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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,041 members

1,165 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,478 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

53,826 members

770 reviews

3.9

11 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

by Albert Camus

35,462 members

501 reviews

3.9

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,617 members

431 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,252 members

471 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,918 members

161 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

8

by George Orwell

81,832 members

1,268 reviews

4.2

11 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,903 members

300 reviews

4

8 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707, CharlesTheB

10

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,683 members

559 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,417 members

142 reviews

3.8

8 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

12

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,269 members

225 reviews

4

7 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Laura1124

13

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,079 members

345 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, steller0707, CharlesTheB

14

by Edith Wharton

9,486 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, steller0707

15

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,559 members

268 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, CharlesTheB

16

24,079 members

377 reviews

4

7 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, mermind, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif

17

Collected Poems

3,530 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

18

by Ralph Ellison

16,355 members

212 reviews

4

6 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

19

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,704 members

243 reviews

4

6 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,922 members

384 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,375 members

688 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

22

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,922 members

120 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Marguerite Duras

5,149 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

24

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,207 members

216 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

25

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,505 members

257 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

26

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,181 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Truman Capote

23,700 members

466 reviews

4.1

6 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

by Virginia Woolf

20,601 members

329 reviews

3.9

6 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,143 members

244 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, steller0707

30

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,590 members

174 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

by E. M. Forster

8,764 members

131 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,453 members

125 reviews

4.1

4 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by William Faulkner

14,753 members

215 reviews

3.9

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

34

19,674 members

226 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,299 members

113 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,876 members

242 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

37

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,572 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

38

Portnoy's Complaint

7,363 members

153 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

39

by Albert Camus

18,454 members

248 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, NinieB, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

40

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,924 members

201 reviews

4

4 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963

41

19,862 members

237 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

42

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,374 members

243 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

43

by Joseph Conrad

9,021 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Bretzky1, jeffza, Laura1124, CharlesTheB

44

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

774 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: amanda4242, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,929 members

336 reviews

3.8

4 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Kurt Vonnegut

22,296 members

300 reviews

4.1

4 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,176 members

41 reviews

3.9

3 Members: amanda4242, mermind, CharlesTheB

48

by Evelyn Waugh

3,812 members

83 reviews

3.8

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124

49

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,815 members

124 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, steller0707

50

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,495 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif

51

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

1,227 members

11 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

52

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,014 members

94 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

10,989 members

173 reviews

3.8

4 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

54

by Willa Cather

13,589 members

286 reviews

3.9

4 Members: NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

55

The Magic Mountain

9,596 members

175 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jeffza, Sisif, CharlesTheB

56

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,740 members

123 reviews

3.9

4 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

57

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

892 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Cecrow, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,780 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, Laura1124

59

by Cormac McCarthy

11,553 members

272 reviews

4.2

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, Sisif

60

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

262 members

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mermind, ahef1963

61

by Joseph Conrad

2,455 members

37 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, CharlesTheB

62

The Periodic Table

4,022 members

70 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mermind, jeffza

63

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,473 members

37 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, NinieB

64

by George Bernard Shaw

6,729 members

78 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963

65

Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

1,684 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy

66

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,556 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Flannery O'Connor

3,846 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: kara.shamy, Sisif, steller0707

68

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

1,977 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

69

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,348 members

13 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,589 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon

71

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

3,775 members

58 reviews

4.2

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif

72

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,694 members

201 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, NinieB

73

The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

2,538 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

74

by Graham Greene

5,155 members

117 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124

75

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952

by Dylan Thomas

2,744 members

21 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Sisif

76

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,232 members

123 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon, ahef1963

77

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,778 members

407 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

78

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,712 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, CharlesTheB

79

by Margaret Atwood

4,319 members

110 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

80

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,069 members

83 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

81

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,149 members

141 reviews

3.9

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124

82

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,560 members

147 reviews

4.1

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, steller0707

83

by D. H. Lawrence

7,015 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

84

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,953 members

82 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

85

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,449 members

268 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

86

3,331 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

87

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,883 members

44 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: jeffza, Sisif

88

Myra Breckinridge

966 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,517 members

41 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Eugène Ionesco

1,410 members

16 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon

91

by Robert Graves

683 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

92

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,372 members

197 reviews

4

2 Members: jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,857 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

94

by August Wilson

1,811 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

95

by John Crowe Ransom

113 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, mermind

96

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

4,605 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: tomdoniphon, Sisif

97

by John Cheever

718 members

16 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, Laura1124

98

The Counterfeiters

1,394 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza

99

by Sinclair Lewis

5,052 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124

100

by Theodore Dreiser

4,038 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

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