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Type: Preset list created by klh098

Members: 8 participating members (show all)

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1
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
67,498 members, 1,205 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (1), booksinbed (1), rretzler (1), klh098 (1), merrystar (2), ahef1963 (2), ManWithAnAgenda (54)

Score: 24.2

2
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
66,263 members, 1,303 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), leslie.98 (2), booksinbed (2), hipdeep (3), rretzler (5), klh098 (5), merrystar (20), ManWithAnAgenda (53)

Score: 22.49

3
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
10,710 members, 181 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), leslie.98 (4), booksinbed (4), merrystar (5), ahef1963 (5), rretzler (25), klh098 (40), ManWithAnAgenda (52)

Score: 19.88

4
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
78,067 members, 1,040 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), leslie.98 (5), booksinbed (5), ahef1963 (8), hipdeep (11), rretzler (14), klh098 (16), ManWithAnAgenda (51)

Score: 18.53

5
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
36,306 members, 657 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), leslie.98 (6), booksinbed (6), merrystar (7), hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (13), rretzler (24), klh098 (36)

Score: 18.25

6
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,539 members, 1,001 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (7), booksinbed (7), ManWithAnAgenda (9), merrystar (11), ahef1963 (11), hipdeep (13), rretzler (17), klh098 (22)

Score: 17.54

7
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
110,815 members, 1,838 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (3), booksinbed (3), ahef1963 (3), rretzler (4), klh098 (4), merrystar (8), hipdeep (15)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 17.19

8
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,547 members, 795 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: rretzler (3), klh098 (3), leslie.98 (8), booksinbed (8), ahef1963 (9), merrystar (24), ManWithAnAgenda (50)

Score: 16.46

9
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
21,338 members, 418 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (9), booksinbed (9), hipdeep (10), ahef1963 (15), merrystar (19), rretzler (20), klh098 (29), ManWithAnAgenda (49)

Score: 15.94

10
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,700 members, 431 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), leslie.98 (10), booksinbed (10), ahef1963 (14), rretzler (22), merrystar (26), klh098 (34), ManWithAnAgenda (48)

Score: 15.74

11
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
23,971 members, 458 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), leslie.98 (11), booksinbed (11), rretzler (23), ahef1963 (25), klh098 (35), ManWithAnAgenda (47)

Score: 15.18

12
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
43,939 members, 422 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: rretzler (2), klh098 (2), ahef1963 (7), leslie.98 (12), merrystar (15), ManWithAnAgenda (46)

Score: 14.9

13
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
33,474 members, 638 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), ahef1963 (10), leslie.98 (14), merrystar (16), rretzler (18), klh098 (25), ManWithAnAgenda (45)

Score: 13.9

14
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
17,055 members, 519 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: rretzler (13), booksinbed (14), klh098 (15), leslie.98 (16), ahef1963 (20), merrystar (27), ManWithAnAgenda (44)

Score: 13.41

15
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,812 members, 745 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), ahef1963 (12), leslie.98 (17), merrystar (25), rretzler (26), klh098 (41), ManWithAnAgenda (43)

Score: 13.38

16
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,047 members, 306 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), booksinbed (15), leslie.98 (18), ahef1963 (27), rretzler (28), ManWithAnAgenda (42), klh098 (45)

Score: 13.14

17
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
29,502 members, 273 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: merrystar (14), booksinbed (16), leslie.98 (19), rretzler (21), ahef1963 (24), klh098 (33), ManWithAnAgenda (41)

Score: 12.91

18
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15,451 members, 227 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: rretzler (10), klh098 (11), booksinbed (12), merrystar (12), leslie.98 (13), ahef1963 (19)

Score: 12.77

19
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
27,421 members, 153 reviews
4.59 stars (4.59 stars)

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

Score: 12.38

20
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,340 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: rretzler (7), klh098 (7), ahef1963 (16), booksinbed (18), leslie.98 (21), ManWithAnAgenda (40)

Score: 12.32

21
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
12,599 members, 192 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: rretzler (9), klh098 (9), merrystar (13), ahef1963 (18), leslie.98 (22), ManWithAnAgenda (39)

Score: 12.12

22
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,762 members, 1,116 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: rretzler (8), klh098 (8), ahef1963 (17), booksinbed (19), leslie.98 (23), ManWithAnAgenda (38)

