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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 11,253 copies, 128 reviews1
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 13,299 copies, 125 reviews3
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 81,247 copies, 1,372 reviews5
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,906 copies, 457 reviews6
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 11,668 copies, 136 reviews7
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,813 copies, 375 reviews8
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,286 copies, 248 reviews9
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8,699 copies, 115 reviews10
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,686 copies, 402 reviews11
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 33,167 copies, 328 reviews12
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,729 copies, 440 reviews13
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 10,869 copies, 119 reviews15
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43,293 copies, 520 reviews16
Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe 240 copies, 2 reviews17
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,413 copies, 152 reviews19
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 21,169 copies, 282 reviews20
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving 425 copies, 5 reviews21
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,805 copies, 251 reviews22
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke 933 copies, 14 reviews23
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories {29 stories} by O. Henry 205 copies, 3 reviews24
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,423 copies, 242 reviews25
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain 4,653 copies, 51 reviews26
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 34,359 copies, 439 reviews27
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,730 copies, 73 reviews28
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 5,198 copies, 86 reviews29
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 17,234 copies, 267 reviews30
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 24,934 copies, 528 reviews31
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 9,470 copies, 80 reviews32
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister 2,318 copies, 43 reviews33
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,523 copies, 142 reviews34
The Sea Wolf by Jack London 4,406 copies, 53 reviews35
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems (The World's Best Reading) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 264 copies, 3 reviews36
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1,778 copies, 11 reviews37
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 16,602 copies, 444 reviews38
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,682 copies, 545 reviews39
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9,043 copies, 201 reviews40
On Our Selection and Our New Selection by Steele Rudd 75 copies, 3 reviews42
Lost Horizon by James Hilton 3,989 copies, 101 reviews43
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 3,848 copies, 53 reviews44
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 6,387 copies, 165 reviews45
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 11,494 copies, 152 reviews46
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang 730 copies, 8 reviews47
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 34,518 copies, 478 reviews48
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 17,120 copies, 190 reviews49
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,242 copies, 318 reviews50
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Paul Creswick 1,088 copies, 6 reviews52
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 14,977 copies, 230 reviews53
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories by Mark Twain 567 copies, 2 reviews54
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 5,387 copies, 88 reviews55
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3,317 copies, 59 reviews57
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery 29,708 copies, 563 reviews58
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 23,958 copies, 330 reviews59
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 437 copies, 2 reviews60
Dusty Man Shy World's Best Reading Frank Dalby Davison (Reader's Digest Association World's Best Reading) by Frank Dalby Davison 23 copies61
Life with Father by Clarence Day 728 copies, 12 reviews62
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4,804 copies, 69 reviews63
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 2,882 copies, 29 reviews65
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 20,860 copies, 616 reviews67
Emma by Jane Austen 38,280 copies, 506 reviews69
To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London 1,126 copies, 25 reviews70
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 5,741 copies, 129 reviews71
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling 5,142 copies, 52 reviews72
Roughing It by Mark Twain 3,246 copies, 33 reviews73
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 3,353 copies, 53 reviews74
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 3,769 copies, 140 reviews75
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Jr. Dana 3,412 copies, 56 reviews77
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson 2,224 copies, 41 reviews79
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 5,769 copies, 55 reviews81
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn 2,254 copies, 55 reviews82
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 21,472 copies, 253 reviews84
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,343 copies, 114 reviews85
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,441 copies, 198 reviews86
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 13,990 copies, 302 reviews87
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9,492 copies, 85 reviews88
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 42,983 copies, 714 reviews89
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9,090 copies, 115 reviews91
My Ántonia by Willa Cather 13,683 copies, 287 reviews92
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,940 copies, 170 reviews94
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham 3,425 copies, 62 reviews95
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 4,133 copies, 75 reviews96
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 26,361 copies, 390 reviews98
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1,643 copies, 50 reviews100
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 8,159 copies, 66 reviews102
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy 1,048 copies, 21 reviews103
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,631 copies, 134 reviews104
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,939 copies, 107 reviews105
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 7,722 copies, 102 reviews106
The American by Henry James 2,086 copies, 24 reviews107
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 13,133 copies, 205 reviews108
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,799 copies, 638 reviews110
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 3,748 copies, 56 reviews111
Dracula by Bram Stoker 35,737 copies, 630 reviews112
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,560 copies, 100 reviews113
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,796 copies, 420 reviews114
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,754 copies, 204 reviews115
The Ambassadors by Henry James 3,993 copies, 43 reviews117
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 5,170 copies, 170 reviews119
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,822 copies, 133 reviews120
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville 1,220 copies, 14 reviews121
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,950 copies, 92 reviews122
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 8,858 copies, 131 reviews125
Adam Bede by George Eliot 4,240 copies, 70 reviews127
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott 4,967 copies, 34 reviews128
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,615 copies, 42 reviews129
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 5,096 copies, 96 reviews130
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 4,813 copies, 116 reviews131
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 11,729 copies, 129 reviews132

Collections and Selections

The Call of the Wild / White Fang by Jack London 4,972 copies, 36 reviews14
A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens 1,864 copies, 23 reviews
A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 646 copies, 4 reviews18
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 4,473 copies, 60 reviews51
The Thirty-Nine Steps [and] Greenmantle by John Buchan 66 copies, 1 review68
Good-bye, Mr. Chips, and Other Stories by James Hilton 218 copies, 4 reviews80
Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome 1,092 copies, 26 reviews83
The Invisible Man / The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 119 copies, 1 review93
The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James 834 copies, 9 reviews97
The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 1,285 copies, 11 reviews101
The Prisoner of Zenda/ Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope 287 copies, 10 reviews116
The Secret Garden / A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 231 copies, 4 reviews123
Ethan Frome / Summer by Edith Wharton 302 copies, 8 reviews124
A Room with a View / Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 112 copies126

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