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100 Most Recommended Works

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,734 members

440 reviews

3.9

8 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, bobrichart, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda, JFB87

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,362 members

482 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf Poet

25,575 members

334 reviews

3.8

7 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JoeKingman, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,279 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,820 members

178 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,471 members

496 reviews

4.2

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JoeKingman, JJCooper

7

Pride and Prejudice

81,262 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,731 members

391 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by George Orwell

60,448 members

892 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,235 members

709 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,687 members

453 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,631 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

5 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,298 members

520 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,635 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Henrik Ibsen

5,424 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: mommybee, augustau, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,216 members

774 reviews

3.9

5 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

17

14,017 members

113 reviews

4

5 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by William Shakespeare

33,055 members

308 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,762 members

119 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Mary Shelley

43,016 members

714 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,015 members

161 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,547 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, lowtalker, JJCooper

23

by Charlotte Brontë

59,410 members

924 reviews

4.2

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,941 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, JJCooper

25

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,375 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,363 members

709 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,602 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, lowtalker

28

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,263 members

348 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

29

20,005 members

238 reviews

4

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,333 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,860 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

10,371 members

85 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,520 members

478 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

34

20,677 members

310 reviews

3.8

4 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,777 members

193 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Albert Camus

35,695 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,114 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,437 members

183 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

39

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,524 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,133 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,706 members

271 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Turn of the Screw

8,182 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Thornton Wilder

5,117 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, JJCooper, ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,810 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

46

9,237 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,858 members

131 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mommybee, augustau, JJCooper

48

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

49

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,818 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,884 members

342 reviews

4.1

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Sir Walter Scott

13,113 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, JJCooper

52

Oedipus the King Sophocles

3 members

4 Members: mommybee, augustau, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

53

Death in Venice

5,375 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Misanthrope

1,608 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, mommybee, ahef1963

55

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,937 members

104 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mommybee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,373 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

57

by Henry Fielding

8,173 members

95 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

58

by Bernard Malamud

1,577 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

59

by Ralph Ellison

16,277 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

60

by Sinclair Lewis

5,096 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

61

by Gustave Flaubert

26,364 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

62

by Dante Alighieri

24,139 members

213 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

63

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Simon & Schuster

1 member

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

64

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,289 members

69 reviews

4

2 Members: mommybee, augustau

65

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,804 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

66

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,647 members

699 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mommybee, JJCooper

67

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,288 members

248 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

68

6,164 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

69

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

2,394 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: mommybee, lowtalker

70

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,104 members

98 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

71

by Aristophanes

2,927 members

41 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

72

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,561 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

73

by Toni Morrison

7,727 members

98 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

74

23,086 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, Bcteagirl

75

by Richard Wright

7,782 members

102 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

76

Desire Under the Elms

by Eugene O'Neill

153 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, mommybee

77

by Edith Hamilton

14,970 members

93 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

78

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

14,455 members

120 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

79

by George Bernard Shaw

6,791 members

78 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

80

22,077 members

142 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mommybee, ManWithAnAgenda

81

Holy Bible: New International Version

331 members

11 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mommybee, ahef1963

82

by Willa Cather

13,684 members

287 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

83

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,255 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: mommybee

84

2,592 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mommybee

85

Tell Me a Riddle

by Tillie Olsen

640 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

86

by León Tolstói

29,067 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mommybee

87

Thirteen Stories

by Eudora Welty

428 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

88

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,993 members

302 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

89

Medea [in Translation]

2,933 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

90

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,053 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

91

The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Shorter Edition

by Alexander W. Allison

745 members

1 review

4

Member: mommybee

92

53,525 members

477 reviews

4

Member: mommybee

93

5,100 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

94

by Saint Augustine

22,620 members

163 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

95

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance; Compensation [Eclectic English Classics]

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

17 members

Member: mommybee

96

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,380 members

110 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

97

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

5,704 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mommybee

98

The Communist Manifesto

15,210 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: mommybee

99

The Essays: A Selection

by Michel de Montaigne

1,251 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: mommybee

100

by Henry David Thoreau

14,225 members

193 reviews

3.8

Member: mommybee

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