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The Greatest Books

Type: Preset list created by glayer

Description: per thegreatestbooks.org

Members: 4 participating members (show all)

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1
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,786 members, 316 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), glayer (2), thecoroner (3)

Score: 10.4

2
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,930 members, 491 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), ahef1963 (2), glayer (4)

Score: 10.19

3
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,717 members, 843 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (3), ahef1963 (25), glayer (42), thecoroner (67)

Score: 7.8

4
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
64,436 members, 1,060 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), glayer (5), thecoroner (27)

Score: 7.47

5
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,829 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), glayer (10), thecoroner (17)

Score: 6.89

6
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
70,469 members, 1,357 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (2), ahef1963 (22), glayer (39)

Score: 6.81

7
Don Quixote. A Modern Library Giant
by Miguel de Cervantes
7 members, 0 reviews

Lists: glayer (1), thecoroner (7)

Score: 6.46

8
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,721 members, 629 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), glayer (13), thecoroner (23)

Score: 6.39

9
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,938 members, 302 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), glayer (12), thecoroner (40)

Score: 6.3

10
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,371 members, 244 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), thecoroner (14), glayer (17)

Score: 6.29

11
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,968 members, 427 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (4), glayer (20), thecoroner (48)

Score: 6.24

12
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,452 members, 399 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (5), ahef1963 (21), glayer (38)

Score: 6.16

13
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,701 members, 212 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), glayer (14), thecoroner (35)

Score: 6.09

14
The Odyssey
by Homer
46,347 members, 422 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), glayer (29)

Score: 5.72

15
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
64,025 members, 1,019 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), glayer (16), thecoroner (68)

Score: 5.7

16
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,449 members, 308 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), thecoroner (26), glayer (28)

Score: 5.58

17
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,022 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), glayer (19), thecoroner (57)

Score: 5.57

18
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,327 members, 127 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), glayer (26), thecoroner (38)

Score: 5.49

19
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
73,268 members, 1,183 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), glayer (6)

Score: 5.38

20
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,731 members, 345 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (8), thecoroner (36), glayer (81)

Score: 5.35

21
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
19,448 members, 191 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), glayer (31), thecoroner (37)

Score: 5.32

22
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,511 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), glayer (8)

Score: 5.21

23
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,332 members, 53 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), glayer (37), thecoroner (42)

Score: 5.09

24
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,531 members, 625 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), thecoroner (34), glayer (44)

Score: 4.98

25
Dante's Divine Comedy
by William R. Cook
81 members, 0 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), glayer (43)

Score: 4.93

26
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,311 members, 349 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), glayer (40), thecoroner (61)

Score: 4.85

27
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
29,207 members, 523 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: glayer (3), thecoroner (25)

Score: 4.83

28
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
7,433 members, 84 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), glayer (50), thecoroner (69)

Score: 4.63

29
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,454 members, 402 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: glayer (7), thecoroner (12)

Score: 4.61

30
The Iliad
by Homer
34,797 members, 348 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5), glayer (24)

Score: 4.48

31
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Anthony Thorlby
14 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: glayer (9), thecoroner (24)

Score: 4.12

32
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26,299 members, 297 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: glayer (11), thecoroner (20)

Score: 4.09

33
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,456 members, 381 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), glayer (22)

Score: 4

34
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,265 members, 216 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), glayer (33)

Score: 3.92

35
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
20,548 members, 306 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (6), glayer (75)

Score: 3.92

36
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,540 members, 72 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), glayer (96)

Score: 3.83

37
The Aeneid
by Virgil
20,276 members, 183 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), glayer (49)

Score: 3.82

38
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
31,505 members, 966 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (7), glayer (78)

Score: 3.81

39
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,330 members, 491 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (19), glayer (21)

Score: 3.78

40
Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1,064 members, 3 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8), glayer (72)

Score: 3.75

41
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
36,869 members, 495 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), glayer (30)

Score: 3.74

42
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,756 members, 1,258 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), glayer (32)

Score: 3.65

43
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,884 members, 699 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), glayer (35)

Score: 3.59

44
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,211 members, 121 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: glayer (23), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.57

45
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,751 members, 467 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), glayer (36)

Score: 3.55

46
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,652 members, 153 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), glayer (77)

