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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: 23 participating members (show all)

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1
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
26,316 members, 228 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 27.46

2
Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]
by Charlotte Brontë
1,514 members, 14 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

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

Score: 27.4

3
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
33,954 members, 447 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

4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
34,368 members, 461 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), goldenmoon (2), booksinbed (2), MTL (2), sturlington (4), hipdeep (10), Bretzky1 (23), aulsmith (42), kara.shamy (133), cej1027

Score: 25.13

5
The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Geoffrey Chaucer
468 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)

Score: 21.35

6
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28,757 members, 309 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), cej1027

Score: 21.22

7
Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition]
by Joseph Conrad
2,824 members, 20 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Score: 21.04

8
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
27,027 members, 913 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 20.94

9
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
32,188 members, 504 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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

Score: 19.24

10
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
28,032 members, 381 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), cej1027

Score: 18.7

11
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
167 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
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
4,644 members, 89 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
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57,830 members, 951 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (6), booksinbed (14), ahef1963 (15), goldenmoon (16), MTL (19), thecoroner (19), FranzK72 (30), merrystar (34), Bretzky1 (44), sturlington (106), kara.shamy (136) — 1 more, cej1027

Thumbs down: friedrb, aulsmith

Score: 17.21

14
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9,965 members, 124 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (2), thecoroner (4), booksinbed (6), Elswick1 (7), FranzK72 (9), aulsmith (16), Bretzky1 (47)

Score: 17.04

15
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
8,968 members, 147 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

16
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,055 members, 113 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 16.7

17
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
20,386 members, 174 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)

Score: 16.33

18
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
41,948 members, 827 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (5), hipdeep (6), goldenmoon (12), booksinbed (22), Bretzky1 (25), merrystar (32), MTL (35), sturlington (86), ahef1963 (157), cej1027

Thumbs down: kara.shamy

Score: 16.17

19
1984
by George Orwell
65,613 members, 1,055 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Elswick1 (9), Bretzky1 (24), ahef1963 (25), aulsmith (33), goldenmoon (48), booksinbed (50), hipdeep (82)

Score: 15.93

20
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
15,710 members, 146 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)

Score: 15.48

21
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,502 members, 1,155 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 15.48

22
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
30,296 members, 421 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 15.21

23
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
30,532 members, 520 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)

Score: 14.85

24
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
30,468 members, 793 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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

Score: 14.58

25
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,198 members, 216 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (4), aulsmith (14), merrystar (17), booksinbed (18), ahef1963 (20), Bretzky1 (54), kara.shamy (95)

Score: 13.46

26
Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
499 members, 5 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

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

Score: 13.35

27
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
24,768 members, 276 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), MTL (27), goldenmoon (31), booksinbed (33), Bretzky1 (36), ahef1963 (38), hipdeep (55), kara.shamy (87), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 13.2

28
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
16,375 members, 366 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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

Score: 13.1

29
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
63,370 members, 1,241 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 13.09

30
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
22,339 members, 231 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 12.99

31
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
10,534 members, 300 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 12.97

32
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
10,655 members, 134 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 12.96

33
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
22,614 members, 358 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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

Score: 12.8

34
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,404 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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

Score: 12.58

35
The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
18,834 members, 175 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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

Score: 12.5

36
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
31,277 members, 568 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 12.45

37
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
43,882 members, 598 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (16), Bretzky1 (26), sturlington (34), goldenmoon (44), booksinbed (46), merrystar (72), ahef1963 (92), cej1027 (116)

Score: 12.4

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), cej1027

Score: 12.3

39
The Iliad
by Homer
30,685 members, 316 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (8), goldenmoon (26), Bretzky1 (40), merrystar (99), kara.shamy (124), sturlington (127)

Score: 12.23

40
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,125 members, 182 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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

Score: 12.03

41
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
40,314 members, 569 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), sturlington (305)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 11.93

42
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
11,903 members, 234 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 11.69

43
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
8,442 members, 128 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 11.69

44
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
22,878 members, 445 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 11.64

45
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
19,491 members, 1,319 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 11.48

46
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
16,623 members, 356 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 11.36

47
Ulysses
by James Joyce
19,497 members, 270 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Thumbs down: Bretzky1

Score: 11.2

48
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
967 members, 3 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (10), Elswick1 (19), Bretzky1 (30), goldenmoon (41), ahef1963 (300)

