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1

by Charlotte Brontë

10,101 members

159 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Richard Adams

28,007 members

517 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,525 members

586 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Herman Melville

41,867 members

620 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,228 members

593 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Charles Dickens

15,388 members

273 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by George Eliot

20,817 members

369 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

8

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,630 members

302 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,943 members

532 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,826 members

141 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,221 members

527 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Octavia E. Butler

10,754 members

410 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

11,608 members

318 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,235 members

521 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Mary Shelley

51,249 members

814 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,999 members

690 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Charlotte Brontë

68,144 members

1,019 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Sense and Sensibility

44,210 members

578 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

19

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,558 members

162 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

20

14,276 members

314 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Pride and Prejudice

94,312 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,587 members

374 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Once and Future King

17,374 members

225 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,994 members

272 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

25

44,258 members

571 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,559 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers

3,121 members

72 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by E. M. Forster

9,678 members

144 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,640 members

371 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,602 members

138 reviews

4

Member: aprille

31

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,102 members

362 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

32

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,120 members

133 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

33

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

2,064 members

81 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

34

3,029 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

35

by Jhumpa Lahiri

13,454 members

343 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

36

Sing, Unburied, Sing

5,007 members

212 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

37

by Theodore Dreiser

4,392 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

38

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,382 members

389 reviews

4

Member: aprille

39

by Mary Doria Russell

8,541 members

438 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

40

by Maggie O'Farrell

6,949 members

310 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

41

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

9,518 members

389 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

42

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

9,710 members

250 reviews

4

Member: aprille

43

The Lymond Chronicles: Books 1-6

by Dorothy Dunnett

20 members

5

Member: aprille

44

by David Mitchell

19,680 members

717 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

45

1,384 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

46

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,772 members

214 reviews

4

Member: aprille

47

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Earle Stegner

4,745 members

158 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

48

by Richard Powers

7,614 members

296 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

49

6,142 members

226 reviews

4

Member: aprille

50

by Ralph Ellison

18,442 members

232 reviews

4

Member: aprille

51

by Penelope Fitzgerald

3,216 members

161 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

52

A Gentleman in Moscow

12,200 members

605 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

53

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

3,778 members

156 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

54

by Marilynne Robinson

13,475 members

418 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

55

by Marilynne Robinson

3,020 members

124 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

56

Once Upon a River

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

813 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

57

The Name of the Rose

21,788 members

336 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,148 members

325 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

59

10,133 members

235 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

60

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,114 members

660 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

61

by Naguib Mahfouz

3,082 members

65 reviews

4

Member: aprille

62

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

6,184 members

128 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

63

Charlotte's Web

41,601 members

1,070 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

64

Mars Trilogy: Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

105 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aprille

65

2,497 members

137 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

66

The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage

by W. G. Sebald

3,887 members

89 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

67

The Space Between Us

by Thrity Umrigar

2,681 members

115 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

68

American Pastoral

8,864 members

188 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

69

The Untouchable

by John Banville

1,719 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

70

by Louise Erdrich

1,933 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

71

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,428 members

429 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

72

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

4,551 members

321 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

73

by Willa Cather

15,267 members

311 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

74

Master & Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

10,376 members

240 reviews

4

Member: aprille

75

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,932 members

306 reviews

4

Member: aprille

76

by Margaret Atwood

9,828 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

77

by Harriette Arnow

816 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

78

by George Eliot

4,199 members

61 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

79

The Commitments

1,489 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

80

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,321 members

284 reviews

4

Member: aprille

81

Oscar and Lucinda

4,502 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

82

by Carol Shields

3,241 members

97 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

83

The Fortnight in September

by R. C. Sherriff

646 members

25 reviews

4

Member: aprille

84

by Douglas Stuart

3,772 members

159 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

85

by Susanna Clarke

9,484 members

406 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

86

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,125 members

441 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

87

737 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

88

Salvage the Bones

3,596 members

181 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

89

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,380 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

90

The Radetzky March

3,333 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

91

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

9,675 members

339 reviews

4

Member: aprille

92

The Book of Form and Emptiness

1,537 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

93

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

1,590 members

49 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

94

Terminal Innocence

by Klaus Rifbjerg

104 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

95

by Sarah Waters

8,688 members

312 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

96

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

7,565 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

97

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

20,343 members

499 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

98

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,622 members

246 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

99

by Cormac McCarthy

39,018 members

1,513 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

100

35,011 members

967 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille,ManWithAnAgenda

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