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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: 27 participating members (show all)

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1
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,195 members, 264 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: archanads (1), goldenmoon (1), booksinbed (1), aulsmith (1), kara.shamy (2), ahef1963 (2), FranzK72 (6), alex68 (10), thecoroner (12), hipdeep (32), sturlington (109) — 2 more, merrystar (170), ManWithAnAgenda (253)

Score: 34.71

2
Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]
by Charlotte Brontë
1,598 members, 15 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (1), Tess_W (1), Bretzky1 (1), booksinbed (3), MTL (4), ahef1963 (10), ManWithAnAgenda (13), kara.shamy (13), alex68 (37), thecoroner (51), sturlington (135) — 2 more, merrystar (162), cej1027

Score: 31.13

3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,601 members, 487 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: 26.11

4
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
36,657 members, 489 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 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
2,970 members, 21 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
31,070 members, 962 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: 24.93

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

Lists: floremolla (1), booksinbed (5), goldenmoon (6), alex68 (9), MTL (14), thecoroner (14), FranzK72 (19), hipdeep (23), sturlington (40), ahef1963 (68), merrystar (101) — 1 more, ManWithAnAgenda (250)

Score: 24.67

8
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,441 members, 343 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (2), goldenmoon (4), MTL (6), ahef1963 (7), alex68 (17), Bretzky1 (17), FranzK72 (33), thecoroner (34), kara.shamy (129), merrystar (163), sturlington (231) — 2 more, ManWithAnAgenda (249), cej1027

Score: 24.19

9
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
188 members, 0 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: alex68 (1), FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (1), aulsmith (4), goldenmoon (9), merrystar (92), kara.shamy (122), hipdeep (145), sturlington (195)

Score: 21.86

10
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,740 members, 425 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (5), Bretzky1 (7), MTL (8), booksinbed (12), goldenmoon (13), alex68 (18), aulsmith (40), thecoroner (47), sturlington (105), kara.shamy (135), ManWithAnAgenda (248) — 1 more, cej1027

Score: 21.64

11
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63,786 members, 1,051 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (6), booksinbed (14), alex68 (15), ahef1963 (15), goldenmoon (16), MTL (19), thecoroner (19), FranzK72 (30), merrystar (34), Bretzky1 (47), sturlington (106) — 3 more, kara.shamy (136), ManWithAnAgenda (246), cej1027

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Score: 20.23

12
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11,049 members, 137 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (2), alex68 (3), thecoroner (4), booksinbed (6), Elswick1 (7), FranzK72 (9), aulsmith (16), Bretzky1 (50)

Score: 20.06

13
Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
5,415 members, 95 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (3), goldenmoon (7), booksinbed (17), MTL (20), alex68 (39), ahef1963 (41), FranzK72 (47), thecoroner (52), sturlington (70), merrystar (166), cej1027

Score: 19.44

14
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
22,867 members, 198 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: MTL (7), hipdeep (9), goldenmoon (11), booksinbed (11), alex68 (21), merrystar (29), ahef1963 (37), thecoroner (48), kara.shamy (127), sturlington (165), ManWithAnAgenda (245)

Score: 19.21

15
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
10,052 members, 165 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (8), hipdeep (8), goldenmoon (18), booksinbed (20), alex68 (27), ahef1963 (33), aulsmith (46), FranzK72 (50), kara.shamy (106), sturlington (129), cej1027 (134)

Score: 18.66

16
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
72,615 members, 1,171 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Elswick1 (9), Bretzky1 (25), ahef1963 (25), aulsmith (33), alex68 (36), goldenmoon (48), booksinbed (50), hipdeep (82), ManWithAnAgenda (254)

Score: 18.54

17
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
13,411 members, 129 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), booksinbed (9), goldenmoon (10), hipdeep (11), alex68 (23), FranzK72 (43), thecoroner (56), ahef1963 (62), merrystar (91), sturlington (143)

Score: 18.52

18
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
17,548 members, 166 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2), ahef1963 (4), goldenmoon (14), booksinbed (16), alex68 (28), kara.shamy (36), merrystar (93), cej1027 (126), sturlington (174), ManWithAnAgenda (230)

