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Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
13,280 members
51 reviews
4
Global Rank 2
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
31,934 members
170 reviews
½ 4.6
Global Rank 1
8 Members
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
22,126 members
169 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 6
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
30,713 members
453 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 14
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Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
25,582 members
334 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 42
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
27,388 members
482 reviews
4
Global Rank 5
11 Members
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
26,695 members
402 reviews
4
Global Rank 71
4 Members
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
35,705 members
545 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 53
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,999 members
302 reviews
4
Global Rank 32
6 Members
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
15,817 members
251 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 15
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Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,991 members
184 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 56
5 Members
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
12,769 members
242 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 22
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The Republic
by Plato
22,092 members
142 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 81
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
59,436 members
924 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 4
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
28,784 members
280 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 36
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
23,975 members
330 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 86
4 Members
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War and Peace
by León Tolstói
29,077 members
460 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 68
4 Members
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The Odyssey
by Homer
53,551 members
476 reviews
4
Global Rank 9
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
13,702 members
221 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 128
3 Members
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
20,326 members
324 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 25
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
52,395 members
709 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 13
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
26,294 members
232 reviews
4
Global Rank 8
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23
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
43,321 members
521 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 35
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
764 members
12 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 55
6 Members
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
24,959 members
528 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 3
10 Members
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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
38,421 members
530 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 29
7 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
38,297 members
506 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 30
7 Members
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
38,747 members
440 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 17
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
43,040 members
714 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 23
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30
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
36,931 members
457 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 104
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
22,647 members
360 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 16
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
21,935 members
188 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 21
6 Members
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33
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
81,299 members
1,372 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 18
9 Members
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34
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
33,074 members
308 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 80
5 Members
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35
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
29,717 members
332 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 40
6 Members
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
28,907 members
535 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 51
6 Members
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37
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
33,193 members
328 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 52
6 Members
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38
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
26,376 members
390 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 38
6 Members
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39
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
23,820 members
255 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 37
6 Members
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40
Ulysses
by James Joyce
24,245 members
379 reviews
4
Global Rank 12
6 Members
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
21,343 members
217 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 93
5 Members
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42
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
23,743 members
391 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 60
6 Members
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43
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
24,447 members
242 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 109
4 Members
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44
The Aeneid
by Virgil
23,109 members
201 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 48
5 Members
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45
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,134 members
11 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 11
10 Members
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46
The Nose
by Nikolaj Gogol
414 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 173
3 Members
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
21,781 members
420 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 57
6 Members
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49
Candide
by Voltaire
20,684 members
310 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 70
6 Members
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50
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
20,022 members
238 reviews
4
Global Rank 69
5 Members
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51
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
20,822 members
332 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 50
6 Members
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52
Dubliners
by James Joyce
19,819 members
228 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 75
6 Members
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53
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
21,188 members
282 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 44
7 Members
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
19,296 members
248 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 66
6 Members
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Confessions
by Saint Augustine
22,633 members
163 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 67
5 Members
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
19,962 members
178 reviews
4
Global Rank 10
10 Members
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
17,711 members
271 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 33
6 Members
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
17,843 members
331 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 39
7 Members
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59
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
17,661 members
173 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 112
4 Members
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61
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16,316 members
163 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 88
5 Members
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62
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
15,460 members
303 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 59
6 Members
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The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
17,842 members
341 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 62
6 Members
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64
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
18,540 members
310 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 117
4 Members
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65
Othello
by William Shakespeare
17,056 members
132 reviews
4
Global Rank 116
4 Members
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66
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
17,249 members
318 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 19
9 Members
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67
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
19,110 members
326 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 218
2 Members
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The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence
4,169 members
48 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 181
3 Members
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69
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
5,089 members
39 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 160
3 Members
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Henry V
by William Shakespeare
6,086 members
53 reviews
4
Global Rank 113
4 Members
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71
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
12,559 members
110 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 115
4 Members
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73
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin
4,514 members
69 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 135
4 Members
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74
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
18,580 members
255 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 154
3 Members
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76
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
13,747 members
249 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 58
6 Members
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77
Germinal
by Émile Zola
5,399 members
79 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 189
3 Members
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78
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
15,171 members
147 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 84
5 Members
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79
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
6,641 members
72 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 102
5 Members
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80
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
17,242 members
267 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 91
5 Members
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81
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
14,226 members
193 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 185
3 Members
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82
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
6,795 members
78 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 176
3 Members
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83
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
13,892 members
176 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 65
6 Members
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84
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
12,880 members
338 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 7
11 Members
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85
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
13,455 members
108 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 148
4 Members
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86
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
13,278 members
101 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 105
5 Members
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87
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,633 members
156 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 99
4 Members
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88
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
14,026 members
113 reviews
4
Global Rank 98
5 Members
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89
Antigone
by Sophocles
5,486 members
71 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 151
3 Members
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90
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
14,993 members
230 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 159
3 Members
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91
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
13,122 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 187
3 Members
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92
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
7,939 members
104 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 163
3 Members
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93
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
12,111 members
75 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 47
6 Members
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95
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
7,897 members
127 reviews
4
Global Rank 26
8 Members
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96
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,802 members
125 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 43
6 Members
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97
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,574 members
444 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 85
6 Members
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98
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
8,529 members
215 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 76
6 Members
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100
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,425 members
191 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 123
4 Members
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101
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
9,947 members
120 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 95
5 Members
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102
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
10,201 members
141 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 96
5 Members
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103
The Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare
4,806 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 226
2 Members
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105
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
4,436 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 142
4 Members
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106
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
4,567 members
132 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 79
5 Members
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107
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
4,014 members
48 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 138
4 Members
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