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Based on bookaward: Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,481 members

1,433 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

42,989 members

519 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

81,982 members

1,272 reviews

4.2

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

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by George Orwell

60,037 members

885 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

53,898 members

772 reviews

3.9

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

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,592 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

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

7

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

224 members

4.1

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

8

Pride and Prejudice

80,646 members

1,369 reviews

½ 4.4

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

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by George Eliot

17,723 members

331 reviews

4.2

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

10

by William Shakespeare

16,918 members

131 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

34,285 members

472 reviews

4.1

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

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by William Shakespeare

15,073 members

146 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

72,186 members

1,170 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

44,014 members

705 reviews

4.1

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

15

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,630 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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39,965 members

386 reviews

4

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

17

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,752 members

188 reviews

4.1

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

18

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,439 members

142 reviews

3.8

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

19

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,989 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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by William Shakespeare

30,981 members

290 reviews

4.2

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

21

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,130 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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

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by Mary Shelley

42,647 members

710 reviews

3.8

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

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by Joseph Heller

40,016 members

526 reviews

4.1

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

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by Raymond Chandler

10,292 members

284 reviews

4

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

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24,077 members

378 reviews

4

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

26

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,575 members

265 reviews

4

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

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by Gustave Flaubert

26,229 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,697 members

563 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

69,550 members

1,080 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

13,903 members

300 reviews

4

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

31

by Truman Capote

23,742 members

467 reviews

4.1

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

32

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,603 members

745 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

44,413 members

696 reviews

4.2

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

34

by Saint Augustine

22,437 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

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by William Shakespeare

8,641 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

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

36

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,235 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

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

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,583 members

270 reviews

3.9

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

38

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,675 members

763 reviews

4.1

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

39

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,209 members

230 reviews

3.9

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

40

by Jack Kerouac

27,934 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

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

41

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,732 members

330 reviews

4.1

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

42

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,957 members

337 reviews

3.8

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

43

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,282 members

226 reviews

4

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

44

by Virginia Woolf

20,633 members

330 reviews

3.9

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

45

by Toni Morrison

22,843 members

406 reviews

3.9

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

46

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,455 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

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

47

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,862 members

389 reviews

4

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

48

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,897 members

243 reviews

4

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

49

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,751 members

308 reviews

3.9

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

50

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,784 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

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

51

28,860 members

458 reviews

½ 4.3

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

52

Charlotte's Web

36,128 members

1,024 reviews

4.2

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

53

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,660 members

432 reviews

3.8

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

54

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

10,289 members

85 reviews

4.1

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

55

NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible

41 members

3

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

56

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,397 members

450 reviews

½ 4.5

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

57

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,891 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

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

58

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,327 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

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

59

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,733 members

336 reviews

4.1

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

60

38,478 members

628 reviews

4.1

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

61

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,959 members

185 reviews

3.9

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

62

by Ralph Ellison

16,178 members

212 reviews

4

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

63

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,463 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

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

64

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,151 members

279 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

65

27,585 members

573 reviews

½ 4.3

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

66

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,724 members

243 reviews

4

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

67

The Second World War {complete}

by Winston S. Churchill

1,477 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

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

68

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,219 members

299 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

69

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,359 members

121 reviews

4.1

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

70

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,385 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

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

71

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,824 members

132 reviews

½ 3.6

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

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,511 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

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

73

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,237 members

105 reviews

4

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

74

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

3,996 members

48 reviews

3.9

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

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,466 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

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

76

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

5,250 members

69 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

77

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,856 members

49 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

2,826 members

29 reviews

4.1

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

79

by William Faulkner

14,783 members

216 reviews

3.9

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

80

by Joseph Conrad

9,041 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

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

81

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves

3,694 members

66 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, savepawsfurever

82

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,412 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

83

10,075 members

85 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

84

by Robert Graves

9,180 members

168 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington

85

Portnoy's Complaint

7,371 members

154 reviews

½ 3.6

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

86

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

by Mao Tse-Tung

1,708 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

1,762 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

88

by Rudyard Kipling

8,987 members

201 reviews

3.8

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

89

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,318 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: Bluewolf0411,sturlington

90

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,876 members

59 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, savepawsfurever,sturlington

91

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith

1,722 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever,sturlington

92

by Richard Wright

7,716 members

100 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

93

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,755 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Tafadhali, savepawsfurever,sturlington

94

6,141 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

95

by Rachel Carson

6,518 members

97 reviews

4

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

96

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,830 members

124 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy,sturlington

97

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,194 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,762 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

99

The Education of Henry Adams

2,823 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

100

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,769 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

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