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New Lifetime Reading Plan by Fadiman and Major

Description: This list is based on The New Lifetime Reading Plan (1998) by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. It does not include the "Going Further" recommendations.

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,284 members

585 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Pride and Prejudice

93,742 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,435 members

533 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,031 members

1,448 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

43,949 members

567 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,789 members

141 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by George Orwell

69,814 members

1,004 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Charlotte Brontë

67,800 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,882 members

809 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,686 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,923 members

478 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,925 members

167 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,612 members

779 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,360 members

201 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

20,953 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,012 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,727 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

18

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,948 members

334 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

19

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,178 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,433 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,884 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,361 members

867 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Collected Poems, 1909–1962

3,420 members

25 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,944 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Albert Camus

21,032 members

282 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,669 members

189 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,986 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Anthony Trollope

4,861 members

138 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

29

47,412 members

446 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

30

by Albert Camus

40,688 members

578 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,530 members

177 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

32

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,353 members

312 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,739 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Gustave Flaubert

29,732 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

The Aeneid (translations)

26,677 members

229 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

36

by George Eliot

20,707 members

367 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Collected Poems

4,009 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

38

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,081 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,759 members

531 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Charles Dickens

11,972 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

41

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,217 members

62 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

392 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

43

1,687 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

44

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,780 members

302 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Henrik Ibsen

6,188 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Edgar Allan Poe

740 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

62,283 members

521 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

48

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

2,013 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

2,153 members

43 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)

by Walt Whitman

343 members

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

1,203 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,826 members

21 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

53

7,553 members

84 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

27,722 members

304 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,356 members

203 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Virginia Woolf

23,209 members

376 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by George Orwell

4,193 members

86 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays

293 members

4

Member: hipdeep

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,316 members

460 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Teatro (Obra completa, v. 2)

75 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

61

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,186 members

633 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Iceman Cometh

by Eugene O'Neill

1,559 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

63

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

4,039 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,327 members

221 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

18,650 members

197 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Herman Melville

41,636 members

618 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Aristophanes

3,216 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

68

The Tale of Genji {complete}

by Murasaki Shikibu

6,259 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,779 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

70

22,849 members

267 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Nicomachean Ethics

11,796 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

72

Hawthorne's Short Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

532 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

23,074 members

345 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

Aristotle's Politics

6,761 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

75

The Red and the Black

10,744 members

144 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

76

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,394 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

77

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

6,558 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

78

by Charles Dickens

6,283 members

101 reviews

4

Member: NinieB

79

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,936 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

80

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

3,205 members

64 reviews

4.2

Member: NinieB

81

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,236 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

82

489 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

83

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,441 members

12 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill

1,089 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

305 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

11,500 members

97 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Collected Poems

1,572 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

88

The Republic of Plato

25,498 members

162 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Thomas Hobbes

9,808 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henrik Ibsen

1,731 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

91

Essays and Lectures

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,111 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,523 members

574 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

93

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

3,433 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

94

by George Bernard Shaw

1,289 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

95

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

801 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

5,880 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

97

Medea [in Translation]

3,411 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

98

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

1,880 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories (Classic Club edition)

by Anton Chekhov

205 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

100

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,611 members

88 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

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