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My list of 100 books to read next

Type: Preset list created by FlorianKarpfinger

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1
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
70,601 members, 1,357 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: Asteracee (1), ahef1963 (3), FlorianKarpfinger (3), ManWithAnAgenda (22)

Score: 11.93

2
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
73,457 members, 1,186 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), FlorianKarpfinger (1), ManWithAnAgenda (21)

Score: 9.87

3
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,345 members, 128 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), FlorianKarpfinger (5), ManWithAnAgenda (20)

Score: 7.4

4
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
12,430 members, 197 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), FlorianKarpfinger (8), ManWithAnAgenda (19)

Score: 6.75

5
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,577 members, 703 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), FlorianKarpfinger (2)

Score: 6.73

6
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
47,719 members, 924 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), FlorianKarpfinger (11), ManWithAnAgenda (18)

Score: 6.39

7
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
34,211 members, 481 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), FlorianKarpfinger (12), ManWithAnAgenda (17)

Score: 6.32

8
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
25,570 members, 484 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), ManWithAnAgenda (16), FlorianKarpfinger (16)

Score: 6.07

9
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
8,505 members, 284 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (15), ahef1963 (15), FlorianKarpfinger (17)

Score: 6.04

10
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,984 members, 304 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14), ahef1963 (16), FlorianKarpfinger (18)

Score: 6.01

11
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
34,293 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (13), ahef1963 (17), FlorianKarpfinger (19)

Score: 5.99

12
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,462 members, 186 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (4), ahef1963 (29), FlorianKarpfinger (87)

Score: 5.86

13
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
27,379 members, 366 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10), ahef1963 (21), FlorianKarpfinger (41)

Score: 5.7

14
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
13,481 members, 270 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12), ahef1963 (19), FlorianKarpfinger (37)

Score: 5.69

15
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,750 members, 577 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (11), ahef1963 (20), FlorianKarpfinger (40)

Score: 5.68

16
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,359 members, 557 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7), ahef1963 (31), FlorianKarpfinger (97)

Score: 5.43

17
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
31,032 members, 429 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (4), ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 5.38

18
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,513 members, 382 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), ahef1963 (30), FlorianKarpfinger (92)

Score: 5.38

19
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
6,010 members, 96 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), FlorianKarpfinger (86)

Score: 5.31

20
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
27,415 members, 456 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), FlorianKarpfinger (6)

Score: 5.23

21
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,334 members, 223 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), FlorianKarpfinger (7)

Score: 5.02

22
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
17,163 members, 162 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), FlorianKarpfinger (9)

Score: 4.69

23
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
4,167 members, 98 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), FlorianKarpfinger (94)

Score: 4.65

24
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,807 members, 90 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), FlorianKarpfinger (10)

Score: 4.56

25
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,200 members, 122 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), FlorianKarpfinger (83)

Score: 4.37

26
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,502 members, 233 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), FlorianKarpfinger (13)

Score: 4.26

27
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
by Truman Capote
2,389 members, 61 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), FlorianKarpfinger (55)

Score: 4.14

28
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
5,424 members, 142 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), FlorianKarpfinger (15)

Score: 4.14

29
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
7,332 members, 223 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9), FlorianKarpfinger (56)

Score: 3.77

30
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
14,414 members, 379 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), FlorianKarpfinger (34)

Score: 3.6

31
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,770 members, 231 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), FlorianKarpfinger (45)

Score: 3.39

32
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
18,167 members, 285 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), FlorianKarpfinger (60)

Score: 3.26

33
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,792 members, 631 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), FlorianKarpfinger (61)

Score: 3.24

34
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Feodor Dostoevsky
69 members, 1 review
4.6 stars (4.6 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), FlorianKarpfinger (63)

Score: 3.21

35
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,795 members, 238 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), FlorianKarpfinger (65)

Score: 3.18

36
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,819 members, 175 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), FlorianKarpfinger (66)

Score: 3.16

37
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
3,157 members, 32 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), FlorianKarpfinger (78)

Score: 3.09

38
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,732 members, 212 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31), FlorianKarpfinger (98)

Score: 2.97

39
The Mask of Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
1,657 members, 44 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (14)

Score: 2.07

40
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,584 members, 154 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (20)

Score: 1.89

41
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
1,850 members, 42 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (21)

Score: 1.87

42
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
2,178 members, 30 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (22)

