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Description: Superbly and beautifully written books, elegant prose, gorgeous language, sophisticated writing style.
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thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, AAAO

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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

70,274 members

1,137 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,476 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,463 members

618 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Pride and Prejudice

78,327 members

1,345 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by George Eliot

17,258 members

325 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,304 members

676 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,794 members

208 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Sylvia Plath

27,418 members

484 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Sense and Sensibility

37,129 members

513 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, AAAO
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10

by Charles Dickens

13,393 members

242 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,308 members

263 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,046 members

363 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Portrait of a Lady

10,610 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Virginia Woolf

20,062 members

323 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,128 members

546 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

16

12,721 members

285 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Toni Morrison

22,241 members

397 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,149 members

260 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,458 members

107 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

20

by Gustave Flaubert

25,700 members

382 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

21

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,112 members

293 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,704 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

23

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,085 members

189 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Death in Venice

5,257 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Albert Camus

18,067 members

236 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,004 members

96 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,024 members

373 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

28

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,612 members

110 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

29

25,969 members

614 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

30

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,401 members

49 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

31

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

6,080 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,816 members

622 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

33

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

41,286 members

1,115 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

34

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,608 members

241 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

35

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,618 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

36

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

11,392 members

171 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

37

The New York Trilogy

9,645 members

154 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

38

Visit from the Footbinder

by Emily Prager

92 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,009 members

50 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

40

The Swimming-Pool Library

by Alan Hollinghurst

1,973 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,780 members

120 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

42

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,512 members

105 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

43

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

by Rainer Maria Rilke

2,410 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

44

by Herman Melville

34,481 members

526 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

45

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,552 members

297 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

46

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,794 members

44 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: thecoroner

47

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5,899 members

80 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

48

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,397 members

145 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

49

by Italo Calvino

994 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

50

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7,863 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

51

by John Steinbeck

22,678 members

412 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

52

Narcissus and Goldmund

by Hermann Hesse

6,229 members

75 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

53

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,387 members

110 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

54

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

591 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

55

The Adventures of Augie March

3,767 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

56

The Magic Mountain

9,357 members

168 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

57

by David Foster Wallace

12,967 members

239 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

58

The Rings of Saturn

by W. G. Sebald

3,218 members

79 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

59

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,521 members

139 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

60

3,117 members

71 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

61

by Anton Chekhov

1,506 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

62

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,552 members

673 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

63

19,492 members

234 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

64

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,036 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

65

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,953 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

66

by Herta Müller

496 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: thecoroner

67

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,140 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

68

by Sir Walter Scott

12,642 members

118 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

69

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,286 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

70

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,105 members

266 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

71

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

2,694 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

72

by Roberto Bolaño

6,461 members

175 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

73

by Henry David Thoreau

13,758 members

180 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

74

The Alexandria Quartet

by Lawrence Durrell

2,086 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

75

The Border Trilogy

by Cormac McCarthy

1,498 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

76

by Isak Dinesen

5,134 members

99 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

77

The Sea of Fertility

by Yukio Mishima

217 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: thecoroner

78

6,025 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

79

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,591 members

235 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

80

Lieutenant Gustl

by Arthur Schnitzler

332 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

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