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1

The Epic of Gilgamesh

9,210 members

113 reviews

3.8

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2

36,209 members

357 reviews

4

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3

48,227 members

430 reviews

4

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4

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,251 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

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5

The Complete Fables

6,295 members

79 reviews

3.8

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6

20,980 members

226 reviews

3.8

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7

Prometheus Bound

1,130 members

18 reviews

3.9

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8

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

9,469 members

66 reviews

4

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9

9,250 members

79 reviews

4.1

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10

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,084 members

49 reviews

4

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11

Medea [in Translation]

2,679 members

43 reviews

3.8

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12

by Aristophanes

2,760 members

36 reviews

3.8

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13

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,212 members

56 reviews

4

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14

Electra [3 plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides]

638 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

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15

6,056 members

67 reviews

4

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16

1,291 members

19 reviews

4

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17

20,175 members

131 reviews

3.9

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18

Nicomachean Ethics

9,287 members

53 reviews

3.9

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19

4,590 members

48 reviews

3.8

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20

The Poems of Catullus

2,718 members

30 reviews

4

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21

20,990 members

184 reviews

3.9

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22

Metamorphoses [in translation]

12,070 members

90 reviews

4.1

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23

Plutarch's Lives

2,246 members

29 reviews

4.1

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24

History of the Twelve Caesars

5,999 members

69 reviews

4

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25

by Marcus Aurelius

12,509 members

128 reviews

4.1

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26

The Arabian Nights

666 members

11 reviews

4

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27

by Seamus Heaney

23,346 members

318 reviews

3.8

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28

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

19,661 members

175 reviews

4.1

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29

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,292 members

113 reviews

4

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30

The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

1,830 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

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31

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

6,590 members

51 reviews

3.9

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32

by Niccolò Machiavelli

1,737 members

10 reviews

4

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33

by Niccolò Machiavelli

21,729 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

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34

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

4,726 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

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35

The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,390 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

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36

The Complete Plays

by Christopher Marlowe

1,570 members

11 reviews

4

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37

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28,134 members

404 reviews

4.1

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38

The Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV)

8,586 members

129 reviews

4

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39

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

29,666 members

165 reviews

½ 4.6

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40

12,614 members

102 reviews

4

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41

by Benedictus de Spinoza

2,711 members

35 reviews

4.1

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42

Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales

by Charles Perrault

1,347 members

19 reviews

3.9

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43

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

22,651 members

302 reviews

½ 3.6

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44

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,019 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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45

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

by Jonathan Swift

1,270 members

19 reviews

4

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46

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

3,544 members

24 reviews

4

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47

by Henry Fielding

7,628 members

88 reviews

3.9

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48

19,225 members

289 reviews

3.8

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49

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,288 members

108 reviews

3.9

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50

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

2,990 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

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51

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

by Thomas Paine

1,224 members

10 reviews

4

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52

The Wealth of Nations

5,613 members

43 reviews

3.9

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53

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

9,060 members

58 reviews

4.1

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54

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,005 members

41 reviews

3.9

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55

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,064 members

82 reviews

4.1

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56

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

by Founding Fathers

1,406 members

16 reviews

½ 4.5

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57

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,257 members

32 reviews

4

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58

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,758 members

37 reviews

3.9

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59

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

805 members

8 reviews

4.2

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60

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,279 members

87 reviews

½ 3.5

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61

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

321 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

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62

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

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

114 members

3.8

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63

by Mary Shelley

38,401 members

660 reviews

3.8

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64

1,517 members

19 reviews

3.9

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65

by Sir Walter Scott

11,918 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

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66

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

3,708 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

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67

The Poetical Works of John Keats

3,373 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

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68

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

1,125 members

16 reviews

4.2

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69

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

11,998 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

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70

The Red and the Black

8,850 members

118 reviews

3.9

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71

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

13,121 members

170 reviews

3.9

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72

by Alexander Pushkin

4,191 members

63 reviews

4.1

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73

The Lady of Shalott

by Alfred Tennyson

490 members

5 reviews

4.1

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74

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,325 members

9 reviews

4.1

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75

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

1,528 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

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76

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,416 members

119 reviews

3.9

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77

by Charles Dickens

22,076 members

215 reviews

3.8

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78

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

2,822 members

25 reviews

4.1

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79

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,462 members

88 reviews

3.9

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80

A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov

3,519 members

56 reviews

3.9

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81

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,264 members

30 reviews

4.2

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82

by Nikolai Gogol

8,591 members

115 reviews

3.9

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83

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

1,126 members

19 reviews

4.1

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84

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas père

23,289 members

396 reviews

½ 4.3

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85

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

8,409 members

116 reviews

4

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86

by Charlotte Brontë

54,467 members

867 reviews

4.2

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87

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

47,206 members

645 reviews

3.9

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88

by William Makepeace Thackeray

13,815 members

188 reviews

3.9

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89

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

6,843 members

159 reviews

3.9

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90

Selected Poems of Lord Byron

231 members

½ 4.6

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91

The Communist Manifesto

13,886 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

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92

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,406 members

247 reviews

4.1

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93

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

11,053 members

73 reviews

½ 4.4

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94

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2,020 members

21 reviews

4.2

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95

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

33,805 members

349 reviews

½ 3.4

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96

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

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97

by Herman Melville

32,475 members

506 reviews

3.8

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98

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

15,502 members

184 reviews

3.8

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99

by Charles Dickens

12,807 members

236 reviews

4.2

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100

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,627 members

92 reviews

3.9

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