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by Charlotte Brontë

68,098 members

1,019 reviews

4.2

6 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

29,490 members

315 reviews

4.1

6 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,486 members

599 reviews

4.1

6 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, Bretzky1, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,497 members

275 reviews

4.1

6 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Wilkie Collins

12,089 members

273 reviews

4

6 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,258 members

749 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,954 members

489 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

20,807 members

368 reviews

4.2

5 Members: thorold, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Time Machine

20,269 members

385 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: KimarieBee, roby72, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,695 members

366 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,thorold
Explanations: thorold : Scotland, not England!

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by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,321 members

201 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,582 members

374 reviews

4

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,765 members

131 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,930 members

479 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

14,271 members

314 reviews

4

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

16

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,111 members

196 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charles Dickens

12,001 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

18

The Turn of the Screw

9,451 members

296 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,097 members

109 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,253 members

813 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,257 members

611 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

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The War of the Worlds

21,584 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, raperper

23

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,926 members

341 reviews

3.9

3 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, ahef1963

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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

13,021 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Portrait of a Lady

12,174 members

139 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,261 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

27

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

8,660 members

262 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thorold, Bretzky1, ahef1963

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by Elizabeth Gaskell

5,173 members

143 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thorold, AnnaClaire, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,874 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Herman Melville

41,826 members

620 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,675 members

264 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

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by Charles Dickens

15,380 members

273 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

8,685 members

327 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

34

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

6,595 members

111 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

35

by Anthony Trollope

4,881 members

139 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, ManWithAnAgenda

36

4,005 members

91 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

2,022 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thorold, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Alfred Lord Tennyson

208 members

5 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

39

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,490 members

585 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

40

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,111 members

491 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

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41,463 members

684 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, raperper,Bretzky1

42

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,465 members

369 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

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by Louisa May Alcott

33,292 members

473 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

44

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,825 members

369 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

45

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

26,691 members

479 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,138 members

325 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

47

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,668 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

48

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,229 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

49

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,463 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

50

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

13,157 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

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by George Eliot

12,941 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Invisible Man

12,758 members

290 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Prince and the Pauper

10,987 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

10,856 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,384 members

152 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: Dickens finished this before Victoria became Queen.

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10,263 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Joseph Conrad

10,168 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

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by Charlotte Brontë

10,097 members

158 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,654 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,212 members

126 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

9,207 members

356 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

9,120 members

196 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

7,374 members

321 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

64

The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

7,089 members

212 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

65

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

6,696 members

73 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Charles Dickens

6,319 members

101 reviews

4

Member: thorold

67

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

6,076 members

97 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Anne Brontë

5,946 members

180 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Sign of the Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,883 members

195 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

5,547 members

157 reviews

4

Member: thorold

71

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

5,462 members

112 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

4,837 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

Oscar and Lucinda

4,498 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

74

The Ruby in the Smoke

by Philip Pullman

4,435 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

75

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,999 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,975 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

by Edward Bellamy

3,411 members

65 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

by James Fenimore Cooper

3,223 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

79

by Charlotte Brontë

3,167 members

50 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Canterville Ghost

2,767 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,590 members

65 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,515 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Anthony Trollope

2,359 members

67 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

2,291 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

2,239 members

20 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

2,158 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Anthony Trollope

2,072 members

32 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

2,063 members

47 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,986 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

by Elizabeth Gaskell

1,690 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by George Eliot

1,659 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,603 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Sheridan Le Fanu

1,598 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope

1,066 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

1,061 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Robert Louis Stevenson

1,037 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

The Masque of the Red Death [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

931 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

831 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner

by Dmitri Merejkowski

636 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

by George Meredith

535 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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