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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,605 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,187 members

774 reviews

3.9

11 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

by Albert Camus

35,679 members

510 reviews

3.9

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,812 members

435 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,502 members

478 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

8

by George Orwell

82,451 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

11 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

8 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707, CharlesTheB

10

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,847 members

565 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,519 members

142 reviews

3.8

8 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

12

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,369 members

226 reviews

4

7 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Laura1124

13

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,254 members

348 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, steller0707, CharlesTheB

14

by Edith Wharton

9,541 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, steller0707

15

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,698 members

271 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, CharlesTheB

16

24,225 members

379 reviews

4

7 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, mermind, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif

17

Collected Poems

3,555 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

18

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

6 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

19

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,789 members

244 reviews

4

6 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,050 members

385 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,629 members

698 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

22

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,961 members

121 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Marguerite Duras

5,183 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

24

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,326 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

25

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,606 members

260 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

26

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,270 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Truman Capote

23,875 members

467 reviews

4.1

6 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

6 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,281 members

248 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, steller0707

30

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,705 members

174 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

by E. M. Forster

8,820 members

133 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,496 members

125 reviews

4.1

4 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by William Faulkner

14,851 members

218 reviews

3.9

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

34

19,796 members

228 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,339 members

114 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,975 members

245 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

37

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,634 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

38

Portnoy's Complaint

7,404 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

39

by Albert Camus

18,602 members

249 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, NinieB, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

40

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,013 members

202 reviews

4

4 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963

41

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

42

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,538 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

43

by Joseph Conrad

9,086 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Bretzky1, jeffza, Laura1124, CharlesTheB

44

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

777 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: amanda4242, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

4 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Kurt Vonnegut

22,411 members

301 reviews

4.1

4 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,184 members

41 reviews

3.9

3 Members: amanda4242, mermind, CharlesTheB

48

by Evelyn Waugh

3,832 members

84 reviews

3.8

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124

49

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,912 members

124 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, steller0707

50

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,554 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif

51

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

1,235 members

11 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

52

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

11,060 members

173 reviews

3.8

4 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

54

by Willa Cather

13,679 members

287 reviews

3.9

4 Members: NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

55

The Magic Mountain

9,659 members

176 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jeffza, Sisif, CharlesTheB

56

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,794 members

124 reviews

3.9

4 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

57

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

895 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Cecrow, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,815 members

115 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, Laura1124

59

by Cormac McCarthy

11,676 members

274 reviews

4.2

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, Sisif

60

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

263 members

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, mermind, ahef1963

61

by Joseph Conrad

2,477 members

37 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, CharlesTheB

62

The Periodic Table

4,042 members

70 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mermind, jeffza

63

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,501 members

38 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, NinieB

64

by George Bernard Shaw

6,785 members

78 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963

65

Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

1,701 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy

66

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,603 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Flannery O'Connor

3,883 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: kara.shamy, Sisif, steller0707

68

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

1,994 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

69

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,354 members

14 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,648 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon

71

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

3,803 members

58 reviews

4.2

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif

72

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,751 members

204 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, NinieB

73

The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

2,553 members

39 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

74

by Graham Greene

5,172 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124

75

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952

by Dylan Thomas

2,761 members

21 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Sisif

76

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,251 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon, ahef1963

77

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,931 members

413 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

78

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,728 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, CharlesTheB

79

by Margaret Atwood

4,334 members

110 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

80

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,098 members

84 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

81

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,197 members

141 reviews

3.9

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124

82

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,596 members

151 reviews

4.1

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, steller0707

83

by D. H. Lawrence

6,690 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

84

by Jean-Paul Sartre

10,005 members

83 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

85

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,562 members

275 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

86

3,349 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

87

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: jeffza, Sisif

88

Myra Breckinridge

973 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,528 members

42 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Eugène Ionesco

1,426 members

16 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon

91

by Robert Graves

686 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

92

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,435 members

198 reviews

4

2 Members: jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,868 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Samuel Beckett

1,665 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: Obormot

95

by August Wilson

1,829 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

96

by John Crowe Ransom

113 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, mermind

97

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

4,632 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: tomdoniphon, Sisif

98

by John Cheever

719 members

16 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, Laura1124

99

Les faux-monnayeurs

1,405 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza

100

by Sinclair Lewis

5,093 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124

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