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Newark Public Library's 1904 List of a Thousand of the Best Novels

Based on bookaward: Newark Public Library's 1904 List of a Thousand of the Best Novels

Members: 4 participating members (show all)

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1
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
20,840 members, 441 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), ahef1963 (1), hipdeep (1), NinieB

Score: 13.71

2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13,450 members, 228 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), ahef1963 (2), hipdeep (2), NinieB

Score: 11.8

3
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,463 members, 464 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), hipdeep (7), merrystar (13), NinieB

Score: 8.95

4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,685 members, 490 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), hipdeep (3), NinieB

Score: 7.79

5
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,121 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), ahef1963 (8), NinieB

Score: 7.13

6
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
28,663 members, 307 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), hipdeep (6), NinieB

Score: 7.09

7
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
15,949 members, 286 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), hipdeep (8), merrystar (18)

Score: 6.78

8
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
644 members, 8 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), merrystar (19), NinieB

Score: 6.3

9
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
12,377 members, 229 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), ahef1963 (16), NinieB

Score: 6.27

10
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,874 members, 477 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), ahef1963 (28), NinieB (58)

Score: 6.02

11
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
9,753 members, 231 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: merrystar (9), ahef1963 (18), NinieB

Score: 5.96

12
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
4,043 members, 119 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: merrystar (8), ahef1963 (23), NinieB

Score: 5.91

13
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,283 members, 839 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), merrystar (20), NinieB

Score: 5.91

14
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,477 members, 345 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), merrystar (21), NinieB

Score: 5.77

15
The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
4,440 members, 148 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: merrystar (11), ahef1963 (22), NinieB

Score: 5.75

16
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,578 members, 317 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: merrystar (14), ahef1963 (17), NinieB

Score: 5.75

17
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
27,011 members, 363 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (6)

Score: 5.38

18
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,182 members, 391 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: merrystar (23), ahef1963 (30), NinieB (57)

Score: 4.99

19
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
15,341 members, 225 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), ahef1963 (35)

Score: 4.32

20
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,526 members, 421 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (7), ahef1963 (29)

Score: 4.18

21
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
33,964 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), NinieB

Score: 3.96

22
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
21,044 members, 205 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), NinieB

Score: 3.86

23
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,643 members, 231 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), NinieB

Score: 3.82

24
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
15,413 members, 296 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), NinieB

Score: 3.78

25
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7,760 members, 107 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: merrystar (12), ahef1963 (39)

Score: 3.75

26
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,345 members, 184 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), NinieB

Score: 3.74

27
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,870 members, 108 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), NinieB

Score: 3.63

28
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
7,658 members, 103 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), NinieB

Score: 3.6

29
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
7,395 members, 83 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), NinieB

Score: 3.58

30
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
34,335 members, 591 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: merrystar (22), NinieB

Score: 3.56

31
Adam Bede
by George Eliot
3,956 members, 64 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), NinieB

Score: 3.52

32
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,338 members, 232 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: merrystar (24), ahef1963 (31)

Score: 3.5

33
Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
1,141 members, 30 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), NinieB

Score: 3.5

34
Rip van Winkle
by Washington Irving
1,104 members, 15 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), NinieB

Score: 3.48

35
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
3,449 members, 42 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10)

Score: 2.25

36
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,542 members, 22 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: merrystar (15)

Score: 2.03

37
To Have and to Hold
by Mary Johnston
268 members, 10 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: merrystar (16)

Score: 2

38
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
2,025 members, 35 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: merrystar (17)

Score: 1.97

39
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
12,496 members, 162 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (25)

Score: 1.79

40
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
22,935 members, 309 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: merrystar (26)

Score: 1.77

41
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,963 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

42
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
14,756 members, 174 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

43
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
10,296 members, 122 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

44
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,159 members, 119 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

45
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
8,067 members, 114 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

46
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
6,251 members, 82 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

47
Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
4,459 members, 99 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

48
Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
3,639 members, 57 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

49
Lady Audley's Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2,449 members, 78 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

50
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë
2,440 members, 39 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

51
Evelina
by Frances Burney
2,259 members, 37 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

52
Doctor Thorne
by Anthony Trollope
1,864 members, 57 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

53
Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope
1,730 members, 29 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

54
Framley Parsonage
by Anthony Trollope
1,698 members, 43 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

55
The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
1,648 members, 44 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

56
The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope
1,620 members, 40 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

57
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
by Washington Irving
1,369 members, 18 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

58
Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
787 members, 15 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

59
Quentin Durward
by Sir Walter Scott
706 members, 9 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

60
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
by E. W. Hornung
700 members, 30 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

61
Ramona
by Helen Hunt Jackson
664 members, 16 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

62
East Lynne
by Ellen Wood
587 members, 18 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

63
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story
by Anna Katharine Green
440 members, 14 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

64
Aurora Floyd
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
279 members, 7 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

65
A Country Doctor
by Sarah Orne Jewett
206 members, 8 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

66
The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn
by Henry Kingsley
57 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

67
The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
39 members, 1 review
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

68
Castle Nowhere
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
22 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

69
Old Kensington
by Miss Thackeray
10 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.71

70
Count Kostia
by Victor Cherbuliez
9 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

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Score: 1.71

71
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,802 members, 298 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

72
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
16,229 members, 318 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

73
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
16,910 members, 288 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

74
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
14,761 members, 240 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

75
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
9,390 members, 110 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

76
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,885 members, 132 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

77
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
5,065 members, 121 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

78
She
by H. Rider Haggard
2,679 members, 70 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

79
A Kentucky Cardinal
by James Lane Allen
30 members, 0 reviews
2.25 stars (2.25 stars)

Lists: NinieB (56)

Score: 1.46

80
Doctor Zay
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
33 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: NinieB (59)

Score: 1.44

81
The Stillwater Tragedy
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
18 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: NinieB (60)

Score: 1.44

82
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,309 members, 399 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)
83
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
22,253 members, 387 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)
84
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,037 members, 232 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)
85
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
11,505 members, 107 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)
86
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
11,475 members, 116 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)
87
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
10,176 members, 179 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)
88
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
10,085 members, 144 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)
89
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
9,746 members, 117 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)
90
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
8,265 members, 111 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)
91
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
8,181 members, 103 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)
92
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
8,001 members, 183 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)
93
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
7,827 members, 117 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)
94
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
7,253 members, 88 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
95
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
5,445 members, 95 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)
96
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
5,246 members, 92 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)
97
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
by Lew Wallace
4,557 members, 66 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)
98
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
4,311 members, 46 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)
99
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
4,223 members, 73 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
100
Washington Square
by Henry James
3,984 members, 84 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)
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