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CCE 1000 Good Books List

Type: Preset list created by cej1027

Description: http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/celoop/1000.html

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
58,066 members, 956 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (1), thecoroner (9), kara.shamy (33), ahef1963 (37), cej1027

Score: 10.84

2
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
14,401 members, 221 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), MissJessie (2), thecoroner (29), ahef1963 (67)

Score: 10.49

3
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
47,522 members, 771 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (3), kara.shamy (6), thecoroner (27), ahef1963 (34), cej1027

Score: 10.24

4
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
18,933 members, 189 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (4), thecoroner (19), ahef1963 (40), kara.shamy (67), cej1027

Score: 8.97

5
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
22,710 members, 433 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (5), thecoroner (34), kara.shamy (34), ahef1963 (43), cej1027

Score: 8.79

6
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
22,469 members, 231 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (6), thecoroner (14), kara.shamy (58), ahef1963 (69), cej1027 (107)

Score: 8.71

7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,781 members, 1,161 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), MissJessie (7), thecoroner (33), ahef1963 (60)

Score: 8.61

8
Wuthering Heights [Norton Critical Edition]
by Emily Brontë
4,719 members, 101 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (7), kara.shamy (7), MissJessie (8), ahef1963 (123)

Score: 8.5

9
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
11,671 members, 231 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (1), thecoroner (45), ahef1963 (79), cej1027 (133)

Score: 8.06

10
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
26,438 members, 230 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5), MissJessie (9), kara.shamy (55), ahef1963 (68)

Score: 7.85

11
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
18,501 members, 399 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (10), ahef1963 (17), kara.shamy (23), cej1027

Score: 7.28

12
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
13,538 members, 263 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (11), thecoroner (26), kara.shamy (66), ahef1963 (81)

Score: 6.71

13
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
30,643 members, 359 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (2), thecoroner (18), kara.shamy (20), ahef1963 (64)

Thumbs down: MissJessie

Score: 6.61

14
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
20,477 members, 176 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (15), thecoroner (32), kara.shamy (57), ahef1963 (71)

Score: 6.55

15
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
14,335 members, 287 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (12), ahef1963 (41), thecoroner (69), cej1027

Score: 6.35

16
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
26,138 members, 458 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (13), ahef1963 (50), thecoroner (71), cej1027

Score: 6.22

17
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6,959 members, 104 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (31), ahef1963 (35), kara.shamy (38), cej1027

Score: 6.19

18
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
30,415 members, 422 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (5), MissJessie (16), ahef1963 (62)

Score: 6.1

19
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
9,035 members, 129 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (3), kara.shamy (31), ahef1963 (89)

Score: 6.04

20
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
63,631 members, 1,247 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (4), ahef1963 (29), cej1027

Score: 5.79

21
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
23,300 members, 354 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (5), ahef1963 (46), cej1027

Score: 5.45

22
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
10,422 members, 614 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), cej1027

Score: 5.24

23
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
8,835 members, 198 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (13), thecoroner (36), ahef1963 (92)

Score: 5.03

24
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
7,019 members, 48 reviews
4.61 stars (4.61 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (6), ahef1963 (102), cej1027 (118)

Score: 5.03

25
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,255 members, 269 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), kara.shamy (30), ahef1963 (77)

Score: 4.95

26
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
27,933 members, 436 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), JFGrenier (7), kara.shamy (44)

Thumbs down: MissJessie

Score: 4.84

27
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
44,097 members, 607 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: MissJessie (14), ahef1963 (58), cej1027

Score: 4.75

28
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
19,174 members, 296 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (22), ahef1963 (36), cej1027

Score: 4.72

29
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
18,704 members, 187 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (19), thecoroner (67), ahef1963 (72)

Score: 4.69

30
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
14,747 members, 311 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (64), cej1027

Score: 4.65

31
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
by Dr. Seuss
3,366 members, 78 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), cej1027

Score: 4.6

32
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
27,206 members, 916 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), thecoroner (65), cej1027

Score: 4.59

33
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
20,168 members, 403 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (23), ahef1963 (52), cej1027

Score: 4.55

34
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
46,897 members, 705 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (46), thecoroner (47), ahef1963 (61)

Score: 4.5

35
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
7,289 members, 142 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), thecoroner (53), cej1027

Score: 4.46

36
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28,887 members, 310 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (24), ahef1963 (30), kara.shamy (39), cej1027

Thumbs down: MissJessie

Score: 4.35

37
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
16,494 members, 369 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41), ahef1963 (56), cej1027

Score: 4.28

38
Corduroy
by Don Freeman
10,067 members, 376 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), cej1027

Score: 4.27

39
Emma
by Jane Austen
30,394 members, 416 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4), ahef1963 (63)

Score: 4.25

40
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
24,917 members, 277 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48), thecoroner (70), cej1027

Score: 4.14

41
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
5,726 members, 74 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), kara.shamy (17)

Score: 4.12

42
Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
13,474 members, 625 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), cej1027

Score: 4.06

43
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
11,124 members, 145 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (44), kara.shamy (69), cej1027 (187)

Score: 4.02

44
The Christmas Stories of George Macdonald (Chariot Classics)
by George MacDonald
140 members, 0 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: mkbird (1)

