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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,601 members

509 reviews

3.9

8 Members: waitingtoderail, hipdeep, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

by Charlotte Brontë

56,836 members

892 reviews

4.2

7 Members: Cecrow, SylviaC, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,473 members

502 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

36,541 members

495 reviews

4.1

6 Members: cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,997 members

244 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cpg, eclecticdodo, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

31,554 members

319 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Mary Shelley

40,752 members

695 reviews

3.8

5 Members: waitingtoderail, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,382 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, steller0707

9

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

20,787 members

408 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, eclecticdodo, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,461 members

425 reviews

3.8

5 Members: eclecticdodo, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,243 members

359 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

12

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories {Tantor AudioBook}

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

268 members

12 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Dilara86, eclecticdodo, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

by George Eliot

17,104 members

324 reviews

4.2

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

14

The Call of the Wild

19,182 members

310 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

15

by Charles Dickens

13,328 members

243 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Around the World in Eighty Days

16,277 members

257 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,332 members

438 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

18

by Charles Dickens

23,211 members

226 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

19

by Wilkie Collins

10,463 members

246 reviews

4

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,132 members

220 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The War of the Worlds

17,598 members

300 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Cecrow, eclecticdodo

22

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,432 members

477 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,948 members

259 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

24

The Turn of the Screw

7,788 members

241 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,353 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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by William Shakespeare

13,263 members

169 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,749 members

325 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,652 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,505 members

428 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,000 members

170 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,435 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,773 members

120 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

4,903 members

55 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, eclecticdodo

34

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

3,914 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

35

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

by Beatrix Potter

3,297 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

36

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

11,660 members

175 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

The Time Machine

17,008 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

38

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

13,418 members

224 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

39

27,669 members

427 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Carlo Collodi

7,785 members

146 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

41

38,050 members

372 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1

42

by Hermann Hesse

27,018 members

371 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027

43

The Portrait of a Lady

10,574 members

126 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

11,171 members

130 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

45

Northanger Abbey

20,861 members

405 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

46

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

7,264 members

239 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

47

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,777 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Edith Wharton

9,257 members

209 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

49

by Joseph Conrad

8,745 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

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37,137 members

607 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

51

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8,481 members

95 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

2,383 members

20 reviews

4

Member: waitingtoderail

53

The Prince and the Pauper

8,976 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027

54

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,738 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

55

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

by Beatrix Potter

2,650 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

56

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,460 members

285 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

57

by Herman Melville

34,067 members

519 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,782 members

104 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

4,529 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,695 members

671 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

62

by William Shakespeare

31,501 members

287 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

63

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,474 members

176 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,145 members

209 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

65

3,529 members

80 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

by Beatrix Potter

3,711 members

28 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4,629 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: eclecticdodo

68

The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley

2,800 members

42 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: eclecticdodo

69

The Pilgrim's Progress

18,123 members

158 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

5,202 members

58 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Les Misérables

25,267 members

327 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

72

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,602 members

1,133 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Sinclair Lewis

3,987 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

74

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

1,183 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

75

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,661 members

106 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

76

by Charlotte Brontë

8,491 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

Sailing Alone around the World

by Joshua Slocum

1,672 members

30 reviews

4

Member: Cecrow

78

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,935 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

79

The Adventures of Maya the Bee

by Waldemar Bonsels

223 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

80

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

2,854 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

81

1,119 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: Cecrow

82

The Aesop for Children

2,718 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

83

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

1,307 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

84

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

24,501 members

288 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

85

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

2,811 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

28,156 members

535 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

87

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,623 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

88

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,424 members

118 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

7,879 members

94 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

90

by Beowulf poet

24,455 members

330 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,323 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

92

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,316 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by Sinclair Lewis

4,921 members

94 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

94

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Anna Comnena

790 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1,781 members

87 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: cej1027

96

Elmer and the Dragon

by Ruth Stiles Gannett

1,750 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

97

A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People

31 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,124 members

110 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

It's Like This, Cat

by Emily Cheney Neville

1,528 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

100

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Padraic Colum

1,399 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

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