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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

41,992 members

510 reviews

3.9

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

2

Pride and Prejudice

78,334 members

1,347 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

26,131 members

469 reviews

4

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

4

by George Orwell

79,856 members

1,246 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

36,921 members

497 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,614 members

123 reviews

4

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

7

by George Orwell

58,438 members

854 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Charlotte Brontë

57,399 members

902 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,320 members

676 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,632 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,388 members

423 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,194 members

139 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,558 members

673 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,395 members

190 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,245 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,479 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,501 members

197 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

18

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,543 members

297 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

19

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,162 members

111 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,654 members

119 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,420 members

36 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,651 members

753 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Collected Poems, 1909–1962

2,981 members

22 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

24,086 members

316 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Albert Camus

18,071 members

236 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,667 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Henry Fielding

7,975 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Anthony Trollope

4,264 members

123 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

29

38,675 members

373 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

30

by Albert Camus

34,645 members

489 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

30,912 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

32

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,152 members

260 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,490 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Gustave Flaubert

25,703 members

382 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

22,306 members

196 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

36

by George Eliot

17,259 members

325 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Collected Poems

3,471 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

38

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,145 members

262 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,769 members

433 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Charles Dickens

10,281 members

127 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

41

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,800 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

341 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

43

1,383 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

44

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,998 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Henrik Ibsen

840 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Edgar Allan Poe

612 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

51,418 members

456 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

48

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

1,768 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

1,942 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Riverside Editions)

by Walt Whitman

291 members

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

1,060 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

5,038 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

53

6,340 members

70 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

22,691 members

242 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

55

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,329 members

167 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Virginia Woolf

20,058 members

323 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by George Orwell

3,619 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

250 members

4

Member: hipdeep

59

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,123 members

425 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Collected Plays

65 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: hipdeep

61

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,134 members

546 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Iceman Cometh

by Eugene O'Neill

1,348 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

63

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

3,530 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,096 members

181 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Marcus Aurelius

13,729 members

138 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Herman Melville

34,487 members

526 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Aristophanes

2,859 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

68

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,365 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,959 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

70

19,495 members

234 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

Nicomachean Ethics

9,816 members

56 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

72

Hawthorne's Short Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

450 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

20,098 members

304 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

5,589 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

75

The Red and the Black

9,307 members

132 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

76

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,830 members

127 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

77

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

5,528 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

78

by Charles Dickens

5,447 members

86 reviews

4

Member: NinieB

79

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

3,333 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

80

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

2,790 members

57 reviews

4.2

Member: NinieB

81

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,069 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

82

411 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

83

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,214 members

10 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill

943 members

12 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

278 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

9,691 members

83 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Collected Poems

1,490 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

88

21,348 members

138 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Thomas Hobbes

8,020 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Henrik Ibsen

1,531 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

91

Essays and Lectures

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

968 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,928 members

480 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

93

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,779 members

94 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

94

by George Bernard Shaw

1,145 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

95

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

598 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

4,942 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

97

Medea [in Translation]

2,832 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

98

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

1,546 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories (Classic Club edition)

by Anton Chekhov

181 members

4.1

Member: hipdeep

100

by Jorge Luis Borges

6,700 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

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