LibraryThingers' 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

89,783 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

18 Members: hipdeep, amysan, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, Charon07, abs.inthe

2

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

13,536 members

245 reviews

4.1

15 Members: dara85, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, Tess_W, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, quondame, jenniferw88, abs.inthe, AntonioSanAlo99, OptimistsDaughter

3

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

69,821 members

1,004 reviews

4

18 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, Tess_W, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, Charon07, abs.inthe

4

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,041 members

1,448 reviews

4.2

15 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07, abs.inthe, ngoomie

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,714 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

15 Members: hipdeep, amysan, MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, abs.inthe

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

67,808 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

14 Members: amysan, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, Tess_W, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, AntonioSanAlo99

7

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,364 members

867 reviews

3.9

15 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, Charon07, abs.inthe, AntonioSanAlo99

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,687 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

14 Members: amysan, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, thecoroner, Tess_W, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, AntonioSanAlo99

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,329 members

597 reviews

4.1

12 Members: hipdeep, amysan, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

107,250 members

1,298 reviews

½ 4.3

13 Members: amysan, MTL, merrystar, alexdaw, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

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Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19,411 members

305 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, dara85, amysan, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,888 members

809 reviews

3.9

11 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, thecoroner, Tess_W, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,456 members

275 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier
Explanations: JaneAustenNut: Doyle's Sherlock was the iconic example of the super sleuth! The beginning of wonderful detective stories for more than a century.

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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

63,197 members

1,141 reviews

4

11 Members: hipdeep, MTL, merrystar, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07, abs.inthe

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

40,774 members

489 reviews

3.8

11 Members: hipdeep, amysan, MTL, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,291 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

12 Members: MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

93,751 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

33,102 members

472 reviews

4

11 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, Charon07

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

46,992 members

748 reviews

4

11 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, abs.inthe

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The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

15,372 members

289 reviews

4

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, thecoroner, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, JFGrenier

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

32,633 members

559 reviews

4

10 Members: MTL, JaneAustenNut, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, abs.inthe

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

43,847 members

804 reviews

4.2

11 Members: hipdeep, MTL, merrystar, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

52,924 members

872 reviews

4.2

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, Charon07, abs.inthe

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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

43,969 members

574 reviews

4.1

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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Rebecca

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,927 members

685 reviews

4.2

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,021 members

1,196 reviews

3.8

11 Members: MTL, JaneAustenNut, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman,cej1027

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith

18,505 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: dara85, MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, RBeffa, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame
Explanations: JaneAustenNut: I read this book when I was young and will read again to see how different the book seems to me now.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

26,570 members

478 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, dara85, MTL, merrystar, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,022 members

612 reviews

4.1

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

33,152 members

576 reviews

4.2

9 Members: merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

53,924 members

854 reviews

4.1

10 Members: MTL, merrystar, alexdaw, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

49,291 members

585 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, MTL, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

41,642 members

618 reviews

3.8

9 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, jeffza, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, JFGrenier, abs.inthe

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

20,707 members

367 reviews

4.2

8 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

30,158 members

264 reviews

4

10 Members: hipdeep, MTL, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,552 members

724 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, MTL, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, JFGrenier, abs.inthe

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,013 members

517 reviews

4.1

9 Members: MTL, JaneAustenNut, MaskedMumbler, cej1027, gypsysmom, NinieB, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, abs.inthe

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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

21,752 members

335 reviews

4.2

9 Members: MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, JFGrenier, abs.inthe

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The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

10,579 members

62 reviews

½ 4.6

9 Members: MTL, merrystar, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, Charon07

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,309 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

9 Members: MTL, alexdaw, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

11,479 members

314 reviews

4

9 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman

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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,266 members

561 reviews

3.8

9 Members: MTL, alexdaw, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, abs.inthe

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

37,244 members

335 reviews

4.2

9 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,766 members

531 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, MTL, thecoroner, gypsysmom, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, abs.inthe

45

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

45,424 members

1,038 reviews

4

9 Members: hipdeep, MTL, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,927 members

478 reviews

3.9

9 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

29,734 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, quondame, sgluckman, abs.inthe

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Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,973 members

158 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,529 members

574 reviews

4.2

7 Members: thecoroner, javiermarias, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88, sgluckman, abs.inthe

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

56,770 members

812 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: MTL, alexdaw, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, Charon07

51

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,952 members

334 reviews

4

9 Members: MTL, merrystar, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88

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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

22,851 members

267 reviews

4

7 Members: thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, jeffza, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, JFGrenier

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

26,466 members

447 reviews

3.9

8 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, Charon07

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Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]

by Lewis Carroll

650 members

10 reviews

4.2

8 Members: merrystar, JaneAustenNut, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,619 members

779 reviews

4.2

8 Members: MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, NinieB, jenniferw88, sgluckman, abs.inthe

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,189 members

776 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

57

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

by Mark Haddon

47,858 members

1,395 reviews

3.9

8 Members: dara85, MTL, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

58

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

15,215 members

310 reviews

3.9

7 Members: dara85, MTL, merrystar, alexdaw, gypsysmom, NinieB, quondame

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Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

41,377 members

1,069 reviews

4.2

7 Members: dara85, MTL, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, Charon07

60

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,926 members

167 reviews

3.8

9 Members: MTL, merrystar, thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

10,649 members

405 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, dara85, MTL, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda

62

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

33,458 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, jeffza, kara.shamy, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Metamorphosis [novella]

by Franz Kafka

15,175 members

276 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, abs.inthe

64

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,828 members

341 reviews

3.9

8 Members: MTL, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

65

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

16,363 members

201 reviews

3.9

8 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman

66

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,537 members

369 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, quondame, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07

67

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

40,692 members

578 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, ahef1963, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, abs.inthe

68

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

24,832 members

347 reviews

4.1

7 Members: MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, ManWithAnAgenda, sgluckman, Charon07

69

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

33,975 members

935 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: dara85, alexdaw, gypsysmom, ahef1963, quondame, jenniferw88

70

Ulysses

by James Joyce

27,414 members

376 reviews

4

6 Members: thecoroner, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, abs.inthe

71

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

52,202 members

2,237 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: dara85, JaneAustenNut, alexdaw, gypsysmom, ahef1963, jenniferw88
Explanations: JaneAustenNut: A book about books & reading. How books feed the soul........great for bibliophiles.

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