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Western Canon
Rank
Title
Author
Added
1
The Odyssey
by
Homer
62,705 members
522 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:27 PM
Member
julia123456789
2
The Iliad
by
Homer
47,660 members
447 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:27 PM
Member
julia123456789
3
Hamlet
by
William Shakespeare
37,380 members
336 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:30 PM
Member
julia123456789
4
Don Quixote
by
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35,898 members
532 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:29 PM
Member
julia123456789
5
Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
29,936 members
261 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:30 PM
Member
julia123456789
6
Madame Bovary
by
Gustave Flaubert
29,848 members
428 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:31 PM
Member
julia123456789
7
Beowulf
by
Beowulf Poet
29,314 members
362 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:29 PM
Member
julia123456789
8
The Aeneid (translations)
by
Virgil
26,816 members
229 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:28 PM
Member
julia123456789
9
The Divine Comedy
by
Dante Alighieri
26,490 members
223 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:29 PM
Member
julia123456789
10
The Canterbury Tales
by
Geoffrey Chaucer
25,035 members
185 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:30 PM
Member
julia123456789
11
Othello
by
William Shakespeare
19,482 members
151 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:30 PM
Member
julia123456789
12
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by
King James Version
16,211 members
211 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:26 PM
Member
julia123456789
13
The Tempest
by
William Shakespeare
15,747 members
191 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:30 PM
Member
julia123456789
14
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by
Gilgamesh Poet
10,449 members
133 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:25 PM
Member
julia123456789
15
Oedipus Rex
by
Sophocles
7,606 members
81 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:22 PM
Member
julia123456789
16
Antigone
by
Sophocles
6,531 members
83 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:25 PM
Member
julia123456789
17
Fables of Aesop
by
Aesop
4,281 members
58 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:28 PM
Member
julia123456789
18
A Journal of the Plague Year
by
Daniel Defoe
4,062 members
74 reviews
½
3.6
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:31 PM
Member
julia123456789
19
The Prince, and Selected Discourses [Bantam Matrix]
by
Niccolò Machiavelli
2,737 members
13 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:29 PM
Member
julia123456789
20
Oedipus at Colonus (translation)
by
Sophocles
662 members
22 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:22 PM
Member
julia123456789
21
Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by
Euripides
222 members
3 reviews
½
3.6
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:27 PM
Member
julia123456789
22
Cyclops
by
Euripides
171 members
½
3.3
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:27 PM
Member
julia123456789
23
Eunuchus
by
Terence
106 members
3.8
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:28 PM
Member
julia123456789
24
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
by
Anónimo
91 members
7 reviews
3
Score 1
Added 2023-10-21, 12:26 PM
Member
julia123456789
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