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1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,298 members

520 reviews

3.9

8 Members: waitingtoderail, hipdeep, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

by Charlotte Brontë

59,410 members

924 reviews

4.2

7 Members: Cecrow, SylviaC, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,940 members

528 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

38,282 members

506 reviews

4.1

6 Members: cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,808 members

251 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, cpg, eclecticdodo, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,169 members

328 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Mary Shelley

43,016 members

714 reviews

3.8

5 Members: waitingtoderail, hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,701 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: cpg, Cecrow, Bretzky1, steller0707

9

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,202 members

424 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, eclecticdodo, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,362 members

439 reviews

3.8

5 Members: eclecticdodo, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,818 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

12

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories {Tantor AudioBook}

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

274 members

12 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Dilara86, eclecticdodo, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

by George Eliot

17,831 members

331 reviews

4.2

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

14

The Call of the Wild

20,315 members

324 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

15

by Charles Dickens

13,739 members

249 reviews

4.2

4 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,236 members

267 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,911 members

457 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

18

by Charles Dickens

24,428 members

242 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

19

by Wilkie Collins

10,865 members

251 reviews

4

4 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,978 members

230 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The War of the Worlds

18,529 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Cecrow, eclecticdodo

22

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,471 members

496 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,170 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cpg, Bretzky1, ahef1963

24

The Turn of the Screw

8,182 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,702 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by William Shakespeare

13,891 members

176 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,962 members

330 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,244 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,687 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,957 members

178 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,778 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,962 members

121 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

5,215 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, eclecticdodo

34

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

4,133 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

35

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

by Beatrix Potter

3,515 members

20 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

36

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

12,398 members

181 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

The Time Machine

17,831 members

341 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

38

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

14,198 members

223 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by León Tolstói

29,067 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Carlo Collodi

8,407 members

143 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

41

40,281 members

386 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1

42

by Hermann Hesse

27,980 members

381 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027

43

The Portrait of a Lady

10,804 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

11,669 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

45

Northanger Abbey

21,801 members

420 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

46

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

7,484 members

245 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

47

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,810 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Edith Wharton

9,542 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

49

by Joseph Conrad

9,091 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by León Tolstói

38,691 members

633 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

51

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

9,000 members

103 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

by León Tolstói

2,536 members

22 reviews

4

Member: waitingtoderail

53

The Prince and the Pauper

9,470 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027

54

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,255 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, steller0707

55

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

by Beatrix Potter

2,816 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

56

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,729 members

290 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

57

by Herman Melville

35,683 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,940 members

107 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,133 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

4,660 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,364 members

709 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

62

by William Shakespeare

33,055 members

308 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

63

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,820 members

178 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

64

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,940 members

215 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

65

3,623 members

84 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

by Beatrix Potter

3,940 members

28 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4,847 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: eclecticdodo

68

The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley

2,964 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: eclecticdodo

69

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,650 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

5,551 members

60 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

71

Les Misérables

26,459 members

342 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

72

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,631 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Sinclair Lewis

4,133 members

75 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

74

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

1,257 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

75

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,815 members

116 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

76

by Charlotte Brontë

8,852 members

146 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum

1,743 members

31 reviews

4

Member: Cecrow

78

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,199 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

79

The Adventures of Maya the Bee

by Waldemar Bonsels

253 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

80

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

3,056 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

81

1,154 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: Cecrow

82

The Aesop for Children

2,896 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

83

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

1,419 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

84

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

25,725 members

294 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

85

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

2,941 members

63 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

29,717 members

563 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

87

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,303 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

88

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,762 members

119 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

8,239 members

95 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

90

by Beowulf Poet

25,575 members

334 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,124 members

190 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

92

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,546 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by Sinclair Lewis

5,096 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

94

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Anna Comnena

823 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1,891 members

88 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: cej1027

96

Elmer and the Dragon

by Ruth Stiles Gannett

1,866 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

97

A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People

34 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,343 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

It's Like This, Cat

by Emily Cheney Neville

1,589 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

100

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

by Padraic Colum

1,486 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

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