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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.
Members: 18 participating members
aprille, skavlanj, ahef1963, alex68, FAMeulstee, ManWithAnAgenda, sturlington, steller0707, NinieB, merrystar, kara.shamy, gravir, hipdeep, gilroy, si, ThoughtPolice, dara85, shedfire

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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68,011 members

1,106 reviews

3.9

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

2

by George Orwell

56,490 members

839 reviews

4

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

3

To Kill a Mockingbird

74,488 members

1,409 reviews

½ 4.4

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

4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

48,605 members

661 reviews

3.9

11 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

5

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

36,178 members

413 reviews

3.9

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

6

Pride and Prejudice

75,718 members

1,316 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

7

by Charlotte Brontë

55,628 members

882 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

8

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,221 members

742 reviews

3.9

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

9

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,164 members

667 reviews

4.1

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

10

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,071 members

455 reviews

4

10 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

88,687 members

1,155 reviews

½ 4.3

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

12

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

77,319 members

1,223 reviews

4.2

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,532 members

1,049 reviews

3.8

9 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

14

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

37,091 members

701 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

15

The Picture of Dorian Gray

37,017 members

604 reviews

4

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

16

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

34,602 members

356 reviews

½ 3.4

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

17

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

28,936 members

485 reviews

3.8

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

18

by Sylvia Plath

26,563 members

478 reviews

4

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

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,385 members

367 reviews

½ 3.6

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

20

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,983 members

456 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, shedfire,alex68

21

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40,721 members

507 reviews

3.9

9 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707,alex68

22

by Mary Shelley

39,310 members

673 reviews

3.8

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

23

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

36,736 members

636 reviews

3.9

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

24

by Albert Camus

33,698 members

484 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

25

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

32,511 members

458 reviews

4.1

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

26

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,422 members

538 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

27

19,590 members

293 reviews

3.8

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

28

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,350 members

576 reviews

4.2

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

29

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,591 members

329 reviews

4.1

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

30

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

18,180 members

458 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,212 members

296 reviews

4

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

32

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,205 members

232 reviews

4.1

8 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

33

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

11,992 members

254 reviews

4

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

34

by Wilkie Collins

10,274 members

244 reviews

4

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

35

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,361 members

120 reviews

4

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

36

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,188 members

112 reviews

4.1

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

37

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,019 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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

38

42,036 members

990 reviews

3.9

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

39

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

41,635 members

727 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, steller0707, gravir

40

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

31,488 members

417 reviews

3.8

7 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

41

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28,797 members

422 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

42

by Gustave Flaubert

24,958 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

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

43

by Toni Morrison

21,575 members

396 reviews

3.9

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

44

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,576 members

452 reviews

3.9

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

45

The Secret History

18,472 members

514 reviews

4.1

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, ThoughtPolice, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

46

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,332 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

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

47

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,769 members

240 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

48

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,311 members

279 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

49

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

13,152 members

171 reviews

3.9

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

50

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,048 members

245 reviews

3.9

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

51

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,326 members

179 reviews

½ 3.7

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

52

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,199 members

328 reviews

4.1

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

53

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

11,836 members

130 reviews

3.8

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

54

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,127 members

294 reviews

4.1

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

55

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,174 members

114 reviews

½ 3.5

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

56

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

7,972 members

207 reviews

3.9

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

57

by Louisa May Alcott

7,078 members

131 reviews

3.9

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

58

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,001 members

110 reviews

4.2

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

59

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

44,870 members

291 reviews

½ 4.4

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

60

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

43,536 members

269 reviews

½ 4.5

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

61

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,497 members

660 reviews

4.2

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj

62

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

39,698 members

1,091 reviews

4.1

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

63

Sense and Sensibility

35,985 members

500 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

64

35,729 members

489 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

65

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,106 members

293 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

66

21,309 members

348 reviews

3.8

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

67

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,522 members

414 reviews

3.8

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

68

by Virginia Woolf

19,423 members

310 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

18,849 members

349 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

70

The Name of the Rose

18,830 members

296 reviews

4.2

6 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, gravir

71

18,437 members

478 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

72

The War of the Worlds

17,218 members

295 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj

73

by George Eliot

16,795 members

317 reviews

4.2

6 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

74

The Time Machine

16,671 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

75

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,456 members

453 reviews

4.2

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

76

by Isaac Asimov

14,200 members

256 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

77

Journey to the Center of the Earth

13,718 members

213 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

78

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

12,983 members

208 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

79

by Michael Cunningham

12,254 members

222 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

80

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

11,895 members

250 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

81

by Raymond Chandler

9,766 members

271 reviews

4

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Edith Wharton

9,107 members

204 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

83

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,286 members

115 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

84

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,006 members

237 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

85

Portnoy's Complaint

7,131 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

86

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,334 members

104 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

87

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,271 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,808 members

188 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

89

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,554 members

219 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

90

Death in Venice

5,113 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

91

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,600 members

100 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, alex68, kara.shamy, skavlanj

92

by Flannery O'Connor

3,657 members

113 reviews

3.9

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

93

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,283 members

118 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

94

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,208 members

46 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, sturlington, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

95

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

47,028 members

719 reviews

½ 3.7

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

96

36,381 members

604 reviews

4.1

5 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

97

by Herman Melville

33,295 members

514 reviews

3.8

5 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

98

32,559 members

579 reviews

4

6 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda,alex68

99

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

25,363 members

494 reviews

4.2

5 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

100

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,224 members

310 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

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