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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,242 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,628 members

509 reviews

3.9

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

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by George Orwell

79,059 members

1,244 reviews

4.2

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

57,875 members

850 reviews

4

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

5

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,169 members

749 reviews

3.9

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,840 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

7

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

221 members

4.1

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

8

Pride and Prejudice

77,581 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

9

by George Eliot

17,113 members

324 reviews

4.2

11 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by William Shakespeare

16,344 members

128 reviews

4

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,180 members

460 reviews

4.1

11 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by William Shakespeare

14,478 members

143 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bluewolf0411

13

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,635 members

1,133 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

14

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,780 members

683 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon,thecoroner ,Bretzky1

15

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,793 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

11 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

16

38,102 members

372 reviews

4

9 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

17

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

20,829 members

181 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,096 members

137 reviews

3.8

11 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,260 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

20

by William Shakespeare

31,514 members

287 reviews

4.2

10 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

21

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

12 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

22

by Mary Shelley

40,775 members

695 reviews

3.8

10 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Joseph Heller

38,913 members

513 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd,Bluewolf0411

24

by Raymond Chandler

9,983 members

277 reviews

4

10 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

25

23,335 members

334 reviews

4

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington ,Bretzky1

26

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,185 members

259 reviews

4

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Gustave Flaubert

25,476 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bretzky1

28

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,954 members

548 reviews

4.1

10 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

29

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,653 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

30

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,449 members

296 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

31

by Truman Capote

22,939 members

455 reviews

4.1

8 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,050 members

730 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears,hipdeep ,thecoroner

33

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,208 members

681 reviews

4.2

8 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bretzky1

34

by Saint Augustine

21,485 members

157 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, cej1027, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

35

by William Shakespeare

8,353 members

64 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, savepawsfurever,Bluewolf0411

36

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

13,884 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,971 members

257 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

38

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

44,018 members

736 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner ,Bluewolf0411

39

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

9,872 members

220 reviews

3.9

6 Members: summonedbyfells, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Jack Kerouac

27,269 members

382 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

41

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,766 members

325 reviews

4.1

6 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,327 members

323 reviews

3.8

6 Members: sturlington, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,769 members

221 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

44

by Virginia Woolf

19,878 members

324 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

45

by Toni Morrison

22,052 members

399 reviews

3.9

6 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,876 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

47

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,237 members

379 reviews

4

6 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever

48

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,558 members

241 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72,sturlington

49

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,339 members

303 reviews

3.9

5 Members: sturlington, Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon,hipdeep

50

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,442 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

51

27,686 members

427 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72,sturlington

52

Charlotte's Web

34,890 members

1,006 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever,Bluewolf0411

53

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,942 members

423 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

54

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

9,871 members

80 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

55

NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible

39 members

3

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963,Bluewolf0411

56

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

49,122 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

7 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, sturlington, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner ,Bluewolf0411

57

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,925 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

58

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,141 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

59

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,000 members

333 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

37,160 members

608 reviews

4.1

6 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72,sturlington

61

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,373 members

178 reviews

3.9

6 Members: Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

62

by Ralph Ellison

15,734 members

203 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever,sturlington

63

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,148 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: sturlington, cej1027, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

64

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,942 members

274 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

65

26,556 members

565 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Tafadhali, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

66

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,448 members

237 reviews

4

5 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

67

The Second World War {complete}

by Winston S. Churchill

1,410 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72,sturlington

68

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,525 members

295 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

69

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

13,797 members

116 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

70

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,260 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

71

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,582 members

127 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

72

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,296 members

94 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

73

Light in August

by William Faulkner

8,971 members

101 reviews

4

5 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

74

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,884 members

48 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,796 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

76

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

4,978 members

66 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

77

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,798 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: kara.shamy, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

78

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production

2,751 members

27 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

79

by William Faulkner

14,366 members

212 reviews

3.9

4 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

80

by Joseph Conrad

8,750 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

81

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

3,611 members

65 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, savepawsfurever

82

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,221 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

83

9,619 members

81 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

84

by Robert Graves

8,952 members

164 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington

85

Portnoy's Complaint

7,221 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

86

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

1,646 members

26 reviews

½ 2.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

87

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

by John Maynard Keynes

1,709 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

88

by Rudyard Kipling

8,682 members

194 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington ,thecoroner

89

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,106 members

124 reviews

4.1

Member: Bluewolf0411,sturlington

90

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,506 members

55 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, savepawsfurever,sturlington

91

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith

1,661 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever,sturlington

92

by Richard Wright

7,479 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

93

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,509 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Tafadhali, savepawsfurever,sturlington

94

6,020 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

95

by Rachel Carson

6,246 members

98 reviews

4

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

96

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,461 members

122 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy,sturlington

97

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,025 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,557 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

99

The Education of Henry Adams

2,756 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

100

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,709 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

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