Score: 18.24

19
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
70,950 members, 1,253 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), Elswick1 (10), booksinbed (13), ahef1963 (13), kara.shamy (14), alex68 (30), MTL (30), thecoroner (39), FranzK72 (44), sturlington (216), ManWithAnAgenda (244)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 18.2

20
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,481 members, 171 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: archanads (2), Elswick1 (18), alex68 (22), thecoroner (24), goldenmoon (45), booksinbed (47), FranzK72 (63), kara.shamy (116), ahef1963 (162), sturlington (171), ManWithAnAgenda (221)

Score: 17.94

21
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,817 members, 476 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), aulsmith (5), booksinbed (7), ahef1963 (9), kara.shamy (19), alex68 (33), thecoroner (55), sturlington (236), ManWithAnAgenda (243)

Score: 17.89

22
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,245 members, 569 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (11), thecoroner (20), goldenmoon (21), FranzK72 (24), booksinbed (25), ahef1963 (27), alex68 (34), merrystar (98), kara.shamy (117), sturlington (209), ManWithAnAgenda (242)

Score: 17.52

23
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
34,102 members, 527 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: 17.23

24
Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
528 members, 5 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (1), alex68 (4), FranzK72 (10), goldenmoon (17), thecoroner (17), hipdeep (41), Bretzky1 (44), ManWithAnAgenda (239)

Score: 17.17

25
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
46,895 members, 912 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

26
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
21,140 members, 198 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: alex68 (2), FranzK72 (2), thecoroner (2), goldenmoon (24), hipdeep (46), merrystar (104), sturlington (132), ManWithAnAgenda (227)

Score: 16.9

27
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
12,356 members, 229 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: Tess_W (4), aulsmith (14), merrystar (17), booksinbed (18), ahef1963 (20), alex68 (35), Bretzky1 (57), kara.shamy (95), ManWithAnAgenda (240)

Score: 16.1

28
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
28,569 members, 304 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), MTL (27), goldenmoon (31), booksinbed (33), ahef1963 (38), Bretzky1 (39), alex68 (40), hipdeep (55), kara.shamy (87), ManWithAnAgenda (247), cej1027

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Score: 15.77

29
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,734 members, 150 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), ahef1963 (17), alex68 (29), goldenmoon (29), booksinbed (30), FranzK72 (42), merrystar (105), hipdeep (120), ManWithAnAgenda (229), sturlington (282)

Score: 15.72

30
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
25,065 members, 247 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: goldenmoon (20), booksinbed (23), MTL (26), alex68 (31), thecoroner (35), ahef1963 (40), FranzK72 (51), kara.shamy (107), merrystar (171), sturlington (227), ManWithAnAgenda (236) — 1 more, cej1027

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Score: 15.7

31
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
34,163 members, 877 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

32
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,600 members, 317 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (13), MTL (25), booksinbed (35), alex68 (41), thecoroner (69), merrystar (75), kara.shamy (97), ahef1963 (97), cej1027 (138), ManWithAnAgenda (231), sturlington (299)

Score: 15.57

33
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,149 members, 272 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (6), MTL (15), goldenmoon (22), booksinbed (26), alex68 (42), thecoroner (103), merrystar (165), sturlington (213), ManWithAnAgenda (228), ahef1963 (309)

Score: 15.18

34
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,247 members, 398 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6), FranzK72 (7), thecoroner (9), alex68 (11), Elswick1 (14), goldenmoon (30), booksinbed (31)

Score: 14.99

35
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,428 members, 692 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (16), Bretzky1 (28), sturlington (34), alex68 (43), goldenmoon (44), booksinbed (46), merrystar (72), ahef1963 (92), cej1027 (117), ManWithAnAgenda (225)

Score: 14.96

36
The Iliad
by Homer
34,454 members, 346 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), alex68 (5), thecoroner (8), goldenmoon (26), Bretzky1 (43), merrystar (99), kara.shamy (124), sturlington (127)

Score: 14.87

37
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
44,975 members, 619 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (12), Elswick1 (17), alex68 (24), booksinbed (32), FranzK72 (41), MTL (43), thecoroner (43), merrystar (73), ahef1963 (177), ManWithAnAgenda (223), sturlington (305)

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Score: 14.77

38
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
18,850 members, 419 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

39
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
69,797 members, 1,345 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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 14.1

