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by William Shakespeare

33,055 members

308 reviews

4.2

13 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, archanads

2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,297 members

520 reviews

3.9

13 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, aulsmith, sturlington, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

3

Jane Eyre [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charlotte Brontë

1,704 members

16 reviews

½ 4.4

13 Members: MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Joseph Heller

40,196 members

529 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Elswick1, SimiSue75

5

Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition]

by Joseph Conrad

3,153 members

22 reviews

3.8

11 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, Sandydog1, booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, over.the.edge, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Charlotte's Web

36,347 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

11 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, Sandydog1, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, SimiSue75, Curran2,

7

The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]

by Geoffrey Chaucer

552 members

2 reviews

4.1

12 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, floremolla, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,817 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

13 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)

224 members

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72

10

by Ray Bradbury

54,294 members

1,006 reviews

4

13 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, Tess_W, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,kara.shamy

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,520 members

478 reviews

4.1

12 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, aulsmith, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,630 members

156 reviews

4.1

9 Members: booksinbed, aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Joao_Matheus_Andrade, Elswick1, FranzK72

13

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

1,734 members

22 reviews

4.2

12 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Tess_W, cej1027, ahef1963, FranzK72, TashMason,

14

by William Shakespeare

15,161 members

147 reviews

4.1

11 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

15

by George Orwell

82,486 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

11 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

16

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,820 members

178 reviews

4.2

12 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72

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by William Shakespeare

26,292 members

232 reviews

4

11 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,957 members

178 reviews

4

10 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,630 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

14 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith , ,TashMason

20

Pride and Prejudice

81,260 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

21

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,168 members

328 reviews

3.9

12 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,aulsmith

22

The Metamorphosis

12,613 members

222 reviews

3.9

11 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, archanads

23

Sense and Sensibility

38,400 members

530 reviews

4.1

9 Members: booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,363 members

709 reviews

3.9

12 Members: MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

25

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,804 members

638 reviews

4

11 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

36,771 members

563 reviews

4

9 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, SimiSue75, bluemooses,ManWithAnAgenda

27

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

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: goldenmoon, augustau, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Elswick1, FranzK72

28

Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]

by Miguel de Cervantes

563 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, Joao_Matheus_Andrade, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Dante Alighieri

24,139 members

213 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

9 Members: booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, alex68, Tess_W, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,202 members

424 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

32

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,015 members

161 reviews

3.9

10 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,778 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

12 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

34

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,784 members

963 reviews

4

10 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,TashMason

35

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,965 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,aulsmith

36

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,727 members

229 reviews

4.1

10 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,873 members

338 reviews

4.1

11 Members: MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda

38

13,020 members

289 reviews

4

10 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by León Tolstói

29,066 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, Elswick1, FranzK72

40

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,216 members

774 reviews

3.9

10 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda

41

40,281 members

386 reviews

4

8 Members: goldenmoon, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72

42

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,362 members

439 reviews

3.8

9 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, sturlington, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

43

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,294 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, SimiSue75, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

44

24,234 members

379 reviews

4

6 Members: goldenmoon, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72,Bretzky1

45

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,346 members

666 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]

by Lewis Carroll

148 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

20,677 members

310 reviews

3.8

9 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,605 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

49

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,428 members

76 reviews

4.2

8 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, Elswick1, FranzK72, TashMason

50

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,413 members

280 reviews

4.2

8 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, SimiSue75, ManWithAnAgenda

51

28,891 members

535 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

52

by William Shakespeare

6,083 members

53 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

53

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,809 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

54

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

9,147 members

164 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

55

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,244 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: goldenmoon, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

25,003 members

533 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, SimiSue75, Curran2

57

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,863 members

616 reviews

4.2

8 Members: MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Gustave Flaubert

26,364 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72,Bretzky1

59

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,170 members

282 reviews

4.1

6 Members: booksinbed, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Belarmino

60

by Richard Adams

25,038 members

473 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

61

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,706 members

271 reviews

3.9

7 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,867 members

415 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963

63

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,133 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

9 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

64

20,005 members

238 reviews

4

7 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,992 members

302 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72,Bretzky1

66

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,199 members

141 reviews

3.9

7 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72

67

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,288 members

248 reviews

3.8

8 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72

68

by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,134 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,aulsmith

69

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,072 members

38 reviews

4.2

7 Members: goldenmoon, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,586 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, goldenmoon, MTL, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,777 members

193 reviews

3.9

7 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

72

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,172 members

403 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Elswick1, FranzK72

73

by Albert Camus

35,695 members

510 reviews

3.9

7 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Pearl S. Buck

13,949 members

264 reviews

4

8 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963

75

by George Orwell

60,448 members

892 reviews

4

9 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, sturlington, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,aulsmith ,merrystar
Explanations: aulsmith : I suspect that this allegory isn't going to date well.

76

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

12,454 members

168 reviews

4.1

8 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

77

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,862 members

113 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda

78

by George Eliot

17,831 members

331 reviews

4.2

8 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington ,TashMason

79

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

3,760 members

78 reviews

4.1

8 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

80

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,647 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

6 Members: goldenmoon, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, SimiSue75

81

22,077 members

142 reviews

3.9

7 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

82

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,911 members

457 reviews

3.9

6 Members: goldenmoon, aulsmith, merrystar, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy

83

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

103,027 members

887 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: goldenmoon, MTL, booksinbed, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Curran2,ManWithAnAgenda

84

by William Shakespeare

12,554 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

85

The Elements of Style

by William Jr. Strunk

20,033 members

193 reviews

4.2

7 Members: goldenmoon, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,066 members

377 reviews

4

7 Members: booksinbed, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

87

40,471 members

1,590 reviews

4.2

6 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Elswick1, SimiSue75, ManWithAnAgenda

88

8,928 members

306 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

89

by Raymond Chandler

10,349 members

285 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

11,288 members

170 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2

91

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,672 members

342 reviews

3.8

7 Members: booksinbed, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

92

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,716 members

107 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

93

by Albert Camus

18,608 members

249 reviews

4

7 Members: booksinbed, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

94

6,641 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Monster at the End of This Book

5,231 members

105 reviews

½ 4.5

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,

96

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,134 members

770 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Curran2,aulsmith

97

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,473 members

480 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, Elswick1, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,937 members

227 reviews

3.9

5 Members: booksinbed, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

99

The Hiding Place

by Corrie ten Boom

10,293 members

147 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: MTL, cej1027, ahef1963, SimiSue75, TashMason

100

All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward

4,695 members

73 reviews

4.1

6 Members: MTL, booksinbed, aulsmith, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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