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The Greatest Books

Type: Preset list created by glayer

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Members: 4 participating members (show all)

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1
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,557 members, 292 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 10.4

2
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
36,470 members, 467 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 10.19

3
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,833 members, 802 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
60,960 members, 1,004 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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

Score: 7.47

5
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,569 members, 337 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
66,761 members, 1,303 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
38,710 members, 582 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 6.39

9
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,044 members, 288 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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

Score: 6.3

10
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,575 members, 240 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
29,492 members, 411 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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

Score: 6.24

12
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
17,113 members, 374 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

Score: 6.16

13
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,940 members, 194 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 6.09

14
The Odyssey of Homer
by Ennis Rees
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: thecoroner (1), glayer (29)

Score: 5.72

15
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,448 members, 982 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 5.7

16
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,450 members, 292 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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

Score: 5.58

17
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
15,478 members, 156 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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

Score: 5.57

18
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
10,780 members, 120 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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

Score: 5.49

19
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
69,120 members, 1,127 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), glayer (6)

Score: 5.38

20
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,417 members, 322 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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

Score: 5.35

21
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,639 members, 185 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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

Score: 5.32

22
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,263 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), glayer (8)

Score: 5.21

23
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,115 members, 52 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 5.09

24
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,641 members, 594 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 4.98

25
Dante's Divine Comedy
by William R. Cook
70 members, 0 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), glayer (43)

Score: 4.93

26
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,303 members, 320 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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

Score: 4.85

27
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
28,013 members, 502 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: glayer (3), thecoroner (25)

Score: 4.83

28
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
7,046 members, 77 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 4.63

29
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
24,012 members, 382 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: glayer (7), thecoroner (12)

Score: 4.61

30
The Iliad
by Homer
32,800 members, 333 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 Dostoevsky
24,919 members, 286 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: glayer (11), thecoroner (20)

Score: 4.09

33
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
19,399 members, 363 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), glayer (22)

Score: 4

34
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,493 members, 205 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), glayer (33)

Score: 3.92

35
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
18,883 members, 289 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
5,265 members, 68 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), glayer (96)

Score: 3.83

37
The Aeneid
by Virgil
19,068 members, 170 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), glayer (49)

Score: 3.82

38
Charlotte's Web
by E B White
29,179 members, 943 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (7), glayer (78)

Score: 3.81

39
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
29,379 members, 462 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 Dostoevsky
993 members, 3 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8), glayer (72)

Score: 3.75

41
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
35,423 members, 474 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), glayer (30)

Score: 3.74

42
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,178 members, 1,145 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), glayer (32)

Score: 3.65

43
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,351 members, 652 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), glayer (35)

Score: 3.59

44
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
9,705 members, 112 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: glayer (23), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.57

45
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,874 members, 436 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), glayer (36)

Score: 3.55

46
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,147 members, 141 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), glayer (77)

Score: 3.55

47
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,641 members, 96 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: glayer (25), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.51

48
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
13,797 members, 173 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: glayer (15), thecoroner (54)

Score: 3.51

49
Gargantua And Pantagruel
by François Rabelais
4,245 members, 39 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), glayer (59)

Score: 3.48

50
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
24,348 members, 338 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: glayer (18), thecoroner (47)

Score: 3.47

51
Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4,334 members, 29 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
7,409 members, 51 reviews
4.6 stars (4.6 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), glayer (41)

Score: 3.39

53
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
27,852 members, 247 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), glayer (82)

Score: 3.33

54
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
42,143 members, 661 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), glayer (45)

Score: 3.3

55
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
18,706 members, 151 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21), glayer (65)

Score: 3.28

56
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
6,799 members, 99 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (22), glayer (62)

Score: 3.27

57
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
5,609 members, 76 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (18), glayer (95)

Score: 3.22

58
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,957 members, 269 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (32), glayer (48)

Score: 3.2

59
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
5,485 members, 57 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), glayer (58)

Score: 3.16

60
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,797 members, 74 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (31), glayer (79)

Score: 3.04

61
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,446 members, 617 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (43), glayer (57)

Score: 3.02

62
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,809 members, 177 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), glayer (52)

Score: 3

63
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,598 members, 58 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (33), glayer (88)

Score: 2.98

64
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,583 members, 50 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39), glayer (73)

Score: 2.97

65
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,755 members, 84 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: glayer (51), thecoroner (56)

Score: 2.96

66
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
11,102 members, 308 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (44), glayer (68)

Score: 2.95

67
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos
1,284 members, 13 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (52), glayer (60)

Score: 2.93

68
Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett
732 members, 15 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: glayer (55), thecoroner (59)

Score: 2.91

69
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,933 members, 233 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45), glayer (74)

Score: 2.91

70
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
3,530 members, 44 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (53), glayer (63)

Score: 2.9

72
The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
4,770 members, 44 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (60), glayer (61)

Score: 2.87

73
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,821 members, 119 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41), glayer (94)

Score: 2.87

74
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
22,454 members, 350 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (46), glayer (91)

Score: 2.83

75
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,298 members, 26 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (62), glayer (66)

Score: 2.83

76
Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Defoe
639 members, 7 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (63), glayer (69)

Score: 2.81

77
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,583 members, 421 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (55), glayer (87)

Score: 2.78

78
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,269 members, 227 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (50), glayer (99)

Score: 2.77

79
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,718 members, 78 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (64), glayer (84)

Score: 2.74

80
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
5,460 members, 100 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (65), glayer (86)

Score: 2.72

81
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,288 members, 376 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
20,871 members, 370 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (66), glayer (97)

Score: 2.68

83
Native Son
by Richard Wright
6,685 members, 85 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: glayer (27)

Score: 1.76

84
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
12,797 members, 187 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: glayer (34)

Score: 1.66

85
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
6,358 members, 112 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: glayer (46)

Score: 1.54

86
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
20,395 members, 409 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: glayer (47)

Score: 1.53

87
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
15,697 members, 271 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: glayer (53)

Score: 1.48

88
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,195 members, 93 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: glayer (54)

Score: 1.48

89
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell
2,910 members, 25 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: glayer (56)

Score: 1.46

90
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
15,982 members, 299 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: glayer (64)

Score: 1.41

91
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,727 members, 611 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: glayer (70)

Score: 1.38

92
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,482 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: glayer (71)

Score: 1.38

93
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
6,165 members, 41 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: glayer (76)

Score: 1.36

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

Lists: glayer (80)

Score: 1.34

95
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
19,258 members, 209 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: glayer (83)

Score: 1.33

96
Light in August
by William Faulkner
8,099 members, 94 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: glayer (85)

Score: 1.32

97
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
4,666 members, 98 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: glayer (89)

Score: 1.3

98
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,156 members, 154 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: glayer (90)

Score: 1.3

99
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
9,220 members, 104 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: glayer (92)

Score: 1.29

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