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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

30,647 members

168 reviews

½ 4.6

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2

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,673 members

50 reviews

4

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,464 members

502 reviews

4.1

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by Charlotte Brontë

56,829 members

892 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

25,799 members

474 reviews

4

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6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,240 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,405 members

331 reviews

4.1

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by William Shakespeare

25,028 members

217 reviews

4

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50,763 members

444 reviews

4

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10

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

18,996 members

170 reviews

4

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11

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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23,317 members

334 reviews

4

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,685 members

671 reviews

3.9

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14

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,502 members

428 reviews

4.1

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

15

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,994 members

244 reviews

4.1

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16

21,755 members

352 reviews

3.8

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17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,014 members

418 reviews

3.9

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18

Pride and Prejudice

77,520 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,651 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,239 members

359 reviews

½ 3.4

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21

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

20,810 members

181 reviews

4.1

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22

The Diary of a Young Girl

27,407 members

501 reviews

4.1

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23

by Mary Shelley

40,749 members

695 reviews

3.8

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24

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,595 members

1,133 reviews

3.8

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25

The Call of the Wild

19,173 members

310 reviews

3.8

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26

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,544 members

123 reviews

4

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42,631 members

739 reviews

4.2

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28

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,425 members

477 reviews

4.2

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29

Sense and Sensibility

36,771 members

506 reviews

4.1

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36,542 members

495 reviews

4.1

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31

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,772 members

120 reviews

3.8

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32

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,440 members

296 reviews

4

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33

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,943 members

256 reviews

3.9

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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,423 members

118 reviews

3.8

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35

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,591 members

509 reviews

3.9

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36

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,431 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

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37

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,776 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

by Gustave Flaubert

25,455 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

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39

by George Eliot

17,102 members

324 reviews

4.2

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40

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,379 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

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

41

by Wilkie Collins

10,460 members

246 reviews

4

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

42

by Beowulf poet

24,445 members

330 reviews

3.8

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43

The Portrait of a Lady

10,573 members

126 reviews

3.9

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

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,945 members

259 reviews

4.1

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by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,277 members

191 reviews

3.9

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46

by George Orwell

57,836 members

850 reviews

4

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

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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,558 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

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

48

22,033 members

194 reviews

3.9

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

49

by Henry Fielding

7,919 members

94 reviews

3.9

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by Virginia Woolf

19,858 members

324 reviews

3.9

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51

27,628 members

522 reviews

4.2

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

52

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

31,548 members

319 reviews

3.9

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

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by Herman Melville

34,065 members

519 reviews

3.8

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by Charles Dickens

10,170 members

136 reviews

½ 3.5

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55

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

725 members

13 reviews

4.2

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56

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,537 members

180 reviews

½ 3.7

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57

Northanger Abbey

20,860 members

405 reviews

3.8

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

58

by Charles Dickens

13,327 members

243 reviews

4.2

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59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,739 members

287 reviews

3.9

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60

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,831 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,367 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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The Time Machine

17,003 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

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

63

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,444 members

41 reviews

4.2

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

64

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)

by Laurence Sterne

7,526 members

112 reviews

3.9

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65

by William Shakespeare

13,263 members

169 reviews

3.9

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66

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,588 members

241 reviews

3.8

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67

by Saint Augustine

21,475 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

68

27,668 members

427 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

19,328 members

233 reviews

4

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

70

19,930 members

306 reviews

3.8

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

71

by Louisa May Alcott

25,363 members

394 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, NinieB, mcountr

72

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,661 members

106 reviews

3.8

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

73

The Gift of the Magi

2,005 members

43 reviews

4

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

74

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,740 members

125 reviews

3.9

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

75

19,099 members

221 reviews

3.9

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

76

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,143 members

205 reviews

3.9

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77

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,919 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,691 members

120 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

79

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,400 members

127 reviews

3.8

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80

by William Shakespeare

31,499 members

287 reviews

4.2

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81

21,138 members

138 reviews

3.9

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82

by Henrik Ibsen

5,238 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

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83

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,352 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

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84

by William Shakespeare

14,468 members

143 reviews

4.1

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85

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,770 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

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86

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,742 members

325 reviews

4.1

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87

by Charlotte Brontë

8,491 members

139 reviews

3.9

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88

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

15,601 members

157 reviews

4.1

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89

by George Eliot

4,235 members

72 reviews

3.9

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90

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,452 members

425 reviews

3.8

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91

Around the World in Eighty Days

16,273 members

257 reviews

3.8

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

92

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,737 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

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

93

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,626 members

207 reviews

½ 3.7

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

94

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,215 members

92 reviews

4.1

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95

The Epic of Gilgamesh

9,554 members

117 reviews

3.8

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96

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,932 members

139 reviews

3.9

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

97

by George Orwell

79,030 members

1,243 reviews

4.2

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98

13,307 members

109 reviews

4

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

99

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

11,974 members

147 reviews

4.1

4 Members: smcwl, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

100

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

586 members

10 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

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