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23,340 members

334 reviews

4

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2

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

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3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,678 members

1,134 reviews

3.8

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4

by Gustave Flaubert

25,497 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

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5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,657 members

509 reviews

3.9

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6

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,458 members

477 reviews

4.2

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7

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,850 members

475 reviews

4

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8

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,778 members

221 reviews

4

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9

Pride and Prejudice

77,672 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

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10

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,680 members

1,063 reviews

3.8

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11

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,772 members

671 reviews

3.9

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12

by George Orwell

79,112 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

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13

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,850 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

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14

by George Eliot

17,121 members

324 reviews

4.2

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15

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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16

by Albert Camus

34,360 members

491 reviews

3.9

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17

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,033 members

420 reviews

3.9

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18

David Copperfield: An Adaptation

by Charles Dickens

8 members

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19

by Virginia Woolf

19,881 members

325 reviews

3.9

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20

by Toni Morrison

22,052 members

399 reviews

3.9

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21

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,249 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

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22

19,948 members

306 reviews

3.8

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23

by Charlotte Brontë

56,906 members

895 reviews

4.2

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24

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

22,332 members

324 reviews

3.8

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25

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)

by Laurence Sterne

7,533 members

112 reviews

3.9

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26

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,649 members

209 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

Oedipus the King Sophocles

3 members

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28

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,276 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

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29

13,316 members

109 reviews

4

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30

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,104 members

137 reviews

3.8

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31

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,285 members

360 reviews

½ 3.4

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32

The Metamorphosis

11,855 members

203 reviews

3.9

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33

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,567 members

241 reviews

4

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34

36,580 members

495 reviews

4.1

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35

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

18,379 members

178 reviews

3.9

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36

by Mary Shelley

40,813 members

695 reviews

3.8

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37

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,649 members

491 reviews

3.8

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38

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,300 members

191 reviews

3.9

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39

by Henry Fielding

7,933 members

94 reviews

3.9

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40

by Hans Christian Andersen

24 members

5

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41

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,950 members

423 reviews

3.8

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42

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,204 members

749 reviews

3.9

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43

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,700 members

237 reviews

½ 3.7

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44

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

594 members

6 reviews

4.1

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45

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,869 members

313 reviews

½ 3.6

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46

Collected Poems

3,442 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

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47

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,544 members

156 reviews

3.9

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48

1,003 members

24 reviews

4

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49

by George Orwell

57,895 members

851 reviews

4

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50

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,606 members

241 reviews

3.8

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51

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,080 members

731 reviews

½ 3.7

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52

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

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53

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

49,139 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

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54

Treasure Island [abridged - Classic Starts]

543 members

5 reviews

3.9

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55

Charlotte's Web

34,907 members

1,006 reviews

4.2

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56

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,299 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

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57

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42,703 members

739 reviews

4.2

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58

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,797 members

683 reviews

4.1

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59

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,445 members

337 reviews

4

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Started: josephyhu
March 2016
Type: Numbered, Adding restricted

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