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1

by George Eliot

4,211 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

2

Pride and Prejudice

80,619 members

1,369 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

3

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,782 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

4

by Toni Morrison

22,829 members

406 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

5

by Sylvia Plath

28,106 members

502 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

6

by Ralph Ellison

16,169 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: NinieB, byrondenham, Elizabethbennet929

7

by Charles Dickens

13,698 members

248 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

8

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,956 members

518 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

9

by Thornton Wilder

5,085 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,876 members

322 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

11

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,314 members

113 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

12

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,552 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,978 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

14

by Henry Fielding

8,119 members

96 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,717 members

612 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

16

28,695 members

532 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

17

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,682 members

190 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

18

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,059 members

479 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

19

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,194 members

1,170 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

51,973 members

704 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

21

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,634 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

22

by Charlotte Brontë

58,971 members

917 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

23

by William Shakespeare

26,086 members

228 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

24

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,671 members

248 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

25

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,471 members

435 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

26

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,807 members

177 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

27

35,418 members

624 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

28

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,799 members

313 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

29

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

32,873 members

325 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

30

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,140 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,538 members

1,079 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

32

by William Shakespeare

30,991 members

290 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

33

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,459 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

34

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,522 members

279 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

35

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,431 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

36

by Albert Camus

18,483 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

37

13,905 members

112 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

38

37,961 members

505 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

39

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,478 members

633 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

40

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,684 members

525 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

41

6,595 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

42

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

726 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

43

by Gustave Flaubert

26,218 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

44

20,548 members

307 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

45

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,517 members

449 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

46

The Turn of the Screw

8,107 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

47

by George Eliot

17,714 members

330 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

48

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,381 members

450 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

49

by William Shakespeare

13,777 members

175 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

50

by William Shakespeare

15,072 members

146 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

51

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,490 members

171 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

52

by George Orwell

81,952 members

1,272 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

53

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,034 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

54

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,396 members

695 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

55

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,949 members

337 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

56

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,586 members

388 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

57

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,273 members

1,139 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

58

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,199 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,650 members

432 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

60

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,672 members

275 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

61

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,207 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

62

The Portrait of a Lady

10,818 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

63

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,751 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

64

by Henrik Ibsen

5,377 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

65

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,393 members

197 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

66

by William Shakespeare

16,912 members

131 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

67

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,273 members

471 reviews

4.1

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

68

by Beowulf Poet

25,367 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

69

The Metamorphosis

12,459 members

219 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

70

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,667 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

71

by Albert Camus

35,519 members

507 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

72

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,854 members

104 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

73

The Communist Manifesto

15,088 members

137 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

74

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,927 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

75

by Mary Shelley

42,632 members

709 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

76

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,779 members

178 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

77

by Virginia Woolf

20,629 members

330 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

78

1,044 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

79

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,413 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

80

19,697 members

227 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

81

by George Orwell

60,011 members

885 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

82

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,420 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

83

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

53,884 members

772 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

84

by William Shakespeare

12,467 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

85

by William Shakespeare

8,639 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

86

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,844 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

87

by Charles Dickens

24,230 members

241 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

88

by George Eliot

11,332 members

153 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

89

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,872 members

119 reviews

3.8

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

90

9,185 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

91

by Charles Dickens

10,565 members

133 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

92

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,443 members

465 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

93

by Daniel Defoe

7,681 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

94

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,711 members

505 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

95

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,047 members

38 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

96

by Louisa May Alcott

26,440 members

399 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

97

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,896 members

300 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, byrondenham

98

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,621 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

99

53,059 members

474 reviews

4

Member: byrondenham

100

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,797 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, byrondenham

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