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by Ray Bradbury

63,470 members

1,141 reviews

4

11 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,734 members

337 reviews

½ 4.5

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

56,370 members

357 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,362 members

460 reviews

3.8

10 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

63,802 members

575 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

6

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,190 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

11 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

7

by Günter Grass

8,408 members

105 reviews

4

7 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963

8

31,346 members

281 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

30,014 members

299 reviews

4

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

54,059 members

854 reviews

4.1

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Magician's Nephew

34,600 members

411 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Silver Chair

28,498 members

225 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Jack Kerouac

30,450 members

424 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, mkbird, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1

14

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,921 members

134 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by John Steinbeck

27,434 members

480 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, sturlington, ncgraham, thecoroner, alex68

16

The Horse and His Boy

30,525 members

272 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Last Battle

27,437 members

223 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,302 members

635 reviews

4.1

6 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

19

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,389 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, roby72, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, ahef1963,ncgraham

20

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

2,991 members

68 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,981 members

156 reviews

3.9

7 Members: eromsted, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

22

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz

1,265 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68

23

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,637 members

189 reviews

3.9

7 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

18,629 members

366 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

25

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,717 members

110 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, mkbird, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68

26

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

7,689 members

178 reviews

4.2

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Arthur Miller

17,876 members

186 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, Myyst, fundevogel, alex68

28

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,540 members

162 reviews

4

5 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

I, Robot [Anthology]

by Isaac Asimov

17,125 members

311 reviews

4

6 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

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2,872 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

31

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,597 members

34 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

32

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

1,215 members

18 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

33

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,418 members

562 reviews

3.8

6 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper,ncgraham

34

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

12,851 members

517 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

6,672 members

250 reviews

3.9

5 Members: inge87, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Once and Future King

17,324 members

225 reviews

4.1

6 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, mkbird, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963,aulsmith

37

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,855 members

126 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,956 members

22 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

39

The Adventures of Augie March

4,241 members

80 reviews

3.8

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

40

by Ralph Ellison

18,427 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, alex68, Bretzky1

41

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

by Carlo Emilio Gadda

1,400 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

42

by Isaac Asimov

23,406 members

443 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,727 members

206 reviews

4

4 Members: inge87, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by John Wyndham

5,354 members

142 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, mkbird, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

45

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

9,411 members

244 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

7,234 members

223 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

47

by Boris Pasternak

12,991 members

172 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

48

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,640 members

172 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

49

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,891 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner

50

Howl and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

6,184 members

71 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

107 members

1 review

3.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

52

by Pauline Réage

3,968 members

88 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

53

The Grand Sophy

by Georgette Heyer

3,198 members

141 reviews

4.2

4 Members: inge87, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

54

24,654 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: edwinbcn, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

55

Nine Coaches Waiting

by Mary Stewart

1,758 members

49 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, merrystar, ahef1963

56

by Eugène Ionesco

1,662 members

18 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

57

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

8,411 members

240 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

58

by Georgette Heyer

2,335 members

98 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

59

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

11,473 members

272 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

4,386 members

101 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

61

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,892 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

62

2,805 members

30 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

63

by John Steinbeck

3,258 members

56 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,807 members

99 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

65

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,998 members

106 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

66

by J. D. Salinger

12,752 members

124 reviews

4.1

3 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

67

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,362 members

30 reviews

4.2

2 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn

68

The Sound of Waves

by Yukio Mishima

2,100 members

48 reviews

3.8

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

69

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,255 members

29 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

70

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

796 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

71

Excellent Women

3,107 members

136 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68

72

My Father's Glory

by Marcel Pagnol

983 members

11 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

73

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

7,235 members

192 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-II

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

6,024 members

48 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

75

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

2,092 members

18 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, Myyst, alex68

76

The Moon and the Bonfires

by Cesare Pavese

1,645 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

77

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

14,224 members

205 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: eromsted, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

by Pär Lagerkvist

1,560 members

27 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

79

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

11,683 members

151 reviews

4

3 Members: eromsted, alex68, ahef1963

80

12,931 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

699 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

82

The Dying Earth

1,623 members

43 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mkbird, Myyst, alex68

83

by Flannery O'Connor

4,396 members

124 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

84

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

5,485 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

85

A Time to Keep Silence

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

950 members

34 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, mkbird

86

The Ugly American

by William J. Lederer

1,552 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mkbird, Bretzky1

87

A Town Like Alice

4,102 members

150 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

88

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

6,410 members

87 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

89

10,219 members

133 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

Horton Hears a Who!

7,961 members

137 reviews

4.2

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Unknown Ajax

by Georgette Heyer

1,639 members

61 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

92

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

11,439 members

178 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

93

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

3,000 members

42 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

94

5,414 members

192 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

95

by Margery Sharp

1,376 members

24 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

96

The City and the Stars

by Arthur C. Clarke

3,349 members

70 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

97

The Mousetrap: A Play

by Agatha Christie

136 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: fundevogel, ahef1963

98

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

5,054 members

82 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

99

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

13,527 members

252 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

100

A Coney Island of the Mind

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2,055 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: eromsted, mkbird

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