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Western World's Greatest Books - Project Gutenberg

Type: Preset list created by smcwl

Based on bookaward: Western World's Greatest Books - Project Gutenberg

Members: 10 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date | CK Order
1
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
27,421 members, 153 reviews
4.59 stars (4.59 stars)

Lists: mcountr (1), hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (2), smcwl (2), FranzK72 (8), thecoroner (10)

Score: 19.36

2
Antigone; Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
10,854 members, 44 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: jasmaynard (1), ahef1963 (1), smcwl (1), hipdeep (8), FranzK72 (18), thecoroner (44)

Score: 17.87

3
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
18,579 members, 150 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), ahef1963 (3), smcwl (3), hipdeep (9), FranzK72 (16), thecoroner (16)

Score: 16.39

4
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
19,658 members, 417 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: cpg (1), hipdeep (2), mcountr (3), ahef1963 (19), smcwl (25), cej1027

Score: 16.21

5
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
21,338 members, 418 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: cpg (2), ahef1963 (5), smcwl (6), hipdeep (26), thecoroner (36), FranzK72 (59), cej1027

Score: 15.55

6
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,048 members, 306 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), cpg (5), mcountr (8), cej1027 (26), ahef1963 (61), FranzK72 (70), smcwl (84), thecoroner (93)

Score: 15.08

7
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,547 members, 795 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: cpg (3), mcountr (4), ahef1963 (10), smcwl (14), FranzK72 (62), thecoroner (113), cej1027

Score: 14.94

8
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
15,364 members, 153 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), mcountr (7), ahef1963 (35), smcwl (45), FranzK72 (48), thecoroner (108), cej1027

Score: 13.88

9
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
21,604 members, 185 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), cpg (4), hipdeep (13), mcountr (15), ahef1963 (16), smcwl (22)

Score: 13.85

10
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
24,892 members, 348 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: mcountr (2), smcwl (4), thecoroner (9), FranzK72 (10), hipdeep (15)

Score: 12.78

11
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,341 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), cpg (6), ahef1963 (15), smcwl (21), FranzK72 (26), thecoroner (29)

Score: 12.63

12
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
23,918 members, 453 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: cpg (7), ahef1963 (9), smcwl (12), FranzK72 (31), thecoroner (88), cej1027

Score: 12.03

13
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
19,092 members, 315 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), cpg (8), ahef1963 (25), smcwl (31), thecoroner (40), FranzK72 (47)

Score: 11.54

14
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
67,500 members, 1,205 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: merrystar (7), cpg (9), ahef1963 (26), smcwl (33), FranzK72 (46), thecoroner (70)

Score: 11.13

15
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
14,362 members, 276 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: mcountr (6), cpg (10), FranzK72 (32), ahef1963 (49), thecoroner (63), smcwl (66)

Score: 10.82

16
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,427 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), FranzK72 (2), ahef1963 (31), smcwl (40)

Score: 10.65

17
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,207 members, 612 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: mcountr (5), ahef1963 (23), smcwl (29), hipdeep (40), FranzK72 (63), thecoroner (115)

Score: 10.46

18
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
15,527 members, 271 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: cpg (11), mcountr (13), ahef1963 (14), smcwl (20), cej1027

Score: 10.37

19
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
17,382 members, 158 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), FranzK72 (3), hipdeep (10), smcwl (32)

Score: 10.33

20
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
36,787 members, 418 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (4), thecoroner (5), cpg (12), ahef1963 (96), smcwl (183)

Score: 10.02

21
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11,478 members, 210 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), ahef1963 (7), smcwl (10), cpg (13)

Score: 9.37

22
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
32,123 members, 446 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: merrystar (12), cpg (14), ahef1963 (20), smcwl (26), thecoroner (77)

Score: 9.23

23
The Odyssey
by Homer
42,998 members, 394 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (1), thecoroner (3), smcwl (18)

Score: 8.98

24
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24,728 members, 284 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: mcountr (11), cpg (15), smcwl (35), FranzK72 (39), thecoroner (60)

Score: 8.91

25
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,190 members, 317 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: mcountr (12), thecoroner (25), FranzK72 (44), ahef1963 (132), cej1027

Score: 8.78

26
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,540 members, 1,001 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: merrystar (8), thecoroner (49), FranzK72 (66), ahef1963 (129), cej1027

Score: 8.59

27
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,102 members, 373 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: cpg (16), ahef1963 (22), smcwl (28), FranzK72 (34), thecoroner (98)

