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by Charlotte Brontë

68,184 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

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

2

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,531 members

599 reviews

4.1

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

3

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

by Lewis Carroll

29,523 members

315 reviews

4.1

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

4

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,530 members

276 reviews

4.1

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

5

by Wilkie Collins

12,101 members

273 reviews

4

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

6

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,327 members

748 reviews

4

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

7

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,001 members

492 reviews

3.8

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

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by George Eliot

20,831 members

369 reviews

4.2

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

9

The Time Machine

20,296 members

386 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

19,718 members

368 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

16,341 members

201 reviews

3.9

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

12

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,599 members

374 reviews

4

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

13

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,775 members

131 reviews

3.8

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

14

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,991 members

481 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

14,284 members

314 reviews

4

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

16

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,125 members

196 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Charles Dickens

12,013 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

18

The Turn of the Screw

9,463 members

296 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,101 members

109 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,362 members

813 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,318 members

611 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

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The War of the Worlds

21,622 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, raperper

23

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,959 members

342 reviews

3.9

3 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, ahef1963

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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

13,037 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Portrait of a Lady

12,180 members

139 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,276 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

27

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

8,640 members

263 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thorold, Bretzky1, ahef1963

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by Elizabeth Gaskell

5,179 members

144 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thorold, AnnaClaire, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,919 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Herman Melville

41,908 members

621 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,702 members

265 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

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by Charles Dickens

15,398 members

273 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

8,700 members

328 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

34

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

6,572 members

111 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

35

by Anthony Trollope

4,891 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

2,023 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

49,553 members

586 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

40

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,160 members

491 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

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41,533 members

685 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, raperper,Bretzky1

42

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

38,513 members

370 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

43

by Louisa May Alcott

33,345 members

474 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

44

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,862 members

369 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

45

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

26,720 members

479 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,159 members

325 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

47

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,697 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

48

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

16,251 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

49

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,488 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

50

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

13,181 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

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by George Eliot

12,959 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Invisible Man

12,770 members

290 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Prince and the Pauper

10,963 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

54

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

10,867 members

203 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,397 members

152 reviews

3.9

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

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10,277 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Joseph Conrad

10,184 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

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by Charlotte Brontë

10,106 members

159 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,668 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

9,226 members

357 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

9,221 members

126 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

9,142 members

196 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

7,382 members

322 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

64

The Crimson Petal and the White

by Michel Faber

7,095 members

212 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

65

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

6,704 members

73 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Charles Dickens

6,325 members

101 reviews

4

Member: thorold

67

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

6,082 members

98 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Anne Brontë

5,950 members

180 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Sign of the Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,880 members

196 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

5,551 members

158 reviews

4

Member: thorold

71

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

5,465 members

112 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

4,842 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

Oscar and Lucinda

4,503 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

74

The Ruby in the Smoke

by Philip Pullman

4,440 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

75

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

4,003 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,981 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

by Edward Bellamy

3,412 members

65 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

by James Fenimore Cooper

3,231 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

79

by Charlotte Brontë

3,169 members

50 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Canterville Ghost

2,770 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,592 members

65 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,520 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Anthony Trollope

2,360 members

67 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

2,297 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

2,241 members

20 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

2,159 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Anthony Trollope

2,074 members

32 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

2,066 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

1,662 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,605 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Sheridan Le Fanu

1,600 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope

1,069 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

1,060 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

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

933 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

833 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner

by Dmitri Merejkowski

637 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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