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100 Most Recommended Works

Type: Preset list created by mommybee

Description: Based on the book Reading Lists for College Bound Students

Members: 6 participating members (show all)

All members' listSort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
28,821 members, 335 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: bobrichart (1), lowtalker (3), ahef1963 (5), mommybee (5)

Score: 12.39

2
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
35,160 members, 541 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (1), hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (33), mommybee (55)

Score: 10.5

3
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
33,534 members, 389 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: JoeKingman (1), ahef1963 (4), mommybee (4)

Score: 9.66

4
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
8,481 members, 139 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (2), hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (42), mommybee (75)

Score: 9.12

5
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
17,880 members, 239 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: JoeKingman (2), lowtalker (7), ahef1963 (45), mommybee (79)

Score: 8.71

6
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
61,252 members, 1,091 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), mommybee (1)

Score: 8

7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
18,604 members, 378 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (4), ahef1963 (8), mommybee (9)

Score: 7.52

8
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
32,266 members, 447 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (31), mommybee (52)

Score: 7.19

9
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
44,890 members, 739 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), mommybee (2)

Score: 6.73

10
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
7,377 members, 152 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), ahef1963 (26), mommybee (42)

Score: 6.38

11
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
17,467 members, 189 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (5), ahef1963 (20), mommybee (27)

Score: 6.32

12
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
38,231 members, 550 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), mommybee (3)

Score: 6.08

13
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
3,874 members, 55 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), ahef1963 (37), mommybee (69)

Score: 5.69

14
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
9,095 members, 100 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (6), ahef1963 (38), mommybee (70)

Score: 5.55

15
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5,126 members, 49 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), ahef1963 (44), mommybee (77)

Score: 5.46

16
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
24,684 members, 215 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (49), mommybee (86)

Score: 5.29

17
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
9,691 members, 78 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (8), ahef1963 (48), mommybee (84)

Score: 5.22

18
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
27,455 members, 358 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), mommybee (6)

Score: 5.11

19
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
17,963 members, 268 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), mommybee (8)

Score: 4.84

20
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
17,647 members, 242 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), mommybee (10)

Score: 4.56

21
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
7,481 members, 143 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), mommybee (13)

Score: 4.36

22
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
6,767 members, 98 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), mommybee (15)

Score: 4.23

23
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
13,438 members, 167 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), mommybee (18)

Score: 4.09

24
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,363 members, 67 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), mommybee (19)

Score: 4.02

25
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54,908 members, 918 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), mommybee (20)

Score: 3.96

26
The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
1,268 members, 28 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (9), mommybee (35)

Score: 3.95

27
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Simon & Schuster
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: hipdeep (8), mommybee (43)

Score: 3.94

28
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
4,041 members, 78 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (10), mommybee (34)

Score: 3.91

29
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
20,274 members, 312 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), mommybee (21)

Score: 3.9

30
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
9,747 members, 111 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), mommybee (22)

Score: 3.85

31
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
37,694 members, 584 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), mommybee (24)

Score: 3.78

32
Lysistrata [in translation]
by Aristophanes
2,287 members, 30 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), mommybee (62)

Score: 3.74

33
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,076 members, 204 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), mommybee (25)

Score: 3.73

34
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
27,187 members, 296 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), mommybee (26)

Score: 3.69

35
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
4,964 members, 86 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (11), mommybee (53)

Score: 3.68

36
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
13,971 members, 244 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), mommybee (28)

Score: 3.61

37
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
41,559 members, 566 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), mommybee (29)

Score: 3.57

38
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
1,507 members, 22 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (12), mommybee (65)

Score: 3.56

39
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
17,035 members, 164 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), mommybee (31)

Score: 3.52

40
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
1,876 members, 9 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (13), mommybee (64)

Score: 3.52

41
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
7,793 members, 84 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), mommybee (33)

Score: 3.48

42
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
44,249 members, 663 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), mommybee (41)

Score: 3.37

43
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
56,789 members, 909 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), mommybee (44)

Score: 3.31

44
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
29,844 members, 537 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), mommybee (46)

Score: 3.28

45
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
16,987 members, 174 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29), mommybee (48)

Score: 3.24

46
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
11,580 members, 162 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), mommybee (49)

Score: 3.22

47
Candide
by Voltaire
15,915 members, 242 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32), mommybee (54)

Score: 3.16

48
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
14,990 members, 266 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), mommybee (56)

