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Rank Title Author Added

1

19,515 members

234 reviews

4

2 Members: supersidvicious, Lorenzo_pic

2

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,394 members

49 reviews

3.9

2 Members: supersidvicious, Lorenzo_pic

3

The Red Carnation

by Elio Vittorini

194 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: supersidvicious, Lorenzo_pic

4

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,598 members

673 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

5

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,984 members

481 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

6

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,521 members

618 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

7

37,495 members

612 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

8

by Albert Camus

34,701 members

490 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

9

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,731 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: supersidvicious

10

27,982 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: supersidvicious

11

by Hermann Hesse

27,299 members

373 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

12

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,258 members

400 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

13

by Gustave Flaubert

25,730 members

382 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

14

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,896 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

15

19,247 members

219 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

16

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,538 members

393 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

17

by Albert Camus

18,093 members

236 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

18

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,285 members

252 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

19

The Metamorphosis

12,061 members

208 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

20

The Red and the Black

9,313 members

132 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

21

by Nikolai Gogol

8,979 members

115 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

22

by Carlo Collodi

7,925 members

140 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

23

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,386 members

110 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: supersidvicious

24

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,403 members

145 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

25

Narcissus and Goldmund

by Hermann Hesse

6,236 members

75 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

26

If This Is a Man

5,947 members

96 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: supersidvicious

27

by Honoré de Balzac

5,828 members

105 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

28

The Complete Stories

5,650 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: supersidvicious

29

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

5,561 members

105 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

30

Death in Venice

5,246 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

31

5,223 members

77 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

32

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

5,115 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

33

The Charterhouse of Parma

4,302 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

34

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,148 members

57 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

35

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3,970 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

36

The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig

2,477 members

74 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: supersidvicious

37

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

2,432 members

56 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

38

by Honoré de Balzac

2,412 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

39

Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The First Forty-Nine Stories

by Ernest Hemingway

2,325 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

40

by Jorge Luis Borges

2,255 members

62 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

41

by Gustave Flaubert

2,249 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

42

Behind the Door

by Giorgio Bassani

2,016 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

43

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,601 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

44

The Kreutzer Sonata

1,555 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

45

by Thomas Bernhard

1,547 members

40 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

46

La lune et les feux

by Cesare Pavese

1,370 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

47

The Day of the Owl

by Leonardo Sciascia

1,368 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

48

The Reawakening

1,249 members

26 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

49

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

1,184 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: supersidvicious

50

by Natalia Ginzburg

1,174 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

51

The Belly of Paris

1,166 members

28 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

52

Wittgenstein's Nephew

by Thomas Bernhard

1,002 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

53

by Italo Calvino

996 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

54

by Italo Calvino

902 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

55

894 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

56

Heart: A School-Boy's Journal

by Edmondo De Amicis

889 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

57

The Emperor's Tomb

854 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

58

by Ignazio Silone

691 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

59

Conversations in Sicily

by Elio Vittorini

649 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

60

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

605 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: supersidvicious

61

582 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

62

Netochka Nezvanova

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

559 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: supersidvicious

63

Petersburg Tales

by Nikolai Gogol

468 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

64

One Way or Another

by Leonardo Sciascia

453 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: supersidvicious

65

by Arthur Schnitzler

397 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

66

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

390 members

4 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

67

The House on the Hill

by Cesare Pavese

361 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: supersidvicious

68

Happiness, As Such

by Natalia Ginzburg

321 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

69

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man [Norton Critical Edition]

309 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: supersidvicious

70

Mario and the Magician

292 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: supersidvicious

71

Dialogues with Leucò

by Cesare Pavese

290 members

3 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

72

by Cesare Pavese

286 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

73

A Tale of Poor Lovers [abridged]

by Vasco Pratolini

281 members

6 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

74

La boutique del mistero

by Dino Buzzati

271 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

75

The Secret of Luca

by Ignazio Silone

227 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: supersidvicious

76

by Edgar Allan Poe

203 members

2 reviews

4

Member: supersidvicious

77

by Vasco Pratolini

180 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: supersidvicious

78

Family Chronicle

by Vasco Pratolini

176 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: supersidvicious

79

The Naked Streets

by Vasco Pratolini

170 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: supersidvicious

80

The Story of a Humble Christian

by Ignazio Silone

147 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

81

Tutte le novelle

by Giovanni Verga

142 members

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

82

The Human Comedy

by Honoré de Balzac

135 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: supersidvicious

83

The Manzoni Family

by Natalia Ginzburg

133 members

1 review

3.8

Member: supersidvicious

84

Le parrocchie di Regalpetra

by Leonardo Sciascia

55 members

1 review

3.9

Member: supersidvicious

85

Il mercante di coralli

32 members

1 review

4.1

Member: supersidvicious

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