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1

Pride and Prejudice

81,260 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,966 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,586 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,134 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,134 members

770 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,630 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

134,682 members

2,065 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98,ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Charlotte Brontë

59,410 members

924 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,362 members

482 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

10

38,282 members

506 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

11

28,891 members

535 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,653 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

6 Members: klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,996 members

724 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,863 members

616 reviews

4.2

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by George Orwell

60,448 members

892 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,873 members

338 reviews

4.1

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Chronicles of Narnia

36,104 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Louisa May Alcott

26,689 members

402 reviews

4

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98

19

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,919 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

5 Members: hipdeep, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963

20

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,363 members

709 reviews

3.9

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

21

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,292 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by George Orwell

82,486 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

29,716 members

563 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98

24

by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,962 members

330 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, klh098, merrystar, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Joseph Heller

40,196 members

529 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, leslie.98

27

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,639 members

265 reviews

4

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Da Vinci Code

70,530 members

1,312 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,689 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

6 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Holy Bible: King James Version

by KJV (Bible Version)

535 members

20 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963

31

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,520 members

478 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, booksinbed, klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,563 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, rretzler, leslie.98

33

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,288 members

248 reviews

3.8

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, ahef1963, leslie.98

34

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,733 members

440 reviews

3.9

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,858 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by George Eliot

17,831 members

331 reviews

4.2

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,940 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98

38

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

53,026 members

1,300 reviews

4.2

5 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,647 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

4 Members: klh098, rretzler, ahef1963, leslie.98

40

by León Tolstói

38,691 members

633 reviews

4.1

4 Members: booksinbed, klh098, merrystar, leslie.98

41

5,394 members

79 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, MyFathersDragon

42

by Richard Adams

25,038 members

473 reviews

4.2

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

43

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,170 members

282 reviews

4.1

4 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98

44

26,616 members

629 reviews

3.9

4 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98

45

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,777 members

193 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

46

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,647 members

699 reviews

4.2

3 Members: klh098, merrystar, leslie.98

47

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,217 members

454 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by William Shakespeare

33,055 members

308 reviews

4.2

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by León Tolstói

29,066 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: booksinbed, klh098, leslie.98

50

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,489 members

477 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,471 members

496 reviews

4.2

3 Members: klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98

52

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,731 members

391 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,473 members

480 reviews

4.2

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,884 members

342 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

55

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,940 members

528 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,855 members

565 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,442 members

198 reviews

4

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,739 members

561 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,525 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

39,346 members

666 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Sense and Sensibility

38,400 members

530 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,049 members

1,044 reviews

4.1

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

63

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,803 members

225 reviews

4

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,216 members

774 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Frank Herbert

42,958 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

66

43,766 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

67

13,020 members

289 reviews

4

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

68

35,740 members

630 reviews

4

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

69

by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

3 Members: klh098, leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda

70

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,017 members

156 reviews

3.9

3 Members: klh098, ahef1963, leslie.98

71

A Prayer for Owen Meany

18,134 members

333 reviews

4.2

3 Members: booksinbed, klh098, leslie.98

72

by Dante Alighieri

24,139 members

213 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Secret History

20,545 members

559 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, ManWithAnAgenda

74

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,911 members

457 reviews

3.9

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

75

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,939 members

413 reviews

4

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

76

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,736 members

436 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

77

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

36,771 members

563 reviews

4

3 Members: booksinbed, klh098, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

78

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,199 members

141 reviews

3.9

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

79

Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding

16,949 members

265 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

80

by Charles Dickens

24,428 members

242 reviews

3.8

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

81

24,234 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

82

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,789 members

684 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

83

by Rohinton Mistry

9,197 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

84

Charlotte's Web

36,347 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

85

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,808 members

251 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

86

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

45,019 members

770 reviews

4.2

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

87

A Town Like Alice

3,769 members

140 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

88

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,475 members

253 reviews

4.1

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

89

Les Misérables

26,459 members

342 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: klh098, leslie.98

90

by Sebastian Faulks

6,109 members

156 reviews

4

Member: klh098

91

5,776 members

108 reviews

4.2

Member: klh098

92

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

36,065 members

942 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: klh098

93

by Jack Kerouac

28,030 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: klh098

94

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,979 members

245 reviews

4

Member: klh098

95

Notes from a Small Island

9,854 members

218 reviews

3.8

Member: klh098

96

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,904 members

84 reviews

4.1

Member: klh098

97

by Gustave Flaubert

26,364 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: klh098

98

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

18,843 members

394 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: klh098

99

The Faraway Tree Collection: The Enchanted Wood / The Magic Faraway Tree / The Folk of the Faraway Tree

855 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: klh098

100

The Wasp Factory

7,132 members

204 reviews

3.8

Member: klh098

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