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cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, kara.shamy, thecoroner, HeyMimi, mkbird, MissJessie, JFGrenier

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1

by Louisa May Alcott

7,078 members

131 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi

2

Pride and Prejudice

75,717 members

1,316 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68,009 members

1,106 reviews

3.9

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

22,716 members

472 reviews

4.1

6 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

55,627 members

882 reviews

4.2

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

32,465 members

535 reviews

4.1

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,019 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

26,858 members

262 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)

by Emily Brontë

4,961 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

10

To Kill a Mockingbird

74,483 members

1,409 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

11

by William Shakespeare

31,090 members

288 reviews

4.2

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Diary of a Young Girl

26,776 members

500 reviews

4.1

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy

13

James and the Giant Peach

18,314 members

347 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Pearl S. Buck

13,205 members

255 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, JFGrenier

15

by George Orwell

56,489 members

839 reviews

4

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,330 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

36,176 members

413 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier,MissJessie

18

by William Shakespeare

24,439 members

221 reviews

4

5 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

20,079 members

438 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Time Machine

16,671 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Margaret Wise Brown

17,223 members

673 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,174 members

114 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Sense and Sensibility

35,985 members

500 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ahef1963, MissJessie, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Little Engine That Could

9,640 members

188 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by George Eliot

10,730 members

151 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

26

by Ludwig Bemelmans

9,677 members

256 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Charlotte's Web

34,126 members

997 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi

28

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey

9,812 members

181 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

42,691 members

729 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

20,828 members

1,034 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,151 members

1,417 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

31,488 members

417 reviews

3.8

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

33

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst

13,236 members

642 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

23,515 members

237 reviews

4

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Wilkie Collins

10,274 members

244 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

8,561 members

55 reviews

½ 4.6

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

37

24,560 members

220 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by George Eliot

16,795 members

317 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Silver Chair

22,151 members

180 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Herman Melville

33,294 members

514 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier,MissJessie

41

The Magician's Nephew

27,258 members

337 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

20,320 members

243 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, HeyMimi, JFGrenier

43

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,383 members

367 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

by Betty MacDonald

4,301 members

36 reviews

4.1

4 Members: mkbird, cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,219 members

742 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, MissJessie, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,070 members

455 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

9,650 members

157 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlan

10,385 members

284 reviews

3.8

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

12,906 members

222 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

34,601 members

356 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

51

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,106 members

323 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

52

35,729 members

489 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

53

13,531 members

410 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

23,275 members

430 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

11,423 members

176 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

9,863 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

16,333 members

416 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Mary Shelley

39,309 members

673 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Frog and Toad Are Friends

by Arnold Lobel

9,426 members

254 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,501 members

195 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

30,738 members

317 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

62

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

18,644 members

172 reviews

4

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

63

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

3,979 members

37 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,711 members

103 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Charles Dickens

22,606 members

223 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy

66

by Charles Dickens

13,041 members

241 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

745 members

4 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Metamorphosis

11,463 members

191 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

69

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

10,760 members

138 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

10,316 members

160 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

7,403 members

145 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Complete Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

477 members

4 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Peggy Parish

6,796 members

204 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

699 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

75

by Richard Adams

23,548 members

455 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

76

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

77,317 members

1,223 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Little House

by Virginia Lee Burton

4,921 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,011 members

277 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

395 members

7 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

80

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

8,005 members

101 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

81

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

by David Macaulay

2,696 members

25 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Henry Fielding

7,763 members

89 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

83

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

4,884 members

17 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

7,502 members

72 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

85

Number the Stars

17,295 members

629 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

Are You My Mother?

by P. D. Eastman

11,438 members

259 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, HeyMimi

87

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

32,510 members

458 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,MissJessie

88

Bedtime for Frances

by Russell Hoban

2,930 members

36 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

89

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,595 members

91 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, kara.shamy

90

Holy Sonnets and Other Divine Poems

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

91

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

2,939 members

54 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mkbird, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

10,731 members

109 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

93

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

14,664 members

210 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Harry the Dirty Dog

3,597 members

112 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

95

Millions of Cats

3,516 members

105 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

96

by Henry David Thoreau

13,321 members

173 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, kara.shamy

97

by William Shakespeare

8,172 members

64 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Complete Poetry of John Milton

2,342 members

20 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Christmas Stories of George Macdonald (Chariot Classics)

by George MacDonald

193 members

1 review

3.8

Member: mkbird

100

The Carrot Seed

3,880 members

59 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, HeyMimi, ManWithAnAgenda

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