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1

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

36,178 members

413 reviews

3.9

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

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,071 members

455 reviews

4

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

3

by Seamus Heaney

23,889 members

320 reviews

3.8

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

4

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,488 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

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

5

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,368 members

169 reviews

4.2

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

6

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

41,506 members

470 reviews

4.2

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JoeKingman, JJCooper

7

Pride and Prejudice

75,718 members

1,316 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,385 members

367 reviews

½ 3.6

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

9

by George Orwell

56,490 members

839 reviews

4

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

10

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,165 members

667 reviews

4.1

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

11

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28,797 members

422 reviews

4.1

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

12

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68,011 members

1,106 reviews

3.9

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

13

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40,721 members

507 reviews

3.9

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

14

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,282 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

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

15

by Henrik Ibsen

5,124 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

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

16

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,221 members

742 reviews

3.9

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

17

12,948 members

104 reviews

4

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

18

by William Shakespeare

31,091 members

288 reviews

4.2

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

19

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,286 members

115 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Mary Shelley

39,310 members

673 reviews

3.8

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

21

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,333 members

155 reviews

3.9

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

22

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,305 members

233 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper

23

by Charlotte Brontë

55,628 members

882 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

47,028 members

719 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper

25

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,224 members

310 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

48,605 members

661 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,904 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, lowtalker

28

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

17,966 members

328 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

29

18,986 members

226 reviews

4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,318 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,532 members

1,049 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

9,647 members

75 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

32,511 members

458 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

34

19,590 members

293 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,047 members

190 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Albert Camus

33,698 members

484 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

20,788 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Cry, the Beloved Country

8,953 members

174 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

39

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

11,836 members

130 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,019 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,614 members

248 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Turn of the Screw

7,598 members

238 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Thornton Wilder

4,704 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Herman Melville

33,295 members

514 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,268 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

46

8,819 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,316 members

123 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, augustau, JJCooper

48

by Christopher Marlowe

4,823 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

49

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

34,602 members

356 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,591 members

329 reviews

4.1

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Walter Scott

12,152 members

114 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

5,113 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Misanthrope

1,501 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

55

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

8,006 members

101 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,472 members

221 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

57

by Henry Fielding

7,763 members

89 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

58

by Bernard Malamud

1,526 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

59

by Ralph Ellison

15,400 members

199 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

60

by Sinclair Lewis

4,845 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

61

by Gustave Flaubert

24,958 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

62

by Dante Alighieri

22,555 members

203 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 / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

9,677 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, augustau

65

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,375 members

107 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

66

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,497 members

660 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mommybee, JJCooper

67

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,272 members

240 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

68

5,948 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

69

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

2,268 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

70

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

3,839 members

93 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

71

by Aristophanes

2,809 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,164 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

73

by Toni Morrison

7,199 members

93 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

74

21,545 members

190 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl

75

by Richard Wright

7,352 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

76

Desire Under the Elms

by Eugene O'Neill

143 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

77

by Edith Hamilton

13,747 members

89 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

13,473 members

114 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by George Bernard Shaw

6,385 members

76 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

80

20,653 members

133 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

81

317 members

10 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

82

by Willa Cather

12,991 members

279 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

83

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,499 members

127 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: mommybee

84

2,492 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mommybee

85

Tell Me a Riddle

by Tillie Olsen

618 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

86

27,058 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mommybee

87

Thirteen Stories

by Eudora Welty

409 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,212 members

296 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

89

Medea [in Translation]

2,740 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

90

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,801 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

91

The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Shorter Edition

by Alexander W. Allison

705 members

1 review

4

Member: mommybee

92

49,471 members

439 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

93

4,768 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

94

by Saint Augustine

20,972 members

160 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

95

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance; Compensation [Eclectic English Classics]

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

17 members

Member: mommybee

96

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

6,831 members

105 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

97

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,365 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mommybee

98

The Communist Manifesto

14,106 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mommybee

99

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,183 members

10 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

100

by Henry David Thoreau

13,321 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

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Started: mommybee
March 2016
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