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Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Award Program (Grades 9-12)

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,400 members

585 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,957 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,919 members

496 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,897 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

67,956 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

4 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Once and Future King

17,338 members

225 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry [edited by Cerf and Cartmell]

844 members

3 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,312 members

385 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,133 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

4 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,774 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,343 members

460 reviews

3.8

4 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,595 members

724 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Charlotte Brontë

10,079 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by William Shakespeare

37,336 members

336 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Pearl S. Buck

15,308 members

290 reviews

4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, cej1027, ahef1963

17

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,493 members

869 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,067 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

19

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,219 members

112 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,245 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Pride and Prejudice

94,028 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,079 members

812 reviews

3.9

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

62,529 members

521 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,864 members

478 reviews

3.9

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Beowulf Poet

29,237 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,160 members

749 reviews

4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

10,073 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,846 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,547 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Wilkie Collins

12,100 members

273 reviews

4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,293 members

201 reviews

3.9

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,965 members

271 reviews

4

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,004 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,956 members

167 reviews

3.8

3 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,288 members

114 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

36

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,786 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

37

7,602 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by William Shakespeare

17,146 members

168 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

39

by Christopher Marlowe

5,667 members

88 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54, ahef1963

40

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

5,458 members

112 reviews

4.2

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

41

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,923 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Turn of the Screw

9,425 members

295 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

192 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by George Eliot

12,911 members

170 reviews

3.8

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,432 members

222 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,860 members

532 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,643 members

34 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

48

by George Orwell

70,001 members

1,007 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

A Man for All Seasons

3,572 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

50

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,344 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

51

Murder in the Cathedral

3,521 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

52

by Albert Camus

40,823 members

580 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,696 members

576 reviews

4.2

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

54

12,927 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

23,126 members

344 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Thornton Wilder

5,897 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Henrik Ibsen

6,189 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Gustave Flaubert

29,810 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

59

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,636 members

264 reviews

3.8

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

60

by Ralph Ellison

18,404 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, BonnieJune54

61

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,173 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

62

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,430 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

63

7,093 members

101 reviews

4.1

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

64

by Daniel Defoe

8,578 members

111 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

65

by George Bernard Shaw

7,706 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

66

A Town Like Alice

4,100 members

150 reviews

4

2 Members: BonnieJune54, ahef1963

67

by Upton Sinclair

13,286 members

146 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,401 members

312 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

22,926 members

268 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Herman Melville

41,730 members

618 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

47,554 members

446 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Caine Mutiny

3,671 members

62 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

73

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,055 members

441 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

74

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy

3,608 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

75

by Richard Wright

8,764 members

112 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

76

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,534 members

259 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

77

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,897 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

78

The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry: The Top 100 Poems in English

by William Harmon

32 members

Member: hipdeep

79

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,783 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

80

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,556 members

222 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

81

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,515 members

247 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

82

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,522 members

232 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

83

by Robert Graves

10,120 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

84

44,055 members

698 reviews

4.1

Member: BonnieJune54

85

Les Misérables

30,623 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BonnieJune54

86

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

9,411 members

165 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

87

The Fountainhead

20,739 members

278 reviews

3.8

Member: BonnieJune54

88

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,613 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: BonnieJune54

89

by Arthur Miller

17,859 members

186 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BonnieJune54

90

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,203 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: BonnieJune54

91

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

8,632 members

147 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,993 members

335 reviews

4

Member: BonnieJune54

93

by Willa Cather

15,235 members

310 reviews

3.9

Member: BonnieJune54

94

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,432 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BonnieJune54

95

by Boris Pasternak

12,982 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: BonnieJune54

96

by Joseph Conrad

10,154 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BonnieJune54

97

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

10,038 members

148 reviews

3.9

Member: BonnieJune54

98

by Sinclair Lewis

5,650 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BonnieJune54

99

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,371 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: BonnieJune54

100

How Green Was My Valley

by Richard Llewellyn

2,517 members

62 reviews

4.1

Member: BonnieJune54

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