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

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Beowulf Poet

29,181 members

362 reviews

3.8

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

2

7,583 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

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

3

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,031 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

4

by William Shakespeare

30,162 members

264 reviews

4

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

5

by William Shakespeare

37,263 members

335 reviews

4.2

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

6

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,302 members

203 reviews

4

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

7

by William Shakespeare

17,120 members

170 reviews

4.1

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

8

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,357 members

597 reviews

4.1

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

9

by William Shakespeare

19,632 members

151 reviews

4

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

10

6,519 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

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

11

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,163 members

125 reviews

3.8

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

12

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,806 members

308 reviews

½ 3.7

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

13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

41,956 members

491 reviews

3.9

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

14

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

10,057 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

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

15

Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare

2,811 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

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

16

by William Shakespeare

12,514 members

131 reviews

4

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

17

Pride and Prejudice

93,819 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

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

18

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,819 members

1,560 reviews

½ 4.4

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

19

by Ray Bradbury

63,248 members

1,141 reviews

4

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

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,399 members

867 reviews

3.9

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

21

by William Shakespeare

6,588 members

58 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

22

by Dante Alighieri

27,607 members

229 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Republic of Plato

25,520 members

162 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,272 members

115 reviews

4.1

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,996 members

103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Charlotte Brontë

67,839 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

27

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4,148 members

35 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

28

The Iliad / The Odyssey

7,197 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

29

33,484 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

30

10,734 members

325 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

31

Oedipus at Colonus (translation)

662 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

19,668 members

368 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,806 members

303 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Dante Alighieri

8,306 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Aeneid (translations)

26,701 members

229 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

37

by Dante Alighieri

7,076 members

51 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,788 members

532 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,772 members

489 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,228 members

816 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

41

by John Stuart Mill

2,913 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

42

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,401 members

394 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

43

Les Misérables

30,548 members

379 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

44

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,039 members

517 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

44,510 members

724 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Prometheus Bound

1,630 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

48

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,039 members

748 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

968 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: al.vick

50

by Mary Shelley

51,039 members

811 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,309 members

585 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,942 members

809 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by George Orwell

69,885 members

1,005 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

82,723 members

1,302 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Medea [in Translation]

3,413 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

57

by Aristophanes

3,217 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

58

1,925 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

59

Apology ; Crito ; Euthyphro

724 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

60

1,225 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

2,994 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

63

5,544 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4,374 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

65

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,838 members

341 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

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

7,202 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

30,793 members

493 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

69

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams

4,412 members

87 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

70

by Gustave Flaubert

29,752 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

71

The War of the Worlds

21,493 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: al.vick
November 2013
Type: Numbered

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