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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

67,818 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

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

2

Pride and Prejudice

93,786 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

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

3

62,330 members

521 reviews

4

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

4

47,437 members

446 reviews

4

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

5

by Albert Camus

40,706 members

578 reviews

3.9

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

6

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,028 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

49,626 members

779 reviews

4.2

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

8

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,343 members

221 reviews

4.1

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

9

by Herman Melville

41,607 members

618 reviews

3.8

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

10

by Sylvia Plath

32,643 members

559 reviews

4

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

11

The Aeneid (translations)

26,689 members

229 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

16,167 members

210 reviews

4

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

13

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13,969 members

98 reviews

½ 4.4

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

14

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,931 members

167 reviews

3.8

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

15

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,378 members

201 reviews

3.9

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

16

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,548 members

574 reviews

4.2

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

17

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4,148 members

35 reviews

4

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

18

33,476 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

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

19

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,295 members

460 reviews

3.8

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

20

by George Eliot

20,718 members

367 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

9,954 members

246 reviews

3.8

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

23

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,760 members

24 reviews

3.9

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

24

23,079 members

345 reviews

3.8

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

25

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,957 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

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

26

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,783 members

532 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

14,592 members

189 reviews

3.9

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

28

by Henrik Ibsen

6,191 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

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

29

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,390 members

393 reviews

½ 4.4

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

30

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,405 members

133 reviews

3.8

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

31

Poe: Poetry and Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

911 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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

32

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,626 members

171 reviews

4.1

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

33

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,230 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

34

27,425 members

376 reviews

4

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

35

The Portrait of a Lady

12,129 members

139 reviews

3.9

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

36

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,993 members

103 reviews

3.9

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

37

by Gustave Flaubert

29,745 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

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

38

by William Shakespeare

933 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

8,561 members

125 reviews

3.9

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

40

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,472 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

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

41

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

11,412 members

97 reviews

4.1

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

42

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,280 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

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

43

The Late Mattia Pascal

by Luigi Pirandello

2,295 members

36 reviews

3.9

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

44

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,401 members

151 reviews

3.9

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

45

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,453 members

247 reviews

4

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

46

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6,105 members

44 reviews

3.9

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

47

by Giovanni Boccaccio

11,415 members

132 reviews

4

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

48

The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,959 members

72 reviews

4

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

49

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,355 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

50

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

16,557 members

133 reviews

4.1

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

51

5,544 members

83 reviews

3.8

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

52

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,497 members

231 reviews

4

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

53

Metamorphoses [in translation]

15,296 members

113 reviews

4.1

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

54

Collected Poems

4,011 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Jorge Luis Borges

8,846 members

134 reviews

½ 4.4

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

56

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

893 members

16 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

57

Holy Bible: English Standard Version

by Esv Bibles By Crossway

8,621 members

53 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, cindyi1218

58

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,561 members

24 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

59

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,352 members

52 reviews

3.8

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

60

The Red and the Black

10,748 members

144 reviews

3.9

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

61

The Tale of Genji {complete}

by Murasaki Shikibu

6,266 members

66 reviews

3.9

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

62

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,787 members

61 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

63

by Ivan Goncharov

3,911 members

75 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

64

The Makioka Sisters

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

2,525 members

48 reviews

4.1

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

65

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,416 members

206 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Zeno's Conscience

4,081 members

57 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

67

3,608 members

87 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

68

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,570 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

69

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

3,125 members

73 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

70

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso

888 members

9 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

71

by Günter Grass

8,395 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

72

The Last Days of Socrates

6,075 members

27 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72

73

The Travels of Marco Polo

5,926 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, marycloseburn, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

6,480 members

113 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

75

Dream of the Red Chamber

902 members

9 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

76

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,811 members

60 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

77

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

18,949 members

195 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

78

by Theodor Fontane

2,495 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mspixieears

79

Mastro don Gesualdo

by Giovanni Verga

580 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

80

2,659 members

52 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

81

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,447 members

70 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

82

The New Testament in Modern English

by J. B. Phillips

2,032 members

14 reviews

4

3 Members: marycloseburn, ahef1963, mykalfunk

83

by Albert Camus

21,039 members

282 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

84

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,913 members

809 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

85

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

by Edward Gibbon

3,642 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

by Bertolt Brecht

1,253 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963, mspixieears

87

13,674 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

88

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,936 members

69 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

43,963 members

696 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, Bretzky1, NinieB

90

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Anna Comnena

948 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

4,906 members

33 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Bici47

92

The Complete Father Brown Stories

by G. K. Chesterton

4,102 members

37 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB

93

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

267 members

2 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, mspixieears

94

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

2,140 members

14 reviews

4

3 Members: blackdove07, thecoroner, alex68

95

5,998 members

64 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

96

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

15,512 members

122 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72

97

The Eleven Comedies

by Aristophanes

1,863 members

12 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, FranzK72

98

by John Stuart Mill

6,315 members

43 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1

99

Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

by Sylvia Plath

4,460 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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