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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,882 members

518 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by George Eliot

4,202 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Eliot

17,703 members

330 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

37,891 members

505 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,955 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Henry Fielding

8,114 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Pride and Prejudice

80,477 members

1,365 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,705 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

39,861 members

386 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,808 members

321 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,481 members

371 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,094 members

492 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Voglerr

13

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,747 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Henrik Ibsen

5,365 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

52,953 members

472 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, RyanClark

16

13,871 members

112 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,459 members

449 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,195 members

215 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

10,067 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, RyanClark

20

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,286 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,584 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,384 members

34 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Gustave Flaubert

26,170 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

24

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,648 members

273 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

25

by Charles Dickens

10,527 members

131 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

26

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,657 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth

1,135 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

1,629 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

19,661 members

225 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

20,518 members

306 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,714 members

188 reviews

4.1

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

32

2,071 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

2,439 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RyanClark

34

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,193 members

68 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

35

6,502 members

70 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

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

2,419 members

13 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

37

by Herman Melville

35,500 members

540 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,175 members

51 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

39

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

2,198 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

40

Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis

2,022 members

4 reviews

4

Member: RyanClark

41

38,391 members

622 reviews

4.1

Member: NinieB

42

The Red and the Black

9,484 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

43

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,044 members

128 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

44

5,740 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

45

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,420 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

158 members

1 review

3.9

Member: RyanClark

48

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus

53 members

1 review

4.8

Member: hipdeep

49

2,900 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

50

by George Bernard Shaw

1,167 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

51

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by James Boswell

1,467 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

720 members

9 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

53

Nicomachean Ethics

10,077 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,787 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

5,067 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

56

19,872 members

237 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

415 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

58

2,466 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

59

The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

677 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Francis Bacon

431 members

15 reviews

3

Member: hipdeep

61

Metaphysics, books 1-9

158 members

3.9

Member: hipdeep

62

24,069 members

376 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

63

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,505 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Communist Manifesto

15,062 members

137 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

65

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,083 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,037 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,948 members

82 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

The Song of Roland

5,386 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

11,817 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by George Bernard Shaw

6,726 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

by Marcus Aurelius

14,377 members

147 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,307 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Henry David Thoreau

14,096 members

189 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by George Bernard Shaw

2,289 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

75

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,320 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,401 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

21,897 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

28,734 members

455 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Thomas Hobbes

8,225 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,431 members

327 reviews

½ 4.4

81

by Saint Augustine

22,360 members

157 reviews

3.9

82

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,194 members

162 reviews

4.1

83

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,338 members

108 reviews

3.9

84

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,164 members

102 reviews

4.1

85

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

by Friedrich Nietzsche

9,973 members

77 reviews

3.8

86

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

9,968 members

67 reviews

4.1

87

The Magic Mountain

9,588 members

175 reviews

4.2

88

8,312 members

93 reviews

3.9

89

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,868 members

59 reviews

4

90

Institutes of the Christian Religion

7,334 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

91

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,555 members

44 reviews

3.9

92

by Saint Augustine

6,189 members

33 reviews

3.9

93

The Wealth of Nations

6,093 members

45 reviews

3.9

94

by Honoré de Balzac

5,973 members

109 reviews

3.8

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,738 members

33 reviews

4.2

96

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,664 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

97

by John Stuart Mill

5,531 members

40 reviews

3.9

98

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

5,259 members

46 reviews

3.8

99

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,182 members

36 reviews

3.9

100

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,924 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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