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Pride and Prejudice

81,259 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram, yvereads

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by George Eliot

17,831 members

331 reviews

4.2

8 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram, yvereads

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by Charlotte Brontë

59,409 members

924 reviews

4.2

8 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

4

28,892 members

535 reviews

4.2

7 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram, yvereads

5

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,804 members

638 reviews

4

7 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

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38,283 members

506 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,817 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

8

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,243 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,361 members

439 reviews

3.8

7 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

10

35,739 members

630 reviews

4

8 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

11

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,296 members

520 reviews

3.9

6 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Charles Dickens

24,428 members

242 reviews

3.8

6 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, Chram

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by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

14

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,170 members

282 reviews

4.1

6 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Chram

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by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

6 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

16

by Gustave Flaubert

26,364 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB

17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,732 members

440 reviews

3.9

6 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Chram

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by Mary Shelley

43,016 members

714 reviews

3.8

6 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,368 members

709 reviews

3.9

6 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

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North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

7,484 members

245 reviews

4.1

5 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB

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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,873 members

338 reviews

4.1

5 Members: tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,562 members

132 reviews

3.8

5 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Wilkie Collins

10,865 members

251 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

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22,668 members

360 reviews

3.8

5 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

William Wordsworth: Selected Poems [Penguin Classics]

by William Wordsworth

269 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

26

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,911 members

457 reviews

3.9

4 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Chram

27

The Turn of the Screw

8,181 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Charlotte Brontë

8,852 members

146 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, yvereads

29

The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Alfred Tennyson

369 members

½ 4.4

4 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,871 members

119 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Charles Dickens

10,626 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB

32

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,777 members

193 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,762 members

119 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G.K. Chesterton

7,084 members

170 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963

35

The Complete Barchester Chronicles

by Anthony Trollope

168 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Red and the Black

9,560 members

136 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, NinieB

37

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

11,669 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, NinieB

38

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,113 members

131 reviews

3.9

3 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, NinieB

39

by George Eliot

4,240 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

12,106 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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9,236 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)

511 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by John Stuart Mill

5,608 members

40 reviews

3.9

2 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

874 members

8 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Louisa May Alcott

26,689 members

402 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, NinieB

46

The Portrait of a Lady

10,804 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins - selected and edited by W. H. Gardner

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

1,427 members

7 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, jeffza

48

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

5,872 members

102 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jeffza, kara.shamy

49

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,265 members

179 reviews

3.9

2 Members: tomdoniphon, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

by Sarah Orne Jewett

986 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

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by George Eliot

3,768 members

49 reviews

3.9

2 Members: amanda4242, kara.shamy

52

Complete Writings with Variant Readings (Oxford Standard Authors Series) {Keynes, ed.}

by William Blake

423 members

3 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

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by William Wordsworth

355 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, jeffza

54

The Palliser Novels: 6-volume set

by Anthony Trollope

239 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Elizabeth Gaskell

2,693 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, NinieB

56

Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

4,174 members

54 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jeffza, NinieB

57

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

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

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3,956 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1

59

Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)

by Walt Whitman

2,892 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

60

by George Eliot

11,413 members

152 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Charles Dickens

3,875 members

54 reviews

4

2 Members: jeffza, NinieB

62

by Henry David Thoreau

14,225 members

193 reviews

3.8

2 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza

63

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

9,335 members

119 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

2,872 members

58 reviews

4.2

2 Members: amanda4242, NinieB

65

The Complete Plays

412 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens

3,164 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: jeffza, NinieB

67

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

4,438 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,701 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Bretzky1

69

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

771 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Wilkie Collins

1,389 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

71

Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens

514 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Complete Poems

by Christina Rossetti

517 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

Coleridge : poems and prose

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

53 members

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,255 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

75

Les Misérables

26,459 members

342 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

76

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,224 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,425 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

435 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: amanda4242

79

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,646 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: amanda4242

80

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

5,183 members

37 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

447 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: amanda4242

82

The Complete Poems

by Walt Whitman

1,370 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

83

Select Tales of Tchehov (Chekov)

by Anton Chekhov

20 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,858 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

85

Essays: First Series and Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,939 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

86

Shelley: A Defense Of Poetry

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

58 members

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by James Fenimore Cooper

2,849 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

88

Castle Rackrent

by Maria Edgeworth

864 members

23 reviews

3.1

Member: amanda4242

89

The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

by Ambrose Bierce

379 members

5 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,630 members

156 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

91

2,765 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

92

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

by Thomas De Quincey

1,921 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tomdoniphon

93

The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë

by Emily Brontë

404 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

by Arthur Seymour Sullivan

489 members

7 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

by Sir Walter Scott

2,172 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: amanda4242

96

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

616 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Tales and Sketches (Library of America)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

768 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,309 members

163 reviews

4.1

Member: tomdoniphon

99

by Henrik Ibsen

1,636 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: amanda4242

100

Selected Short Stories

by Guy de Maupassant

759 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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