Score: 8.51

28
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
16,640 members, 161 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: cpg (17), cej1027 (24), hipdeep (38), ahef1963 (42), smcwl (56)

Score: 8.42

29
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
36,228 members, 467 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (17), smcwl (23), cej1027

Score: 8.36

30
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
23,708 members, 236 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), smcwl (15), cpg (18), cej1027

Score: 8.28

31
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,122 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33), smcwl (42), thecoroner (54), FranzK72 (61), cej1027

Score: 8.25

32
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
15,225 members, 302 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: cpg (19), ahef1963 (46), smcwl (63), thecoroner (117), cej1027

Score: 8.19

33
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
19,509 members, 215 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), FranzK72 (17), thecoroner (21), smcwl (39)

Score: 8.11

34
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,877 members, 267 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: merrystar (9), smcwl (9), FranzK72 (27), thecoroner (28)

Score: 8.11

35
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
11,221 members, 145 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: cpg (20), cej1027 (25), hipdeep (36), ahef1963 (60), smcwl (83)

Score: 8.08

36
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,155 members, 164 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), smcwl (11), FranzK72 (24), thecoroner (33)

Score: 8.05

37
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
6,214 members, 107 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: cpg (21), ahef1963 (65), thecoroner (71), smcwl (95), cej1027

Score: 8.04

38
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,993 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: cpg (22), thecoroner (35), ahef1963 (43), FranzK72 (54), smcwl (58)

Score: 7.98

39
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,470 members, 238 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10), FranzK72 (13), thecoroner (13), smcwl (57)

Score: 7.92

40
The Aeneid
by Publius Virgilius Maro
18,937 members, 167 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: merrystar (11), FranzK72 (15), thecoroner (24), smcwl (44)

Score: 7.59

41
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
35,696 members, 643 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: cpg (23), FranzK72 (105), thecoroner (129), ahef1963 (131), cej1027

Score: 7.55

42
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,627 members, 224 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: cpg (24), ahef1963 (40), smcwl (53), FranzK72 (64), thecoroner (111)

Score: 7.53

43
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,171 members, 94 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), FranzK72 (30), thecoroner (43), smcwl (123)

Score: 7.51

44
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,472 members, 337 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (12), thecoroner (15), ahef1963 (30), smcwl (38)

Score: 7.5

45
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe
10,278 members, 70 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: mcountr (9), thecoroner (17), FranzK72 (25), smcwl (93)

Score: 7.36

46
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
20,208 members, 279 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), smcwl (5), cpg (25)

Score: 7.29

47
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,192 members, 107 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), FranzK72 (33), thecoroner (38), smcwl (134)

Score: 7.28

48
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15,451 members, 227 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), smcwl (7), mcountr (10)

Score: 7.26

49
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,409 members, 291 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (7), thecoroner (32), ahef1963 (38), smcwl (51)

Score: 7.25

50
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,695 members, 246 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16), cpg (26), ahef1963 (27), smcwl (34)

Score: 7.18

51
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
23,972 members, 458 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: merrystar (16), cpg (27), ahef1963 (28), smcwl (36)

Score: 7.13

52
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
26,538 members, 285 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29), hipdeep (35), smcwl (37), cej1027

Score: 7.1

53
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,699 members, 431 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), smcwl (27), cpg (28), hipdeep (39)

Score: 6.96

54
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
603 members, 10 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), smcwl (24), FranzK72 (38), thecoroner (39)

Score: 6.96

55
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
9,384 members, 123 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: cpg (29), FranzK72 (60), thecoroner (83), ahef1963 (95), smcwl (181)

Score: 6.86

56
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
23,858 members, 380 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), FranzK72 (9), smcwl (17)

Score: 6.84

57
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,443 members, 103 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: cpg (30), ahef1963 (78), FranzK72 (79), thecoroner (112), smcwl (138)

Score: 6.79

58
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,690 members, 220 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (14), cpg (31), ahef1963 (55), smcwl (76)

Score: 6.59

59
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,730 members, 118 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (14), cpg (32), ahef1963 (56), smcwl (78)

Score: 6.56

60
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
29,182 members, 460 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: smcwl (8), FranzK72 (11), thecoroner (19)

Score: 6.49

61
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by Anonymous
7,571 members, 117 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (11), cpg (33), ahef1963 (75), smcwl (128)

Score: 6.41

62
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13,700 members, 143 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27), cpg (34), FranzK72 (45), smcwl (61)

