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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,186 members

1,559 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

49,525 members

586 reviews

3.9

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

3

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,479 members

1,453 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

70,194 members

1,009 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

61,632 members

872 reviews

3.9

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

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,434 members

433 reviews

½ 3.6

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

7

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

368 members

4.1

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

8

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,069 members

1,307 reviews

3.8

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

9

Pride and Prejudice

94,312 members

1,511 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

20,817 members

369 reviews

4.2

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

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by William Shakespeare

19,513 members

151 reviews

4

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

12

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,235 members

521 reviews

4.1

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

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by William Shakespeare

17,187 members

168 reviews

4.1

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

14

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,290 members

780 reviews

4.1

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

15

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,973 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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47,701 members

449 reviews

4

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

17

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,542 members

223 reviews

4.1

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

18

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,904 members

169 reviews

3.8

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

19

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,062 members

185 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

37,430 members

336 reviews

4.2

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

21

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 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

51,249 members

814 reviews

3.8

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

23

by Joseph Heller

44,436 members

580 reviews

4.1

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

24

by Raymond Chandler

11,556 members

315 reviews

4

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

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27,510 members

377 reviews

4

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

26

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,145 members

286 reviews

4

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

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by Gustave Flaubert

29,877 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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by Vladimir Nabokov

35,359 members

636 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

77,289 members

1,199 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

15,848 members

337 reviews

4

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

31

by Truman Capote

26,940 members

519 reviews

4.1

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

32

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,486 members

820 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

50,235 members

783 reviews

4.2

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

34

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,765 members

24 reviews

3.9

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

35

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

10,080 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

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

36

His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)

by Philip Pullman

15,417 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

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

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,353 members

312 reviews

3.9

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

38

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

54,147 members

854 reviews

4.1

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

39

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

11,486 members

272 reviews

3.9

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

40

by Jack Kerouac

30,484 members

425 reviews

½ 3.6

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

41

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,845 members

369 reviews

4.1

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

42

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,757 members

374 reviews

3.8

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

43

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,564 members

247 reviews

4

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

44

by Virginia Woolf

23,321 members

379 reviews

3.9

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

45

by Toni Morrison

26,631 members

449 reviews

3.9

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

46

Winnie-the-Pooh

16,004 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

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

47

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,729 members

416 reviews

4

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

48

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,570 members

270 reviews

4

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

49

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller

13,276 members

343 reviews

3.9

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

50

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11,430 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

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

51

33,667 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

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

52

Charlotte's Web

41,601 members

1,070 reviews

4.2

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

53

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,407 members

461 reviews

3.8

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

54

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

11,468 members

97 reviews

4.1

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

55

Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version

2,594 members

13 reviews

4

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

56

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

57,063 members

496 reviews

½ 4.5

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

57

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,374 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

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

58

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

6,276 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

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

59

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,640 members

371 reviews

4.1

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

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44,176 members

700 reviews

4.1

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

61

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,613 members

223 reviews

3.9

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

62

by Ralph Ellison

18,442 members

232 reviews

4

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

63

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,494 members

274 reviews

½ 3.6

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

64

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

10,388 members

302 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

65

12,949 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

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

66

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,994 members

272 reviews

4

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

67

The Second World War {complete}

by Winston S. Churchill

1,725 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

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

68

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,780 members

321 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

69

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

16,644 members

133 reviews

4.1

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

70

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

6,008 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

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

71

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,856 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

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

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,444 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

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

73

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,414 members

113 reviews

4

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

74

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,380 members

53 reviews

3.9

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

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,092 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

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

76

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

6,236 members

73 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

77

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,081 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

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

78

Capital, Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy

3,242 members

31 reviews

4.2

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

79

by William Faulkner

16,898 members

238 reviews

3.9

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

80

by Joseph Conrad

10,177 members

129 reviews

½ 3.7

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

81

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

4,175 members

74 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, savepawsfurever

82

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,158 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

83

11,552 members

97 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

84

by Robert Graves

10,139 members

181 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington

85

Portnoy's Complaint

8,037 members

160 reviews

½ 3.6

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

86

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

1,920 members

32 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

2,000 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

88

by Rudyard Kipling

10,230 members

220 reviews

3.8

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

89

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,120 members

133 reviews

4.1

Member: Bluewolf0411,sturlington

90

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,975 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, savepawsfurever,sturlington

91

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith

1,941 members

15 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever,sturlington

92

by Richard Wright

8,765 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

93

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,930 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Tafadhali, savepawsfurever,sturlington

94

6,675 members

124 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

95

by Rachel Carson

7,724 members

119 reviews

4

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

96

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,602 members

138 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy,sturlington

97

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,874 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,262 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

99

The Education of Henry Adams

3,093 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

100

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,946 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

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