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100 Most Recommended Works

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

44,040 members

481 reviews

3.9

8 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, bobrichart, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda, JFB87

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,713 members

535 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf Poet

29,448 members

363 reviews

3.8

7 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JoeKingman, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,330 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,148 members

196 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

52,018 members

578 reviews

4.2

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JoeKingman, JJCooper

7

Pride and Prejudice

94,515 members

1,513 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,506 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by George Orwell

70,384 members

1,009 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,345 members

779 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36,017 members

533 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,243 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

5 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,608 members

587 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

7,485 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Henrik Ibsen

6,219 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: mommybee, augustau, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,752 members

872 reviews

3.9

5 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

17

16,818 members

132 reviews

4

5 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by William Shakespeare

37,506 members

337 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,789 members

132 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Mary Shelley

51,423 members

814 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,692 members

191 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,741 members

282 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper

23

by Charlotte Brontë

68,297 members

1,020 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,592 members

821 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper

25

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,168 members

364 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,491 members

818 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,788 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, lowtalker

28

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,436 members

391 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

29

22,985 members

271 reviews

4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,604 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,435 members

1,199 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

11,471 members

97 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,317 members

523 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

34

23,222 members

344 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,360 members

202 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Albert Camus

41,041 members

584 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,109 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Cry, the Beloved Country

10,620 members

193 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

39

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,934 members

169 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,414 members

312 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Turn of the Screw

9,483 members

296 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Thornton Wilder

5,921 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Herman Melville

41,997 members

622 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Niccolò Machiavelli

28,033 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

46

10,284 members

209 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

10,037 members

148 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, augustau, JJCooper

48

by Christopher Marlowe

5,694 members

88 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

49

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,980 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,692 members

371 reviews

4.1

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Walter Scott

15,132 members

138 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, JJCooper

52

Oedipus the King Sophocles

3 members

4 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

53

Death in Venice

6,028 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Misanthrope

1,815 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

55

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

9,262 members

107 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,609 members

249 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

57

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,041 members

104 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

58

by Bernard Malamud

1,702 members

32 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

59

by Ralph Ellison

18,472 members

232 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

60

by Sinclair Lewis

5,671 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

61

by Gustave Flaubert

29,959 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

62

by Dante Alighieri

27,806 members

231 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

63

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Simon & Schuster

1 member

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

64

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens

11,773 members

87 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, augustau

65

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,947 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

66

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,336 members

784 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mommybee, JJCooper

67

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,746 members

265 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

68

6,687 members

124 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

69

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

2,620 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

70

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,732 members

110 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

71

by Aristophanes

3,234 members

47 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,469 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

73

by Toni Morrison

8,939 members

118 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

74

The Aeneid (translations)

26,944 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl

75

by Richard Wright

8,778 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

76

Desire Under the Elms

by Eugene O'Neill

171 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

77

by Edith Hamilton

17,449 members

97 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

16,678 members

133 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by George Bernard Shaw

7,740 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

80

The Republic of Plato

25,698 members

165 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

81

Holy Bible: New International Version

11,635 members

83 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

82

by Willa Cather

15,312 members

311 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

83

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,511 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: mommybee

84

2,878 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mommybee

85

Tell Me a Riddle

by Tillie Olsen

713 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

86

33,755 members

512 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mommybee

87

Thirteen Stories

by Eudora Welty

464 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,892 members

337 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

89

Medea [in Translation]

3,442 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

90

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,836 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

91

The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Shorter Edition

by Alexander W. Allison

833 members

2 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

92

63,079 members

532 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

93

5,924 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

94

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,773 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

95

The American scholar, Self-reliance, Compensation, (Eclectic English classics)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

19 members

Member: mommybee

96

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

8,335 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

97

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

6,515 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mommybee

98

The Communist Manifesto

18,087 members

164 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mommybee

99

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,447 members

12 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

100

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,285 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

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