (53), ahef1963 (55), booksinbed (73), sturlington (140), ManWithAnAgenda (213)

Score: 9.91

64
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
21,165 members, 482 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (3), hipdeep (3), merrystar (30), cej1027 (138), ahef1963 (314)

Score: 9.91

65
The Elements of Style
by William Jr. Strunk
17,943 members, 184 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (8), goldenmoon (56), sturlington (80), booksinbed (88), merrystar (113), ahef1963 (195), ManWithAnAgenda (212)

Score: 9.83

66
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
15,386 members, 153 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), goldenmoon (28), booksinbed (28), thecoroner (46), merrystar (100), kara.shamy (100), ManWithAnAgenda (234), cej1027

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 9.82

67
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
32,745 members, 1,460 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (5), Elswick1 (24), ahef1963 (36), sturlington (101), ManWithAnAgenda (206), cej1027

Score: 9.82

68
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,557 members, 221 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (36), thecoroner (45), ahef1963 (45), FranzK72 (52), kara.shamy (98), merrystar (168), sturlington (269)

Score: 9.58

69
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
6,576 members, 146 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: MTL (41), ahef1963 (52), goldenmoon (58), booksinbed (89), sturlington (126), ManWithAnAgenda (233), cej1027

Score: 9.43

70
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,884 members, 121 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (21), Elswick1 (23), booksinbed (44), FranzK72 (60), thecoroner (61), kara.shamy (92)

Score: 9.41

71
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,502 members, 338 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (11), thecoroner (13), ahef1963 (29), goldenmoon (49), booksinbed (51), kara.shamy (104), sturlington (166)

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Score: 9.4

72
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,717 members, 173 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), booksinbed (52), FranzK72 (67), kara.shamy (73), thecoroner (78), ahef1963 (207)

Score: 9.33

73
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
12,084 members, 239 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: goldenmoon (52), thecoroner (66), booksinbed (83), sturlington (104), merrystar (111), cej1027 (117), ahef1963 (123)

Score: 9.12

74
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,423 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (7), Elswick1 (27), FranzK72 (48), merrystar (112), ahef1963 (180), ManWithAnAgenda (211)

Score: 9.11

75
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,484 members, 238 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), merrystar (48), goldenmoon (51), FranzK72 (70), booksinbed (84), ManWithAnAgenda (210)

Score: 8.97

76
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,414 members, 203 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), Elswick1 (29), FranzK72 (34), booksinbed (87), kara.shamy (123), ManWithAnAgenda (209)

Score: 8.94

77
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
2,820 members, 73 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (39), goldenmoon (59), merrystar (79), booksinbed (90), cej1027 (110), ManWithAnAgenda (207), sturlington (308)

Score: 8.93

78
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
10,385 members, 135 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: goldenmoon (61), Bretzky1 (62), FranzK72 (76), thecoroner (80), booksinbed (91), ManWithAnAgenda (208), sturlington (228)

Score: 8.93

79
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
13,681 members, 406 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (30), FranzK72 (91), booksinbed (96), ahef1963 (110), merrystar (132), ManWithAnAgenda (204), sturlington (223)

Score: 8.79

80
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,013 members, 200 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), sturlington (65), booksinbed (85), ManWithAnAgenda (205), ahef1963 (258)

Score: 8.78

81
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
4,027 members, 62 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: MTL (33), kara.shamy (33), booksinbed (43), aulsmith (49), ahef1963 (96), ManWithAnAgenda (191)

Score: 8.77

82
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
21,278 members, 423 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), Elswick1 (56), booksinbed (140), ahef1963 (148), sturlington (287)

Score: 8.74

83
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,874 members, 746 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (3), sturlington (18), ahef1963 (48), hipdeep (63), FranzK72 (96), booksinbed (104), kara.shamy (131), ManWithAnAgenda (189)

Thumbs down: merrystar, aulsmith

Score: 8.71

Explanations:

aulsmith (0): I suspect that this allegory isn't going to date well.

84
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
8,031 members, 162 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: MTL (13), hipdeep (15), ahef1963 (31), aulsmith (34), kara.shamy (119)

Score: 8.7

85
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
3,823 members, 73 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (25), booksinbed (49), FranzK72 (65), thecoroner (71), merrystar (116), cej1027

Score: 8.69

86
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
14,739 members, 353 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (8), ahef1963 (28), sturlington (31), goldenmoon (60), booksinbed (78)

Score: 8.6

87
Babar the King
by Jean de Brunhoff
637 members, 8 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (9), MTL (23), ahef1963 (24), goldenmoon (46), merrystar (173)

Score: 8.58

88
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
86,869 members, 803 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (25), goldenmoon (33), booksinbed (34), MTL (38), merrystar (76), cej1027 (111), ahef1963 (142)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 8.47

89
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
11,241 members, 145 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (43), booksinbed (68), cej1027 (127), hipdeep (137), ManWithAnAgenda (193), ahef1963 (219), sturlington (268)

Score: 8.42

90
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
40,043 members, 1,258 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (31), ahef1963 (42), sturlington (60), booksinbed (105), ManWithAnAgenda (197), cej1027

Score: 8.41

91
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
13,134 members, 306 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (18), ahef1963 (30), merrystar (78), booksinbed (86), ManWithAnAgenda (155), sturlington (298)

Score: 8.41

92
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
46,225 members, 1,192 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (30), Elswick1 (46), booksinbed (59), ahef1963 (74), kara.shamy (110), ManWithAnAgenda (198)

Score: 8.35

93
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,892 members, 268 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: sturlington (6), Elswick1 (26), FranzK72 (35), kara.shamy (39), merrystar (59), thecoroner (97)

Thumbs down: Bretzky1

Score: 8.29

94
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
15,834 members, 294 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (11), kara.shamy (35), sturlington (271)

Score: 8.19

95
Now We Are Six
by A. A. Milne
4,062 members, 36 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (31), MTL (39), ahef1963 (82), merrystar (96), hipdeep (144), sturlington (194)

Score: 8.13

96
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
8,763 members, 251 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: sturlington (30), Bretzky1 (36), thecoroner (85), merrystar (107), ManWithAnAgenda (158), ahef1963 (227)

Score: 8.06

97
Beezus and Ramona
by Beverly Cleary
5,678 members, 103 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: sturlington (27), merrystar (45), cej1027 (105), hipdeep (134), ahef1963 (141), ManWithAnAgenda (164)

Score: 8

98
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
15,680 members, 345 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (28), Bretzky1 (28), aulsmith (36), FranzK72 (59), thecoroner (60)

Score: 7.99

99
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
78,156 members, 1,041 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: merrystar (8), hipdeep (60), booksinbed (107), sturlington (119), ahef1963 (145), ManWithAnAgenda (157), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 7.94

100
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
15,734 members, 292 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (11), MTL (32), booksinbed (40), cej1027 (90), ahef1963 (181)

Score: 7.86

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