Score: 11.09

49
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,632 members, 43 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

50
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
25,067 members, 352 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: MTL (17), ahef1963 (34), goldenmoon (38), hipdeep (40), Bretzky1 (50), sturlington (278), cej1027

Score: 10.7

51
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
16,070 members, 496 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 10.64

52
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
83,381 members, 773 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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

Score: 10.47

53
Candide
by Voltaire
16,783 members, 263 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 10.39

54
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
35,467 members, 1,182 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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

Score: 10.36

55
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
28,983 members, 375 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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

Score: 10.28

56
Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
6,220 members, 230 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 10.12

57
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
16,669 members, 214 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: Belarmino (1), booksinbed (24), Bretzky1 (32), ahef1963 (89), kara.shamy (113)

Score: 10.02

58
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
3,121 members, 26 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 9.93

59
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
18,348 members, 192 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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

Score: 9.93

60
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
9,944 members, 174 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

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

Score: 9.82

61
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,878 members, 216 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 9.58

62
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,503 members, 115 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 9.41

63
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
21,384 members, 319 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

Thumbs down: Bretzky1

Score: 9.4

64
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,198 members, 267 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 9.34

65
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
13,450 members, 263 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (48), goldenmoon (50), FranzK72 (58), kara.shamy (69), thecoroner (82), ahef1963 (211), sturlington (259)

Score: 9.24

66
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
11,622 members, 230 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Score: 9.12

67
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
9,631 members, 85 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 8.86

68
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
18,749 members, 186 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 8.8

69
The Elements of Style
by William Jr. Strunk
17,185 members, 178 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 8.78

70
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
30,954 members, 1,408 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 8.77

71
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
20,048 members, 465 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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

Score: 8.74

72
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
7,762 members, 160 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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

Score: 8.7

73
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
3,716 members, 71 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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

Score: 8.69

74
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
14,335 members, 347 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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

Score: 8.6

75
Babar the King
by Jean de Brunhoff
603 members, 8 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

Score: 8.58

76
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
6,070 members, 142 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

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

Score: 8.4

77
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,427 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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

Thumbs down: Bretzky1

Score: 8.29

78
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
14,937 members, 268 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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

Score: 8.19

79
Now We Are Six
by A. A. Milne
3,807 members, 33 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 8.13

80
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
28,977 members, 385 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 8.06

81
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
14,765 members, 326 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (27), Elswick1 (28), aulsmith (36), FranzK72 (59), thecoroner (60)

Score: 8.01

82
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
14,760 members, 224 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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

Score: 7.92

83
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
16,648 members, 188 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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

Score: 7.89

84
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
9,839 members, 129 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (60), goldenmoon (61), FranzK72 (76), thecoroner (80), booksinbed (91), sturlington (228)

Score: 7.89

85
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
2,644 members, 69 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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

Score: 7.87

86
The Republic
by Plato
17,456 members, 94 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (15), thecoroner (15), Bretzky1 (58), kara.shamy (86), sturlington (224)

Score: 7.86

87
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
15,334 members, 286 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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

Score: 7.86

88
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,315 members, 87 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3), thecoroner (30), FranzK72 (39), hipdeep (53)

Score: 7.83

89
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
5,940 members, 99 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (9), MTL (28), ahef1963 (103), merrystar (172), cej1027

Score: 7.8

90
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
12,960 members, 376 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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

Score: 7.73

91
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
4,777 members, 191 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

Score: 7.72

92
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
3,839 members, 62 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 7.69

93
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
86,859 members, 846 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), hipdeep (61), merrystar (71), booksinbed (80), kara.shamy (82), sturlington (112), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 7.66

94
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
46,669 members, 699 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Thumbs down: merrystar, aulsmith

Score: 7.63

Explanations:

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

95
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
13,526 members, 375 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

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

Score: 7.62

96
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
8,317 members, 79 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57), booksinbed (95), merrystar (119), hipdeep (122), kara.shamy (139), sturlington (184)

Score: 7.4

97
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
10,684 members, 140 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 7.34

98
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
38,829 members, 1,232 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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

Score: 7.34

99
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
12,362 members, 288 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 7.27

100
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
21,459 members, 328 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (32), sturlington (53), thecoroner (70), FranzK72 (85), ahef1963 (107)

Score: 7.11

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