Score: 6.39

63
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,895 members, 46 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (23), cpg (35), ahef1963 (52), smcwl (70)

Score: 6.34

64
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,557 members, 221 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (19), ahef1963 (41), smcwl (54), thecoroner (75)

Score: 6.33

65
Candide
by Voltaire
17,604 members, 271 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (31), ahef1963 (37), smcwl (49), FranzK72 (52)

Score: 6.32

66
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
24,991 members, 339 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (27), ahef1963 (133), thecoroner (138), cej1027

Score: 6.21

67
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
6,764 members, 100 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (20), thecoroner (22), ahef1963 (85), smcwl (156)

Score: 6.19

68
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,224 members, 39 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (5), thecoroner (7), smcwl (314)

Score: 6.08

69
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
13,546 members, 224 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58), smcwl (80), thecoroner (132), cej1027

Score: 6.07

70
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,535 members, 183 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32), smcwl (41), FranzK72 (58), thecoroner (89)

Score: 6.01

71
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,717 members, 173 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: mcountr (14), thecoroner (66), FranzK72 (87), ahef1963 (134)

Score: 5.96

72
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,762 members, 196 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), FranzK72 (50), smcwl (52), thecoroner (109)

Score: 5.83

73
The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: hipdeep (51), ahef1963 (115), smcwl (292), cej1027

Score: 5.79

74
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
8,398 members, 87 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), FranzK72 (22), smcwl (173)

Score: 5.78

75
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,081 members, 53 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (34), FranzK72 (55), ahef1963 (72), smcwl (118)

Score: 5.71

76
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
9,064 members, 109 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: cpg (36), thecoroner (51), FranzK72 (57), smcwl (175)

Score: 5.69

77
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
11,171 members, 85 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (49), thecoroner (61), ahef1963 (62), smcwl (88)

Score: 5.68

78
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
7,680 members, 111 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: cpg (37), thecoroner (67), FranzK72 (73), smcwl (168)

Score: 5.5

79
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
5,443 members, 57 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57), FranzK72 (69), smcwl (79), thecoroner (95)

Score: 5.47

80
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,812 members, 745 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: cpg (38), hipdeep (52), ahef1963 (130), thecoroner (137)

Score: 5.45

81
The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine
18,181 members, 134 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (14), thecoroner (20), smcwl (55)

Score: 5.43

82
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,393 members, 203 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), FranzK72 (28), smcwl (50)

Score: 5.39

83
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10,484 members, 133 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), FranzK72 (21), smcwl (87)

Score: 5.38

84
Fables of Aesop
by Aesopus
5,363 members, 68 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (52), FranzK72 (75), ahef1963 (82), smcwl (148)

Score: 5.33

85
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6,536 members, 59 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: cpg (39), thecoroner (90), FranzK72 (99), smcwl (150)

Score: 5.31

86
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,980 members, 76 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (56), thecoroner (69), ahef1963 (91), smcwl (169)

Score: 5.26

87
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
9,251 members, 213 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: cpg (40), ahef1963 (88), thecoroner (124), smcwl (160)

Score: 5.22

88
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,552 members, 49 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (76), FranzK72 (77), thecoroner (99), smcwl (129)

Score: 5.16

89
The Republic
by Plato
18,120 members, 112 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: smcwl (13), FranzK72 (29), thecoroner (86)

Score: 5.14

90
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
4,521 members, 71 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (73), FranzK72 (78), thecoroner (121), smcwl (124)

Score: 5.12

91
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
15,217 members, 140 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44), smcwl (59), cej1027

Score: 5.1

92
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,576 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), smcwl (30), cpg (41)

Score: 5.1

93
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,436 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (79), FranzK72 (80), thecoroner (122), smcwl (140)

Score: 5.05

94
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
14,413 members, 213 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: merrystar (13), ahef1963 (54), smcwl (74)

Score: 4.95

95
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
499 members, 7 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (6), thecoroner (8)

Score: 4.93

96
The Immoralist
by André Gide
2,945 members, 36 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (53), thecoroner (102), ahef1963 (120), smcwl (319)

Score: 4.9

97
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
11,675 members, 184 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (63), smcwl (90), cej1027

Score: 4.83

98
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
19,638 members, 188 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), cpg (42), smcwl (43)

Score: 4.79

99
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
18,185 members, 369 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), cpg (43), smcwl (47)

Score: 4.72

100
Henry IV, Part I
by William Shakespeare
4,224 members, 33 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (25), ahef1963 (51), smcwl (69)

Score: 4.67

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