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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,944 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,270 members

520 reviews

3.9

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

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by George Orwell

82,465 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

60,402 members

892 reviews

4

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

5

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,186 members

774 reviews

3.9

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

7

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

224 members

4.1

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

8

Pride and Prejudice

81,201 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, darllenwr_brwd, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

9

by George Eliot

17,830 members

331 reviews

4.2

11 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by William Shakespeare

17,060 members

132 reviews

4

13 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,500 members

478 reviews

4.1

11 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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by William Shakespeare

15,156 members

147 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bluewolf0411

13

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,602 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

14

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,214 members

709 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon,thecoroner ,Bretzky1

15

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,777 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

11 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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40,249 members

387 reviews

4

9 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

17

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,916 members

188 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,518 members

142 reviews

3.8

11 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,100 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

11 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

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by William Shakespeare

33,042 members

308 reviews

4.2

10 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

21

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

12 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

22

by Mary Shelley

42,961 members

714 reviews

3.8

10 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Joseph Heller

40,180 members

529 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd,Bluewolf0411

24

by Raymond Chandler

10,345 members

285 reviews

4

10 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

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24,235 members

379 reviews

4

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington ,Bretzky1

26

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,632 members

265 reviews

4

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bretzky1

28

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,845 members

565 reviews

4.1

10 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

29

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, darllenwr_brwd, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,Bluewolf0411 ,cej1027

30

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

31

by Truman Capote

23,872 members

467 reviews

4.1

8 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,921 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: roby72, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears,hipdeep ,thecoroner

33

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,629 members

698 reviews

4.2

8 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,Bretzky1

34

by Saint Augustine

22,598 members

160 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, cej1027, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

35

by William Shakespeare

8,693 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, mspixieears, savepawsfurever,Bluewolf0411

36

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,285 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

37

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,727 members

271 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

38

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,101 members

769 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner ,Bluewolf0411

39

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,240 members

232 reviews

3.9

6 Members: summonedbyfells, sturlington, Bluewolf0411, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Jack Kerouac

28,022 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

41

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,962 members

330 reviews

4.1

6 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

6 Members: sturlington, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

44

by Virginia Woolf

20,793 members

332 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

45

by Toni Morrison

23,015 members

409 reviews

3.9

6 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,573 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda,Bluewolf0411

47

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,995 members

389 reviews

4

6 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, savepawsfurever

48

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,975 members

245 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72,sturlington

49

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,801 members

309 reviews

3.9

5 Members: sturlington, Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon,hipdeep

50

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,835 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

51

by León Tolstói

29,043 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72,sturlington

52

Charlotte's Web

36,332 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever,Bluewolf0411

53

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,811 members

435 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

54

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

10,369 members

85 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever, FranzK72

55

NRSV Ministry/Pew Bible

41 members

3

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963,Bluewolf0411

56

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,634 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

7 Members: Tafadhali, summonedbyfells, sturlington, ahef1963, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner ,Bluewolf0411

57

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

58

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,366 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

59

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,873 members

342 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

by León Tolstói

38,682 members

632 reviews

4.1

6 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, FranzK72,sturlington

61

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,065 members

186 reviews

3.9

6 Members: Bluewolf0411, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

62

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever,sturlington

63

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,516 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: sturlington, cej1027, mspixieears, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

64

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,197 members

280 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda, MyFathersDragon

65

27,809 members

575 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Tafadhali, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

66

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,789 members

244 reviews

4

5 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

67

The Second World War {complete}

by Winston S. Churchill

1,485 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, FranzK72,sturlington

68

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,263 members

298 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Tafadhali, sturlington, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

69

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,446 members

120 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

70

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,414 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

71

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,856 members

131 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,553 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

73

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,273 members

104 reviews

4

5 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

74

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,014 members

48 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,548 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

76

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

5,304 members

69 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, savepawsfurever

77

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,867 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: kara.shamy, savepawsfurever, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

78

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production

2,834 members

29 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

79

by William Faulkner

14,849 members

218 reviews

3.9

4 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

80

by Joseph Conrad

9,083 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

81

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves

3,715 members

65 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, savepawsfurever

82

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,435 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Bretzky1, FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

83

10,128 members

85 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington

84

by Robert Graves

9,219 members

168 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington

85

Portnoy's Complaint

7,403 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: summonedbyfells, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

86

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

by Mao Tse-Tung

1,722 members

26 reviews

½ 2.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, savepawsfurever, FranzK72,sturlington ,Bluewolf0411

87

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

by John Maynard Keynes

1,770 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, MyFathersDragon,sturlington

88

by Rudyard Kipling

9,040 members

201 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Tafadhali, roby72, ahef1963, savepawsfurever,sturlington ,thecoroner

89

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,353 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: Bluewolf0411,sturlington

90

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,928 members

59 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, savepawsfurever,sturlington

91

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith

1,728 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bluewolf0411, savepawsfurever,sturlington

92

by Richard Wright

7,776 members

102 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

93

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,802 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Tafadhali, savepawsfurever,sturlington

94

6,162 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, FlorianKarpfinger,sturlington

95

by Rachel Carson

6,604 members

98 reviews

4

2 Members: FlorianKarpfinger, savepawsfurever,sturlington

96

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,912 members

124 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy,sturlington

97

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

5,238 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,819 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

99

The Education of Henry Adams

2,832 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

100

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

1,780 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: savepawsfurever,sturlington

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