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Philip Ward's Lifetime Reading Plan

Description: Based on Philip Ward's book "A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books".
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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Charlotte Brontë

56,898 members

895 reviews

4.2

13 Members: roby72, merrystar, marycloseburn, thecoroner, Bici47, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, mspixieears, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

Pride and Prejudice

77,659 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: roby72, merrystar, marycloseburn, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, mykalfunk, NinieB, mspixieears, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

50,817 members

444 reviews

4

10 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, marycloseburn, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, mspixieears, FranzK72, cindyi1218

4

38,125 members

372 reviews

4

11 Members: roby72, merrystar, marycloseburn, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, Bretzky1, NinieB, mspixieears, FranzK72, cindyi1218

5

by Albert Camus

34,354 members

491 reviews

3.9

10 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,245 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

10 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

7

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,228 members

682 reviews

4.2

10 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, mykalfunk, NinieB, FranzK72,Bretzky1

8

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

20,834 members

181 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, mykalfunk, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Herman Melville

34,101 members

520 reviews

3.8

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, Bretzky1, mykalfunk, FranzK72, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Sylvia Plath

27,182 members

483 reviews

4

9 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

22,054 members

194 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, FranzK72, cindyi1218

12

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,155 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, marycloseburn, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,100 members

137 reviews

3.8

9 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,296 members

191 reviews

3.9

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,452 members

477 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FranzK72, cindyi1218

16

27,702 members

428 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72, cindyi1218

17

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3,445 members

33 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, marycloseburn, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda,FranzK72

18

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,947 members

423 reviews

3.8

7 Members: roby72, Bici47, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

by George Eliot

17,119 members

324 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,036 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

9 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, mykalfunk, NinieB, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

21

by Saint Augustine

21,496 members

157 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, mspixieears, FranzK72

22

19,949 members

306 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,516 members

428 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,866 members

313 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, thecoroner, ahef1963, NinieB, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707,Bretzky1

25

Holy Bible: King James Version

500 members

19 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Bretzky1, ahef1963, mykalfunk, steller0707

26

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,543 members

156 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,158 members

205 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Henrik Ibsen

827 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,426 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72, steller0707

30

The Epic of Gilgamesh

9,568 members

118 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, Bici47, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Poe: Poetry and Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

783 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, marycloseburn, Bici47, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

23,338 members

334 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72,Bretzky1

33

The Portrait of a Lady

10,583 members

126 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Henry Fielding

7,931 members

94 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Gustave Flaubert

25,491 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FranzK72, steller0707,Bretzky1

36

4 Plays: King Lear; Macbeth; Othello; Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

740 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, cindyi1218

37

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)

by Laurence Sterne

7,533 members

112 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,646 members

79 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72

39

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

9,875 members

80 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,374 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,746 members

125 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

42

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,341 members

146 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mspixieears, FranzK72, steller0707

43

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,776 members

221 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

44

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,872 members

37 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mspixieears, FranzK72

45

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,705 members

120 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

46

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,929 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

47

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

13,806 members

117 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

48

4,638 members

76 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, alex68, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

49

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,940 members

139 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

50

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,585 members

192 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, mspixieears

51

Metamorphoses [in translation]

12,663 members

98 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

52

Collected Poems

3,442 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,295 members

108 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

54

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

587 members

10 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

55

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV)

by ESV Bibles by Crossway

5,916 members

35 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, cindyi1218

56

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,412 members

19 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

57

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

4,901 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Red and the Black

9,240 members

130 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, NinieB, FranzK72

59

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,317 members

51 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Alessandro Manzoni

2,966 members

49 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

61

by Ivan Goncharov

3,253 members

66 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

62

The Makioka Sisters

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

2,092 members

42 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72

63

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,513 members

172 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Zeno's Conscience

3,461 members

45 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

65

Thérèse Raquin

3,041 members

80 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

66

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,046 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

67

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

2,400 members

56 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso

757 members

9 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

by Günter Grass

7,410 members

91 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

70

The Late Mattia Pascal

by Luigi Pirandello

1,876 members

23 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

71

The Last Days of Socrates

5,458 members

23 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

72

The Travels of Marco Polo

4,966 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,432 members

59 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

74

5,520 members

104 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

75

Dream of the Red Chamber

775 members

8 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

76

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,088 members

57 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

77

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

15,613 members

157 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Theodor Fontane

2,151 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mspixieears

79

Mastro don Gesualdo

by Giovanni Verga

483 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

80

2,332 members

43 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

81

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,924 members

64 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

82

The New Testament in Modern English

by J. B. Phillips

1,770 members

14 reviews

3.9

3 Members: marycloseburn, ahef1963, mykalfunk

83

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,127 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

by Bertolt Brecht

1,272 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963, mspixieears

85

11,443 members

113 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

4,263 members

29 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Bici47

87

The Complete Father Brown Stories

by G. K. Chesterton

3,435 members

32 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

88

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

224 members

2 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, mspixieears

89

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,873 members

11 reviews

4.1

3 Members: blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68

90

by Albert Camus

17,912 members

235 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

91

5,163 members

55 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

92

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,763 members

671 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

93

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

12,879 members

102 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

94

The Eleven Comedies

by Aristophanes

1,660 members

11 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, FranzK72

95

Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

by Sylvia Plath

3,848 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

96

The Complete Plays: Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

173 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner

97

The Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

1,150 members

13 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

98

The Good Woman of Setzuan

by Bertolt Brecht

1,237 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: blackdove07, mspixieears

99

by Marcus Aurelius

13,533 members

137 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

100

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

2,935 members

26 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, alex68, FranzK72

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