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Type: Preset list created by FlorianKarpfinger

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1
1984
by George Orwell
63,308 members, 1,024 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 8

2
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
38,351 members, 597 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 6.73

3
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
61,110 members, 1,211 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

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Score: 6.08

4
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
9,883 members, 111 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 5.5

5
The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
23,158 members, 372 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 5.23

6
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
17,712 members, 195 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 5.02

7
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
10,921 members, 172 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

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Score: 4.84

8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
14,820 members, 145 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 4.69

9
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
7,912 members, 84 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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Score: 4.56

10
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
40,247 members, 789 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), FlorianKarpfinger (11)

Score: 4.45

11
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
29,306 members, 410 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), FlorianKarpfinger (12)

Score: 4.35

12
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,367 members, 210 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 4.26

13
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
4,830 members, 121 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 4.14

14
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
22,006 members, 434 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 4.07

15
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
6,737 members, 218 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 4

16
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
13,626 members, 251 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), FlorianKarpfinger (18)

Score: 3.94

17
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
29,349 members, 344 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), FlorianKarpfinger (19)

Score: 3.89

18
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
11,173 members, 289 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 3.6

19
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0 members, 0 reviews

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Score: 3.54

20
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
29,192 members, 494 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 3.48

21
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
23,579 members, 333 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 3.45

22
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,375 members, 210 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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Score: 3.39

23
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
15,816 members, 243 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 3.26

24
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35,739 members, 527 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 3.24

25
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Feodor Dostoevsky
67 members, 1 review
4.6 stars (4.6 stars)

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Score: 3.21

26
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
16,031 members, 209 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 3.18

27
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10,310 members, 154 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 3.16

28
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
2,651 members, 30 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), FlorianKarpfinger (78)

Score: 3.09

29
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
11,772 members, 165 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 3.03

30
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
17,441 members, 329 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), FlorianKarpfinger (92)

Score: 3

31
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
15,411 members, 474 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31), FlorianKarpfinger (97)

Score: 2.97

32
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
13,665 members, 170 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2.97

33
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
27,097 members, 373 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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Score: 2.83

34
The Mask of Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
1,373 members, 39 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 2.07

35
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,519 members, 120 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (20)

Score: 1.89

36
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
1,506 members, 31 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (21)

Score: 1.87

37
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
1,883 members, 27 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (22)

Score: 1.85

38
Germinal
by Émile Zola
4,086 members, 61 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (23)

Score: 1.83

39
A Heart So White
by Javier Marías
1,406 members, 43 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (24)

Score: 1.81

40
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
4,805 members, 106 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (25)

Score: 1.79

41
Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
1,691 members, 56 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (26)

Score: 1.77

42
Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
755 members, 12 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (27)

Score: 1.76

43
Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
1,475 members, 51 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 1.74

44
The Asphalt Jungle
by William Riley Burnett
189 members, 4 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (29)

Score: 1.72

45
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
2,005 members, 39 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.71

46
The Ministry of Fear
by Graham Greene
1,252 members, 20 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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Score: 1.7

47
I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
1,104 members, 24 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 1.68

48
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,515 members, 26 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 1.67

49
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
8,582 members, 113 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.65

50
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
3,614 members, 53 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (36)

Score: 1.63

51
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
5,223 members, 143 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.61

52
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,289 members, 58 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1.6

53
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
1,760 members, 45 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (42)

Score: 1.57

54
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,359 members, 11 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (43)

Score: 1.56

55
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
1,217 members, 32 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 1.55

56
The Gulag Archipelago (Parts I-IV)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
92 members, 0 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

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Score: 1.54

57
The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
400 members, 7 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 1.53

58
The Strudlhof Steps
by Heimito von Doderer
169 members, 1 review
4.65 stars (4.65 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (48)

Score: 1.52

59
Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
1,861 members, 24 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (49)

Score: 1.51

60
Oblomov and The Precipice
by Ivan Goncharov
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (50)

Score: 1.5

61
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,956 members, 79 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 1.5

62
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
2,693 members, 48 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (52)

Score: 1.49

63
Papillon
by Henri Charrière
2,941 members, 46 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (53)

Score: 1.48

64
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
2,820 members, 77 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (54)

Score: 1.48

65
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
by Truman Capote
1,957 members, 46 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (55)

Score: 1.47

66
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
5,833 members, 195 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (56)

Score: 1.46

67
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
3,526 members, 72 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (57)

Score: 1.46

68
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
3,100 members, 60 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (58)

Score: 1.45

69
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day
by Elie Wiesel
1,349 members, 13 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (59)

Score: 1.44

70
The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez
3,057 members, 27 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (62)

Score: 1.43

71
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,280 members, 71 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (64)

Score: 1.41

72
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,629 members, 14 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (67)

Score: 1.4

73
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
2,808 members, 141 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (68)

Score: 1.39

74
Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
2,626 members, 100 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (69)

Score: 1.39

75
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann
4,450 members, 81 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (70)

Score: 1.38

76
Paris Gazette
by Lion Feuchtwanger
65 members, 0 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (71)

Score: 1.38

77
Lust
by Elfriede Jelinek
495 members, 11 reviews
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (72)

Score: 1.37

78
Der Untertan. Im Schlaraffenland
by Heinrich Mann
3 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.37

79
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth
304 members, 9 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (74)

Score: 1.36

80
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
5,220 members, 79 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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Score: 1.36

81
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
12,528 members, 154 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.36

82
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,384 members, 35 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (77)

Score: 1.35

83
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,513 members, 105 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (79)

Score: 1.34

84
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,368 members, 31 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 1.34

85
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,049 members, 14 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (81)

Score: 1.33

86
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
10,234 members, 196 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.33

87
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
8,932 members, 103 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (83)

Score: 1.33

88
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
2,973 members, 38 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (84)

Score: 1.32

89
The Words
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,870 members, 12 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (85)

Score: 1.32

90
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
5,205 members, 87 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (86)

Score: 1.31

91
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,220 members, 111 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (88)

Score: 1.31

92
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola
1,264 members, 20 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (89)

Score: 1.3

93
The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
2,249 members, 46 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (90)

Score: 1.3

94
Queen Margot
by Alexandre Dumas
1,249 members, 18 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (91)

Score: 1.3

95
War and Remembrance
by Herman Wouk
2,138 members, 32 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (93)

Score: 1.29

96
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
3,551 members, 76 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (94)

Score: 1.29

97
L. A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
2,821 members, 31 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (95)

Score: 1.28

98
The Adventures of a Simpleton
by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
899 members, 16 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (96)

Score: 1.28

99
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
7,160 members, 89 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: FlorianKarpfinger (99)

Score: 1.27

100
What a Beautiful Sunday!
by Jorge Semprún
197 members, 2 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1.27

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