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1

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,675 members

453 reviews

4.1

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2

Pride and Prejudice

81,202 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

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3

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,341 members

708 reviews

3.9

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4

by Charlotte Brontë

59,380 members

924 reviews

4.2

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5

by Herman Melville

35,660 members

545 reviews

3.8

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6

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,799 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

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7

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17,928 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

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8

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,638 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

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9

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,714 members

440 reviews

3.9

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10

by Mary Shelley

42,962 members

714 reviews

3.8

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11

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,449 members

496 reviews

4.2

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12

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

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13

35,714 members

630 reviews

4

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14

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,186 members

774 reviews

3.9

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15

by León Tolstói

29,045 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

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16

Les Misérables

26,437 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

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17

by George Orwell

82,465 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

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18

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,603 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

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19

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,802 members

638 reviews

4

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20

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,500 members

478 reviews

4.1

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21

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,303 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

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22

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,278 members

248 reviews

3.8

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23

24,235 members

379 reviews

4

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24

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

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25

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,630 members

698 reviews

4.2

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26

by Sir Walter Scott

13,108 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,243 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

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28

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,922 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

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29

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

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30

The Red and the Black

9,554 members

136 reviews

3.8

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31

by Albert Camus

35,679 members

510 reviews

3.9

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32

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

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33

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,553 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

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34

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

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35

by Ray Bradbury

54,262 members

1,006 reviews

4

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36

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,772 members

193 reviews

3.9

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37

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,169 members

403 reviews

4.1

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38

by Willa Cather

13,679 members

287 reviews

3.9

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39

The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

2,841 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

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40

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,857 members

131 reviews

3.9

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41

by Boris Pasternak

11,493 members

152 reviews

3.9

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42

by Giovanni Boccaccio

10,065 members

120 reviews

4

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43

by Upton Sinclair

11,722 members

129 reviews

3.8

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44

20,665 members

310 reviews

3.8

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45

by Honoré de Balzac

5,997 members

109 reviews

3.8

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46

11,934 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

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47

by Henry Fielding

8,172 members

95 reviews

3.9

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48

by Rudyard Kipling

9,040 members

201 reviews

3.8

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49

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,369 members

226 reviews

4

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50

by George Eliot

17,830 members

331 reviews

4.2

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51

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

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52

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,874 members

342 reviews

4.1

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53

by Jack Kerouac

28,022 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

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54

by Joseph Heller

40,180 members

529 reviews

4.1

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55

by Toni Morrison

23,015 members

409 reviews

3.9

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56

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,727 members

271 reviews

3.9

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