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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,616 members

1,133 reviews

3.8

13 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Orwell

79,048 members

1,244 reviews

4.2

10 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, aulsmith, roby72, desertbloom, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,159 members

749 reviews

3.9

11 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Ray Bradbury

51,745 members

983 reviews

4

11 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

5

by George Bernard Shaw

6,473 members

77 reviews

3.8

9 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, smcwl, roby72, jasmaynard, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lowtalker

6

The Metamorphosis

11,841 members

203 reviews

3.9

9 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

7

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,227 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,652 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

10 Members: smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

9

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

20,898 members

409 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, roby72, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by J. R. R. Tolkien

90,829 members

1,160 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,174 members

460 reviews

4.1

9 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,445 members

296 reviews

4

9 Members: aprille, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

13

The Diary of a Young Girl

27,422 members

501 reviews

4.1

9 Members: staffordcastle, smcwl, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

14

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,539 members

156 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, jasmaynard, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

15

23,328 members

334 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

16

by Albert Camus

34,338 members

490 reviews

3.9

8 Members: smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Saultimate, ManWithAnAgenda

17

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,200 members

681 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lowtalker

18

The Cat in the Hat

19,412 members

515 reviews

4.2

8 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,093 members

137 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Turn of the Screw

7,794 members

241 reviews

½ 3.4

8 Members: Rtrace, roby72, jasmaynard, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,872 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,922 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: aprille, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68

23

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,768 members

1,114 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,947 members

1,426 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,955 members

257 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

44,009 members

736 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

27

by Truman Capote

22,931 members

455 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Rtrace, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Charlotte's Web

34,887 members

1,006 reviews

4.2

6 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963

29

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,311 members

391 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, desertbloom, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

30

The Inimitable Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,259 members

78 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, merrystar, ahef1963

31

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,141 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

32

by Raymond Chandler

9,982 members

277 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,742 members

287 reviews

3.9

7 Members: staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

34

by Margaret Wise Brown

17,973 members

673 reviews

4.2

6 Members: staffordcastle, merrystar, jasmaynard, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,289 members

108 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

36

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,644 members

152 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, Rtrace, smcwl, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Magic Mountain

9,276 members

165 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, MyFathersDragon

38

33,481 members

588 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, staffordcastle, Rtrace, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

39

by Ezra Jack Keats

13,943 members

745 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,367 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

41

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,938 members

423 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

10,673 members

286 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aprille, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,231 members

379 reviews

4

5 Members: Rtrace, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

44

NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible

39 members

3

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, desertbloom, cej1027, ahef1963

45

Portnoy's Complaint

7,220 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aprille, smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

46

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

8,264 members

246 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

47

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

11,662 members

176 reviews

4.1

5 Members: staffordcastle, smcwl, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

48

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,943 members

548 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

49

by Ralph Ellison

15,733 members

203 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, desertbloom, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1,merrystar

50

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,287 members

17 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

51

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

8,392 members

270 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, merrystar, ahef1963

52

by Joseph Heller

38,900 members

513 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

53

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,260 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

54

by Marguerite Duras

4,987 members

150 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Meaning of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

703 members

3 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, smcwl, desertbloom, MyFathersDragon

56

Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

1,914 members

35 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, desertbloom, cej1027

57

1,002 members

24 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by John Dos Passos

1,431 members

14 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

59

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,365 members

178 reviews

3.9

5 Members: staffordcastle, desertbloom, merrystar, Bretzky1, ahef1963,thecoroner

60

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts

2,821 members

63 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, smcwl, jasmaynard

61

The Time Machine

17,013 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: Rtrace, roby72, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

62

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,146 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

63

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

15,940 members

430 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, desertbloom, merrystar, ahef1963,thecoroner

64

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

8,540 members

125 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aprille, desertbloom, MyFathersDragon

65

26,551 members

565 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

My Fight for Birth Control

by Margaret Sanger

13 members

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

67

21,917 members

387 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, jasmaynard, Bretzky1

68

How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

13,092 members

171 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, jasmaynard

69

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

1,603 members

20 reviews

4.2

4 Members: desertbloom, cej1027, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon,roby72

70

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton

1,844 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

71

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,113 members

174 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

72

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,430 members

59 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

73

Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931

by Irma S. Rombauer

120 members

1 review

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, desertbloom, merrystar

74

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

by James D. Watson

2,923 members

44 reviews

3.8

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

75

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,439 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963

76

by Kahlil Gibran

13,697 members

160 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, roby72, ahef1963

77

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,782 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, desertbloom, merrystar

78

by Rudyard Kipling

8,682 members

194 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, desertbloom, ahef1963,thecoroner

79

by Jack Kerouac

27,266 members

382 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

80

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

4,903 members

55 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, smcwl, merrystar

81

Coming of Age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead

1,311 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, ahef1963

82

The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov

1,038 members

18 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, roby72, merrystar

83

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

by Benjamin Spock

1,110 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, ahef1963

84

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

by J. M. Barrie

862 members

12 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, staffordcastle, smcwl, ahef1963,cej1027

85

by Grace Metalious

1,638 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by James Hilton

3,838 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

87

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,998 members

333 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

88

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,519 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963,thecoroner

89

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,552 members

123 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, jasmaynard

90

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

558 members

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, jasmaynard

91

Shadows On The Rock

by Willa Cather

836 members

20 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, desertbloom

92

The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition

by William Faulkner

591 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, desertbloom

93

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,172 members

217 reviews

4

2 Members: desertbloom, merrystar

94

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Dover]

1,573 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, MyFathersDragon

95

Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

by Zora Neale Hurston

1,310 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, smcwl

96

by Joseph Conrad

8,750 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, desertbloom

97

by Stephen King

13,993 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

98

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,800 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Butler Yeats

72 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

100

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim

3,016 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, ahef1963

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