Score: 3.55

47
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,989 members, 100 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: glayer (25), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.51

48
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,581 members, 186 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: glayer (15), thecoroner (54)

Score: 3.51

49
Gargantua And Pantagruel
by François Rabelais
4,463 members, 45 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), glayer (59)

Score: 3.48

50
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
25,922 members, 358 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: glayer (18), thecoroner (47)

Score: 3.47

51
Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4,667 members, 34 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (13), glayer (93)

Score: 3.4

52
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
7,944 members, 52 reviews
4.6 stars (4.6 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), glayer (41)

Score: 3.39

53
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,477 members, 269 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), glayer (82)

Score: 3.33

54
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,461 members, 701 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), glayer (45)

Score: 3.3

55
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
19,757 members, 155 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21), glayer (65)

Score: 3.28

56
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
7,102 members, 106 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (22), glayer (62)

Score: 3.27

57
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
5,908 members, 83 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (18), glayer (95)

Score: 3.22

58
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
12,649 members, 286 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (32), glayer (48)

Score: 3.2

59
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
5,894 members, 64 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), glayer (58)

Score: 3.16

60
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
4,014 members, 78 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (31), glayer (79)

Score: 3.04

61
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
36,912 members, 646 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (43), glayer (57)

Score: 3.02

62
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,433 members, 184 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), glayer (52)

Score: 3

63
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,795 members, 58 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (33), glayer (88)

Score: 2.98

64
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,818 members, 53 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39), glayer (73)

Score: 2.97

65
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
7,046 members, 90 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: glayer (51), thecoroner (56)

Score: 2.96

66
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,710 members, 317 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (44), glayer (68)

Score: 2.95

67
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,362 members, 13 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (52), glayer (60)

Score: 2.93

68
Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett
770 members, 15 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: glayer (55), thecoroner (59)

Score: 2.91

69
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,452 members, 242 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45), glayer (74)

Score: 2.91

70
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
3,698 members, 45 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (53), glayer (63)

Score: 2.9

71
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
764 members, 11 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (51), glayer (67)

Score: 2.9

72
The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
5,010 members, 49 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (60), glayer (61)

Score: 2.87

73
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
13,561 members, 130 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41), glayer (94)

Score: 2.87

74
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
23,673 members, 365 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (46), glayer (91)

Score: 2.83

75
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,359 members, 28 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (62), glayer (66)

Score: 2.83

76
Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Defoe
670 members, 8 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (63), glayer (69)

Score: 2.81

77
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
32,110 members, 457 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (55), glayer (87)

Score: 2.78

78
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,752 members, 230 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (50), glayer (99)

Score: 2.77

79
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,945 members, 81 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (64), glayer (84)

Score: 2.74

80
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
5,698 members, 104 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (65), glayer (86)

Score: 2.72

81
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
34,221 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (58), glayer (98)

Score: 2.72

82
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
22,439 members, 390 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (66), glayer (97)

Score: 2.68

83
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,064 members, 87 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: glayer (27)

Score: 1.76

84
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
13,493 members, 195 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: glayer (34)

Score: 1.66

85
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
6,696 members, 118 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: glayer (46)

Score: 1.54

86
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
21,407 members, 418 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: glayer (47)

Score: 1.53

87
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
17,098 members, 292 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: glayer (53)

Score: 1.48

88
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,396 members, 93 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: glayer (54)

Score: 1.48

89
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell
3,132 members, 28 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: glayer (56)

Score: 1.46

90
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
16,971 members, 316 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: glayer (64)

Score: 1.41

91
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,508 members, 644 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: glayer (70)

Score: 1.38

92
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,789 members, 90 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: glayer (71)

Score: 1.38

93
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
6,431 members, 47 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: glayer (76)

Score: 1.36

94
Pilgrim's Promise
by Emma Goldrick
16 members, 0 reviews
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Lists: glayer (80)

Score: 1.34

95
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,292 members, 223 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: glayer (83)

Score: 1.33

96
Light in August
by William Faulkner
8,510 members, 98 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: glayer (85)

Score: 1.32

97
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
5,025 members, 103 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: glayer (89)

Score: 1.3

98
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,500 members, 169 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: glayer (90)

Score: 1.3

99
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
9,708 members, 110 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: glayer (92)

Score: 1.29

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