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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 4 5Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date | CK Order
1
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
26,261 members, 148 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
11,289 members, 44 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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

Score: 17.87

3
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
17,565 members, 138 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
18,371 members, 396 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 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
20,055 members, 399 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
10,524 members, 300 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 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
47,292 members, 762 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 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
18,711 members, 186 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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

Score: 13.88

9
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
20,362 members, 172 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
23,440 members, 320 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
40,259 members, 568 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
22,551 members, 431 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
18,269 members, 303 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
64,411 members, 1,153 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
13,449 members, 262 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
19,476 members, 270 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Score: 10.65

17
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
32,140 members, 588 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
14,502 members, 253 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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

Score: 10.37

19
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
16,039 members, 143 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 Dostoevsky
35,250 members, 409 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 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
10,591 members, 198 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
30,281 members, 419 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 9.23

23
The Odyssey
by Homer
40,304 members, 368 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 8.98

24
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
23,567 members, 259 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
28,722 members, 309 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
57,781 members, 948 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 8.59

27
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
30,491 members, 355 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 8.51

28
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
15,678 members, 144 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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

Score: 8.42

29
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
34,308 members, 461 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
22,323 members, 229 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Score: 8.28

31
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
19,064 members, 293 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

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

Score: 8.25

32
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
14,256 members, 283 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
18,319 members, 192 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
11,402 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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

Score: 8.11

35
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
10,665 members, 139 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
10,692 members, 159 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 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
5,957 members, 104 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 8.04

38
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,177 members, 266 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
14,737 members, 224 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
17,898 members, 153 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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

Score: 7.59

41
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
33,343 members, 608 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
16,644 members, 214 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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

Score: 7.53

43
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,076 members, 92 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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

Score: 7.51

44
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
21,364 members, 317 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

Score: 7.5

45
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
9,802 members, 69 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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

Score: 7.36

46
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
18,858 members, 255 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 7.29

47
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,011 members, 103 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 7.28

48
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
14,245 members, 220 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 7.26

49
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
16,549 members, 288 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 7.25

50
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
26,270 members, 225 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 7.18

51
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
22,842 members, 445 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 7.13

52
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
24,722 members, 275 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 7.1

53
Emma
by Jane Austen
30,217 members, 413 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
555 members, 11 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 6.96

55
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
8,930 members, 121 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

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

Score: 6.86

56
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
22,566 members, 353 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
7,121 members, 102 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
11,186 members, 214 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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

Score: 6.59

59
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,044 members, 111 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 6.56

60
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
27,807 members, 433 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 6.49

61
The Holy Bible: King James Version
7,402 members, 115 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Score: 6.41

62
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13,040 members, 132 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 6.39

63
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,621 members, 43 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
15,872 members, 216 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 6.33

65
Candide
by Voltaire
16,766 members, 261 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 6.32

66
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
24,996 members, 352 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
6,475 members, 96 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 6.19

68
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,053 members, 39 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

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

Score: 6.08

69
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
12,391 members, 200 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 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
17,841 members, 177 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
12,152 members, 175 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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

Score: 5.96

72
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,055 members, 180 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 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
7,815 members, 73 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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

Score: 5.78

75
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
3,915 members, 48 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
8,542 members, 104 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
10,420 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
7,294 members, 106 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 5.5

79
Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
by Sophocles
5,072 members, 54 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
46,687 members, 696 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 5.45

81
Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine
16,967 members, 117 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 5.43

82
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
16,656 members, 188 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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

Score: 5.39

83
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9,942 members, 124 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 5.38

84
Fables of Aesop
by Aesop
5,037 members, 64 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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

Score: 5.33

85
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6,170 members, 58 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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

Score: 5.31

86
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,685 members, 75 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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

Score: 5.26

87
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
8,826 members, 198 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
4,393 members, 49 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 5.16

89
The Republic
by Plato
17,393 members, 94 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
4,273 members, 68 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
14,385 members, 138 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
28,937 members, 372 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
8,120 members, 86 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

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

Score: 5.05

94
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
13,233 members, 191 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 4.95

95
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
452 members, 7 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: FranzK72 (6), thecoroner (8)

Score: 4.93

96
The Immoralist
by André Gide
2,820 members, 33 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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

Score: 4.9

97
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
10,759 members, 169 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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

Score: 4.83

98
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
18,585 members, 180 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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

Score: 4.79

99
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
17,353 members, 364 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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

Score: 4.72

100
Henry IV, Part I
by William Shakespeare
4,025 members, 31 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 4.67

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