40
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,591 members, 311 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), FranzK72 (3), thecoroner (3), alex68 (6), goldenmoon (25), ahef1963 (81)

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Score: 13.76

41
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
34,594 members, 607 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

42
Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Lewis Carroll
139 members, 3 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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

Score: 13.33

43
Candide
by Voltaire
18,540 members, 281 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (21), alex68 (25), thecoroner (41), goldenmoon (47), booksinbed (48), FranzK72 (64), ahef1963 (87), kara.shamy (137), ManWithAnAgenda (217)

Score: 13.22

44
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1,053 members, 3 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (10), alex68 (12), Elswick1 (19), Bretzky1 (33), goldenmoon (41), ahef1963 (300)

Score: 13.2

45
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
13,032 members, 203 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: MTL (24), goldenmoon (27), booksinbed (29), merrystar (35), hipdeep (45), cej1027 (105), ahef1963 (140), sturlington (154), ManWithAnAgenda (255)

Score: 13.02

46
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
13,524 members, 262 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

47
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
5,247 members, 50 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: MTL (18), hipdeep (34), goldenmoon (37), booksinbed (38), kara.shamy (40), alex68 (44), ahef1963 (61), sturlington (115)

Score: 12.63

48
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
21,946 members, 1,381 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

49
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
20,878 members, 232 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (15), thecoroner (21), FranzK72 (27), kara.shamy (30), alex68 (45), hipdeep (48), ManWithAnAgenda (216), sturlington (217)

Score: 12.52

50
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,766 members, 296 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4), Bretzky1 (10), booksinbed (15), alex68 (16), FranzK72 (45), thecoroner (67), ahef1963 (93), ManWithAnAgenda (180)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 12.43

51
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
15,390 members, 293 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: alex68 (20), goldenmoon (50), Bretzky1 (51), FranzK72 (58), kara.shamy (69), thecoroner (82), ahef1963 (211), ManWithAnAgenda (214), sturlington (259)

Score: 12.15

52
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
26,964 members, 362 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: MTL (17), ahef1963 (34), goldenmoon (38), hipdeep (40), Bretzky1 (53), ManWithAnAgenda (219), sturlington (278), cej1027

Score: 11.71

53
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,147 members, 548 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

54
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
25,259 members, 476 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 11.64

55
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,603 members, 229 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Belarmino (1), booksinbed (24), Bretzky1 (35), alex68 (46), ahef1963 (89), kara.shamy (113)

Score: 11.52

56
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,628 members, 348 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (11), alex68 (13), thecoroner (13), ahef1963 (29), goldenmoon (49), booksinbed (51), kara.shamy (104), sturlington (166)

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Score: 11.51

57
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,295 members, 243 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: alex68 (7), thecoroner (11), merrystar (48), goldenmoon (51), FranzK72 (70), booksinbed (84), ManWithAnAgenda (210)

Score: 11.43

58
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
17,769 members, 387 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 11.36

59
Gulliver's Travels (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Jonathan Swift
1,024 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), goldenmoon (28), booksinbed (28), thecoroner (46), alex68 (47), merrystar (100), kara.shamy (100), ManWithAnAgenda (234), cej1027

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 11.35

60
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,161 members, 209 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: alex68 (8), thecoroner (16), Elswick1 (29), FranzK72 (34), booksinbed (87), kara.shamy (123), ManWithAnAgenda (209)

Score: 11.32

61
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
9,310 members, 128 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (21), Elswick1 (23), alex68 (26), booksinbed (44), FranzK72 (60), thecoroner (61), kara.shamy (92)

Score: 11.18

62
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,315 members, 232 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (36), thecoroner (45), ahef1963 (45), alex68 (48), FranzK72 (52), kara.shamy (98), merrystar (168), sturlington (269)

Score: 11.1

63
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
11,501 members, 186 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), MTL (34), goldenmoon (54), merrystar (103), cej1027 (129), ahef1963 (159), ManWithAnAgenda (215), sturlington (294)

Score: 10.86

64
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,323 members, 183 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), alex68 (49), booksinbed (52), FranzK72 (67), kara.shamy (73), thecoroner (78), ahef1963 (207)

Score: 10.84

65
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,906 members, 452 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (7), Elswick1 (27), alex68 (38), FranzK72 (48), merrystar (112), ahef1963 (180), ManWithAnAgenda (211)

