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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: 10 participating members (show all)

All members' listSort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
33,985 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (1), JJCooper (1), bobrichart (1), lowtalker (3), ahef1963 (5), mommybee (5), ManWithAnAgenda (42)

Score: 21.96

2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
22,938 members, 436 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (4), JJCooper (5), ahef1963 (8), mommybee (9), hipdeep (11), Bcteagirl (18), ManWithAnAgenda (40)

Score: 15.92

3
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
21,632 members, 308 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: JoeKingman (2), JJCooper (4), lowtalker (7), Bcteagirl (19), ManWithAnAgenda (43), ahef1963 (45), mommybee (79)

Score: 15.02

4
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
9,951 members, 165 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (2), JJCooper (3), hipdeep (5), ManWithAnAgenda (41), ahef1963 (42), mommybee (75)

Score: 13.59

5
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,980 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: JoeKingman (1), JJCooper (2), ahef1963 (4), mommybee (4)

Score: 13.02

6
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,183 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), mommybee (1), Bcteagirl (2), ManWithAnAgenda (39)

Score: 12.96

7
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
53,186 members, 799 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (3), hipdeep (13), JJCooper (17), ahef1963 (25), mommybee (41), ManWithAnAgenda (45)

Score: 12.03

8
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,269 members, 644 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (1), hipdeep (3), ahef1963 (33), ManWithAnAgenda (44), mommybee (55)

Score: 11.73

9
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
26,954 members, 399 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (4), mommybee (7), hipdeep (12), JJCooper (18), ManWithAnAgenda (38)

Score: 10.99

10
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63,960 members, 1,055 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (6), ManWithAnAgenda (11), JJCooper (13), ahef1963 (14), mommybee (20)

Score: 10.82

11
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,666 members, 490 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), JJCooper (6), ahef1963 (31), ManWithAnAgenda (36), mommybee (52)

Score: 10.74

12
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,774 members, 106 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (6), JJCooper (8), ManWithAnAgenda (30), ahef1963 (38), mommybee (70)

Score: 9.64

13
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,542 members, 694 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (7), JJCooper (15), ahef1963 (22), mommybee (29), ManWithAnAgenda (46)

Score: 9.6

14
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
11,998 members, 97 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (8), JJCooper (10), ManWithAnAgenda (29), ahef1963 (48), mommybee (84)

Score: 9.19

15
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,265 members, 266 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: JJCooper (9), hipdeep (9), ManWithAnAgenda (28), ahef1963 (49), mommybee (86)

Score: 9.18

16
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
36,582 members, 644 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (9), hipdeep (24), ManWithAnAgenda (27), ahef1963 (28), mommybee (46)

Score: 9.15

17
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,732 members, 150 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (10), hipdeep (21), ManWithAnAgenda (26), ahef1963 (35), mommybee (63)

Score: 8.95

18
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,146 members, 341 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), mommybee (8), JJCooper (11), ManWithAnAgenda (25)

Score: 8.82

19
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,179 members, 221 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (5), JJCooper (7), ahef1963 (20), mommybee (27)

Score: 8.78

20
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,314 members, 839 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), mommybee (2), ManWithAnAgenda (24)

Score: 8.53

21
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,191 members, 696 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (5), JJCooper (14), ahef1963 (17), mommybee (24)

Score: 8.52

22
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
21,630 members, 291 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), mommybee (10), JJCooper (12), ManWithAnAgenda (47)

Score: 8.24

23
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,152 members, 621 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), mommybee (3), ManWithAnAgenda (23)

Score: 7.91

24
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
1,788 members, 25 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (8), lowtalker (12), hipdeep (20), mommybee (65)

Score: 7.83

25
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
16,864 members, 316 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (21), mommybee (28)

Score: 7.61

26
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,201 members, 212 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (11), JJCooper (21), ManWithAnAgenda (22), mommybee (32)

Score: 7.59

27
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
19,388 members, 190 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: JJCooper (16), ManWithAnAgenda (21), ahef1963 (23), mommybee (31)

Score: 7.39

28
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
63,704 members, 1,017 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (12), ManWithAnAgenda (20), ahef1963 (27), mommybee (44)

Score: 7.35

29
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
9,003 members, 73 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (13), ManWithAnAgenda (18), hipdeep (18), mommybee (87)

Score: 7.3

30
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,776 members, 426 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (15), ManWithAnAgenda (19), JJCooper (24), mommybee (47)

Score: 7.28

31
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5,921 members, 63 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), ManWithAnAgenda (17), ahef1963 (44), mommybee (77)

Score: 7.25

32
Candide
by Voltaire
18,576 members, 281 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (14), ManWithAnAgenda (16), ahef1963 (32), mommybee (54)

Score: 7.23

33
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,352 members, 184 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), ahef1963 (30), mommybee (49)

Score: 7.22

34
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,984 members, 454 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), mommybee (6), ManWithAnAgenda (15)

Score: 7.14

35
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
4,854 members, 78 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14), Bcteagirl (15), ahef1963 (36), mommybee (68)

Score: 7.13

36
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
19,650 members, 155 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (13), hipdeep (16), ahef1963 (47), mommybee (81)

Score: 6.97

37
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,873 members, 108 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10), ahef1963 (11), mommybee (15)

Score: 6.48

38
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
8,505 members, 170 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (26), mommybee (42)

Score: 6.17

39
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,267 members, 125 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9), ahef1963 (16), mommybee (22)

Score: 6.16

40
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,024 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (4), ahef1963 (29), mommybee (48)

