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

Type: Preset list created by josephyhu

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1
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,801 members, 317 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1)

Score: 4

2
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,507 members, 269 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

3
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
64,497 members, 1,061 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3)

Score: 3.04

4
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,826 members, 350 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4)

Score: 2.83

5
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,964 members, 491 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5)

Score: 2.68

6
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39,256 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

Score: 2.56

7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
23,179 members, 437 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

8
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,713 members, 212 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8)

Score: 2.38

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,800 members, 1,259 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9)

Score: 2.31

10
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
64,068 members, 1,020 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

11
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,553 members, 626 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

12
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
73,347 members, 1,184 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Score: 2.15

13
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,329 members, 352 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

Score: 2.11

14
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,955 members, 303 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Score: 2.07

15
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,022 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

16
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
32,142 members, 458 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

Score: 2

17
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
34,251 members, 391 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
18,437 members, 308 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

20
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,478 members, 382 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Score: 1.89

21
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
19,787 members, 155 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

Score: 1.87

22
Candide
by Voltaire
18,731 members, 284 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

23
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,761 members, 844 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

24
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
21,080 members, 303 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
7,109 members, 106 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
19,463 members, 191 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 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
70,519 members, 1,357 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

29
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
12,118 members, 100 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29)

Score: 1.72

30
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,331 members, 128 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

Score: 1.71

31
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,752 members, 346 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

32
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,606 members, 173 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

33
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,764 members, 231 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

34
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,776 members, 467 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

35
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
17,140 members, 162 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

36
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
36,957 members, 647 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

37
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
27,378 members, 456 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

38
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,444 members, 186 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

39
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
7,442 members, 85 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

40
Contes
by Hans Christian Andersen
189 members, 0 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

41
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,475 members, 399 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

42
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,927 members, 700 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

43
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,312 members, 223 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

44
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway
563 members, 5 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

45
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
21,818 members, 296 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

46
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
3,640 members, 24 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
11,805 members, 151 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

48
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
901 members, 21 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

49
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
53,623 members, 807 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49)

Score: 1.51

50
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,477 members, 233 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

51
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,505 members, 701 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

52
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
13,572 members, 130 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

53
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
46,365 members, 441 reviews
4.53 stars (4.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

54
Treasure Island [abridged - Classic Starts]
by Chris Tait
443 members, 5 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

55
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
31,564 members, 966 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55)

Score: 1.47

56
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,796 members, 90 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

57
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
39,077 members, 703 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57)

Score: 1.46

58
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,548 members, 646 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

59
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
16,991 members, 317 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

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