HomeGroupsTalkZeitgeist
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.
Create new list
Lists home

Blue Pyramid 1,276 Best Books of All Time

Type: Preset list created by cej1027

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

Added the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a set, because I couldn't find them separately.

Couldn't find: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling (by itself), Et Nox Facta Est - Victor Hugo, New Encyclopaedia 1910 - H.C. O'Neill, Voyage to Temptation - Joe Wachter, Mountain Interval - Robert Frost, Reciprocating Aircraft Engine - Robert Dunston

Members: 21 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
24,486 members, 215 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
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
31,977 members, 445 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), goldenmoon (2), booksinbed (2), MTL (2), sturlington (4), hipdeep (10), Bretzky1 (22), aulsmith (42), kara.shamy (133), cej1027

Score: 25.17

3
Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]
by Charlotte Brontë
1,431 members, 14 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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

Score: 23.42

4
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
32,206 members, 425 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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

Score: 22.21

5
The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Geoffrey Chaucer
453 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 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
26,966 members, 297 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: tess_schoolmarm (2), goldenmoon (4), MTL (6), ahef1963 (7), Bretzky1 (17), FranzK72 (33), thecoroner (34), kara.shamy (129), merrystar (163), sturlington (231), cej1027

Score: 21.24

7
Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition]
by Joseph Conrad
2,714 members, 19 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 21.06

8
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
25,048 members, 867 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 17.91

9
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank
4,138 members, 78 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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

Score: 17.86

10
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
164 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

11
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
11,300 members, 103 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

12
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
19,029 members, 150 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

13
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
39,127 members, 764 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: tess_schoolmarm (5), hipdeep (6), goldenmoon (12), booksinbed (22), Bretzky1 (24), merrystar (32), MTL (35), sturlington (86), ahef1963 (157), cej1027

Thumbs down: kara.shamy

Score: 16.21

14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
26,478 members, 366 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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

Score: 16.04

15
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
14,648 members, 132 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 15.48

16
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
28,792 members, 401 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

17
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54,527 members, 912 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (14), ahef1963 (15), goldenmoon (16), MTL (19), thecoroner (19), FranzK72 (30), merrystar (34), Bretzky1 (43), sturlington (106), kara.shamy (136), cej1027

Thumbs down: friedrb, aulsmith

Score: 14.68

18
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
28,096 members, 730 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 14.59

19
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9,259 members, 110 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (2), thecoroner (4), booksinbed (6), FranzK72 (9), aulsmith (16), Bretzky1 (46)

Score: 14.59

20
1984
by George Orwell
61,729 members, 986 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Bretzky1 (23), ahef1963 (25), aulsmith (33), goldenmoon (48), booksinbed (50), hipdeep (82)

Score: 13.64

21
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
10,544 members, 205 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: tess_schoolmarm (4), aulsmith (14), merrystar (17), booksinbed (18), ahef1963 (20), Bretzky1 (52), kara.shamy (95)

Score: 13.47

22
Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
475 members, 5 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: Joao_Matheus_Andrade (1), FranzK72 (10), goldenmoon (17), thecoroner (17), Bretzky1 (40), hipdeep (41)

Score: 13.36

23
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
8,421 members, 137 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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

Score: 13.35

24
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
22,555 members, 259 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), MTL (27), goldenmoon (31), booksinbed (33), Bretzky1 (35), ahef1963 (38), hipdeep (55), kara.shamy (87), cej1027

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 13.23

25
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
60,800 members, 1,092 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 13.23

26
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
14,924 members, 342 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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

Score: 13.11

27
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
20,709 members, 204 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 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: 13.01

28
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
10,034 members, 125 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 12.96

29
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
28,380 members, 478 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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

Score: 12.65

30
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
10,986 members, 241 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

31
The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
17,592 members, 160 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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

Score: 12.5

32
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
31,035 members, 495 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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

Score: 12.43

33
Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Lewis Carroll
124 members, 1 review
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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

Score: 12.31

34
The Iliad
by Homer
28,683 members, 282 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (8), goldenmoon (26), Bretzky1 (39), merrystar (99), kara.shamy (124), sturlington (127)

Score: 12.24

35
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10,109 members, 171 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 12.03

36
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
10,892 members, 221 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 11.71

37
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
21,498 members, 425 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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

Score: 11.64

38
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
17,929 members, 1,270 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 11.5

39
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
15,979 members, 338 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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

Score: 11.36

40
Ulysses
by James Joyce
18,564 members, 262 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

41
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,273 members, 37 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

Score: 11.08

42
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
59,617 members, 1,185 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 10.95

43
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
21,139 members, 344 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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

Score: 10.73

44
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
22,666 members, 323 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: MTL (17), ahef1963 (34), goldenmoon (38), hipdeep (40), Bretzky1 (49), sturlington (278), cej1027

Score: 10.72

45
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
78,857 members, 729 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

