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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,652 members

177 reviews

½ 4.6

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Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,277 members

62 reviews

4

9 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, Matke, jasmaynard, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,482 members

599 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, cpg, smcwl, merrystar, Matke, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charlotte Brontë

68,087 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

11 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, Matke, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,615 members

534 reviews

4

11 Members: hipdeep, cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,042 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,577 members

374 reviews

4

11 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

29,953 members

261 reviews

4

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9

62,752 members

524 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, Matke, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, Chram

10

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,370 members

203 reviews

4

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11

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

10 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

12

27,482 members

377 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, Chram

13

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,240 members

813 reviews

3.9

9 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,913 members

532 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,496 members

275 reviews

4.1

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16

25,720 members

403 reviews

3.8

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17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,929 members

479 reviews

3.9

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Pride and Prejudice

94,229 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,691 members

366 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,863 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

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21

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,513 members

223 reviews

4.1

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22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,571 members

245 reviews

4.1

8 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, FranzK72

23

by Mary Shelley

51,192 members

811 reviews

3.8

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24

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,047 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

8 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Call of the Wild

22,861 members

346 reviews

3.8

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26

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,820 members

141 reviews

4

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27

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

53,197 members

874 reviews

4.2

8 Members: cpg, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72

28

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,803 members

576 reviews

4.2

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

29

Sense and Sensibility

44,174 members

578 reviews

4.1

7 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

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44,204 members

570 reviews

4.1

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,555 members

136 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,833 members

335 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

33

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,342 members

312 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,764 members

131 reviews

3.8

8 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,477 members

585 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,949 members

308 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,946 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Gustave Flaubert

29,858 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72

39

by George Eliot

20,800 members

368 reviews

4.2

7 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,526 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mcountr

41

by Wilkie Collins

12,088 members

273 reviews

4

7 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Beowulf Poet

29,332 members

362 reviews

3.8

5 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Portrait of a Lady

12,174 members

139 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

44

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,135 members

325 reviews

4.1

7 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72

45

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,322 members

201 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by George Orwell

70,125 members

1,007 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, cpg, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,569 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, mcountr, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Aeneid (translations)

26,834 members

229 reviews

3.9

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

49

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,019 members

103 reviews

3.9

7 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Virginia Woolf

23,306 members

376 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

51

33,310 members

576 reviews

4.2

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,457 members

369 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

53

by Herman Melville

41,819 members

620 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

54

by Charles Dickens

12,000 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72

55

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

905 members

12 reviews

4.2

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,579 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

57

Northanger Abbey

25,045 members

463 reviews

3.8

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Charles Dickens

15,378 members

273 reviews

4.2

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,925 members

341 reviews

3.9

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,408 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,266 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Time Machine

20,268 members

385 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,789 members

44 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,588 members

125 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by William Shakespeare

15,753 members

191 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, cpg, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,671 members

264 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

67

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,764 members

24 reviews

3.9

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

33,623 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

22,894 members

269 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

70

23,155 members

344 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Louisa May Alcott

33,284 members

473 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, NinieB, mcountr

72

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,321 members

121 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

73

The Gift of the Magi [short story]

2,625 members

54 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,383 members

152 reviews

3.9

6 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

75

22,143 members

265 reviews

3.9

6 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

76

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

10,000 members

247 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

77

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,372 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,470 members

132 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

79

by Elizabeth Gaskell

5,172 members

143 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by William Shakespeare

37,399 members

336 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cpg, smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Republic of Plato

25,596 members

163 reviews

3.9

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Henrik Ibsen

6,195 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

83

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,651 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

84

by William Shakespeare

17,173 members

168 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cpg, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963

85

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,073 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: smcwl, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

86

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,817 members

369 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Charlotte Brontë

10,096 members

158 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cpg, smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

88

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

18,961 members

197 reviews

4.1

5 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

89

by George Eliot

4,835 members

77 reviews

3.8

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90

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,945 members

489 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

91

Around the World in Eighty Days

20,234 members

301 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,463 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: cpg, smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

93

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,558 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,306 members

115 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,459 members

133 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

96

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,261 members

157 reviews

3.9

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

97

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,394 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

5 Members: cpg, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

98

16,751 members

131 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

99

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14,917 members

188 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

100

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

898 members

16 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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