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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,608 members

587 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

2

Pride and Prejudice

94,513 members

1,513 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

3

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,978 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

6 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

4

by George Eliot

4,850 members

78 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

52,017 members

578 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, drakeg, Voglerr, JakobHobbs

6

47,852 members

449 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, RyanClark, JakobHobbs

7

by George Eliot

20,877 members

371 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

44,372 members

571 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Henrik Ibsen

6,219 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,109 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,544 members

53 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

12

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,040 members

104 reviews

3.9

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,739 members

179 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

23,222 members

344 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

15

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,167 members

364 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mkmcgraw, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

63,071 members

532 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark, JakobHobbs

17

16,818 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda

18

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

11,773 members

87 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mkmcgraw, RyanClark

19

by Niccolò Machiavelli

28,032 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

20

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [poem]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,771 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by God

3,205 members

64 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, drakeg, JakobHobbs

22

The Communist Manifesto

18,087 members

164 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, drakeg, JakobHobbs

23

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,565 members

223 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: hipdeep: But only for Inferno.

24

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,111 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

7,620 members

85 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

26

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36,018 members

533 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,603 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

11,589 members

98 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, RyanClark

29

by Herman Melville

41,996 members

622 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

30

44,264 members

700 reviews

4.1

2 Members: NinieB, JakobHobbs

31

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

2,877 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Gustave Flaubert

29,958 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

33

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,205 members

326 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

34

by Charles Dickens

12,027 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,582 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

5,924 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, drakeg

37

Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth

1,301 members

13 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

1,874 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

1,719 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: drakeg, ManWithAnAgenda

40

22,200 members

265 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

18,958 members

199 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

42

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

16,677 members

133 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

43

The Republic of Plato

25,698 members

165 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

44

33,752 members

512 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, JakobHobbs

45

2,301 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

Tanakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text

by Jewish Publication Society of America

2,844 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RyanClark

47

The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants

2,880 members

16 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

48

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,323 members

62 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

49

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

2,549 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

50

Sophocles Plays 2 : Ajax + Women of Trachis + Electra + Philoctetes

1,510 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: RyanClark

51

The Red and the Black

10,831 members

144 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

52

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,410 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

53

Aristotle's Politics

6,849 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

54

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,951 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

55

Electra and Other Plays

186 members

1 review

3.9

Member: RyanClark

56

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition]

3,328 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

57

by George Bernard Shaw

1,296 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

58

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by James Boswell

1,613 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

by R. B. Bernstein

755 members

8 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

60

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

7,265 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: drakeg

61

The Way of the World

by William Congreve

725 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: drakeg

62

The Nicomachean Ethics

11,905 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

63

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,615 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

by George Berkeley

953 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: drakeg

65

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,266 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: drakeg

66

22,985 members

271 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,301 members

23 reviews

4

Member: drakeg

68

953 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: JakobHobbs

69

2,944 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

70

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

by Laurence Sterne

1,976 members

30 reviews

3.2

Member: drakeg

71

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,773 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: drakeg

72

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

745 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Francis Bacon

528 members

22 reviews

3

Member: hipdeep

74

by Baruch Spinoza

3,596 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: drakeg

75

Metaphysics, books 1-9

157 members

3.9

Member: hipdeep

76

27,531 members

378 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

77

On the Genealogy of Morality

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,803 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: drakeg

78

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,381 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: drakeg

79

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,473 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

35 members

3.8

Member: drakeg

81

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,367 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

An essay on criticism

by Alexander Pope

104 members

5 reviews

4

Member: drakeg

83

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,545 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

84

The Song of Roland

6,237 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

An essay on man

by Alexander Pope

192 members

5 reviews

3

Member: drakeg

86

13,759 members

136 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by George Bernard Shaw

7,739 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

88

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

235 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: drakeg

89

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

6,295 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

90

Discourse on Metaphysics

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

243 members

3 reviews

4

Member: drakeg

91

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,285 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

by George Bernard Shaw

2,564 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

93

Lives of the English poets

by Samuel Johnson

323 members

6 reviews

4

Member: drakeg

94

by William Wordsworth

406 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: drakeg

95

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,168 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

A Tale of A Tub

by Jonathan Swift

616 members

13 reviews

3.2

Member: drakeg

97

The Mysterious Stranger; or, The Chronicle of Young Satan

693 members

27 reviews

4

Member: drakeg

98

by Thomas Hobbes

9,884 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,645 members

398 reviews

½ 4.4

100

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

19,037 members

198 reviews

4.1

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