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100 World Classics

Description: These are the 100 world classics listed in The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics by W. John Campbell.
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1

by Charlotte Brontë

56,906 members

895 reviews

4.2

10 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,204 members

749 reviews

3.9

9 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,657 members

509 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,285 members

360 reviews

½ 3.4

9 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

5

Pride and Prejudice

77,672 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,510 members

425 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

31,604 members

319 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

8

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

9

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,466 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

10

by William Shakespeare

25,069 members

217 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

11

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,678 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle,cej1027

12

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,033 members

420 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,249 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

14

The Call of the Wild

19,188 members

310 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

15

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,692 members

50 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, foobar2020

16

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,460 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jasmaynard, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

17

by George Orwell

79,112 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

18

The Diary of a Young Girl

27,443 members

501 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,850 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by William Shakespeare

16,359 members

128 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, foobar2020

22

by Pearl S. Buck

13,442 members

262 reviews

4

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, JFGrenier, foobar2020

23

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

8,622 members

55 reviews

½ 4.6

6 Members: aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

24

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,366 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aulsmith, gtross, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

25

by Henrik Ibsen

827 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by George Orwell

57,895 members

851 reviews

4

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

27

by Mary Shelley

40,813 members

695 reviews

3.8

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

28

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,717 members

643 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

by Herman Melville

34,107 members

520 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

30

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,190 members

461 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,649 members

491 reviews

3.8

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

32

by Charles Dickens

23,251 members

227 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

33

by Dante Alighieri

23,145 members

205 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,793 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

35

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,025 members

170 reviews

4

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

36

by William Shakespeare

13,279 members

169 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,544 members

156 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,469 members

187 reviews

½ 3.6

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

39

by William Shakespeare

11,933 members

103 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,752 members

127 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

41

by William Shakespeare

10,323 members

104 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

42

by Edith Wharton

9,264 members

209 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

43

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,080 members

731 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,519 members

428 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, JFGrenier

45

by Gustave Flaubert

25,497 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Beowulf poet

24,442 members

330 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

19,948 members

306 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,606 members

241 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

49

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

10,944 members

109 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,241 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, jasmaynard, ahef1963, JFGrenier

51

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

52

by Joseph Heller

38,919 members

514 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

53

by Albert Camus

34,360 members

491 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

54

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,537 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

55

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,700 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, steller0707

56

21,147 members

138 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

57

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,649 members

209 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,974 members

260 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

59

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,015 members

333 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

60

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,379 members

178 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

61

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

18,331 members

391 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

62

by Albert Camus

17,913 members

235 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

63

13,316 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963

64

by John Steinbeck

12,685 members

195 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

65

by George Eliot

10,962 members

148 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, JFGrenier

66

by Charles Dickens

10,179 members

136 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

67

8,948 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

68

by Christopher Marlowe

4,919 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

69

Henry IV, Part I

by William Shakespeare

4,834 members

39 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

70

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,133 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

71

50,826 members

444 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

72

38,135 members

373 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

73

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,332 members

324 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

22,058 members

194 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

75

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,445 members

337 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

76

The Joy Luck Club

17,235 members

196 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,778 members

221 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

78

by Ralph Ellison

15,743 members

203 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1

79

by William Faulkner

14,374 members

212 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, steller0707

80

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,179 members

217 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

81

by Henry David Thoreau

13,632 members

182 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

82

by Upton Sinclair

11,291 members

127 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

83

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,299 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

84

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,397 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

85

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,127 members

110 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by William Shakespeare

7,222 members

71 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

87

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

by William Shakespeare

5,942 members

86 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

88

3,533 members

80 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

1,838 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

90

by Arthur Miller

14,853 members

154 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

91

by Hermann Hesse

13,139 members

181 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

92

by Toni Morrison

12,930 members

228 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

93

Light in August

by William Faulkner

8,972 members

101 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

94

by Joseph Conrad

8,764 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

95

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,872 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

96

by Richard Wright

7,483 members

98 reviews

3.9

97

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,111 members

124 reviews

4.1

98

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,538 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

99

Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus

408 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

About This List

Started: sturlington
January 2015
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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