Score: 3.12

49
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
10,120 members, 125 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), mommybee (63)

Score: 3.06

50
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
4,043 members, 62 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), mommybee (68)

Score: 3.03

51
The Misanthrope
by Molière
1,114 members, 15 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), mommybee (71)

Score: 2.98

52
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
5,104 members, 59 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), mommybee (73)

Score: 2.96

53
Oedipus the King Sophocles
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (41), mommybee (74)

Score: 2.95

54
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
3,741 members, 53 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), mommybee (76)

Score: 2.92

55
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
6,211 members, 73 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46), mommybee (80)

Score: 2.87

56
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
16,558 members, 127 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47), mommybee (81)

Score: 2.86

57
NIV Holy Bible
by Zondervan
5,604 members, 38 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50), mommybee (90)

Score: 2.8

58
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
21,762 members, 289 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: mommybee (7)

Score: 2.46

59
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
12,291 members, 150 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: mommybee (11)

Score: 2.2

60
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
10,759 members, 244 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: mommybee (12)

Score: 2.15

61
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
8,011 members, 104 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: mommybee (14)

Score: 2.07

62
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
3,928 members, 67 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: mommybee (16)

Score: 2

63
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,087 members, 34 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: mommybee (17)

Score: 1.97

64
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35,166 members, 523 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: mommybee (23)

Score: 1.83

65
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
5,657 members, 176 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: mommybee (30)

Score: 1.71

66
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
15,658 members, 175 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: mommybee (32)

Score: 1.68

67
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
4,115 members, 84 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: mommybee (36)

Score: 1.63

68
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
26,038 members, 407 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: mommybee (37)

Score: 1.62

69
Sula
by Toni Morrison
5,786 members, 63 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: mommybee (38)

Score: 1.61

70
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
3,065 members, 71 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: mommybee (39)

Score: 1.6

71
Tell Me a Riddle
by Tillie Olsen
520 members, 7 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: mommybee (40)

Score: 1.59

72
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
9,469 members, 88 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: mommybee (45)

Score: 1.54

73
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
26,661 members, 370 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: mommybee (47)

Score: 1.53

74
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
21,280 members, 346 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: mommybee (50)

Score: 1.5

75
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
6,663 members, 100 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: mommybee (51)

Score: 1.5

76
Thirteen Stories
by Eudora Welty
337 members, 3 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: mommybee (57)

Score: 1.46

77
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
10,784 members, 245 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: mommybee (58)

Score: 1.45

78
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
13,986 members, 209 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: mommybee (59)

Score: 1.44

79
Native Son
by Richard Wright
5,997 members, 70 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: mommybee (60)

Score: 1.44

80
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
7,706 members, 48 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: mommybee (61)

Score: 1.43

81
Medea [in Translation]
by Euripides
2,102 members, 33 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: mommybee (66)

Score: 1.4

82
Faust, Part One
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4,029 members, 26 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: mommybee (67)

Score: 1.4

83
Desire Under the Elms
by Eugene O'Neill
118 members, 5 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: mommybee (72)

Score: 1.37

84
The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Shorter Edition
by Alexander W. Allison
608 members, 1 review
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: mommybee (78)

Score: 1.35

85
The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
17,729 members, 161 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: mommybee (82)

Score: 1.33

86
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: mommybee (83)

Score: 1.33

87
The Aeneid
by Vergilius
16,800 members, 143 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: mommybee (85)

Score: 1.32

88
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
7,525 members, 59 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: mommybee (87)

Score: 1.31

89
Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
3,752 members, 30 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: mommybee (88)

Score: 1.31

90
Confessions
by Augustine
15,714 members, 103 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: mommybee (89)

Score: 1.3

91
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
10,500 members, 85 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: mommybee (91)

Score: 1.3

93
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
5,281 members, 80 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: mommybee (93)

Score: 1.29

94
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud
4,268 members, 29 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: mommybee (94)

Score: 1.29

95
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
10,364 members, 66 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: mommybee (95)

Score: 1.28

96
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
17,323 members, 170 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: mommybee (96)

Score: 1.28

97
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
10,734 members, 81 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: mommybee (97)

Score: 1.28

98
The Essays: A Selection
by Michel de Montaigne
958 members, 7 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: mommybee (98)

Score: 1.27

99
The Republic - Plato
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: mommybee (99)

Score: 1.27

100
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
10,409 members, 135 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: mommybee (100)

Score: 1.27

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