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Description: a selection of the great books, and some additions
Members: 6 participating members
al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda, merrystar, ahef1963, aulsmith

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Beowulf poet

24,442 members

330 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

6,369 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,249 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by William Shakespeare

25,069 members

217 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

6

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,025 members

170 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

8

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,502 members

503 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by William Shakespeare

16,359 members

128 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

5,289 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

10,944 members

109 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,466 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,341 members

438 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

14

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,397 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by William Shakespeare

11,933 members

103 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by William Shakespeare

10,323 members

104 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Pride and Prejudice

77,672 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,276 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Ray Bradbury

51,804 members

983 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,204 members

749 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by William Shakespeare

5,775 members

50 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

22

by Dante Alighieri

23,145 members

205 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

23

21,147 members

138 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,236 members

92 reviews

4.1

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Henry Fielding

7,933 members

94 reviews

3.9

3 Members: al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Charlotte Brontë

56,906 members

895 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

27

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3,445 members

33 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

28

The Iliad / The Odyssey

5,479 members

49 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

29

27,705 members

428 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

30

8,401 members

301 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, al.vick, ahef1963

31

Oedipus at Colonus

524 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

32

174 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

33

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,648 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,793 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Dante Alighieri

7,032 members

50 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

36

22,058 members

194 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

37

by Dante Alighieri

5,872 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,519 members

428 reviews

4.1

2 Members: al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,510 members

425 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,080 members

731 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: al.vick, ahef1963

41

by John Stuart Mill

2,532 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

42

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,433 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

43

Les Misérables

25,289 members

327 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, al.vick

44

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,190 members

461 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Seven Against Thebes

299 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: al.vick

46

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,717 members

643 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Prometheus Bound

1,194 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

48

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,037 members

614 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

741 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: al.vick

50

by Mary Shelley

40,813 members

695 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,657 members

509 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,772 members

671 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by George Orwell

57,895 members

851 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Electra [3 plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides]

672 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: al.vick

55

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,678 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Medea [in Translation]

2,811 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

57

by Aristophanes

2,824 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

58

1,591 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

59

Apology ; Crito ; Euthyphro

643 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

60

947 members

7 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

61

The Discourses of Epictetus

321 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: al.vick

62

Plutarch's Lives

2,387 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

63

4,639 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

3,716 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

65

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,720 members

287 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Wealth of Nations

5,900 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

67

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics / Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

319 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

68

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

24,424 members

411 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

69

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams

4,019 members

83 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

70

by Gustave Flaubert

25,497 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

71

The War of the Worlds

17,634 members

301 reviews

3.8

About This List

Started: al.vick
November 2013
Type: Numbered

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