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1

by Mary Shelley

43,015 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

2

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,270 members

51 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

3

The Complete Fables

3,631 members

50 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

4

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,777 members

193 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

5

by Beowulf Poet

25,574 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

6

23,293 members

254 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

7

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

31,917 members

170 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

8

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,941 members

120 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

9

14,016 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,375 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

11

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,133 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

12

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,614 members

169 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

13

by Henry Fielding

8,173 members

95 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

14

20,675 members

310 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

15

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,709 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

16

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2,407 members

34 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

17

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

874 members

8 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

18

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

353 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

19

Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

119 members

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

20

1,643 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

21

The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)

531 members

2 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

22

The Lady of Shalott

by Alfred Tennyson

531 members

5 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

23

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,566 members

10 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

24

A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings

by Charles Dickens

1,284 members

21 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

25

by Charlotte Brontë

59,403 members

924 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

26

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,363 members

708 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

27

1,433 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

28

The Communist Manifesto

15,209 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

29

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,814 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

30

by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

31

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

1,515 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

32

by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

33

10,134 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

34

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

4,133 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

35

Holy Bible: King James Version

by KJV (Bible Version)

535 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

36

6,570 members

71 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

37

22,075 members

142 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

38

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

12,106 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

39

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,265 members

179 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

40

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

by Jonathan Swift

1,355 members

18 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

41

The Constitution of the United States

by Founding Fathers

1,570 members

18 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

42

Perrault's Fairy Tales (Dover)

by Charles Perrault

308 members

4 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

43

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,687 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

44

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

14,872 members

154 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

45

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,924 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

46

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,849 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

47

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,808 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

48

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,851 members

90 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, alexandria2021

49

40,278 members

387 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

50

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

1,217 members

17 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

51

by Charles Dickens

24,426 members

242 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

52

53,521 members

477 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

53

Selected Poems of Lord Byron

249 members

½ 4.6

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

54

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,169 members

282 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

55

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2,199 members

25 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

56

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,897 members

99 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, alexandria2021

57

Prometheus Bound

1,244 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

58

The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides

10,289 members

69 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

59

Medea [in Translation]

2,933 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

60

by Aristophanes

2,927 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

61

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,930 members

59 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

62

Electra [in translation]

697 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

63

Nicomachean Ethics

10,200 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

64

5,100 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

65

The Poems of Catullus

2,921 members

31 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

66

23,085 members

199 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

67

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,268 members

101 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

68

Plutarch's Lives

2,463 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

69

The Twelve Caesars

6,513 members

73 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

70

The Arabian Nights

873 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

71

by Giovanni Boccaccio

10,069 members

120 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

72

The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

1,952 members

18 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: alexandria2021

73

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

7,140 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

74

by Niccolò Machiavelli

1,956 members

10 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

75

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,085 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

76

The Complete Plays

by Christopher Marlowe

1,687 members

10 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

77

by Baruch Spinoza

2,966 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

78

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

3,875 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

79

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,258 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

80

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)

by Thomas Paine

1,343 members

9 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

81

The Wealth of Nations

6,153 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

82

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

10,054 members

67 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

83

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

6,634 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

84

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,519 members

87 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

85

Faust, Part One

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,053 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

86

by Sir Walter Scott

13,113 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alexandria2021

87

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,302 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alexandria2021

88

The Red and the Black

9,560 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

89

by Alexander Pushkin

4,513 members

69 reviews

4.1

Member: alexandria2021

90

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol

1,613 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

91

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,113 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

92

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

3,087 members

25 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

93

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,989 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

94

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

3,777 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

95

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,822 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: alexandria2021

96

by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol

9,304 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: alexandria2021

97

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

25,736 members

436 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alexandria2021

98

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

9,335 members

119 reviews

4

Member: alexandria2021

99

The D'Artagnan Romances - Complete Series (All 6 Books in One Edition): The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years ... de la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas

1 member

Member: alexandria2021

100

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,122 members

190 reviews

3.8

Member: alexandria2021

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