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1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus

Description: The books which are on all the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die lists (currently five). This list shrinks with every new publication, whereas the other grows.

1 2 3 4 5

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,608 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

2

by George Orwell

60,406 members

892 reviews

4

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

3

Pride and Prejudice

81,214 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: Morphidae, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,948 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

12 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

5

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,343 members

708 reviews

3.9

11 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

6

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,715 members

440 reviews

3.9

11 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,357 members

482 reviews

4

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

8

by Charlotte Brontë

59,382 members

924 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

9

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,190 members

774 reviews

3.9

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

10

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,219 members

709 reviews

4.1

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,075 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

12

by George Orwell

82,454 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,845 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

9 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

14

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

55,083 members

490 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, Tigardite, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, shedfire,alex68

15

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,803 members

638 reviews

4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

16

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,987 members

724 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

17

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,801 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

9 Members: gilroy, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,882 members

508 reviews

3.8

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

19

by Sylvia Plath

28,276 members

505 reviews

4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,724 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

21

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

14,011 members

247 reviews

4.1

9 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

22

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,892 members

127 reviews

4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

23

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

24

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44,993 members

770 reviews

4.2

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

25

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,273 members

520 reviews

3.9

9 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707,alex68

26

by Mary Shelley

42,967 members

714 reviews

3.8

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,327 members

666 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

by Albert Camus

35,680 members

510 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

29

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,503 members

478 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, NoPlanetB, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,848 members

565 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

31

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,865 members

616 reviews

4.2

8 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

20,665 members

310 reviews

3.8

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

33

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,876 members

342 reviews

4.1

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

34

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,427 members

476 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

35

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

36

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,633 members

265 reviews

4

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,519 members

142 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Wilkie Collins

10,860 members

251 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

39

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,417 members

116 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

40

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,631 members

698 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj

41

43,790 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

42

Sense and Sensibility

38,391 members

530 reviews

4.1

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,348 members

439 reviews

3.8

7 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,677 members

453 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

45

by Louisa May Alcott

26,674 members

402 reviews

4

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

46

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

47

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

48

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,484 members

477 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

49

The Secret History

20,534 members

559 reviews

4.1

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NoPlanetB, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

The Name of the Rose

19,611 members

315 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, gravir

51

by George Eliot

17,832 members

331 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

52

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,238 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,800 members

251 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

54

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,440 members

303 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

55

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,261 members

178 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

56

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,994 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

57

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,867 members

338 reviews

4.1

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

58

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,097 members

326 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

59

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,696 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

60

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,517 members

215 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,801 members

225 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

62

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,246 members

114 reviews

4.2

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

63

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,729 members

310 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

64

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

47,095 members

285 reviews

½ 4.5

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

65

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,669 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

66

38,267 members

506 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

67

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,264 members

298 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

68

22,658 members

360 reviews

3.8

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,813 members

435 reviews

3.8

6 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

70

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

71

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,756 members

373 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

72

19,244 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

73

The War of the Worlds

18,518 members

310 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj

74

The Time Machine

17,823 members

341 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

75

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,468 members

480 reviews

4.2

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

76

by Isaac Asimov

15,112 members

271 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

77

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,969 members

230 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

78

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,694 members

221 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

79

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,480 members

250 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Michael Cunningham

12,765 members

232 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

81

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,606 members

260 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

82

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,009 members

158 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, Morphidae, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

83

by J. M. Coetzee

10,887 members

279 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

84

by Raymond Chandler

10,345 members

285 reviews

4

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Edith Wharton

9,541 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

86

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,761 members

119 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

87

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,516 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

88

Portnoy's Complaint

7,404 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

89

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,603 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

90

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,563 members

108 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

91

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,251 members

199 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

92

Death in Venice

5,374 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

93

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,812 members

115 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, alex68, kara.shamy, skavlanj

94

by Flannery O'Connor

3,883 members

112 reviews

3.8

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

95

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,487 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

96

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,299 members

45 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, sturlington, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

97

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,228 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,924 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, gravir,alex68

99

by León Tolstói

38,685 members

632 reviews

4.1

5 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

100

35,719 members

630 reviews

4

6 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda,alex68

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