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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 11,079 copies, 127 reviews1
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 13,079 copies, 124 reviews3
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 80,091 copies, 1,363 reviews5
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,419 copies, 455 reviews6
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 11,492 copies, 135 reviews7
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,327 copies, 371 reviews8
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,069 copies, 243 reviews9
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8,571 copies, 115 reviews10
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,256 copies, 396 reviews11
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 32,548 copies, 322 reviews12
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,217 copies, 432 reviews13
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 10,663 copies, 117 reviews15
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 42,649 copies, 518 reviews16
Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe 235 copies, 2 reviews17
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,270 copies, 153 reviews19
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 20,531 copies, 269 reviews20
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving 420 copies, 5 reviews21
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,546 copies, 247 reviews22
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke 925 copies, 13 reviews23
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories {29 stories} by O. Henry 204 copies, 3 reviews24
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,013 copies, 239 reviews25
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain 4,600 copies, 51 reviews26
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 33,680 copies, 429 reviews27
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,651 copies, 72 reviews28
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 5,102 copies, 85 reviews29
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 16,907 copies, 265 reviews30
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 24,452 copies, 521 reviews31
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 9,268 copies, 78 reviews32
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister 2,289 copies, 42 reviews33
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,380 copies, 142 reviews34
The Sea Wolf by Jack London 4,330 copies, 53 reviews35
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems (The World's Best Reading) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 261 copies, 3 reviews36
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1,756 copies, 11 reviews37
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 16,405 copies, 440 reviews38
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,291 copies, 539 reviews39
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 8,931 copies, 201 reviews40
On Our Selection and Our New Selection by Steele Rudd 75 copies, 3 reviews42
Lost Horizon by James Hilton 3,951 copies, 100 reviews43
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 3,806 copies, 52 reviews44
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 6,297 copies, 164 reviews45
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 11,324 copies, 151 reviews46
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang 718 copies, 8 reviews47
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 34,100 copies, 470 reviews48
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 16,857 copies, 190 reviews49
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,026 copies, 312 reviews50
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Paul Creswick 1,062 copies, 6 reviews52
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 14,703 copies, 225 reviews53
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories by Mark Twain 558 copies, 2 reviews54
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 5,296 copies, 85 reviews55
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3,280 copies, 59 reviews57
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery 29,074 copies, 553 reviews58
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 23,480 copies, 329 reviews59
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 430 copies, 2 reviews60
Dusty Man Shy World's Best Reading Frank Dalby Davison (Reader's Digest Association World's Best Reading) by Frank Dalby Davison 22 copies61
Life with Father by Clarence Day 718 copies, 11 reviews62
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4,707 copies, 69 reviews63
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 2,845 copies, 29 reviews65
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 20,568 copies, 606 reviews67
Emma by Jane Austen 37,728 copies, 505 reviews69
To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London 1,106 copies, 23 reviews70
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 5,674 copies, 127 reviews71
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling 5,044 copies, 51 reviews72
Roughing It by Mark Twain 3,214 copies, 33 reviews73
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 3,308 copies, 53 reviews74
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 3,718 copies, 139 reviews75
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Jr. Dana 3,369 copies, 55 reviews77
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson 2,189 copies, 42 reviews79
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 5,675 copies, 55 reviews81
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn 2,239 copies, 54 reviews82
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 21,145 copies, 249 reviews84
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,268 copies, 112 reviews85
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,322 copies, 197 reviews86
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 13,811 copies, 299 reviews87
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9,367 copies, 86 reviews88
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 42,285 copies, 706 reviews89
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 8,987 copies, 115 reviews91
My Ántonia by Willa Cather 13,537 copies, 284 reviews92
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,630 copies, 165 reviews94
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham 3,397 copies, 63 reviews95
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 4,075 copies, 75 reviews96
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 26,080 copies, 389 reviews98
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1,622 copies, 50 reviews100
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 8,047 copies, 64 reviews102
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy 1,041 copies, 22 reviews103
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,483 copies, 131 reviews104
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,895 copies, 107 reviews105
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 7,627 copies, 102 reviews106
The American by Henry James 2,061 copies, 25 reviews107
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 12,874 copies, 204 reviews108
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,222 copies, 628 reviews110
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 3,678 copies, 53 reviews111
Dracula by Bram Stoker 34,829 copies, 600 reviews112
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,457 copies, 99 reviews113
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,479 copies, 417 reviews114
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,658 copies, 200 reviews115
The Ambassadors by Henry James 3,964 copies, 43 reviews117
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 5,077 copies, 170 reviews119
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,674 copies, 131 reviews120
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville 1,202 copies, 14 reviews121
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,873 copies, 92 reviews122
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 8,741 copies, 129 reviews125
Adam Bede by George Eliot 4,178 copies, 71 reviews127
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott 4,883 copies, 34 reviews128
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,577 copies, 41 reviews129
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 5,024 copies, 96 reviews130
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 4,760 copies, 112 reviews131
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 11,582 copies, 128 reviews132

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