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Description: a selection of the great books, and some additions

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Beowulf Poet

29,401 members

363 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

7,626 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,079 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by William Shakespeare

30,006 members

262 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by William Shakespeare

37,461 members

337 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

6

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,398 members

203 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by William Shakespeare

17,207 members

168 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

8

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,538 members

599 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by William Shakespeare

19,534 members

151 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

6,554 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,216 members

126 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,975 members

308 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,166 members

491 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

14

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

10,038 members

99 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare

2,840 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by William Shakespeare

12,537 members

131 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Pride and Prejudice

94,384 members

1,513 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,242 members

1,561 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Ray Bradbury

63,604 members

1,142 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,675 members

871 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by William Shakespeare

6,625 members

58 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

22

by Dante Alighieri

27,760 members

229 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Republic of Plato

25,652 members

164 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,320 members

115 reviews

4.1

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

9,030 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Charlotte Brontë

68,199 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

27

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4,162 members

35 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

28

The Iliad / The Odyssey

7,261 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

29

33,700 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

30

10,813 members

325 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

31

Oedipus at Colonus (translation)

663 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

32

206 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

33

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,724 members

368 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,998 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Dante Alighieri

8,323 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Aeneid (translations)

26,892 members

230 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

37

by Dante Alighieri

7,110 members

51 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,974 members

531 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

41,010 members

492 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,514 members

818 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

41

by John Stuart Mill

2,931 members

17 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

42

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,595 members

396 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

43

Les Misérables

30,593 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

44

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,267 members

520 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Seven Against Thebes

407 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: al.vick

46

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,765 members

726 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Prometheus Bound

1,639 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

48

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,346 members

749 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

974 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: al.vick

50

by Mary Shelley

51,304 members

814 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,553 members

586 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,371 members

813 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by George Orwell

70,263 members

1,009 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)

151 members

½ 3.5

Member: al.vick

55

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,119 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Medea [in Translation]

3,437 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

57

by Aristophanes

3,228 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

58

1,939 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

59

Apology ; Crito ; Euthyphro

728 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

60

1,231 members

8 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

61

The Discourses of Epictetus

406 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: al.vick

62

Plutarch's Lives

2,991 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

63

5,546 members

83 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4,405 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

65

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,961 members

342 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

7,256 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

67

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics / Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

362 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

68

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,948 members

495 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

69

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams

4,418 members

87 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

70

by Gustave Flaubert

29,907 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

71

The War of the Worlds

21,624 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: al.vick
November 2013
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