Score: 1.85

43
Germinal
by Émile Zola
4,834 members, 73 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (23)

Score: 1.83

44
A Heart So White
by Javier Marías
1,701 members, 48 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (24)

Score: 1.81

45
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
5,829 members, 138 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (25)

Score: 1.79

46
Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
2,239 members, 78 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (26)

Score: 1.77

47
Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
888 members, 14 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (27)

Score: 1.76

48
Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
1,785 members, 57 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (28)

Score: 1.74

49
The Asphalt Jungle
by W. R. Burnett
228 members, 4 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (29)

Score: 1.72

50
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
2,311 members, 41 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (30)

Score: 1.71

51
The Ministry of Fear
by Graham Greene
1,484 members, 26 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (31)

Score: 1.7

52
I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
1,283 members, 27 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (32)

Score: 1.68

53
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,673 members, 32 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (33)

Score: 1.67

54
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
10,290 members, 134 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (35)

Score: 1.65

55
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
3,909 members, 61 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36)

Score: 1.63

56
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
5,737 members, 150 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (38)

Score: 1.61

57
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,731 members, 63 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.6

58
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,112 members, 61 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 1.57

59
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,598 members, 13 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (43)

Score: 1.56

60
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
1,423 members, 33 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (44)

Score: 1.55

61
The Gulag Archipelago (Parts I-IV)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
112 members, 0 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

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Score: 1.54

62
The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
499 members, 9 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (47)

Score: 1.53

63
The Strudlhof Steps
by Heimito von Doderer
246 members, 2 reviews
4.57 stars (4.57 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (48)

Score: 1.52

64
Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
2,136 members, 28 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

65
Oblomov and The Precipice
by Ivan Goncharov
0 members, 0 reviews

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Score: 1.5

66
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
5,574 members, 82 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (51)

Score: 1.5

67
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
3,056 members, 56 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

68
Papillon
by Henri Charrière
3,476 members, 57 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

69
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
3,486 members, 101 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (54)

Score: 1.48

70
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
4,003 members, 74 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (57)

Score: 1.46

71
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
3,533 members, 69 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (58)

Score: 1.45

72
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day
by Elie Wiesel
1,656 members, 17 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (59)

Score: 1.44

73
The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez
3,582 members, 35 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (62)

Score: 1.43

74
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,971 members, 79 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (64)

Score: 1.41

75
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,369 members, 13 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (67)

Score: 1.4

76
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
3,316 members, 154 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (68)

Score: 1.39

77
Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
2,992 members, 105 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (69)

Score: 1.39

78
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
5,152 members, 93 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (70)

Score: 1.38

79
Paris Gazette
by Lion Feuchtwanger
73 members, 0 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (71)

Score: 1.38

80
Lust
by Elfriede Jelinek
564 members, 14 reviews
3.26 stars (3.26 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (72)

Score: 1.37

81
Der Untertan. Im Schlaraffenland
by Heinrich Mann
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (73)

Score: 1.37

82
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth
370 members, 11 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (74)

Score: 1.36

83
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
5,718 members, 89 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (75)

Score: 1.36

84
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,616 members, 186 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (76)

Score: 1.36

85
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,836 members, 42 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (77)

Score: 1.35

86
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,324 members, 124 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (79)

Score: 1.34

87
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,828 members, 33 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (80)

Score: 1.34

88
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,237 members, 18 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (81)

Score: 1.33

89
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
12,024 members, 232 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (82)

Score: 1.33

90
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,522 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (84)

Score: 1.32

91
The Words
by Jean-Paul Sartre
2,132 members, 16 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (85)

Score: 1.32

92
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
9,370 members, 131 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (88)

Score: 1.31

93
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,448 members, 25 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (89)

Score: 1.3

94
The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
2,594 members, 51 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (90)

Score: 1.3

95
Queen Margot
by Alexandre Dumas
1,455 members, 21 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (91)

Score: 1.3

96
War and Remembrance
by Herman Wouk
2,494 members, 36 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (93)

Score: 1.29

97
L. A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
3,164 members, 35 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (95)

Score: 1.28

98
Simplicissimus
by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,083 members, 19 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (96)

Score: 1.28

99
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
8,349 members, 116 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (99)

Score: 1.27

100
What a Beautiful Sunday!
by Jorge Semprún
227 members, 2 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (100)

Score: 1.27

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