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Rank Title Author Added

1

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

41,188 members

694 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

2

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,811 members

50 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

3

The Complete Fables

3,509 members

49 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

4

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,404 members

190 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

5

by Beowulf poet

24,722 members

326 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

6

22,703 members

243 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

7

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

30,929 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

8

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,659 members

119 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

9

13,484 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,107 members

316 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

11

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,126 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

12

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,304 members

162 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

13

by Henry Fielding

7,982 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

14

20,109 members

304 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

15

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,531 members

110 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

16

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,350 members

33 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

17

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

814 members

8 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

18

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

341 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

19

Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

116 members

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

20

1,594 members

20 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

21

The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)

532 members

2 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

22

The Lady of Shalott

by Alfred Tennyson

523 members

5 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

23

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,458 members

11 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

24

A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings

by Charles Dickens

1,217 members

19 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

25

by Charlotte Brontë

57,418 members

902 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,413 members

679 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

27

1,384 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

28

The Communist Manifesto

14,598 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

29

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,654 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

30

by Charles Dickens

13,396 members

242 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

31

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,417 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

32

by Herman Melville

34,521 members

527 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

33

9,701 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

34

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

3,990 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

35

Holy Bible: King James Version

500 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

36

6,347 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

37

21,339 members

138 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

38

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,690 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

39

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,700 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

40

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

by Jonathan Swift

1,320 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

41

Constitution of the United States {Barnes and Noble Study Edition}

by Founding Fathers

1,504 members

16 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

42

Perrault's Fairy Tales (Dover Children's Classics)

by Charles Perrault

281 members

4 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

43

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,793 members

433 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

44

by Marcus Aurelius

13,745 members

138 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

45

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,117 members

181 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

46

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,693 members

46 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

47

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,013 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

48

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,492 members

87 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

49

38,702 members

373 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

50

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

1,196 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

51

by Charles Dickens

23,474 members

229 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

52

51,452 members

456 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

53

Selected Poems of Lord Byron

239 members

½ 4.6

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

54

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,160 members

263 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

55

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2,133 members

24 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

56

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,782 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

57

Prometheus Bound

1,208 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

58

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

9,997 members

66 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

59

Medea [in Translation]

2,834 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

60

by Aristophanes

2,863 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

61

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,691 members

57 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

62

Electra [3 plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides]

675 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

63

Nicomachean Ethics

9,824 members

56 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

64

4,946 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

65

The Poems of Catullus

2,842 members

31 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

66

22,329 members

196 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

67

Metamorphoses [in translation]

12,836 members

99 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

68

Plutarch's Lives

2,405 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

69

History of the Twelve Caesars

6,348 members

74 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

70

The Arabian Nights

713 members

13 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

71

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,779 members

120 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

72

The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

1,915 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: alexandria2021

73

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

6,929 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

74

by Niccolò Machiavelli

1,866 members

9 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

75

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

4,951 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

76

The Complete Plays

by Christopher Marlowe

1,641 members

11 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

77

by Baruch Spinoza

2,835 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

78

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

3,755 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

79

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,159 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

80

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)

by Thomas Paine

1,305 members

9 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

81

The Wealth of Nations

5,958 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

82

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

9,679 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

83

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,383 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

84

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,347 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

85

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,945 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

86

by Sir Walter Scott

12,643 members

120 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

87

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,763 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alexandria2021

88

The Red and the Black

9,310 members

132 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

89

by Alexander Pushkin

4,380 members

66 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

90

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

1,581 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

91

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,840 members

127 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

92

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

2,982 members

24 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

93

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,765 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

94

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,669 members

57 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,593 members

31 reviews

4.2

Member: alexandria2021

96

by Nikolai Gogol

8,977 members

115 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

97

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

24,681 members

419 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

98

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

8,971 members

116 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

99

The D'Artagnan Romances - Complete Series (All 6 Books in One Edition): The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years ... de la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas

1 member

Member: alexandria2021

100

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,483 members

187 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

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