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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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751 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Beowulf poet

24,745 members

327 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

8,310 members

100 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

70,386 members

1,139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,505 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

6

Pride and Prejudice

78,414 members

1,346 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

7

6,459 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Virginia Woolf

20,084 members

323 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

9

by William Shakespeare

8,441 members

66 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charlotte Brontë

57,455 members

902 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

11

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,235 members

174 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

31,900 members

286 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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13,489 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

14

by Thornton Wilder

4,916 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

566 members

12 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

16

The Portrait of a Lady

10,620 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

17

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,270 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Pilgrim's Progress

18,372 members

162 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,057 members

374 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

20

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

3,963 members

37 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

21

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

3,886 members

30 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

22

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,682 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

23

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

3,334 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Henrik Ibsen

5,318 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

25

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,051 members

512 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Importance of Being Earnest

10,556 members

177 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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11,554 members

113 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

28

by Christopher Marlowe

4,967 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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9,708 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

30

Gilgamesh - Tome 01: Les Frères ennemis

6 members

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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21,354 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

6,021 members

86 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Dante Alighieri

23,411 members

207 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

34

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,340 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

35

The Complete English Poems

1,708 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

36

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,985 members

116 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

37

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,029 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

38

by Herman Melville

34,551 members

527 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,820 members

433 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Albert Camus

34,706 members

490 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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12,731 members

285 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

42

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,026 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

43

Wordsworth (Laurel Poetry Series)

by William Wordsworth

60 members

3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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38,732 members

373 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

491 members

4 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

46

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,696 members

46 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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19,516 members

234 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

48

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

by Mary Rowlandson

476 members

13 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

49

10 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

50

All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward

4,581 members

72 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

51

Poems of Tennyson

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1,128 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,784 members

92 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charles Dickens

23,507 members

229 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Communist Manifesto

14,606 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Two Treatises of Government

2,447 members

17 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Gustave Flaubert

25,735 members

382 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

57

The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath

2 members

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

58

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,275 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Thomas Paine

5,022 members

58 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

60

The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

by William Blake

1,276 members

7 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

61

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,865 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

62

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,678 members

157 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

63

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,397 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

64

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,990 members

481 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

65

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,876 members

115 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

66

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,508 members

197 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

67

The Poems of Auden

1 member

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

68

by George Bernard Shaw

2,249 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

69

by Richmond Lattimore

476 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

274 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Richard Wright

7,549 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

72

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,610 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

73

Murder in the Cathedral

3,029 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

74

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,854 members

90 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

75

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,417 members

36 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by George Orwell

79,959 members

1,246 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

77

Medea [in Translation]

2,840 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

78

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,697 members

57 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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4,950 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

80

The Odes of Horace

843 members

6 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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Plutarch’s Lives

276 members

Member: EGBERTINA

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by Saint Augustine

21,768 members

150 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

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by Saint Augustine

6,024 members

33 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

84

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by Teresa de Ávila

1,726 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

85

Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

3,810 members

27 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: EGBERTINA

86

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

1,448 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

87

2,829 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: EGBERTINA

88

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

2,502 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: EGBERTINA

89

The Way of the World

by William Congreve

628 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: EGBERTINA

90

History of England (6 volumes)

300 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

91

27,985 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,075 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: EGBERTINA

93

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,165 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,143 members

109 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

95

Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

578 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Walt Whitman

1,322 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: EGBERTINA

97

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,598 members

31 reviews

4.2

Member: EGBERTINA

98

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

5,021 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

99

Rossetti: Poems

by Christina Rossetti

247 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

100

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,494 members

187 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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