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

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Beowulf Poet

29,135 members

362 reviews

3.8

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

2

7,561 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

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

3

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

24,982 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

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

4

by William Shakespeare

30,116 members

264 reviews

4

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

5

by William Shakespeare

37,196 members

336 reviews

4.2

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

6

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,278 members

205 reviews

4

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

7

by William Shakespeare

17,254 members

170 reviews

4.1

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

8

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,302 members

597 reviews

4.1

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

9

by William Shakespeare

19,580 members

152 reviews

4

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

10

6,498 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

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

11

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

13,142 members

125 reviews

3.8

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

12

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,836 members

310 reviews

½ 3.7

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

13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

41,873 members

492 reviews

3.9

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

14

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

10,047 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

12,491 members

131 reviews

4

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

17

Pride and Prejudice

93,474 members

1,506 reviews

½ 4.4

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

18

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,665 members

1,556 reviews

½ 4.4

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

19

by Ray Bradbury

63,106 members

1,140 reviews

4

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

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,284 members

865 reviews

3.9

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

21

by William Shakespeare

6,683 members

58 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

22

by Dante Alighieri

27,536 members

229 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Republic of Plato

25,459 members

162 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

12,252 members

115 reviews

4.1

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

8,983 members

104 reviews

3.9

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Charlotte Brontë

67,745 members

1,015 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

27

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4,137 members

35 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

28

The Iliad / The Odyssey

7,152 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

29

33,409 members

509 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

30

10,718 members

324 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

205 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

19,645 members

367 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,779 members

303 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Dante Alighieri

8,288 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Aeneid (translations)

26,633 members

228 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

37

by Dante Alighieri

7,063 members

51 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,721 members

531 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,705 members

487 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

56,674 members

810 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

41

by John Stuart Mill

2,911 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

42

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,336 members

393 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

43

Les Misérables

30,474 members

379 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

44

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

38,951 members

516 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

44,482 members

723 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Prometheus Bound

1,625 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

48

The Picture of Dorian Gray

46,944 members

747 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

966 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: al.vick

50

by Mary Shelley

50,877 members

813 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,235 members

585 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,819 members

810 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by George Orwell

69,726 members

1,002 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

82,611 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Medea [in Translation]

3,405 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

57

by Aristophanes

3,219 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

58

1,922 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

59

Apology ; Crito ; Euthyphro

722 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

60

1,223 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

2,986 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

63

5,534 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4,371 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

65

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,806 members

341 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

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

7,189 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

67

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

by Immanuel Kant

361 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

68

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,679 members

493 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

69

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams

4,408 members

87 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

70

by Gustave Flaubert

29,701 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

71

The War of the Worlds

21,429 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: al.vick
November 2013
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