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1
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
50,086 members, 751 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: starbox (1), MarcioNemec (1), ahef1963 (1), aulsmith (1), Bretzky1 (1), norabelle414 (1), sturlington (2), elkiedee (5), eromsted (7), kara.shamy (9), edwinbcn (14) — 8 more, hipdeep (15), souloftherose (19), roby72 (29), alex68 (32), thecoroner (35), ManWithAnAgenda (56), fundevogel, Myyst

Score: 52.32

2
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
69,119 members, 1,127 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Laura1124 (1), edwinbcn (1), norabelle414 (1), starbox (2), ahef1963 (2), aulsmith (2), Bretzky1 (2), eromsted (3), elkiedee (4), hipdeep (17) — 6 more, souloftherose (20), roby72 (25), thecoroner (36), alex68 (42), ManWithAnAgenda (55), Myyst

Score: 47.59

3
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,582 members, 421 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: eromsted (1), norabelle414 (1), Laura1124 (2), kara.shamy (2), starbox (3), roby72 (3), ahef1963 (3), aulsmith (3), ManWithAnAgenda (4), raperper (4), thecoroner (17) — 3 more, alex68 (21), fundevogel, Myyst

Score: 41.36

4
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
24,105 members, 456 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (1), souloftherose (2), Laura1124 (3), starbox (7), roby72 (12), ahef1963 (13), thecoroner (18), ManWithAnAgenda (27), alex68 (34), cej1027

Score: 25.3

5
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
35,950 members, 649 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: norabelle414 (1), starbox (4), ahef1963 (4), sturlington (5), roby72 (9), thecoroner (21), alex68 (49), cej1027

Score: 20.85

6
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
8,063 members, 164 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), souloftherose (1), inge87 (3), Laura1124 (4), kara.shamy (5), edwinbcn (9), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 20.72

7
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,306 members, 95 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), eromsted (2), alex68 (3), thecoroner (3), roby72 (4), Myyst

Score: 18.21

8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
16,061 members, 156 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (3), Bretzky1 (3), Laura1124 (5), ahef1963 (11), thecoroner (25), roby72 (30), alex68 (52), Myyst

Score: 17.88

9
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
8,159 members, 274 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), merrystar (2), souloftherose (5), starbox (10), edwinbcn (12), ahef1963 (23)

Score: 16.26

10
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
13,948 members, 392 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (4), starbox (6), ahef1963 (6), Laura1124 (7), eromsted (12), merrystar (14), thecoroner (37)

Score: 16.24

11
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,456 members, 215 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), Laura1124 (8), starbox (8), ahef1963 (10), edwinbcn (17), thecoroner (27), alex68 (29), roby72 (36), fundevogel

Thumbs down: sturlington, Bretzky1

Score: 16.17

12
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,243 members, 100 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4), ahef1963 (7), thecoroner (13), roby72 (18), ManWithAnAgenda (32), fundevogel, Myyst

Score: 16

13
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,933 members, 233 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: starbox (5), edwinbcn (5), Laura1124 (6), ManWithAnAgenda (8), ahef1963 (8), thecoroner (15), roby72 (15), alex68 (27)

Thumbs down: sturlington, merrystar

Score: 14.48

14
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
7,933 members, 149 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), Laura1124 (10), ahef1963 (24), ManWithAnAgenda (30), roby72 (35), alex68 (70), cej1027

Score: 14.45

15
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
6,787 members, 65 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (4), hipdeep (12), starbox (12), merrystar (16), ahef1963 (22), cej1027

Score: 13.8

16
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
14,410 members, 645 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), Laura1124 (16), ahef1963 (17), hipdeep (19), ManWithAnAgenda (35), cej1027

Score: 12.92

17
Stuart Little
by E B White
11,219 members, 124 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: merrystar (10), Laura1124 (12), eromsted (14), ahef1963 (19), alex68 (72), cej1027

Score: 12.58

18
Native Son
by Richard Wright
6,685 members, 85 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: eromsted (4), kara.shamy (6), Laura1124 (9), starbox (9), edwinbcn (11)

Score: 12.2

19
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
8,582 members, 171 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), eromsted (6), edwinbcn (7), ahef1963 (14), Laura1124 (19), ManWithAnAgenda (25)

Thumbs down: starbox

Score: 11.83

20
The Plague
by Albert Camus
15,841 members, 205 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), roby72 (8), eromsted (8), alex68 (12), ManWithAnAgenda (14)

