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Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Award Program (Grades 9-12)

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,270 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,944 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

607 members

1 review

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,634 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

59,379 members

924 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Once and Future King

15,400 members

207 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,252 members

348 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

8

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,602 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,186 members

774 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,799 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,811 members

435 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,324 members

666 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Charlotte Brontë

8,847 members

146 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Beowulf Poet

25,556 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Pearl S. Buck

13,941 members

264 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

19

The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Tales

by Edgar Allen Poe

200 members

1 review

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,916 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,100 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

22

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,393 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

23

by George Orwell

82,465 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Pride and Prejudice

81,201 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by George Orwell

60,402 members

892 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,340 members

708 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Man for All Seasons

3,116 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

28

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,714 members

440 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,802 members

638 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Albert Camus

35,679 members

510 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by William Shakespeare

33,042 members

308 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,417 members

116 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

27,809 members

575 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Murder in the Cathedral

3,120 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

35

20,665 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,326 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Thornton Wilder

5,116 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Wilkie Collins

10,860 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,772 members

193 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,789 members

244 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Henry Fielding

8,172 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,518 members

142 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

6,639 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by William Shakespeare

8,693 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,527 members

42 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,939 members

107 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,802 members

112 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Turn of the Screw

8,173 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

by George Eliot

11,413 members

152 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Upton Sinclair

11,722 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,727 members

271 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,675 members

453 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Herman Melville

35,660 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

40,249 members

387 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Caine Mutiny

3,316 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

58

53,484 members

477 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,921 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

60

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,448 members

496 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

61

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

62

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,276 members

248 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

63

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,065 members

186 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

64

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

65

by William Shakespeare

15,156 members

147 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

66

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,013 members

202 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

67

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,553 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

68

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,748 members

100 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

69

by Robert Graves

9,219 members

168 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

70

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,497 members

146 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

71

6,614 members

93 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

72

by Daniel Defoe

7,719 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,792 members

124 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

by George Bernard Shaw

6,785 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

75

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

A Town Like Alice

3,768 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

77

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,060 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

78

by León Tolstói

38,682 members

632 reviews

4.1

79

Les Misérables

26,437 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

80

23,065 members

199 reviews

3.9

81

The Fountainhead

19,275 members

261 reviews

3.8

82

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,169 members

403 reviews

4.1

83

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,113 members

190 reviews

3.8

84

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

85

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,436 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

86

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,887 members

225 reviews

4

87

by Henry David Thoreau

14,211 members

193 reviews

3.8

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

89

by Willa Cather

13,678 members

287 reviews

3.9

90

by Hermann Hesse

13,612 members

195 reviews

4

91

by Boris Pasternak

11,493 members

152 reviews

3.9

92

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,243 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

93

The Magic Mountain

9,659 members

176 reviews

4.2

94

by Joseph Conrad

9,083 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

95

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,857 members

131 reviews

3.9

96

by Richard Wright

7,776 members

102 reviews

4

97

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

7,468 members

91 reviews

4.1

98

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,376 members

110 reviews

3.8

99

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,353 members

129 reviews

4.1

100

6,162 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

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