46
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
41,246 members, 562 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (25), sturlington (34), goldenmoon (44), booksinbed (46), merrystar (72), ahef1963 (92), cej1027 (116)

Score: 10.42

47
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
29,476 members, 538 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 10.42

48
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
26,984 members, 357 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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

Score: 10.28

49
Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
5,841 members, 214 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 10.14

50
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
15,645 members, 206 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: Belarmino (1), booksinbed (24), Bretzky1 (31), ahef1963 (89), kara.shamy (113)

Score: 10.03

51
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
37,939 members, 548 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 9.96

52
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
2,869 members, 24 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 9.93

53
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
17,169 members, 170 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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

Score: 9.93

54
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
9,319 members, 164 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 9.82

55
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
7,576 members, 108 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 9.75

56
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
9,947 members, 286 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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

Score: 9.69

57
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
14,984 members, 203 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

58
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
20,122 members, 307 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

59
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
13,282 members, 244 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 9.34

60
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
12,407 members, 243 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (47), goldenmoon (50), FranzK72 (58), kara.shamy (69), thecoroner (82), ahef1963 (211), sturlington (259)

Score: 9.25

61
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
946 members, 3 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (10), Bretzky1 (29), goldenmoon (41), ahef1963 (300)

Score: 9.19

62
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
11,034 members, 217 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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

Score: 9.12

63
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
8,949 members, 70 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 8.86

64
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
16,808 members, 174 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: 8.82

65
The Elements of Style
by William Jr. Strunk
16,231 members, 170 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 8.78

66
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
14,956 members, 453 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 8.75

67
The Princess Bride [novel]
by William Goldman
18,667 members, 443 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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

Score: 8.74

68
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
7,323 members, 153 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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

Score: 8.7

69
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
13,750 members, 336 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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

Score: 8.6

70
Babar the King
by Jean de Brunhoff
539 members, 8 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

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

Score: 8.58

71
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
34,323 members, 1,154 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 8.53

72
Candide
by Voltaire
15,810 members, 243 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 8.52

73
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
5,534 members, 139 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 8.42

74
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
13,869 members, 242 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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

Score: 8.19

75
Now We Are Six
by A. A. Milne
3,466 members, 29 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 8.13

76
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
13,878 members, 208 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 7.92

77
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
9,116 members, 123 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (58), goldenmoon (61), FranzK72 (76), thecoroner (80), booksinbed (91), sturlington (228)

Score: 7.9

78
The Republic
by Plato
16,214 members, 88 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (15), thecoroner (15), Bretzky1 (56), kara.shamy (86), sturlington (224)

Score: 7.88

79
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
2,405 members, 65 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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

Score: 7.87

80
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
14,772 members, 281 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 7.86

81
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
5,951 members, 79 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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

Score: 7.83

82
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
5,585 members, 92 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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

Score: 7.81

83
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
4,526 members, 182 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 7.72

84
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
3,598 members, 57 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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

Score: 7.69

85
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
82,211 members, 804 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: 7.67

86
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
43,815 members, 656 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.

87
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
12,433 members, 359 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

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

Score: 7.63

88
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,097 members, 108 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (20), booksinbed (44), FranzK72 (60), thecoroner (61), kara.shamy (92)

Score: 7.61

89
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
7,720 members, 70 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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

Score: 7.4

90
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
10,045 members, 139 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 7.34

91
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
11,391 members, 259 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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

Score: 7.27

92
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
28,864 members, 1,367 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 6.97

93
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
7,757 members, 223 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: sturlington (30), Bretzky1 (33), thecoroner (85), merrystar (107), ahef1963 (227)

Score: 6.97

94
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
5,545 members, 60 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: sturlington (21), kara.shamy (52), booksinbed (64), hipdeep (138), ahef1963 (252)

Score: 6.94

95
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
3,546 members, 67 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 6.92

96
Beezus and Ramona
by Beverly Cleary
4,707 members, 92 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 6.89

97
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
69,387 members, 948 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 6.83

98
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1,930 members, 28 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), aulsmith (12), hipdeep (136), sturlington (226)

Score: 6.73

99
The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
14,266 members, 309 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: sturlington (58), thecoroner (73), FranzK72 (82), booksinbed (94), cej1027 (95)

Score: 6.71

100
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
11,513 members, 161 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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

Score: 6.66

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date

About this list

Started by: cej1027 (May 2015)

Type: Numbered and unnumbered

Related tags

19th century (17,524) adventure (17,367) American literature (19,856) children's (30,116) classic (81,823) classics (73,954) drama (19,993) fantasy (155,370) fiction (661,659) Harry Potter (17,793) historical fiction (38,874) history (29,245) humor (24,733) literature (60,452) magic (17,541) mystery (23,684) non-fiction (58,053) novel (68,263) philosophy (33,281) poetry (23,380) read (48,436) science (15,350) science fiction (116,770) to-read (140,933) young adult (21,595)