Score: 11.8

21
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
13,136 members, 177 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), aulsmith (5), eromsted (10), hipdeep (13), Laura1124 (14)

Score: 11.77

22
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
6,067 members, 132 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), ahef1963 (12), hipdeep (16), ManWithAnAgenda (39), cej1027

Score: 11.25

23
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,797 members, 74 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (2), alex68 (4), thecoroner (7), Laura1124 (17)

Score: 10.62

24
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,826 members, 11 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), alex68 (5), roby72 (6), thecoroner (9)

Score: 10.58

25
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5,703 members, 60 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), edwinbcn (15), ahef1963 (15), ManWithAnAgenda (24), Myyst

Score: 10.49

26
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
880 members, 11 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (6), Laura1124 (11), eromsted (11), roby72 (22), alex68 (55)

Score: 10.26

27
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann
3,514 members, 38 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: roby72 (1), alex68 (2), thecoroner (5)

Score: 10.04

28
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
13,797 members, 173 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), Laura1124 (13), starbox (15), thecoroner (26)

Score: 9.91

29
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
1,007 members, 11 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: alex68 (1), thecoroner (1), roby72 (20)

Score: 9.89

30
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,667 members, 39 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), eromsted (5), thecoroner (11), alex68 (13)

Score: 9.65

31
Curious George
by H. A. Rey
4,882 members, 81 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: merrystar (9), hipdeep (18), Laura1124 (20), ahef1963 (20), ManWithAnAgenda (49)

Score: 9.55

32
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
6,703 members, 109 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: Laura1124 (18), roby72 (19), alex68 (24), thecoroner (24), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 9.24

33
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
1,981 members, 53 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: alex68 (6), thecoroner (8), starbox (13), roby72 (13)

Score: 9.15

34
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,270 members, 44 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), starbox (11), thecoroner (16), roby72 (24), alex68 (50)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 8.87

35
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
6,717 members, 80 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), ManWithAnAgenda (22), ahef1963 (27), Myyst

Score: 8.37

36
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1,801 members, 40 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), starbox (14), alex68 (16), roby72 (17)

Score: 8.29

37
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,027 members, 329 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (8), ManWithAnAgenda (16), starbox (19), Laura1124 (22)

Score: 8.14

38
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
5,436 members, 108 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (10), ManWithAnAgenda (20), ahef1963 (25), roby72 (37)

Score: 7.55

39
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,287 members, 30 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (10), hipdeep (11), fundevogel

Score: 7.49

40
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
1,638 members, 35 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), roby72 (7), alex68 (11)

Score: 7.21

41
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,405 members, 26 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: raperper (3), ahef1963 (9), ManWithAnAgenda (48)

Score: 6.87

42
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
799 members, 12 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4), ahef1963 (18), Myyst

Score: 6.71

43
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
557 members, 7 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: alex68 (9), roby72 (10), thecoroner (12)

Score: 6.71

44
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
2,010 members, 47 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: roby72 (11), alex68 (14), thecoroner (14)

Score: 6.33

45
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,082 members, 37 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), alex68 (17), thecoroner (20)

Score: 5.93

47
House of Liars
by Elsa Morante
164 members, 4 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: alex68 (8), roby72 (26), thecoroner (31)

Score: 5.85

48
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
by Thor Heyerdahl
3,378 members, 43 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (8), ahef1963 (16), alex68 (66)

Score: 5.78

49
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
795 members, 14 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: roby72 (16), alex68 (23), thecoroner (23)

Score: 5.65

50
The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,012 members, 48 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: raperper (1), alex68 (43)

Score: 5.56

51
Finn Family Moomintroll
by Tove Jansson
2,118 members, 46 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (3), merrystar (7)

Score: 5.5

52
Miracle on 34th Street
by Valentine Davies
770 members, 14 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: merrystar (17), hipdeep (20), ManWithAnAgenda (36)

Score: 5.49

53
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
1,793 members, 35 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (2), eromsted (13)

Score: 5.47

54
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
182 members, 3 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (19), alex68 (26), roby72 (28)

Score: 5.43

55
Lettere di una novizia
by Guido Piovene
26 members, 1 review
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: alex68 (18), roby72 (27), thecoroner (32)

Score: 5.38

56
Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
257 members, 11 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (3), souloftherose (9)