Score: 12.08

23
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
22,950 members, 479 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), booksinbed (13), leslie.98 (15), ahef1963 (28), rretzler (29), klh098 (46)

Score: 11.97

24
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,690 members, 220 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (9), booksinbed (20), klh098 (23), leslie.98 (24), ahef1963 (35), ManWithAnAgenda (37)

Score: 11.1

25
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
18,706 members, 284 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), merrystar (18), ahef1963 (22), leslie.98 (25), klh098 (30), ManWithAnAgenda (36)

Score: 11.07

26
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
35,259 members, 472 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), rretzler (11), klh098 (13), booksinbed (17), leslie.98 (20)

Score: 10.99

27
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,864 members, 229 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: rretzler (19), booksinbed (23), ahef1963 (23), klh098 (26), leslie.98 (28), ManWithAnAgenda (35)

Score: 10.72

28
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
63,319 members, 1,239 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (25), ahef1963 (26), rretzler (27), leslie.98 (29), ManWithAnAgenda (34), klh098 (42)

Score: 10.27

29
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
34,805 members, 1,007 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (26), ahef1963 (29), leslie.98 (30), rretzler (30), ManWithAnAgenda (33), klh098 (48)

Score: 10.1

30
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by Anonymous
7,571 members, 117 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 9.74

31
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,335 members, 409 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), booksinbed (28), klh098 (28), ManWithAnAgenda (32), leslie.98 (32)

Score: 9.52

32
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
20,258 members, 408 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: rretzler (16), booksinbed (21), klh098 (21), merrystar (23), leslie.98 (26)

Score: 9.34

33
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,557 members, 221 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: klh098 (12), booksinbed (22), leslie.98 (27), merrystar (28), ahef1963 (32)

Score: 9.17

34
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,103 members, 373 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: klh098 (10), booksinbed (29), ManWithAnAgenda (31), ahef1963 (31), leslie.98 (34)

Score: 9.02

35
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,132 members, 979 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: klh098 (18), merrystar (21), booksinbed (24), ManWithAnAgenda (30), ahef1963 (33)

Score: 9

36
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,993 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: klh098 (20), ManWithAnAgenda (29), booksinbed (30), ahef1963 (34), leslie.98 (35)

Score: 8.63

37
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
41,797 members, 658 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (27), ahef1963 (30), leslie.98 (31), rretzler (31), klh098 (49)

Score: 8.37

38
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
46,209 members, 1,192 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (28), booksinbed (33), klh098 (37), leslie.98 (38), ahef1963 (38)

Score: 8.25

39
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
36,352 members, 1,205 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: rretzler (15), klh098 (19), ahef1963 (21), leslie.98 (33)

Score: 7.49

40
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
32,425 members, 553 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: merrystar (22), booksinbed (31), klh098 (31), leslie.98 (36)

Score: 6.87

41
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
21,259 members, 422 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), leslie.98 (77), klh098 (94)

Score: 6.64

42
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,627 members, 224 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (32), klh098 (32), leslie.98 (37), ahef1963 (37)

Score: 6.61

43
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
23,786 members, 587 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (35), leslie.98 (39), ahef1963 (41), klh098 (50)

Score: 6.33

44
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,717 members, 173 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), leslie.98 (66), klh098 (79)

Score: 6.11

45
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38,476 members, 578 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10), leslie.98 (40), klh098 (43)

Score: 5.4

46
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
19,938 members, 400 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6), leslie.98 (82), klh098 (99)

Score: 5.15

47
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,693 members, 246 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7), leslie.98 (81), klh098 (98)

Score: 5.06

48
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
23,856 members, 380 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: klh098 (24), booksinbed (36), leslie.98 (41)

Score: 5.02

49
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
18,921 members, 416 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), leslie.98 (78), klh098 (95)

Score: 5.01

50
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
36,787 members, 418 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: klh098 (27), ahef1963 (36), leslie.98 (42)

Score: 4.96

51
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,121 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10), leslie.98 (75), klh098 (91)

Score: 4.9

52
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
13,663 members, 406 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (11), leslie.98 (71), klh098 (84)

Score: 4.9

53
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
16,638 members, 302 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12), leslie.98 (70), klh098 (83)

