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by J. M. Barrie

18,910 members

326 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 10

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,930 members

161 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 7

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Book of Imaginary Beings

by Jorge Luis Borges

2,697 members

30 reviews

4

Global Rank 56

Member: freilert

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The Blue Afternoon

by William Boyd

908 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 58

Member: freilert

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Red Sky at Morning

by Richard Bradford

625 members

20 reviews

4

Global Rank 61

Member: freilert

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by Pearl S. Buck

13,832 members

265 reviews

4

Global Rank 4

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963

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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,878 members

389 reviews

4

Global Rank 35

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,282 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 62

Member: freilert

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,515 members

258 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 36

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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by Albert Camus

35,511 members

507 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 11

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Truman Capote

23,712 members

466 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3

4 Members: dara85, freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

25,498 members

293 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,964 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 12

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Spice-Box of Earth

by Leonard Cohen

279 members

7 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 63

Member: freilert

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671 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Global Rank 43

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,573 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 14

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Joseph Conrad

9,030 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 64

Member: freilert

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,570 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 15

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Theodore Dreiser

4,043 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 39

2 Members: dara85, freilert

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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,268 members

226 reviews

4

Global Rank 46

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,109 members

1,169 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 17

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Gustave Flaubert

26,214 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 47

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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The Pillars of the Earth

27,249 members

753 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 48

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,164 members

223 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 49

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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The Diary of a Young Girl

28,310 members

513 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 1

5 Members: dara85, freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by William Gaddis

1,374 members

19 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 65

Member: freilert

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The Beggar's Opera

869 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Global Rank 66

Member: freilert

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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

by Allen Ginsberg

916 members

4 reviews

4

Global Rank 67

Member: freilert

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,571 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 51

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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by Günter Grass

7,589 members

93 reviews

4

Global Rank 68

Member: freilert

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by Günter Grass

1,159 members

11 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 69

Member: freilert

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Local Anaesthetic

by Günter Grass

549 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 70

Member: freilert

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The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,149 members

279 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 40

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,384 members

197 reviews

4

Global Rank 38

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,160 members

141 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 71

Member: freilert

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by Joseph Heller

39,991 members

525 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 72

Member: freilert

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Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

2,409 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

Global Rank 73

Member: freilert

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All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,846 members

137 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 9

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963

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The Child Buyer

295 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 74

Member: freilert

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Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

1,967 members

37 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 41

2 Members: freilert, cej1027

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,192 members

197 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 52

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,298 members

51 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 42

2 Members: dara85, freilert

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

53,878 members

772 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 5

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The World According to Garp

15,293 members

196 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 53

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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The Cider House Rules

11,730 members

157 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 75

Member: freilert

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The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

3,638 members

93 reviews

4

Global Rank 22

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,138 members

423 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 23

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Turn of the Screw

8,100 members

248 reviews

½ 3.4

Global Rank 37

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

49

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,204 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 25

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

19,692 members

226 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 24

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

5,333 members

58 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 54

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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19,878 members

237 reviews

4

Global Rank 34

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Metamorphosis

12,452 members

219 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 27

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Jack Kerouac

27,925 members

386 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 76

Member: freilert

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The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

7,360 members

74 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 77

Member: freilert

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2,649 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 78

Member: freilert

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A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,770 members

190 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 28

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

6,127 members

59 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 79

Member: freilert

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,633 members

221 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 26

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Reawakening

1,271 members

28 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 80

Member: freilert

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,614 members

760 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 6

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Artur London

67 members

1 review

4

Global Rank 81

Member: freilert

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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,889 members

50 reviews

4

Global Rank 82

Member: freilert

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Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider

1,101 members

19 reviews

4

Global Rank 83

Member: freilert

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The Complete Marquis de Sade, Vol. 1

by Marquis de Sade

73 members

3.9

Global Rank 84

Member: freilert

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Up at the Villa

by W. Somerset Maugham

840 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 85

Member: freilert

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The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,452 members

137 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 55

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,717 members

243 reviews

4

Global Rank 30

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Quiet Days in Clichy

by Henry Miller

793 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 86

Member: freilert

70

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,824 members

131 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 87

Member: freilert

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Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

3,648 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 88

Member: freilert

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2,908 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 89

Member: freilert

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The Misanthrope

1,590 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 57

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

74

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

by Desmond Morris

2,911 members

49 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 90

Member: freilert

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Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov

2,882 members

52 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 91

Member: freilert

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,698 members

563 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 19

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

by R. K. Narayan

1,216 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 92

Member: freilert

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Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,477 members

37 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 93

Member: freilert

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647 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 94

Member: freilert

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by George Orwell

59,993 members

883 reviews

4

Global Rank 33

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Walker Percy

4,694 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 95

Member: freilert

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

18,787 members

283 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 96

Member: freilert

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by Sylvia Plath

28,092 members

501 reviews

4

Global Rank 31

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

84

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath

1,460 members

11 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 97

Member: freilert

85

2,207 members

28 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 44

2 Members: dara85, freilert

86

6,599 members

93 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 13

3 Members: dara85, freilert, ahef1963

87

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,392 members

76 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 98

Member: freilert

88

The Gift of Asher Lev

1,364 members

25 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 99

Member: freilert

89

10,583 members

207 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 100

Member: freilert

90

The Fountainhead

19,198 members

261 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 101

Member: freilert

91

by Christina Rossetti

742 members

14 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 102

Member: freilert

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

11,560 members

208 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 45

2 Members: freilert, cej1027

93

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,525 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 32

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

94

The Human Comedy

by William Saroyan

1,355 members

27 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 103

Member: freilert

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The Wall: Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,702 members

22 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 104

Member: freilert

96

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,279 members

471 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 16

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Steinbeck

9,894 members

186 reviews

4

Global Rank 29

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

5,999 members

87 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 105

Member: freilert

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

by Dylan Thomas

1,048 members

17 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 106

Member: freilert

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20,545 members

307 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 21

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: freilert
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