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Based on bookaward: The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library
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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Charlotte Brontë

56,902 members

895 reviews

4.2

13 Members: worcester, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

2

23,340 members

334 reviews

4

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72

3

Pride and Prejudice

77,665 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Dante Alighieri

23,144 members

205 reviews

4.1

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, AmourFou, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Mary Shelley

40,807 members

695 reviews

3.8

11 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by George Eliot

17,121 members

324 reviews

4.2

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

7

50,823 members

444 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72

8

by George Orwell

79,107 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,507 members

425 reviews

3.8

8 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda, adamspaminator

10

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,203 members

749 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, adamspaminator

11

by Raymond Chandler

9,988 members

278 reviews

4

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

12

38,133 members

373 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, mspixieears, FranzK72

13

by Gustave Flaubert

25,494 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

14

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,793 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

16

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,245 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

17

13,315 members

109 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,842 members

588 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,299 members

191 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

20

27,705 members

428 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72

21

by Saint Augustine

21,501 members

157 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, kara.shamy, mspixieears, FranzK72

22

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,230 members

682 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

23

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,425 members

331 reviews

4.1

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Time Machine

17,030 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: roby72, cej1027, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,962 members

194 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers

26

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,929 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

27

The Portrait of a Lady

10,584 members

126 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,606 members

241 reviews

3.8

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

29

A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of Four / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3,422 members

21 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

30

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,973 members

260 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

31

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

44,057 members

736 reviews

4.1

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

32

by Boris Pasternak

10,981 members

148 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

33

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,884 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

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

34

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,221 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,143 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72

36

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,285 members

84 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

37

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,434 members

32 reviews

4.2

5 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

37,927 members

711 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Toni Morrison

22,052 members

399 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

40

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,379 members

178 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers

41

The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

690 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: roby72, kara.shamy, mspixieears, TheTowers, ManWithAnAgenda

42

If This Is a Man

5,905 members

97 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

43

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,784 members

325 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

16,163 members

399 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, TheTowers

45

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

13,807 members

117 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

46

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

2,752 members

27 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

47

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

18,529 members

465 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

49,138 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Thomas Hobbes

7,925 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by William Shakespeare

8,356 members

64 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

51

9,623 members

81 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

128,909 members

2,021 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears,ManWithAnAgenda

53

by William Gibson

22,606 members

365 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

54

by Robert Graves

8,958 members

164 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

55

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

17,421 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

44,621 members

273 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Isaac Asimov

19,820 members

368 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach

11,229 members

204 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

12,999 members

211 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Railway Children

5,584 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mkbird, ahef1963

61

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,786 members

104 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

62

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

3,915 members

37 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger

63

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

13,892 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

6,884 members

51 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kara.shamy, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press)

by Helen Vendler

88 members

1 review

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears

66

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,685 members

82 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, TheTowers

67

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,945 members

274 reviews

3.9

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Human Stain

6,465 members

95 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, FranzK72

69

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell

3,783 members

40 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Thomas Paine

2,237 members

13 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by William Wordsworth

330 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

72

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

by Elizabeth Gaskell

1,437 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Carl von Clausewitz

2,781 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

74

A Child Called "It"

8,250 members

301 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

75

A Rabbit Omnibus

367 members

3 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

76

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,140 members

224 reviews

4

Member: FlorianKarpfinger

77

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

by Muriel Spark

715 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

78

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

703 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

79

The Sword of Honour Trilogy

by Evelyn Waugh

1,067 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

80

The Alexander Trilogy

by Mary Renault

292 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

81

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

18,327 members

276 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

82

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

15,366 members

328 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

83

Collected Poems

527 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mspixieears

84

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Mueller}

by Edward Gibbon

1,171 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,709 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

History of the Twelve Caesars

6,279 members

73 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,503 members

55 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Iliad / The Odyssey

5,478 members

49 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,231 members

199 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

90

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,792 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

91

A Year in Provence

5,412 members

109 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

92

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,557 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

93

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

3,248 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

94

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

by Simon Schama

3,017 members

34 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

95

by Thomas Harris

9,770 members

102 reviews

3.8

96

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

3,612 members

65 reviews

4

97

A History of the Crusades [3-volume set]

by Steven Runciman

725 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

98

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

64 members

½ 4.5

99

The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant

by Jean de Brunhoff

2,939 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963,kara.shamy

100

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

21,248 members

323 reviews

3.8

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