Score: 4.86

54
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
19,658 members, 417 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (13), leslie.98 (68), klh098 (81)

Score: 4.83

55
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
27,864 members, 499 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (18), leslie.98 (56), klh098 (62)

Score: 4.83

56
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
9,555 members, 169 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (27), leslie.98 (45), klh098 (47)

Score: 4.83

57
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
27,706 members, 484 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (15), leslie.98 (63), klh098 (73)

Score: 4.82

58
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
40,015 members, 1,258 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (20), leslie.98 (53), klh098 (59)

Score: 4.82

59
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
32,879 members, 581 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (19), leslie.98 (55), klh098 (61)

Score: 4.82

60
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
32,124 members, 446 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (23), leslie.98 (49), klh098 (54)

Score: 4.81

61
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
24,646 members, 947 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (22), leslie.98 (50), klh098 (56)

Score: 4.81

62
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
5,151 members, 200 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (24), leslie.98 (48), klh098 (53)

Score: 4.81

63
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,096 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (21), leslie.98 (52), klh098 (58)

Score: 4.81

64
Dune
by Frank Herbert
32,575 members, 518 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (25), leslie.98 (47), klh098 (52)

Score: 4.81

65
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
39,122 members, 940 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (26), leslie.98 (46), klh098 (51)

Score: 4.8

66
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,739 members, 264 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14), leslie.98 (67), klh098 (80)

Score: 4.8

67
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
27,912 members, 530 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (16), leslie.98 (62), klh098 (72)

Score: 4.8

68
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
29,182 members, 460 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (17), leslie.98 (60), klh098 (70)

Score: 4.79

69
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
7,228 members, 143 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: klh098 (38), ahef1963 (39), leslie.98 (43)

Score: 4.77

70
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
16,491 members, 306 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: booksinbed (37), leslie.98 (44), klh098 (44)

Score: 4.73

71
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
19,815 members, 188 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), klh098 (76)

Score: 4.39

72
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
15,718 members, 459 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (4), klh098 (63)

Score: 4.25

73
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,577 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (51), klh098 (57)

Score: 2.95

74
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24,329 members, 360 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (54), klh098 (60)

Score: 2.91

75
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
20,688 members, 369 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (57), klh098 (65)

Score: 2.87

76
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
33,120 members, 517 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 2.85

77
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,873 members, 121 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (58), klh098 (67)

Score: 2.85

78
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
15,647 members, 241 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (59), klh098 (68)

Score: 2.84

79
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
19,639 members, 188 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (61), klh098 (71)

Score: 2.81

80
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,426 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (64), klh098 (75)

Score: 2.77

81
Germinal
by Émile Zola
4,516 members, 69 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (65), klh098 (78)

Score: 2.76

82
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
15,333 members, 634 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (69), klh098 (82)

Score: 2.72

83
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
8,251 members, 231 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (72), klh098 (86)

Score: 2.69

84
Charlotte's Web
by E B White
28,927 members, 940 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (73), klh098 (87)

Score: 2.68

85
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11,477 members, 210 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (74), klh098 (89)

Score: 2.67

86
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
35,695 members, 643 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (76), klh098 (92)

Score: 2.65

87
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
3,220 members, 125 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (79), klh098 (96)

Score: 2.62

88
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
17,830 members, 216 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (80), klh098 (97)

Score: 2.61

89
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
21,375 members, 290 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: leslie.98 (83), klh098 (100)

Score: 2.59

90
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
5,513 members, 150 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: klh098 (17)

Score: 1.97

91
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
5,134 members, 99 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: klh098 (55)

Score: 1.47

92
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
32,514 members, 907 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: klh098 (64)

Score: 1.41

93
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
24,254 members, 337 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: klh098 (66)

Score: 1.4

94
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,192 members, 221 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: klh098 (69)

Score: 1.39

95
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
8,823 members, 191 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: klh098 (74)

Score: 1.36

96
Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
3,029 members, 75 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: klh098 (77)

Score: 1.35

97
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,470 members, 337 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: klh098 (85)

Score: 1.32

98
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
16,345 members, 372 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: klh098 (88)

Score: 1.31

100
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
6,227 members, 184 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: klh098 (93)

Score: 1.29

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