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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

68,199 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

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

2

Pride and Prejudice

94,384 members

1,513 reviews

½ 4.4

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

3

62,909 members

527 reviews

4

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

4

47,761 members

448 reviews

4

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

5

by Albert Camus

40,981 members

584 reviews

3.9

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

6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,079 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

7

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,275 members

783 reviews

4.2

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

8

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,507 members

223 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, mykalfunk, dahmast, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Herman Melville

41,919 members

621 reviews

3.8

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

10

by Sylvia Plath

32,800 members

560 reviews

4

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

11

The Aeneid (translations)

26,892 members

230 reviews

3.9

9 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, dahmast, FranzK72, cindyi1218

12

The Holy Bible: King James Version

by King James Version

16,239 members

212 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Bretzky1, ahef1963, mykalfunk, dahmast, steller0707, weemanda

13

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

14,035 members

99 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, marycloseburn, ahef1963, NinieB, dahmast, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,919 members

168 reviews

3.8

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

15

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,344 members

201 reviews

3.9

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

16

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,916 members

577 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, dahmast, FranzK72, cindyi1218

17

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4,161 members

35 reviews

4

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

18

33,701 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bici47, alex68, Bretzky1, dahmast, FranzK72, cindyi1218

19

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,431 members

461 reviews

3.8

8 Members: roby72, Bici47, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, dahmast, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by George Eliot

20,838 members

370 reviews

4.2

9 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, dahmast, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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

22

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

10,020 members

248 reviews

3.8

9 Members: roby72, merrystar, blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, dahmast, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,768 members

24 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, mspixieears, dahmast, FranzK72

24

23,192 members

344 reviews

3.8

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, dahmast, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,136 members

361 reviews

½ 3.6

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

26

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,974 members

531 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, dahmast, FranzK72, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,672 members

189 reviews

3.9

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

28

by Henrik Ibsen

6,208 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, mspixieears, dahmast, cindyi1218, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,595 members

396 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, dahmast, FranzK72, steller0707

30

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,472 members

134 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, Bici47, ahef1963, NinieB, dahmast, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Poe: Poetry and Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

919 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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

32

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,684 members

171 reviews

4.1

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, mspixieears, FranzK72, steller0707

33

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,278 members

157 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, NinieB, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

34

27,533 members

377 reviews

4

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

35

The Portrait of a Lady

12,182 members

139 reviews

3.9

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

36

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,030 members

103 reviews

3.9

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

37

by Gustave Flaubert

29,907 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

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

38

by William Shakespeare

943 members

14 reviews

½ 4.5

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

39

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,568 members

125 reviews

3.9

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

40

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,531 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

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

41

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

11,455 members

97 reviews

4.1

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

42

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,270 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

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

43

The Late Mattia Pascal

by Luigi Pirandello

2,310 members

36 reviews

3.9

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

44

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,400 members

152 reviews

3.9

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

45

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,579 members

247 reviews

4

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

46

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6,144 members

44 reviews

3.9

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

47

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,483 members

132 reviews

4

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

48

The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,971 members

72 reviews

4

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

49

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,373 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

16,658 members

133 reviews

4.1

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

51

5,546 members

83 reviews

3.9

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

52

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,581 members

232 reviews

4

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

53

Metamorphoses [in translation]

15,333 members

115 reviews

4.1

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

54

Collected Poems

4,024 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,863 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

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

56

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

898 members

16 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

57

Holy Bible: English Standard Version

by Esv Bibles By Crossway

8,642 members

53 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, cindyi1218

58

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,574 members

24 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,358 members

52 reviews

3.8

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

60

The Red and the Black

10,813 members

144 reviews

3.9

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

61

The Tale of Genji {complete}

by Murasaki Shikibu

6,307 members

66 reviews

3.9

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

62

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,828 members

61 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

63

by Ivan Goncharov

3,904 members

75 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

64

The Makioka Sisters

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

2,538 members

48 reviews

4.1

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

65

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,444 members

208 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Zeno's Conscience

4,105 members

58 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

67

3,624 members

87 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,583 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

3,162 members

73 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

70

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso

893 members

9 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

71

by Günter Grass

8,418 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

72

The Last Days of Socrates

6,095 members

27 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

73

The Travels of Marco Polo

5,931 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

6,502 members

113 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

75

Dream of the Red Chamber

871 members

9 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

76

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,842 members

60 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

77

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

19,000 members

197 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Theodor Fontane

2,502 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mspixieears

79

Mastro don Gesualdo

by Giovanni Verga

588 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

80

2,672 members

52 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

81

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,459 members

71 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

82

The New Testament in Modern English

by J. B. Phillips

2,034 members

14 reviews

4

3 Members: marycloseburn, ahef1963, mykalfunk

83

by Albert Camus

21,177 members

281 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

84

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,371 members

813 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

85

History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,665 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

by Bertolt Brecht

1,257 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963, mspixieears

87

13,731 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

88

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,985 members

70 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

44,214 members

700 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, Bretzky1, NinieB

90

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Anna Comnena

950 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

4,921 members

33 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Bici47

92

The Complete Father Brown Stories

by G. K. Chesterton

4,090 members

38 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

93

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

266 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, mspixieears

94

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

2,151 members

14 reviews

4

3 Members: blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68

95

6,025 members

64 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

96

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

15,580 members

122 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

97

The Eleven Comedies

by Aristophanes

1,871 members

12 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, FranzK72

98

by John Stuart Mill

6,152 members

43 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1

99

Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

by Sylvia Plath

4,489 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

100

The Complete Plays: Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

206 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner

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