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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
18,503 members, 399 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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

Score: 13.74

2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10,698 members, 198 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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

Score: 11.83

3
Emma
by Jane Austen
30,397 members, 416 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 8.98

4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
34,560 members, 462 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 7.82

5
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,789 members, 1,162 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

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

Score: 7.16

6
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
24,919 members, 277 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 7.12

7
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
14,052 members, 259 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
814 members, 9 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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

Score: 6.33

9
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,234 members, 217 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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

Score: 6.3

10
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
8,837 members, 198 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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

Score: 5.99

11
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
3,707 members, 112 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 5.94

12
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
47,527 members, 771 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 5.94

13
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28,891 members, 310 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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

Score: 5.8

14
The Sign of the Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
3,802 members, 125 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 5.78

15
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
10,577 members, 300 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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

Score: 5.78

16
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
23,306 members, 354 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (6)

Score: 5.38

17
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
30,417 members, 422 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), ahef1963 (28)

Score: 4.57

18
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
13,335 members, 195 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), ahef1963 (35)

Score: 4.32

19
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
29,110 members, 376 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (7), ahef1963 (29)

Score: 4.18

20
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
30,647 members, 359 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), NinieB

Score: 3.99

21
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
18,707 members, 187 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), NinieB

Score: 3.89

22
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
16,733 members, 216 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), NinieB

Score: 3.85

23
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
13,540 members, 263 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), NinieB

Score: 3.81

24
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,214 members, 178 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), NinieB

Score: 3.77

25
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6,961 members, 104 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: merrystar (12), ahef1963 (39)

Score: 3.75

26
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,160 members, 102 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), NinieB

Score: 3.66

27
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
7,024 members, 100 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), NinieB

Score: 3.63

28
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
6,722 members, 76 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), NinieB

Score: 3.61

29
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
31,087 members, 531 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: merrystar (22), NinieB

Score: 3.59

30
Adam Bede
by George Eliot
3,593 members, 56 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), NinieB

Score: 3.55

31
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
17,430 members, 368 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: merrystar (23), ahef1963 (30)

Score: 3.54

32
Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
1,061 members, 27 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), NinieB

Score: 3.53

33
Rip van Winkle
by Washington Irving
944 members, 14 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), NinieB

Score: 3.51

34
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,940 members, 218 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: merrystar (24), ahef1963 (31)

Score: 3.5

35
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
2,919 members, 32 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10)

Score: 2.25

36
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,439 members, 21 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: merrystar (15)

Score: 2.03

37
To Have and to Hold
by Mary Johnston
236 members, 8 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: merrystar (16)

Score: 2

38
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
1,774 members, 30 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: merrystar (17)

Score: 1.97

39
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
11,087 members, 140 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (25)

Score: 1.79

40
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
20,370 members, 276 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: merrystar (26)

Score: 1.77

41
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
35,419 members, 409 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

42
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
12,972 members, 160 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

43
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
9,254 members, 106 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

44
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
9,183 members, 107 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

45
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
7,337 members, 107 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

46
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
5,726 members, 74 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

47
Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
3,978 members, 93 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

48
Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
3,304 members, 49 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

49
Lady Audley's Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2,220 members, 71 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

50
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë
2,199 members, 37 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

51
Evelina
by Frances Burney
2,090 members, 33 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

52
Doctor Thorne
by Anthony Trollope
1,663 members, 54 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

53
Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope
1,599 members, 26 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

54
Framley Parsonage
by Anthony Trollope
1,558 members, 42 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

55
The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
1,508 members, 40 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

56
The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope
1,459 members, 38 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

57
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
by Washington Irving
1,348 members, 14 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

58
Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot
701 members, 14 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

59
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
by E. W. Hornung
668 members, 29 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

60
Quentin Durward
by Sir Walter Scott
626 members, 8 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

61
Ramona
by Helen Hunt Jackson
582 members, 15 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

62
East Lynne
by Ellen Wood
538 members, 15 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

63
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story
by Anna Katharine Green
402 members, 12 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

64
Aurora Floyd
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
251 members, 6 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

65
A Country Doctor
by Sarah Orne Jewett
182 members, 7 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

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

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

67
The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
38 members, 1 review
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

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

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

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

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

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

Lists: NinieB

Score: 1.74

71
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,258 members, 269 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

72
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
14,338 members, 287 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

73
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
14,611 members, 255 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

74
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
12,487 members, 208 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

75
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
8,235 members, 93 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

76
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,137 members, 124 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

77
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
4,484 members, 105 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

78
She
by H. Rider Haggard
2,464 members, 63 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

79
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
22,709 members, 359 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)
80
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,645 members, 350 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)
81
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
16,871 members, 208 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)
82
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
10,179 members, 94 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)
83
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
10,134 members, 106 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)
84
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
9,042 members, 162 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)
85
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
9,038 members, 129 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)
86
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
8,602 members, 104 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)
87
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
7,497 members, 102 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)
88
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
7,428 members, 93 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)
89
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
7,115 members, 166 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)
90
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
7,068 members, 107 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)
91
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
6,675 members, 84 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
92
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
4,897 members, 81 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)
93
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
4,779 members, 86 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)
94
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
by Lew Wallace
3,934 members, 53 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)
95
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
by Rudyard Kipling
3,733 members, 41 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)
96
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
3,707 members, 61 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
97
Washington Square
by Henry James
3,643 members, 72 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)
98
The Sea Wolf
by Jack London
3,374 members, 44 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)
99
Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
3,171 members, 38 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)
100
Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
3,100 members, 39 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)
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