Score: 6.07

41
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,262 members, 243 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6), Bcteagirl (16), mommybee (59)

Score: 6

42
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
7,065 members, 219 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), JJCooper (20), mommybee (30)

Score: 5.98

43
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
4,413 members, 61 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), ahef1963 (43), mommybee (76)

Score: 5.96

44
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,067 members, 488 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7), JJCooper (22), mommybee (37)

Score: 5.93

45
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
20,922 members, 232 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), hipdeep (17), mommybee (96)

Score: 5.92

46
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,461 members, 168 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), mommybee (13), ManWithAnAgenda (48)

Score: 5.88

47
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
4,543 members, 66 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (37), mommybee (69)

Score: 5.47

48
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,489 members, 345 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), mommybee (26), ManWithAnAgenda (37)

Score: 5.31

49
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
17,581 members, 311 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12), ahef1963 (34), mommybee (56)

Score: 5.27

50
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
11,511 members, 107 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (23), JJCooper (23), mommybee (45)

Score: 5.2

51
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
4,831 members, 98 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), mommybee (36)

Score: 5

52
The Misanthrope
by Molière
1,406 members, 18 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22), ahef1963 (39), mommybee (71)

Score: 4.83

53
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
7,436 members, 90 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (35), ahef1963 (46), mommybee (80)

Score: 4.52

54
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,611 members, 211 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), mommybee (18)

Score: 4.09

55
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
7,395 members, 83 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), mommybee (19)

Score: 4.02

56
The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
1,447 members, 29 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (9), mommybee (35)

Score: 3.95

57
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,490 members, 185 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: mommybee (11), hipdeep (29)

Score: 3.92

58
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
4,622 members, 85 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (10), mommybee (34)

Score: 3.91

59
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,687 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), mommybee (21)

Score: 3.9

60
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
21,184 members, 198 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), mommybee (82)

Score: 3.89

61
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Simon & Schuster
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: hipdeep (10), mommybee (43)

Score: 3.81

62
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
4,978 members, 103 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: mommybee (16), hipdeep (26)

Score: 3.77

63
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,336 members, 610 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: JJCooper (19), mommybee (23)

Score: 3.74

64
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,349 members, 232 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), mommybee (25)

Score: 3.73

65
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
5,706 members, 102 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (11), mommybee (53)

Score: 3.68

66
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
2,133 members, 13 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: lowtalker (13), mommybee (64)

Score: 3.52

67
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
3,627 members, 84 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (19), mommybee (39)

Score: 3.52

68
Lysistrata
by Aristófanes
2,664 members, 35 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (14), mommybee (62)

Score: 3.49

69
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,750 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), mommybee (33)

Score: 3.48

70
Sula
by Toni Morrison
6,810 members, 84 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (27), mommybee (38)

Score: 3.37

71
The Aeneid
by Virgil
20,123 members, 182 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: Bcteagirl (17), mommybee (85)

Score: 3.29

72
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
7,823 members, 117 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: JJCooper (25), mommybee (51)

Score: 3.29

73
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,021 members, 87 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (28), mommybee (60)

Score: 3.18

74
Desire Under the Elms
by Eugene O'Neill
133 members, 6 reviews
3.31 stars (3.31 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (25), mommybee (72)

Score: 3.16

75
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
12,730 members, 83 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (31), mommybee (95)

Score: 2.98

76
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
12,517 members, 104 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (33), mommybee (91)

Score: 2.96

77
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
6,038 members, 73 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), mommybee (73)

Score: 2.96

78
The Republic
by Plato
19,337 members, 123 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (32), mommybee (99)

Score: 2.95

79
Holy Bible (New International Version)
by International Bible Society
7,159 members, 55 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50), mommybee (90)

Score: 2.8

80
Oedipus the King Sophocles
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (34), ahef1963 (41), mommybee (74)

Thumbs down: plgili

Score: 2.6

81
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
12,436 members, 263 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: mommybee (12)

Score: 2.15

82
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
9,748 members, 117 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: mommybee (14)

Score: 2.07

83
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,390 members, 40 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: mommybee (17)

Score: 1.97

84
Tell Me a Riddle
by Tillie Olsen
598 members, 9 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: mommybee (40)

Score: 1.59

85
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,283 members, 399 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: mommybee (50)

Score: 1.5

86
Thirteen Stories
by Eudora Welty
384 members, 3 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: mommybee (57)

Score: 1.46

87
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
12,554 members, 285 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: mommybee (58)

Score: 1.45

88
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
9,125 members, 67 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: mommybee (61)

Score: 1.43

89
Medea [in Translation]
by Euripides
2,551 members, 40 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: mommybee (66)

Score: 1.4

90
Faust, Part One
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4,586 members, 34 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: mommybee (67)

Score: 1.4

91
The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Shorter Edition
by Alexander W. Allison
677 members, 1 review
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: mommybee (78)

Score: 1.35

92
The Odyssey
by Homer
46,017 members, 419 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: mommybee (83)

Score: 1.33

93
Poetics
by Aristotle
4,529 members, 43 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: mommybee (88)

Score: 1.31

94
The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine
19,629 members, 149 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: mommybee (89)

Score: 1.3

96
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
6,443 members, 98 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: mommybee (93)

Score: 1.29

97
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud
5,048 members, 36 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: mommybee (94)

Score: 1.29

98
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
13,178 members, 119 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: mommybee (97)

Score: 1.28

99
The Essays: A Selection
by Michel de Montaigne
1,109 members, 9 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: mommybee (98)

Score: 1.27

100
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
12,407 members, 161 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: mommybee (100)

Score: 1.27

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