Score: 10.72

66
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
12,572 members, 250 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: alex68 (50), goldenmoon (52), thecoroner (66), booksinbed (83), sturlington (104), merrystar (111), cej1027 (118), ahef1963 (123)

Score: 10.62

67
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
10,942 members, 150 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: alex68 (32), goldenmoon (61), Bretzky1 (63), FranzK72 (76), thecoroner (80), booksinbed (91), ManWithAnAgenda (208), sturlington (228)

Score: 10.6

68
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
15,196 members, 402 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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

Score: 10.44

69
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
12,521 members, 283 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: sturlington (6), alex68 (14), Elswick1 (26), FranzK72 (35), kara.shamy (39), merrystar (59), thecoroner (97)

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Score: 10.36

70
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
37,244 members, 1,227 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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

Score: 10.36

71
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,455 members, 417 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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

Score: 10.28

72
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
3,991 members, 74 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (25), booksinbed (49), alex68 (51), FranzK72 (65), thecoroner (71), merrystar (116), cej1027

Score: 10.19

73
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
6,955 members, 255 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

74
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
3,575 members, 28 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 9.93

75
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
10,879 members, 93 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

76
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
22,341 members, 499 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: SimiSue75 (3), hipdeep (3), merrystar (30), cej1027 (139), ahef1963 (314)

Score: 9.9

77
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
16,610 members, 363 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: alex68 (19), Elswick1 (28), Bretzky1 (29), aulsmith (36), FranzK72 (59), thecoroner (60)

Score: 9.89

78
The Elements of Style
by William Jr. Strunk
18,998 members, 186 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

79
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
34,611 members, 1,494 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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

Score: 9.82

80
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
9,251 members, 259 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: sturlington (30), Bretzky1 (37), alex68 (52), thecoroner (85), merrystar (107), ManWithAnAgenda (158), ahef1963 (227)

Score: 9.54

81
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
7,291 members, 150 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 9.42

82
The Republic
by Plato
19,289 members, 123 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (15), thecoroner (15), alex68 (53), Bretzky1 (61), kara.shamy (86), sturlington (224)

Score: 9.33

83
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
15,688 members, 329 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: alex68 (54), sturlington (58), thecoroner (73), FranzK72 (82), booksinbed (94), cej1027 (95), ManWithAnAgenda (156)

Score: 9.32

84
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,943 members, 100 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3), thecoroner (30), FranzK72 (39), hipdeep (53), alex68 (55)

Score: 9.3

85
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
3,053 members, 74 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (39), goldenmoon (59), merrystar (79), booksinbed (90), cej1027 (111), ManWithAnAgenda (207), sturlington (308)

Score: 8.93

86
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
14,519 members, 427 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

87
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,323 members, 212 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 8.78

88
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
4,233 members, 68 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 8.77

89
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
22,386 members, 442 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 8.74

90
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
53,060 members, 794 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.

91
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
8,488 members, 170 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 8.7

92
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,660 members, 230 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (22), FranzK72 (37), alex68 (56), thecoroner (79), booksinbed (93), ahef1963 (208)

Score: 8.61

93
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
15,429 members, 372 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 8.6

94
Babar the King
by Jean de Brunhoff
689 members, 8 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 8.58

95
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
25,065 members, 446 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: sturlington (29), Elswick1 (36), alex68 (57), ahef1963 (71), FranzK72 (97), ManWithAnAgenda (175)

Score: 8.57

96
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
23,494 members, 362 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (32), sturlington (53), alex68 (58), thecoroner (70), FranzK72 (85), ahef1963 (107)

Score: 8.56

97
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
90,841 members, 828 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (25), goldenmoon (33), booksinbed (34), MTL (38), merrystar (76), cej1027 (112), ahef1963 (142)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 8.47

98
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
11,935 members, 154 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (43), booksinbed (68), cej1027 (128), hipdeep (137), ManWithAnAgenda (193), ahef1963 (219), sturlington (268)

Score: 8.42

99
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
17,522 members, 307 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Elswick1 (40), sturlington (54), alex68 (59), booksinbed (60), ahef1963 (72), ManWithAnAgenda (181)

Score: 8.41

100
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
13,996 members, 341 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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

Score: 8.41

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