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1

by Mary Shelley

51,070 members

811 reviews

3.8

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2

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,229 members

62 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

3

Fables of Aesop

4,259 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

4

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,387 members

201 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

5

by Beowulf Poet

29,200 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

6

27,758 members

304 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

7

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,576 members

177 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

8

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,413 members

133 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

9

16,689 members

129 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,981 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

11

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

12

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

9,083 members

196 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

13

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,999 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

14

23,095 members

345 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

15

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,566 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

16

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [poem]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,749 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

17

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

898 members

8 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

18

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

462 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

19

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

127 members

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

20

1,865 members

21 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

21

The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)

572 members

2 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

22

The Lady of Shalott

by Alfred Tennyson

589 members

3 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

23

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,856 members

12 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

24

A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings

by Charles Dickens

1,623 members

23 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

25

by Charlotte Brontë

67,868 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,964 members

809 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

27

1,692 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

28

The Communist Manifesto

18,038 members

163 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

29

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,725 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

30

by Charles Dickens

15,340 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

31

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,913 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

32

by Herman Melville

41,650 members

618 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

33

11,504 members

97 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

34

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [short story]

by Washington Irving

5,032 members

144 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

35

The Holy Bible: King James Version

by King James Version

16,173 members

210 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

36

7,567 members

84 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

37

The Republic of Plato

25,534 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

38

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,517 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

39

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,436 members

206 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

40

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

by Jonathan Swift

1,482 members

20 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

41

The Constitution of the United States

by Founding Fathers

505 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

42

Perrault's Fairy Tales (Dover)

by Charles Perrault

357 members

5 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

43

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,810 members

532 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

44

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

18,685 members

197 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

45

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,376 members

222 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

46

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,569 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

47

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,822 members

303 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

48

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

9,945 members

97 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

49

47,510 members

446 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

50

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

1,381 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

51

by Charles Dickens

28,380 members

273 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

52

62,407 members

521 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

53

Selected Poems of Lord Byron

277 members

½ 4.6

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

54

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,112 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

55

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2,449 members

31 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

56

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

3,437 members

122 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

57

Prometheus Bound

1,630 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

58

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens

11,723 members

87 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

59

Medea [in Translation]

3,416 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

60

by Aristophanes

3,216 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

61

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,941 members

69 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

62

Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)

151 members

½ 3.5

Member: alexandria2021

63

The Nicomachean Ethics

11,812 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

64

5,887 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

65

The Poems of Catullus

3,251 members

37 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

66

The Aeneid (translations)

26,720 members

229 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

67

Metamorphoses [in translation]

15,319 members

113 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

68

Plutarch's Lives

2,995 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

69

The Twelve Caesars

7,441 members

83 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

70

The Arabian Nights {unspecified}

761 members

12 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

71

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,426 members

132 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

72

The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

2,108 members

18 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: alexandria2021

73

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

8,071 members

57 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

74

by Niccolò Machiavelli

2,273 members

13 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

75

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,355 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

76

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays

by Christopher Marlowe

1,831 members

11 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

77

by Baruch Spinoza

3,559 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

78

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4,375 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

79

History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,644 members

42 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

1,506 members

9 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

81

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

7,205 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

82

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

11,682 members

76 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

83

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

7,559 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

84

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

7,342 members

106 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

85

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,809 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

86

by Walter Scott

15,008 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

87

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

15,294 members

145 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alexandria2021

88

The Red and the Black

10,754 members

144 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

89

by Alexander Pushkin

5,172 members

74 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

90

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

1,862 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

91

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,403 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

92

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

3,472 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

93

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

7,803 members

111 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

94

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

4,221 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,259 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

96

by Nikolai Gogol

10,527 members

136 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

97

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,726 members

493 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

98

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

11,062 members

133 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

99

The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte of Bragelonne Ten Years Later Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask (The Complete d'Artagnan Romances): Completed Second Edition

by Alexandre Dumas

13 members

Member: alexandria2021

100

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,588 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

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