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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,272 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

2

24,235 members

379 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer

3

by George Eliot

17,832 members

331 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Charlotte Brontë

59,382 members

924 reviews

4.2

5 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,604 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

6

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,947 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Don Quixote. A Modern Library Giant

by Miguel de Cervantes

8 members

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

8

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,730 members

271 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,502 members

478 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,812 members

435 reviews

3.8

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,519 members

142 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by George Orwell

82,468 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,800 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

17

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,326 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer

19

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,342 members

708 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Dante's Divine Comedy

by William R. Cook

97 members

1 review

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Portrait of a Lady

10,800 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,847 members

565 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,962 members

330 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

25

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,629 members

698 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer

26

by Henry Fielding

8,172 members

95 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Mary Shelley

42,965 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by León Tolstói

29,052 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

29

38,264 members

506 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,369 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer

31

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,772 members

193 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Pride and Prejudice

81,211 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

34

53,486 members

477 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

35

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Herman Melville

35,664 members

545 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,187 members

774 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,125 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: ahef1963, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

39

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

40

by William Shakespeare

33,043 members

308 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,101 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Joseph Conrad

4,790 members

58 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, glayer

43

6,639 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Albert Camus

35,679 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,714 members

440 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

740 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,707 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,545 members

53 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

49

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (with Alice's Adventures Under Ground)

by Lewis Carroll

2,019 members

18 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,867 members

338 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,632 members

265 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

52

40,252 members

387 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

53

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (Landmarks of World Literature)

by Anthony Thorlby

20 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

54

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,682 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

55

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,042 members

83 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

56

23,067 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

57

Charlotte's Web

36,333 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, glayer

58

The Call of the Wild

20,302 members

324 reviews

3.8

2 Members: glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,215 members

709 reviews

4.1

2 Members: glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

60

9,233 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: glayer, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

62

by Joseph Heller

40,182 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, glayer

63

The Magic Mountain

9,659 members

176 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

64

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,714 members

107 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

65

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

66

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,084 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

67

by Jack Kerouac

28,022 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

68

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,478 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

69

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,923 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, glayer

70

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,518 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

71

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,987 members

302 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

72

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,431 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

73

5,218 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

74

5,357 members

60 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

75

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

76

by John Dos Passos

1,482 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

77

by Samuel Beckett

853 members

17 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

78

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,014 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

79

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

80

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,996 members

389 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

81

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,513 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

82

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,975 members

245 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

83

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,414 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

84

6,162 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

85

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,719 members

436 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, glayer

86

by Richard Wright

7,777 members

102 reviews

4

Member: glayer

87

by William Faulkner

14,851 members

218 reviews

3.9

Member: glayer

88

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,353 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: glayer

89

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,549 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: glayer

90

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,815 members

115 reviews

3.8

Member: glayer

91

Animal Farm / 1984

by George Orwell

3,615 members

33 reviews

4.2

Member: glayer

92

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,254 members

348 reviews

4

Member: glayer

93

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,556 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: glayer

94

by D. H. Lawrence

6,690 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: glayer

95

Pilgrim's Promise

by Emma Goldrick

18 members

½ 2.5

Member: glayer

96

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,538 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: glayer

97

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,273 members

104 reviews

4

Member: glayer

98

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,802 members

112 reviews

3.9

Member: glayer

99

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,912 members

124 reviews

4

Member: glayer

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