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Twentieth Century Greatest Hits

Rank Title Author Added

1

by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,072 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: arrwa, JqnOC, ahef1963, raperper,kageeh

2

by George Orwell

82,465 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

4 Members: kageeh, susiesharp, JqnOC, ahef1963

3

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,863 members

616 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kageeh, susiesharp, ahef1963

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,945 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: kageeh, tanhome, ahef1963

5

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: arrwa, ahef1963, jeffza

6

by J. M. Barrie

19,085 members

326 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kageeh, susiesharp, ahef1963

7

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,603 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

3 Members: kageeh, ahef1963, jeffza,arrwa

8

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,634 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, raperper

9

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,497 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: eromsted, ahef1963

10

by George Orwell

60,402 members

892 reviews

4

2 Members: JqnOC, ahef1963

11

by Terry Pratchett

34,980 members

794 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: susiesharp, ahef1963

12

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,013 members

202 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, raperper

13

by Ray Bradbury

54,262 members

1,006 reviews

4

2 Members: susiesharp, ahef1963

14

The Chronicles of Narnia

36,074 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: tanhome, ahef1963

15

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,922 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: JqnOC, tanhome,ahef1963

16

by Joseph Heller

40,180 members

529 reviews

4.1

Member: tanhome

17

by Richard Wright

7,776 members

102 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

18

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,501 members

478 reviews

4.1

Member: tanhome

19

by Stephen King

4,628 members

102 reviews

4.2

Member: susiesharp

20

The Adventures of Augie March

3,872 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

21

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

4,246 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: eromsted

22

by Vasily Grossman

3,454 members

89 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: raperper

23

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,810 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

24

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,266 members

24 reviews

4.2

Member: raperper

25

The Magic Mountain

9,659 members

176 reviews

4.2

Member: eromsted

26

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,648 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: raperper

27

9,257 members

137 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,raperper

About This List

Started: sturlington
February 2012
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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