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Type: Preset list created by klh098

Members: 6 participating members (show all)

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1
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
60,834 members, 1,092 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (1), rretzler (1), klh098 (1), merrystar (2), ahef1963 (2)

Score: 18.73

2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
59,656 members, 1,185 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), booksinbed (2), hipdeep (3), rretzler (5), klh098 (5), merrystar (20)

Score: 17.64

3
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
99,550 members, 1,629 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (3), ahef1963 (3), rretzler (4), klh098 (4), merrystar (8), hipdeep (15)

Score: 16.15

4
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
9,327 members, 164 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), booksinbed (4), merrystar (5), ahef1963 (5), rretzler (25), klh098 (40)

Score: 15.56

5
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
69,451 members, 951 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), booksinbed (5), ahef1963 (8), hipdeep (11), rretzler (14), klh098 (16)

Score: 14.36

6
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
31,802 members, 599 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (6), merrystar (7), hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (13), rretzler (24), klh098 (36)

Score: 13.02

7
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54,549 members, 912 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (7), merrystar (11), ahef1963 (11), hipdeep (13), rretzler (17), klh098 (22)

Score: 12.78

8
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
44,580 members, 734 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: rretzler (3), klh098 (3), booksinbed (8), ahef1963 (9), merrystar (24)

Score: 12.57

9
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
24,783 members, 141 reviews
4.59 stars (4.59 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (4), rretzler (12), klh098 (14), merrystar (17)

Score: 12.38

10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
18,428 members, 377 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (9), hipdeep (10), ahef1963 (15), merrystar (19), rretzler (20), klh098 (29)

Score: 12.12

11
Emma
by Jane Austen
28,504 members, 392 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), booksinbed (10), ahef1963 (14), rretzler (22), merrystar (26), klh098 (34)

Score: 11.97

12
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
21,466 members, 426 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), booksinbed (11), rretzler (23), ahef1963 (25), klh098 (35)

Score: 11.46

13
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
40,342 members, 396 reviews
4.53 stars (4.53 stars)

Lists: rretzler (2), klh098 (2), ahef1963 (7), merrystar (15)

Score: 11.22

14
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
12,798 members, 197 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: rretzler (10), klh098 (11), booksinbed (12), merrystar (12), ahef1963 (19)

Score: 10.66

15
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
29,843 members, 551 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), ahef1963 (10), merrystar (16), rretzler (18), klh098 (25)

Score: 10.29

16
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
18,652 members, 408 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), booksinbed (13), ahef1963 (28), rretzler (29), klh098 (46)

Score: 9.93

17
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
14,964 members, 453 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: rretzler (13), booksinbed (14), klh098 (15), ahef1963 (20), merrystar (27)

Score: 9.85

18
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
43,830 members, 656 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), ahef1963 (12), merrystar (25), rretzler (26), klh098 (41)

Score: 9.85

19
Holy Bible: King James Version
6,559 members, 101 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), rretzler (6), klh098 (6), hipdeep (14)

Score: 9.74

20
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
9,950 members, 286 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), booksinbed (15), ahef1963 (27), rretzler (28), klh098 (45)

Score: 9.63

21
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
26,615 members, 264 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: merrystar (14), booksinbed (16), rretzler (21), ahef1963 (24), klh098 (33)

Score: 9.41

22
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
32,195 members, 426 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), rretzler (11), klh098 (13), booksinbed (17)

Score: 9.1

23
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
37,964 members, 548 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: rretzler (7), klh098 (7), ahef1963 (16), booksinbed (18)

Score: 8.86

24
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
11,614 members, 177 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: rretzler (9), klh098 (9), merrystar (13), ahef1963 (18)

Score: 8.67

25
1984
by George Orwell
61,757 members, 986 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: rretzler (8), klh098 (8), ahef1963 (17), booksinbed (19)

Score: 8.64

26
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
10,548 members, 206 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: merrystar (9), booksinbed (20), klh098 (23), ahef1963 (35)

Score: 7.67

27
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
15,895 members, 250 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), merrystar (18), ahef1963 (22), klh098 (30)

Score: 7.65

28
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
18,369 members, 378 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: rretzler (16), booksinbed (21), klh098 (21), merrystar (23)

Score: 7.56

29
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
14,989 members, 203 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: klh098 (12), booksinbed (22), merrystar (28), ahef1963 (32)

Score: 7.42

30
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
9,813 members, 209 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: rretzler (19), booksinbed (23), ahef1963 (23), klh098 (26)

Score: 7.34

31
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
56,510 members, 905 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: klh098 (18), merrystar (21), booksinbed (24), ahef1963 (33)

Score: 7.29

32
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
59,296 members, 1,192 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (25), ahef1963 (26), rretzler (27), klh098 (42)

Score: 6.89

33
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
29,740 members, 837 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (26), ahef1963 (29), rretzler (30), klh098 (48)

Score: 6.72

34
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
37,363 members, 581 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (27), ahef1963 (30), rretzler (31), klh098 (49)

Score: 6.67

35
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
26,476 members, 366 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), booksinbed (28), klh098 (28)

Score: 6.15

36
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
34,334 members, 1,155 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: rretzler (15), klh098 (19), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 5.82

37
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
28,587 members, 334 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: klh098 (10), booksinbed (29), ahef1963 (31)

Score: 5.67

38
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
13,287 members, 244 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: klh098 (20), booksinbed (30), ahef1963 (34)

Score: 5.26

39
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
29,301 members, 507 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: merrystar (22), booksinbed (31), klh098 (31)

Score: 5.24

40
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
15,652 members, 206 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (32), klh098 (32), ahef1963 (37)

Score: 4.99

41
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
43,757 members, 1,150 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (33), klh098 (37), ahef1963 (38)

Score: 4.9

42
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
31,042 members, 495 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (34), klh098 (39), ahef1963 (40)

Score: 4.85

43
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
22,261 members, 569 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (35), ahef1963 (41), klh098 (50)

Score: 4.73

44
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34,905 members, 520 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10), klh098 (43)

Score: 3.81

45
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
21,149 members, 344 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: klh098 (24), booksinbed (36)

Score: 3.44

46
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
33,299 members, 386 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: klh098 (27), ahef1963 (36)

Score: 3.39

47
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
6,673 members, 138 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: klh098 (38), ahef1963 (39)

Score: 3.21

48
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
15,387 members, 286 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (37), klh098 (44)

Score: 3.18

49
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
5,114 members, 140 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: klh098 (17)

Score: 1.97

50
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
8,459 members, 149 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: klh098 (47)

Score: 1.53

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Started by: klh098 (July 2018)

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