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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,691 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

15 Members: hipdeep, kmcquage, Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, EGBERTINA

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,342 members

867 reviews

3.9

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

3

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,001 members

517 reviews

4.1

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, hvg, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA, Nonconformisto

4

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,311 members

460 reviews

3.8

13 Members: Cecrow, olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, EGBERTINA, Nonconformisto

5

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

76,999 members

1,195 reviews

3.8

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

6

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,947 members

334 reviews

4

11 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707, CharlesTheB, RODNEYP, EGBERTINA

7

by Albert Camus

40,675 members

575 reviews

3.9

11 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, Nonconformisto

8

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,011 members

1,449 reviews

4.2

13 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, EGBERTINA, Nonconformisto

9

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,444 members

247 reviews

4

9 Members: Cecrow, olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Laura1124

10

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,922 members

167 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Cecrow, hvg, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB, EGBERTINA

11

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,669 members

189 reviews

3.9

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

12

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,192 members

634 reviews

4.1

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

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by Ralph Ellison

18,371 members

230 reviews

4

9 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon, hvg, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, Nonconformisto

14

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,350 members

312 reviews

3.9

9 Members: Cecrow, hvg, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, CharlesTheB, EGBERTINA

15

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,231 members

384 reviews

4

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

16

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,595 members

779 reviews

4.2

8 Members: Cecrow, olgakm, tomdoniphon, hvg, Bretzky1, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

17

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,528 members

136 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, olgakm, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

18

Collected Poems

4,008 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB, Nonconformisto

19

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

2,983 members

68 reviews

4.1

6 Members: olgakm, tomdoniphon, hvg, mermind, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Marguerite Duras

6,098 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: Cecrow, olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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by Edith Wharton

10,634 members

239 reviews

½ 3.6

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

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27,400 members

376 reviews

4

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

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by Albert Camus

21,025 members

282 reviews

3.9

7 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, jeffza, NinieB, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

24

Portnoy's Complaint

8,027 members

162 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,484 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Virginia Woolf

23,202 members

376 reviews

3.8

7 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,221 members

283 reviews

4

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

28

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,243 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

29

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,354 members

203 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, olgakm, amanda4242, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

30

by E. M. Forster

9,683 members

144 reviews

4

6 Members: Cecrow, olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,930 members

271 reviews

4

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

32

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18,837 members

454 reviews

4.1

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

33

by William Faulkner

16,854 members

238 reviews

3.9

6 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

34

by Willa Cather

15,212 members

310 reviews

3.9

6 Members: olgakm, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707, EGBERTINA

35

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,493 members

231 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, EGBERTINA

36

by Joseph Conrad

10,151 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hvg, Bretzky1, jeffza, Laura1124, CharlesTheB

37

by Truman Capote

26,799 members

515 reviews

4.1

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

38

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,579 members

265 reviews

3.8

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

39

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

8,610 members

147 reviews

3.9

6 Members: olgakm, tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

40

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

712 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,408 members

42 reviews

4

4 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, mermind, CharlesTheB

42

22,069 members

261 reviews

3.9

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

43

by Evelyn Waugh

4,219 members

93 reviews

3.8

4 Members: olgakm, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124

44

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,173 members

124 reviews

3.9

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

45

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,493 members

269 reviews

4

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

46

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,536 members

137 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, steller0707, EGBERTINA

47

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,278 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: olgakm, tomdoniphon, hvg, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

7,430 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

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

49

The Magic Mountain

11,173 members

194 reviews

4.2

4 Members: olgakm, jeffza, Sisif, CharlesTheB

50

22,845 members

267 reviews

4

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

51

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,727 members

213 reviews

4

5 Members: olgakm, tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, NinieB, EGBERTINA

52

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,599 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

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

53

by Richard Wright

8,746 members

112 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, hvg, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Nonconformisto

54

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

3,121 members

43 reviews

3.8

4 Members: olgakm, hvg, mermind, CharlesTheB

55

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30,860 members

444 reviews

3.9

5 Members: olgakm, hvg, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

56

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,746 members

303 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, Laura1124, Sisif, Nonconformisto

57

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,331 members

122 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, hvg, kara.shamy, Laura1124

58

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,605 members

372 reviews

3.8

4 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by Cormac McCarthy

14,040 members

325 reviews

4.2

4 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, kara.shamy, Sisif

60

by Kurt Vonnegut

24,824 members

347 reviews

4.1

4 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Joseph Conrad

2,721 members

42 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Cecrow, hvg, jeffza, CharlesTheB

62

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,549 members

13 reviews

4.2

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

63

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,404 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif

64

by Sinclair Lewis

5,634 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hvg, Bretzky1, Laura1124, EGBERTINA

65

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

1,362 members

13 reviews

4.1

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

66

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,244 members

112 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

67

12,363 members

182 reviews

3.8

4 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

68

by Flannery O'Connor

4,372 members

124 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hvg, kara.shamy, Sisif, steller0707

69

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,840 members

133 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, hvg

70

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,679 members

135 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, EGBERTINA

71

by Graham Greene

5,643 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hvg, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124

72

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

1,010 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Cecrow, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,558 members

91 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hvg, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

74

by D. H. Lawrence

7,624 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, Laura1124, Sisif

75

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,464 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963, Sisif

76

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays

293 members

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mermind, ahef1963

77

The Periodic Table

4,498 members

73 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mermind, jeffza

78

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,884 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, NinieB

79

by George Bernard Shaw

7,683 members

94 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963

80

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,071 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hvg, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

81

Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

1,900 members

13 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy

82

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

4,211 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hvg, Bretzky1, EGBERTINA

83

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

2,222 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

84

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,825 members

21 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA, Nonconformisto

85

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

by Katherine Anne Porter

1,301 members

18 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

86

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,786 members

69 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

87

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,288 members

23 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, Nonconformisto

88

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

4,365 members

70 reviews

4.2

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif

89

2,865 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: hvg, Bretzky1, Laura1124

90

The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

2,682 members

39 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

91

by Richard Wright

5,864 members

73 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, hvg, Nonconformisto

92

by J. D. Salinger

12,731 members

122 reviews

4.1

3 Members: amanda4242, hvg, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952

by Dylan Thomas

3,153 members

23 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Sisif

94

E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

by E. E. Cummings

1,515 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

95

by Margaret Atwood

4,648 members

119 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

96

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,314 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, ahef1963

97

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,220 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124

98

by Vladimir Nabokov

8,983 members

158 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hvg, Laura1124, steller0707

99

5,694 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, Laura1124

100

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,986 members

101 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, hvg, Laura1124

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