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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

82,662 members

1,301 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

69,784 members

1,002 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

67,759 members

1,016 reviews

4.2

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

4

Pride and Prejudice

93,679 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

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

5

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,709 members

1,557 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

76,975 members

1,195 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

61,836 members

810 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

52,882 members

871 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

49,168 members

775 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

32,422 members

534 reviews

4

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

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,170 members

1,296 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

93,974 members

1,449 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

63,514 members

573 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

61,322 members

867 reviews

3.9

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

15

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,899 members

479 reviews

3.9

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

16

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

43,826 members

802 reviews

4.2

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

17

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,819 members

341 reviews

3.9

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

18

by Mary Shelley

50,929 members

813 reviews

3.8

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

19

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,735 members

487 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

18,442 members

275 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

8,784 members

141 reviews

4

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

22

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,253 members

595 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

46,989 members

749 reviews

4

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

24

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,521 members

723 reviews

3.9

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

25

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,654 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

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

26

by Albert Camus

40,662 members

575 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

35,248 members

561 reviews

3.8

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

28

by Sylvia Plath

32,614 members

558 reviews

4

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

29

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,278 members

432 reviews

½ 3.6

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

30

The Secret History

25,102 members

643 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

22,123 members

530 reviews

4

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

32

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

15,556 members

282 reviews

4.1

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

33

by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,110 members

354 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

54,476 members

335 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

49,584 members

779 reviews

4.2

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

36

Sense and Sensibility

43,943 members

573 reviews

4.1

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

37

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,181 members

633 reviews

4.1

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

38

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,902 members

685 reviews

4.2

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

39

The Name of the Rose

21,740 members

335 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

12,094 members

182 reviews

3.8

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

41

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,922 members

244 reviews

3.8

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

42

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,803 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

47,403 members

1,049 reviews

3.9

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

45

41,205 members

682 reviews

4

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

46

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

38,982 members

516 reviews

4.1

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

47

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,734 members

531 reviews

4.1

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

48

by Louisa May Alcott

33,077 members

472 reviews

4

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

49

by Gustave Flaubert

29,718 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

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

50

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,735 members

513 reviews

4.2

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

51

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,511 members

508 reviews

3.9

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

52

23,065 members

345 reviews

3.8

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

53

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,522 members

369 reviews

4.1

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

54

21,006 members

518 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

19,656 members

367 reviews

½ 3.7

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

56

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,942 members

334 reviews

4

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

57

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,077 members

286 reviews

4

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

58

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,922 members

167 reviews

3.8

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

59

by Wilkie Collins

12,076 members

274 reviews

4

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

60

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

12,044 members

385 reviews

4.1

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

61

by Edith Wharton

10,627 members

239 reviews

½ 3.6

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

62

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,392 members

240 reviews

4

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

63

Death in Venice

5,989 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

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

64

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,863 members

126 reviews

4.2

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

65

by Joseph Heller

44,239 members

578 reviews

4.1

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

66

43,924 members

567 reviews

4.1

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

67

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,642 members

320 reviews

4.1

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

68

by Toni Morrison

26,442 members

447 reviews

3.9

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

69

25,578 members

405 reviews

3.8

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

70

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,304 members

459 reviews

3.8

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

71

by Isaac Asimov

23,298 members

440 reviews

4

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

72

by Virginia Woolf

23,197 members

376 reviews

3.8

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

73

The War of the Worlds

21,448 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

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

74

by George Eliot

20,686 members

367 reviews

4.2

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

75

The Time Machine

20,150 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

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

76

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,095 members

521 reviews

4.2

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

77

I, Robot [Anthology]

by Isaac Asimov

17,089 members

311 reviews

4

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

78

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,389 members

204 reviews

3.9

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

79

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,268 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

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

80

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

15,139 members

247 reviews

4

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

81

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,513 members

374 reviews

4

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

82

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,499 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

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

83

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,340 members

275 reviews

3.9

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

84

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,218 members

283 reviews

4

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

85

by J. M. Coetzee

11,818 members

297 reviews

3.9

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

86

by Raymond Chandler

11,472 members

314 reviews

4

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

87

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,620 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

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

88

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,429 members

272 reviews

½ 3.6

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

89

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,701 members

206 reviews

4

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

90

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

7,229 members

221 reviews

3.9

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

91

7,138 members

287 reviews

½ 3.5

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

92

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

5,327 members

122 reviews

3.8

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

93

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,890 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

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

94

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

56,725 members

811 reviews

½ 3.7

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

95

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,263 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

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

96

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30,856 members

444 reviews

3.9

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

97

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,714 members

493 reviews

½ 4.3

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

98

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,608 members

539 reviews

4.2

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

99

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,579 members

415 reviews

4

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

100

by Stephen King

27,205 members

530 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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