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http://thegreatestbooks.org's Greatest Fiction Books

Type: Preset list created by josephyhu

Members: 1 participating member (show all)

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1
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,430 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1)

Score: 4

2
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,705 members, 247 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

3
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,566 members, 1,002 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3)

Score: 3.04

4
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (4)

Score: 2.83

5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
36,243 members, 467 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

Score: 2.68

6
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
36,794 members, 418 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

Score: 2.56

7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
21,341 members, 418 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

8
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,851 members, 189 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8)

Score: 2.38

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
67,517 members, 1,206 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9)

Score: 2.31

10
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,144 members, 980 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

11
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,351 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

12
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,768 members, 1,117 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Score: 2.15

13
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,125 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Score: 2.11

14
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,998 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Score: 2.07

15
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
15,370 members, 153 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

16
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,397 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

Score: 2

17
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,059 members, 373 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17)

Score: 1.97

18
David Copperfield: An Adaptation
by Charles Dickens
8 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

Score: 1.94

19
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,411 members, 291 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

20
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
19,207 members, 360 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Score: 1.89

21
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
18,582 members, 150 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

Score: 1.87

22
Candide
by Voltaire
17,607 members, 271 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

23
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,550 members, 796 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

24
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
20,004 members, 287 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24)

Score: 1.81

25
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
6,764 members, 100 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

Score: 1.79

26
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,540 members, 183 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26)

Score: 1.77

27
Oedipus the King Sophocles
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

28
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
66,280 members, 1,303 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

29
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
11,174 members, 85 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29)

Score: 1.72

30
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

Score: 1.71

31
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,196 members, 318 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

32
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,616 members, 155 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,196 members, 221 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

34
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,680 members, 431 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

35
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
15,971 members, 155 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

36
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,183 members, 613 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

37
The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
25,577 members, 428 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

38
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,724 members, 173 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

39
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,981 members, 76 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

40
Contes {illustrated by Miloslav Disman}
by Hans Christian Andersen
187 members, 0 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

41
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,972 members, 372 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

42
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,100 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

43
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
19,169 members, 210 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

44
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway
510 members, 4 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

45
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
20,160 members, 268 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

46
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
3,620 members, 23 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

47
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,156 members, 141 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

48
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
840 members, 21 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

49
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,822 members, 745 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49)

Score: 1.51

50
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,560 members, 221 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

51
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
41,805 members, 658 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

52
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,733 members, 118 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

53
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
43,945 members, 422 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

54
Treasure Island [abridged - Classic Starts]
by Chris Tait
395 members, 4 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

55
Charlotte's Web
by E B White
28,934 members, 940 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55)

Score: 1.47

56
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,438 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

57
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
35,706 members, 643 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57)

Score: 1.46

58
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,350 members, 603 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

59
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
15,815 members, 294 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

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Started by: josephyhu (March 2016)

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