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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,555 members
586 reviews
3.9
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,537 members
599 reviews
4.1
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
68,202 members
1,018 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
44,302 members
571 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
18,542 members
277 reviews
4.1
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
38,526 members
370 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,309 members
814 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34,598 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
41,009 members
492 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,929 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,729 members
479 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,838 members
370 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
22,900 members
347 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
15,404 members
273 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
20,371 members
304 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
44,217 members
700 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,172 members
491 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,538 members
273 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
12,111 members
273 reviews
4
4 Members
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
10,189 members
128 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
17,760 members
266 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
21,624 members
358 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,918 members
577 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,166 members
325 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,463 members
296 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9,670 members
118 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
5,668 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
6,706 members
73 reviews
4
3 Members
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Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum
1,993 members
33 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
15,778 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,866 members
369 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,725 members
368 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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34
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35,979 members
531 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
22,400 members
203 reviews
4
3 Members
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
32,975 members
308 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
6,562 members
137 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,126 members
1,306 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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39
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
6,000 members
64 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [short story]
by Washington Irving
5,058 members
144 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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It's Like This, Cat
by Emily Cheney Neville
1,768 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
by Beatrix Potter
4,181 members
22 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
15,238 members
193 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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44
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
20,296 members
386 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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45
The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams
17,071 members
238 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,702 members
511 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
10,071 members
156 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Iliad
by Homer
47,763 members
448 reviews
4
2 Members
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
31,476 members
421 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
12,182 members
139 reviews
3.9
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
13,186 members
152 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
28,000 members
305 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
25,094 members
464 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
8,640 members
263 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,691 members
243 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Boxcar Children
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
11,271 members
116 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
794 members
4 reviews
4
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The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
10,967 members
91 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
13,492 members
138 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
by Beatrix Potter
3,235 members
21 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
8,703 members
328 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
16,027 members
224 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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hipdeep: The first Pooh book entered public domain in the US in 2022, but will not enter UK public domain until 2027.
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,924 members
621 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
5,465 members
112 reviews
4.2
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65
Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]
by Jonathan Swift
411 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad
5,133 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
62,377 members
813 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,466 members
337 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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69
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
12,130 members
196 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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70
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
18,401 members
232 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Daisy Miller
by Henry James
4,005 members
91 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
by Beatrix Potter
4,845 members
30 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
5,566 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley
3,391 members
55 reviews
½ 3.3
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75
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
20,434 members
198 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
30,596 members
380 reviews
½ 4.3
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77
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
by L. Frank Baum
1,424 members
40 reviews
3.9
Member
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78
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
4,530 members
79 reviews
3.8
Member
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79
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,325 members
121 reviews
3.8
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80
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
10,106 members
159 reviews
3.9
Member
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81
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,278 members
157 reviews
3.9
Member
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82
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
by Waldemar Bonsels
271 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
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83
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
3,592 members
40 reviews
4.2
Member
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84
A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain
1,304 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
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85
The Aesop for Children
by Aesop
3,481 members
22 reviews
4.2
Member
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86
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
2,005 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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87
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
29,530 members
315 reviews
4.1
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88
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
3,315 members
66 reviews
½ 3.3
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89
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
36,070 members
632 reviews
½ 4.3
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90
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
15,318 members
145 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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91
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
9,777 members
131 reviews
3.8
Member
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92
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
9,565 members
101 reviews
4.2
Member
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93
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,402 members
363 reviews
3.8
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94
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,705 members
209 reviews
3.8
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95
The Tale of Genji {complete}
by Murasaki Shikibu
6,307 members
66 reviews
3.9
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96
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
by Anna Comnena
950 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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97
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,168 members
103 reviews
½ 3.4
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98
Elmer and the Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett
2,235 members
15 reviews
4
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99
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People
by Daguan Zhou
42 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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100
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,222 members
126 reviews
3.9
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