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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,979 members

518 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by George Eliot

4,212 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Eliot

17,720 members

330 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

37,974 members

505 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,987 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Henry Fielding

8,123 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Pride and Prejudice

80,638 members

1,369 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,759 members

171 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

39,958 members

386 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,892 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,562 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,157 members

492 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Voglerr

13

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,796 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Henrik Ibsen

5,376 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

53,074 members

474 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

16

13,912 members

112 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,528 members

449 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,212 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

10,075 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, RyanClark

20

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,289 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,629 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,389 members

34 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Gustave Flaubert

26,227 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

24

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,678 members

276 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

25

by Charles Dickens

10,569 members

133 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

26

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,667 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth

1,138 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

1,631 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

19,704 members

227 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

20,552 members

307 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,747 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: hipdeep: But only for Inferno.

32

2,075 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text

by The Jewish Publication Society of America

2,443 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RyanClark

34

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,214 members

68 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

35

6,515 members

70 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

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

2,425 members

13 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

37

by Herman Melville

35,562 members

541 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,153 members

51 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

39

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

2,203 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

40

Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis

2,027 members

4 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

41

38,476 members

628 reviews

4.1

Member: NinieB

42

The Red and the Black

9,499 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

43

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,056 members

130 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

44

5,746 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

45

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,423 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

46

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

2,551 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Electra and Other Plays

160 members

1 review

3.9

Member: RyanClark

48

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus

53 members

1 review

4.8

Member: hipdeep

49

2,911 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

50

by George Bernard Shaw

1,170 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

51

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by James Boswell

1,468 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

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

by R. B. Bernstein

722 members

9 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

53

Nicomachean Ethics

10,102 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,799 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

5,075 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

56

19,898 members

237 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

416 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

58

2,474 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

59

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

678 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Francis Bacon

432 members

15 reviews

3

Member: hipdeep

61

Metaphysics, books 1-9

158 members

3.9

Member: hipdeep

62

24,077 members

378 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

63

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,508 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Communist Manifesto

15,091 members

137 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

65

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,087 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,039 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,961 members

82 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

The Song of Roland

5,397 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

11,836 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by George Bernard Shaw

6,736 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

14,713 members

152 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,326 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Henry David Thoreau

14,131 members

191 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by George Bernard Shaw

2,297 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

75

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,355 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,412 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

21,934 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

28,857 members

458 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Thomas Hobbes

8,243 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,497 members

330 reviews

½ 4.4

81

by Saint Augustine

22,434 members

157 reviews

3.9

82

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,228 members

162 reviews

4.1

83

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,361 members

108 reviews

3.9

84

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,199 members

102 reviews

4.1

85

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

9,993 members

67 reviews

4.1

86

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche

9,991 members

77 reviews

3.8

87

The Magic Mountain

9,603 members

175 reviews

4.2

88

8,328 members

93 reviews

3.9

89

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,876 members

59 reviews

4

90

Institutes of the Christian Religion

7,358 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

91

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,578 members

44 reviews

3.9

92

by Saint Augustine

6,200 members

33 reviews

3.9

93

The Wealth of Nations

6,102 members

45 reviews

3.9

94

by Honoré de Balzac

5,977 members

109 reviews

3.8

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,761 members

34 reviews

4.2

96

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,677 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

97

by John Stuart Mill

5,545 members

40 reviews

3.9

98

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

5,273 members

46 reviews

3.8

99

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,193 members

36 reviews

3.9

100

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,933 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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