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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,507 members

177 reviews

½ 4.6

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2

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,212 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

29,301 members

597 reviews

4.1

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

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by Charlotte Brontë

67,752 members

1,016 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

32,420 members

534 reviews

4

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

6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

24,994 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

7

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,512 members

374 reviews

4

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

8

by William Shakespeare

30,133 members

264 reviews

4

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9

62,231 members

521 reviews

4

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

10

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,276 members

205 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

27,382 members

375 reviews

4

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

13

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,833 members

810 reviews

3.9

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

14

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,728 members

531 reviews

4.1

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

15

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,440 members

275 reviews

4.1

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16

25,576 members

405 reviews

3.8

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17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,890 members

479 reviews

3.9

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Pride and Prejudice

93,667 members

1,508 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

19,654 members

367 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,651 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

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

21

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,296 members

221 reviews

4.1

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22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,530 members

245 reviews

4.1

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

23

by Mary Shelley

50,923 members

813 reviews

3.8

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24

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,653 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

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

25

The Call of the Wild

22,740 members

345 reviews

3.8

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26

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,782 members

141 reviews

4

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27

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

52,918 members

871 reviews

4.2

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28

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,484 members

573 reviews

4.2

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29

Sense and Sensibility

43,935 members

573 reviews

4.1

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

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43,916 members

567 reviews

4.1

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

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,526 members

136 reviews

3.8

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

32

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,942 members

334 reviews

4

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

33

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,339 members

312 reviews

3.9

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

34

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,728 members

131 reviews

3.8

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

35

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,258 members

595 reviews

3.9

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

36

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,752 members

311 reviews

½ 3.7

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

37

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,790 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

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

38

by Gustave Flaubert

29,717 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

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

39

by George Eliot

20,685 members

367 reviews

4.2

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

40

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,345 members

393 reviews

½ 4.4

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

41

by Wilkie Collins

12,062 members

274 reviews

4

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

42

by Beowulf Poet

29,149 members

362 reviews

3.8

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

43

The Portrait of a Lady

12,113 members

139 reviews

3.9

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

44

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,062 members

324 reviews

4.1

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

45

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,345 members

201 reviews

3.9

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

46

by George Orwell

69,776 members

1,002 reviews

4

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

47

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,495 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

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

48

The Aeneid (translations)

26,656 members

228 reviews

3.9

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

49

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,985 members

104 reviews

3.9

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

50

by Virginia Woolf

23,194 members

376 reviews

3.8

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

51

33,124 members

576 reviews

4.2

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

52

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,284 members

369 reviews

3.9

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

53

by Herman Melville

41,576 members

618 reviews

3.8

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

54

by Charles Dickens

11,967 members

147 reviews

½ 3.5

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

55

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

895 members

12 reviews

4.2

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

56

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,497 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

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

57

Northanger Abbey

24,908 members

460 reviews

3.8

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

58

by Charles Dickens

15,315 members

274 reviews

4.2

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

59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,816 members

341 reviews

3.9

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

60

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,272 members

432 reviews

½ 3.6

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

61

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,276 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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The Time Machine

20,307 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

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

63

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,786 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

8,544 members

125 reviews

3.9

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

65

by William Shakespeare

15,832 members

191 reviews

3.9

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

66

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,572 members

265 reviews

3.8

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

67

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,761 members

24 reviews

3.9

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

68

33,426 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

22,832 members

267 reviews

4

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

70

23,060 members

345 reviews

3.8

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

71

by Louisa May Alcott

33,072 members

472 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, NinieB, mcountr

72

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,325 members

122 reviews

3.8

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

73

The Gift of the Magi [short story]

2,615 members

54 reviews

4

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

74

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,384 members

151 reviews

3.9

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

75

22,056 members

261 reviews

3.9

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

76

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,942 members

244 reviews

3.8

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

77

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,350 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,369 members

133 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

79

by Elizabeth Gaskell

5,157 members

143 reviews

3.8

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

80

by William Shakespeare

37,215 members

336 reviews

4.2

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

81

The Republic of Plato

25,472 members

162 reviews

3.9

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

82

by Henrik Ibsen

6,186 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

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

83

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,622 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

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

84

by William Shakespeare

17,264 members

170 reviews

4.1

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

85

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,025 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

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

86

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,686 members

365 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Charlotte Brontë

10,055 members

157 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cpg, smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

88

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

18,921 members

195 reviews

4.1

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

89

by George Eliot

4,818 members

77 reviews

3.9

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90

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,733 members

487 reviews

3.8

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

91

Around the World in Eighty Days

20,150 members

298 reviews

3.8

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

92

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,410 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

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

93

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,478 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

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

94

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,255 members

115 reviews

4.1

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

95

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,430 members

132 reviews

3.8

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

96

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,218 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

97

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

93,961 members

1,449 reviews

4.2

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

98

16,665 members

130 reviews

4

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

99

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14,809 members

188 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

100

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

888 members

16 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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