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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
15,634 members, 272 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1)

Score: 4

2
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
26,449 members, 230 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

3
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
58,040 members, 956 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3)

Score: 3.04

4
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (4)

Score: 2.83

5
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
34,551 members, 462 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

Score: 2.68

6
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
35,405 members, 410 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

Score: 2.56

7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
20,155 members, 403 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

8
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,213 members, 176 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8)

Score: 2.38

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,751 members, 1,161 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9)

Score: 2.31

10
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
59,407 members, 948 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

11
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
40,429 members, 571 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

12
1984
by George Orwell
65,871 members, 1,060 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Score: 2.15

13
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
19,169 members, 297 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Score: 2.11

14
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,245 members, 269 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Score: 2.07

15
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
18,921 members, 189 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

16
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
29,088 members, 387 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

Score: 2

17
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
30,623 members, 359 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 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
16,634 members, 291 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

20
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
18,272 members, 349 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Score: 1.89

21
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
17,650 members, 143 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

Score: 1.87

22
Candide
by Voltaire
16,829 members, 265 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

23
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
47,506 members, 770 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

24
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
19,271 members, 284 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24)

Score: 1.81

25
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
6,513 members, 98 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
17,901 members, 177 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
63,608 members, 1,247 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

29
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
10,509 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
28,877 members, 310 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

32
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
8,486 members, 129 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,780 members, 216 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

34
Emma
by Jane Austen
30,381 members, 416 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

35
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
15,315 members, 150 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

36
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
32,375 members, 590 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

37
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
16,638 members, 401 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

38
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,198 members, 178 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

39
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,719 members, 76 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

40
Contes {illustrated by Miloslav Disman}
by Hans Christian Andersen
180 members, 0 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

41
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,145 members, 354 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

42
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
44,072 members, 605 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

43
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
18,348 members, 200 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

44
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway
4,099 members, 25 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

45
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
18,980 members, 255 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

46
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
3,496 members, 23 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

47
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
10,695 members, 135 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

48
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
807 members, 20 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

49
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
46,880 members, 704 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49)

Score: 1.51

50
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,932 members, 218 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

51
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
39,992 members, 625 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

52
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,111 members, 113 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

53
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
42,462 members, 415 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

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

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

55
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
27,186 members, 916 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55)

Score: 1.47

56
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,156 members, 88 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

57
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
33,544 members, 610 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57)

Score: 1.46

58
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
36,963 members, 574 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

59
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
15,017 members, 274 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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