Score: 4

45
The Little Engine That Could
by Watty Piper
6,957 members, 172 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), cej1027

Score: 3.91

46
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
15,802 members, 149 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (59), ahef1963 (76), cej1027 (174)

Score: 3.9

47
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,643 members, 350 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (8), thecoroner (55)

Score: 3.85

48
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
7,444 members, 236 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), cej1027

Score: 3.79

49
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
4,779 members, 86 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (16), thecoroner (25)

Score: 3.79

50
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
16,868 members, 208 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: JFGrenier (9), thecoroner (58)

Score: 3.76

51
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
7,620 members, 172 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), cej1027

Score: 3.69

52
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
15,850 members, 961 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), cej1027

Score: 3.61

53
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
by Alice Dalgliesh
1,516 members, 10 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: mkbird (8), cej1027

Score: 3.61

54
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
3,443 members, 32 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), kara.shamy (48)

Score: 3.55

55
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
19,590 members, 1,321 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), cej1027

Score: 3.55

56
Poems of Robert Browning
by Robert Browning
797 members, 2 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (8), ahef1963 (169)

Score: 3.49

57
Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
by Dr. Seuss
8,521 members, 222 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), cej1027

Score: 3.48

58
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
14,455 members, 458 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), cej1027

Score: 3.43

59
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Seuss
16,031 members, 633 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), cej1027

Score: 3.38

60
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
by Lord George Gordon Byron
631 members, 3 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (10), ahef1963 (165)

Score: 3.37

61
Silent Night
by Joseph Mohr
287 members, 3 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: mkbird (2)

Score: 3.36

62
The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
by Matthew Arnold
160 members, 1 review
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (2)

Score: 3.36

63
The Dolls' House
by Rumer Godden
503 members, 5 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: mkbird (10), ahef1963 (174)

Score: 3.35

64
Put Me in the Zoo
by Robert Lopshire
3,129 members, 37 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), cej1027

Score: 3.34

65
Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
5,041 members, 199 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), cej1027

Score: 3.3

66
The Portable Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer
372 members, 1 review
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (11), ahef1963 (178)

Score: 3.29

67
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
8,490 members, 129 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), ahef1963 (96)

Score: 3.28

68
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
4,544 members, 114 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), cej1027

Score: 3.27

69
The Complete Poems
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
429 members, 3 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (12), ahef1963 (167)

Score: 3.26

70
Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
by Daniel Defoe
619 members, 7 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (14), ahef1963 (170)

Score: 3.18

71
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C. S. Lewis
19,281 members, 197 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), cej1027

Score: 3.15

72
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
11,234 members, 217 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (24), ahef1963 (84)

Score: 3.13

73
Prince Caspian
by C. S. Lewis
19,882 members, 173 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), cej1027

Score: 3.13

74
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
10,178 members, 94 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (38), kara.shamy (51)

Score: 3.11

75
The Horse and His Boy
by C. S. Lewis
19,017 members, 182 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), cej1027

Score: 3.1

76
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
34,384 members, 621 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), cej1027

Score: 3.08

77
The Silver Chair
by C. S. Lewis
17,864 members, 143 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), cej1027

Score: 3.06

78
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
22,017 members, 281 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), cej1027

Score: 3.04

79
The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
2,304 members, 37 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3)

Score: 3.04

80
Catherine of Siena
by Sigrid Undset
208 members, 1 review
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: mkbird (3)

Score: 3.04

81
The Last Battle
by C. S. Lewis
17,457 members, 149 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), cej1027

Score: 3.02

82
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
7,682 members, 108 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39), kara.shamy (65)

Score: 3.01

83
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11,725 members, 222 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), cej1027

Score: 3.01

84
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien
8,219 members, 142 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), cej1027

Score: 2.99

85
The King of the Golden River
by John Ruskin
541 members, 12 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: mkbird (28), cej1027 (122)

Score: 2.94

86
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
12,175 members, 401 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31), cej1027

Score: 2.93

87
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
11,976 members, 308 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32), cej1027

Score: 2.92

88
Man Called Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ahef1963 (33), cej1027

Score: 2.9

89
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
6,602 members, 74 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (36), ahef1963 (109)

Score: 2.87

90
Christmas in the Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown
505 members, 10 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: mkbird (26), cej1027 (175)

Score: 2.87

91
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
3,284 members, 34 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: mkbird (35), cej1027 (114)

Score: 2.87

92
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
4,109 members, 13 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (35), ahef1963 (121)

Score: 2.85

93
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
28,164 members, 382 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), kara.shamy (64), cej1027

Thumbs down: MissJessie

Score: 2.85

94
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
5,977 members, 101 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38), cej1027

Score: 2.85

95
Holy Sonnets and Other Divine Poems
by John Donne
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: kara.shamy (26), ahef1963 (195)

Score: 2.84

96
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
32,392 members, 590 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (61), ahef1963 (65)

Score: 2.84

97
Pilgrims Progress in Today's English
by John Bunyan
316 members, 2 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), cej1027

Score: 2.84

98
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,665 members, 174 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), ahef1963 (85)

Score: 2.83

99
The Bells of Christmas
by Virginia Hamilton
108 members, 1 review
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: mkbird (4)

Score: 2.83

100
The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle
262 members, 6 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (28), ahef1963 (186)

Score: 2.82

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