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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

49,462 members

585 reviews

3.9

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

2

Pride and Prejudice

94,184 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,592 members

534 reviews

4

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

4

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,363 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

44,185 members

570 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,817 members

141 reviews

4

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

7

by George Orwell

70,093 members

1,007 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Charlotte Brontë

68,065 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,216 members

813 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,844 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,909 members

478 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,891 members

167 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,326 members

783 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,317 members

201 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,070 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,038 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,753 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

18

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,828 members

335 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

19

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,211 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,451 members

133 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,902 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,564 members

869 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Collected Poems, 1909–1962

3,433 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,064 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Albert Camus

21,136 members

281 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,641 members

189 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,016 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Anthony Trollope

4,878 members

139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

29

47,628 members

447 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

30

by Albert Camus

40,899 members

580 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

35,638 members

177 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

32

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,332 members

312 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,762 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Gustave Flaubert

29,852 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

The Aeneid (translations)

26,819 members

229 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

36

by George Eliot

20,794 members

368 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Collected Poems

4,018 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

38

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,121 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,903 members

532 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Charles Dickens

11,995 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

41

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

15,269 members

62 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

393 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

43

1,706 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

44

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,929 members

303 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Henrik Ibsen

6,192 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Edgar Allan Poe

746 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

62,709 members

522 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

48

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

2,020 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

2,158 members

43 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)

by Walt Whitman

345 members

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

1,206 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,840 members

21 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

53

7,594 members

84 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

27,884 members

305 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,414 members

203 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Virginia Woolf

23,300 members

376 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by George Orwell

4,205 members

86 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

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

294 members

4

Member: hipdeep

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,376 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

35,316 members

635 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Iceman Cometh

by Eugene O'Neill

1,557 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

63

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

4,050 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,499 members

223 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

18,811 members

197 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Herman Melville

41,793 members

620 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Aristophanes

3,221 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

68

The Tale of Genji {complete}

by Murasaki Shikibu

6,295 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,782 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

70

22,884 members

269 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Nicomachean Ethics

11,853 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

72

Hawthorne's Short Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

531 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

23,149 members

344 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

Aristotle's Politics

6,808 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

75

The Red and the Black

10,788 members

144 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

76

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,378 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

77

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

6,571 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

78

by Charles Dickens

6,313 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

3,219 members

64 reviews

4.2

Member: NinieB

81

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,244 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

82

494 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

83

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,443 members

12 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill

1,090 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

305 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

11,534 members

97 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Collected Poems

1,576 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

88

The Republic of Plato

25,581 members

163 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Thomas Hobbes

9,835 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henrik Ibsen

1,737 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

91

Essays and Lectures

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,116 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,782 members

576 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

93

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

3,449 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

94

by George Bernard Shaw

1,292 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

95

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

802 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

5,890 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

97

Medea [in Translation]

3,427 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

98

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

1,898 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories (Classic Club edition)

by Anton Chekhov

203 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

100

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,630 members

88 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

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