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Description: A List of Works from the book by Susan Wise-Bauer. I Give Credit to "CAROLFOASIA"- who first compiled this list. I merely, wanted it where I could find it easily. There may be errors on both our parts.

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974 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Beowulf Poet

29,391 members

363 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

3

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

9,249 members

107 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,101 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,074 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

6

Pride and Prejudice

94,355 members

1,513 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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7,625 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

8

by Virginia Woolf

23,337 members

378 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

9

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

10,083 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charlotte Brontë

68,179 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

11

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,391 members

203 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

37,453 members

337 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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16,778 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Thornton Wilder

5,917 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

15

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

664 members

13 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

16

The Portrait of a Lady

12,180 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

17

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,121 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

18

The Pilgrim's Progress

20,425 members

197 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,452 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

20

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,575 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,698 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,915 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

23

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

4,005 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Henrik Ibsen

6,206 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

25

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,551 members

586 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Importance of Being Earnest

12,125 members

196 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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13,726 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Christopher Marlowe

5,684 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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11,561 members

98 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Gilgamesh - Tome 01: Les Frères ennemis

10 members

3

Member: EGBERTINA
Explanations: EGBERTINA: the original list that i have used as my template- cited this version. i wonder, however if any translation of Gilgamesh would not suffice

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The Republic of Plato

25,639 members

164 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

7,055 members

99 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Dante Alighieri

27,749 members

229 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

34

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,607 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

35

The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

1,063 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

36

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,072 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,994 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

38

by Herman Melville

41,904 members

621 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,963 members

531 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Albert Camus

40,970 members

583 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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14,284 members

314 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

42

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,174 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

43

Wordsworth (Laurel Poetry Series)

by William Wordsworth

74 members

3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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47,742 members

448 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

535 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,608 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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22,933 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

48

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary Rowlandson

537 members

13 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

49

14 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein

5,282 members

80 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The poems of Tennyson

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1,314 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,245 members

114 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charles Dickens

28,528 members

273 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Communist Manifesto

18,182 members

163 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Two Treatises of Government

2,823 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Gustave Flaubert

29,897 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath

3 members

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,161 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Thomas Paine

6,077 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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62,881 members

526 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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William Blake: The Complete Poems

by William Blake

1,506 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

62

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,488 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,667 members

189 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

by Langston Hughes

1,650 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,896 members

577 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,310 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

67

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,782 members

214 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Poems of Auden

1 member

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by George Bernard Shaw

2,562 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

70

by Richmond Lattimore

540 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

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Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose [Norton Critical Edition]

by William Butler Yeats

299 members

2 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Richard Wright

8,775 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,076 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Murder in the Cathedral

3,528 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

75

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,840 members

104 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,907 members

43 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

77

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,538 members

1,452 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

78

Medea [in Translation]

3,434 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,979 members

70 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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5,907 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Odes of Horace

968 members

7 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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Plutarch’s Lives

273 members

Member: EGBERTINA

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Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,766 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

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by Saint Augustine

7,139 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

85

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by Teresa de Ávila

2,153 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

86

Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

4,370 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

87

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

1,755 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

88

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition]

3,322 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

89

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

2,919 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: EGBERTINA

90

The Way of the World

by William Congreve

724 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: EGBERTINA

91

History of England (6 volumes)

301 members

1 review

4.1

Member: EGBERTINA

92

33,689 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,580 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

94

History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,665 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

8,325 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

654 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Walt Whitman

1,633 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: EGBERTINA

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,260 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

6,074 members

41 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

100

Rossetti: Poems

by Christina Rossetti

293 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

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