Score: 5.35

57
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
2,834 members, 57 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9), roby72 (38), alex68 (75)

Score: 5.28

58
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
320 members, 17 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (2), souloftherose (21)

Score: 5.23

59
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
by Vitaliano Brancati
191 members, 4 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: alex68 (25), thecoroner (28), roby72 (33)

Score: 5.2

60
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
315 members, 6 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: roby72 (23), thecoroner (34), alex68 (38)

Score: 5.09

61
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia
391 members, 11 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (22), roby72 (32), alex68 (48)

Score: 5.05

62
A View of the Harbour
by Elizabeth Taylor
471 members, 29 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (6), souloftherose (7)

Score: 5.02

63
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
1,563 members, 56 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), starbox (18)

Score: 4.98

64
A Time to Kill
by Ennio Flaiano
187 members, 4 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (33), roby72 (34), alex68 (37)

Score: 4.95

65
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
2,079 members, 62 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (29), roby72 (31), alex68 (54)

Score: 4.89

66
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,190 members, 12 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: raperper (2), ManWithAnAgenda (50)

Score: 4.87

67
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
2,773 members, 39 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), alex68 (56)

Score: 4.83

68
The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
2,076 members, 46 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: merrystar (8), souloftherose (10)

Score: 4.63

69
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
116 members, 3 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (7), souloftherose (15)

Score: 4.49

70
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
5,168 members, 91 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: alex68 (7), Myyst

Score: 4.4

71
The Reluctant Widow
by Georgette Heyer
1,433 members, 55 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: inge87 (10), merrystar (15)

Score: 4.28

72
Gigi
by Colette
306 members, 5 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: inge87 (6), alex68 (30)

Score: 4.27

73
Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
2,291 members, 18 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (10), Myyst

Score: 4.19

74
Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
854 members, 20 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: inge87 (11), Laura1124 (21)

Score: 4.07

75
Alicia
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
546 members, 9 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1)

Score: 4

76
One Fine Day
by Mollie Panter-Downes
308 members, 13 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1)

Score: 4

77
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
1,888 members, 30 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), alex68 (71)

Score: 3.93

78
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
3,543 members, 34 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: merrystar (11), ManWithAnAgenda (40)

Score: 3.79

79
The Long Winter
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
7,786 members, 80 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: merrystar (12), ManWithAnAgenda (44)

Score: 3.7

80
Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
by Thomas Mann
912 members, 17 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), alex68 (10)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 3.61

Explanations:

ManWithAnAgenda (0): Published 1933

81
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
932 members, 20 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: merrystar (13), ManWithAnAgenda (53)

Score: 3.59

82
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
3,248 members, 97 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: alex68 (40), Myyst

Score: 3.53

83
Caligula
by Albert Camus
336 members, 8 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: alex68 (86), Myyst

Score: 3.26

84
The Thief's Journal
by Jean Genet
1,301 members, 4 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), alex68 (46)

Score: 3.25

85
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
3,165 members, 105 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3)

Score: 3.04

86
The White Deer
by James Thurber
289 members, 1 review
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: fundevogel

Score: 3.04

88
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
11,080 members, 172 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (42), alex68 (63)

Score: 2.99

89
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1,380 members, 66 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: dara85 (4)

Score: 2.83

90
The Uninvited
by Dorothy Macardle
181 members, 17 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: sturlington (4)

Score: 2.83

91
Mine Boy
by Peter Abrahams
159 members, 4 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4)

Score: 2.83

92
Der Tod von Reval
by Werner Bergengruen
37 members, 2 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: inge87 (4)

Score: 2.83

93
The City and the Pillar
by Gore Vidal
122 members, 1 review
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5)

Score: 2.68

94
The Lark in the Morn
by Elfrida Vipont
98 members, 3 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: inge87 (5)

Score: 2.68

95
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
3,936 members, 90 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 2.56

96
The Gallery
by John Horne Burns
293 members, 8 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7)

Score: 2.46

97
The Stone of Chastity
by Margery Sharp
53 members, 6 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: inge87 (7)

Score: 2.46

98
Hughie
by Eugene O'Neill
37 members, 0 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7)

Score: 2.46

99
The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'Neill
1,197 members, 8 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8)

Score: 2.38

100
At Mrs Lippincote's
by Elizabeth Taylor
347 members, 21 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (8)

Score: 2.38

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