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Inheritance and Succession Literature

Description: Stories in which the themes of inheritance and succession play a large role.
Members: 5 participating members
aulsmith, thecoroner, souloftherose, cpg

Rank Title Author Added

1

Sense and Sensibility

36,823 members

506 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose, thecoroner

2

by Charles Dickens

13,339 members

243 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose, thecoroner

3

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,425 members

331 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose, thecoroner

4

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,033 members

420 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

5

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

6

by Charles Dickens

23,251 members

227 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

7

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

8

by George Eliot

3,633 members

47 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cpg, thecoroner

9

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,645 members

50 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose

10

1,471 members

91 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, souloftherose

11

Pride and Prejudice

77,672 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: souloftherose

12

The Portrait of a Lady

10,584 members

126 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

13

by E. M. Forster

8,533 members

129 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

14

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

6,884 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

15

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,727 members

224 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

16

Citizen of the Galaxy

by Robert A. Heinlein

3,041 members

61 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

17

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,854 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

18

Henry IV, Part II

by William Shakespeare

2,436 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

19

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

1,933 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

20

The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington

1,596 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

21

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America

by Robert Charles Wilson

743 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

22

The Lion in Winter

by James Goldman

651 members

12 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

23

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

11,824 members

330 reviews

4.1

24

A Thousand Acres

6,015 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

About This List

Started: sturlington
May 2014
Type: Unnumbered

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