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1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus

Description: The books which are on all the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die lists (currently five). This list shrinks with every new publication, whereas the other grows.

1 2 3 4 5

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,156 members

1,307 reviews

3.8

17 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, si, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir, CBanksP

2

by George Orwell

70,300 members

1,010 reviews

4

18 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, Tess_W, eclbates, si, wiskie, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir, CBanksP,alex68

3

by Charlotte Brontë

68,227 members

1,020 reviews

4.2

14 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, Tess_W, eclbates, si, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

4

Pride and Prejudice

94,429 members

1,514 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: Morphidae, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

5

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,288 members

1,561 reviews

½ 4.4

14 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, eclbates, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

6

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,362 members

1,199 reviews

3.8

13 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir

7

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,410 members

816 reviews

3.9

13 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, Tess_W, eclbates, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

8

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

53,318 members

875 reviews

4.2

13 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir

9

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,306 members

779 reviews

4.1

14 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, si, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir, matthagan,alex68

10

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,695 members

535 reviews

4

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,892 members

1,305 reviews

½ 4.3

13 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

12

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,613 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

12 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir

13

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

64,025 members

576 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, Tigardite, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, shedfire,alex68

14

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,704 members

871 reviews

3.9

12 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir

15

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

44,079 members

809 reviews

4.2

14 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, si, wiskie, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir, ,alex68

16

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

44,000 members

481 reviews

3.9

12 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

17

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,972 members

342 reviews

3.9

12 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, b.b.michael, gravir

18

by Mary Shelley

51,344 members

814 reviews

3.8

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,015 members

492 reviews

3.8

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, b.b.michael, gravir

20

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,547 members

277 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, b.b.michael, gravir

21

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,835 members

141 reviews

4

11 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

22

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,574 members

587 reviews

3.9

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael,alex68

23

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,377 members

750 reviews

4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

24

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,778 members

727 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

25

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,946 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

10 Members: gilroy, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by Albert Camus

40,998 members

584 reviews

3.9

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

27

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,542 members

564 reviews

3.8

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

28

by Sylvia Plath

32,823 members

562 reviews

4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,472 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

30

The Secret History

25,327 members

650 reviews

4.1

10 Members: FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, NoPlanetB, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael

31

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

22,278 members

535 reviews

4

10 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

15,630 members

283 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, alex68, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

33

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,537 members

358 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

34

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,893 members

338 reviews

½ 4.5

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

35

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,288 members

784 reviews

4.2

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj

36

Sense and Sensibility

44,262 members

579 reviews

4.1

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,409 members

637 reviews

4.1

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, b.b.michael, gravir

38

by Daphne Du Maurier

24,032 members

690 reviews

4.2

9 Members: sturlington, alex68, wiskie, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

39

The Name of the Rose

21,816 members

336 reviews

4.2

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, b.b.michael, gravir

40

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,177 members

180 reviews

3.8

9 Members: aprille, Morphidae, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

10,025 members

248 reviews

3.8

9 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,858 members

124 reviews

4

9 Members: aprille, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

43

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

44

47,396 members

1,053 reviews

3.9

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

45

41,579 members

686 reviews

4

9 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda,alex68

46

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,283 members

520 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, NoPlanetB, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,999 members

532 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, wiskie, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

48

by Louisa May Alcott

33,363 members

475 reviews

4

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

49

by Gustave Flaubert

29,921 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

50

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,931 members

514 reviews

4.2

8 Members: FAMeulstee, blackdove07, alex68, eclbates, wiskie, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

51

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,620 members

512 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

52

23,204 members

344 reviews

3.8

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

53

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,671 members

371 reviews

4.1

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

54

21,106 members

522 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

55

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,734 members

368 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,874 members

336 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

57

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,165 members

286 reviews

4

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

58

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,923 members

169 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

12,167 members

386 reviews

4.1

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Wilkie Collins

12,103 members

273 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

by Edith Wharton

10,693 members

244 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, alex68, Tess_W, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

62

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,437 members

243 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

63

Death in Venice

6,021 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: FAMeulstee, blackdove07, alex68, wiskie, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

64

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,880 members

126 reviews

4.2

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, blackdove07, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

65

by Joseph Heller

44,479 members

580 reviews

4.1

7 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, skavlanj, b.b.michael

66

44,320 members

571 reviews

4.1

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

67

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,803 members

320 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

68

by Toni Morrison

26,673 members

449 reviews

3.9

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

25,774 members

403 reviews

3.8

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Isaac Asimov

23,459 members

444 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,437 members

461 reviews

3.8

7 Members: FAMeulstee, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

72

by Virginia Woolf

23,356 members

379 reviews

3.8

7 Members: FAMeulstee, blackdove07, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

73

The War of the Worlds

21,638 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: aprille, hipdeep, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj

74

by George Eliot

20,847 members

371 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

75

The Time Machine

20,303 members

387 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: gilroy, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

76

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,235 members

526 reviews

4.2

7 Members: sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

77

I, Robot [Anthology]

by Isaac Asimov

17,185 members

313 reviews

4

7 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, blackdove07, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

78

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,454 members

208 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

79

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,384 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: aprille, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

80

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

15,226 members

247 reviews

4

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, blackdove07, sturlington, wiskie, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,607 members

374 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

82

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,606 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

83

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,383 members

277 reviews

3.9

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, wiskie, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

84

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,331 members

285 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

85

by J. M. Coetzee

11,851 members

299 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

86

by Raymond Chandler

11,568 members

315 reviews

4

7 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

87

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,671 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

88

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,507 members

275 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

89

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,750 members

206 reviews

4

7 Members: aprille, blackdove07, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

7,251 members

226 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

91

7,199 members

287 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, eclbates, ahef1963, NinieB

92

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,325 members

121 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, blackdove07, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj

93

by Flannery O'Connor

4,406 members

124 reviews

3.8

7 Members: sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

94

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,918 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: aprille, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

95

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,537 members

819 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, gravir,alex68

96

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,595 members

1,238 reviews

4.1

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

97

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

31,008 members

446 reviews

3.9

6 Members: merrystar, blackdove07, wiskie, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

98

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,977 members

496 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: Morphidae, FAMeulstee, sturlington, eclbates, wiskie, skavlanj

99

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,765 members

417 reviews

4

6 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, alex68, eclbates, ahef1963, skavlanj

100

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,739 members

539 reviews

4.2

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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