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The Painted Bird
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Dead Souls
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We the Living
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704 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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4.06 avg rating — 72,912 ratings
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Bhagavad Gita
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706 |
The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,251 ratings
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706 |
Under the Dome
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 319,613 ratings
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.96 avg rating — 24,775 ratings
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Uncle Silas
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 69,554 ratings
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711 |
Freckles (Limberlost, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 12,253 ratings
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712 |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,378 ratings
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712 |
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 442,493 ratings
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714 |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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3.78 avg rating — 149,545 ratings
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714 |
Journey to the End of the Night
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4.18 avg rating — 46,761 ratings
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716 |
The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
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4.13 avg rating — 359 ratings
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716 |
Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 297,605 ratings
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718 |
From Here to Eternity
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4.08 avg rating — 17,999 ratings
score: 291,
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718 |
QB VII
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4.20 avg rating — 30,393 ratings
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718 |
Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 420,282 ratings
score: 291,
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718 |
Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.74 avg rating — 289,735 ratings
score: 291,
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722 |
The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,446,046 ratings
score: 290,
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723 |
The Way We Live Now
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4.09 avg rating — 13,947 ratings
score: 289,
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724 |
Nobody's Boy
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4.40 avg rating — 22,777 ratings
score: 287,
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724 |
Fallen (Fallen, #1)
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Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 613,630 ratings
score: 287,
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726 |
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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3.67 avg rating — 28,368 ratings
score: 286,
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727 |
Beau Geste
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4.03 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
score: 285,
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728 |
The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 200,843 ratings
score: 284,
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728 |
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 559,640 ratings
score: 284,
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728 |
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 192,810 ratings
score: 284,
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731 |
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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4.18 avg rating — 20,564 ratings
score: 283,
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731 |
High Couch of Silistra (Silistra #1)
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 469 ratings
score: 283,
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733 |
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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4.14 avg rating — 48,541 ratings
score: 282,
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734 |
Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,725,098 ratings
score: 279,
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735 |
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 71,641 ratings
score: 278,
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735 |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, #1)
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 944,660 ratings
score: 278,
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737 |
Gunnar's Daughter
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4.18 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
score: 274,
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738 |
Ragtime
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3.89 avg rating — 45,889 ratings
score: 273,
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738 |
Look Homeward, Angel
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3.92 avg rating — 15,597 ratings
score: 273,
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740 |
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 138,533 ratings
score: 272,
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740 |
Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 219,157 ratings
score: 272,
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742 |
The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 70,775 ratings
score: 271,
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743 |
The Brothers Lionheart
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4.35 avg rating — 41,164 ratings
score: 270,
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744 |
Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,180 ratings
score: 269,
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744 |
Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,176 ratings
score: 269,
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746 |
The Lottery
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4.04 avg rating — 105,572 ratings
score: 268,
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746 |
Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 477,445 ratings
score: 268,
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748 |
The Sot-Weed Factor
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4.12 avg rating — 7,664 ratings
score: 267,
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748 |
Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner
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4.54 avg rating — 4,581 ratings
score: 267,
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748 |
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
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4.21 avg rating — 25,649 ratings
score: 267,
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751 |
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 44,995 ratings
score: 266,
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751 |
So long, Yugoslavia
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4.61 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 266,
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751 |
To Dream the Blackbane
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4.51 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 266,
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754 |
Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
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4.01 avg rating — 55,574 ratings
score: 265,
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755 |
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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3.91 avg rating — 74,153 ratings
score: 264,
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756 |
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 142,071 ratings
score: 263,
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756 |
The Little Match Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 28,377 ratings
score: 263,
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756 |
The House on the Strand
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3.83 avg rating — 14,388 ratings
score: 263,
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759 |
The Harvester
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4.21 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
score: 261,
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759 |
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
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4.24 avg rating — 30,424 ratings
score: 261,
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761 |
Manfred
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3.78 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
score: 260,
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762 |
Piercing
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3.69 avg rating — 18,280 ratings
score: 259,
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763 |
Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
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3.99 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
score: 258,
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763 |
Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 25,511 ratings
score: 258,
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765 |
All My Sons
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3.91 avg rating — 29,944 ratings
score: 257,
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The Marbled Swarm
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3.47 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
score: 257,
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765 |
My Sister's Keeper
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,267,385 ratings
score: 257,
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768 |
The End of the Affair
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3.90 avg rating — 69,567 ratings
score: 256,
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769 |
Misery
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 823,698 ratings
score: 255,
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770 |
Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 166,005 ratings
score: 253,
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770 |
The Truth About Forever
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 225,888 ratings
score: 253,
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772 |
Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,341 ratings
score: 251,
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772 |
A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,442 ratings
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774 |
American Pastoral
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3.95 avg rating — 86,769 ratings
score: 250,
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774 |
The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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4.42 avg rating — 107,484 ratings
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774 |
The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 147,779 ratings
score: 250,
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777 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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4.17 avg rating — 184,196 ratings
score: 248,
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778 |
Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 53,729 ratings
score: 247,
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778 |
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 121,258 ratings
score: 247,
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780 |
Pak Tua yang Membaca Kisah Cinta
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3.93 avg rating — 29,305 ratings
score: 246,
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781 |
Tartuffe
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3.66 avg rating — 42,565 ratings
score: 245,
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782 |
Winesburg, Ohio
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3.84 avg rating — 36,508 ratings
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783 |
The Complete Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 21,692 ratings
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784 |
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 38,625 ratings
score: 241,
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785 |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 289,377 ratings
score: 240,
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785 |
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 422,240 ratings
score: 240,
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787 |
Till We Have Faces
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4.20 avg rating — 78,289 ratings
score: 237,
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787 |
The Yearling
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4.03 avg rating — 30,266 ratings
score: 237,
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789 |
Babbitt
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3.69 avg rating — 24,634 ratings
score: 236,
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789 |
Excellent Women
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3.91 avg rating — 19,948 ratings
score: 236,
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791 |
Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 315,353 ratings
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791 |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 145,637 ratings
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791 |
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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Ronald Holt (Adapter)
4.24 avg rating — 91,359 ratings
score: 235,
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791 |
Lucky Jim
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3.75 avg rating — 31,656 ratings
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791 |
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,312,544 ratings
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796 |
Irrungen, Wirrungen
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3.26 avg rating — 3,717 ratings
score: 234,
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796 |
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 121,257 ratings
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798 |
War in Korea
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3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings
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799 |
Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
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4.01 avg rating — 108,450 ratings
score: 229,
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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3.91 avg rating — 11,934 ratings
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there are three wuthering heights - i voted for 'em all

Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls"
The team of Pevear and Volokhonsky is my current favorite for Russian to English translation whenever I can find them. They do very well capturing the "flavor" and sensibilities of the original Russian.

Emily, I love these books. Some strange ones slipped in this list but I really like them on the whole.
Some of these are not classics yet.

Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.

They are the different formats of the same book on here twice.... Can it be fixed?



I know that it has been a while but I agree with your decision to keep Harry Potter. It may not be a classic now, exactly, but I believe that one day it will be.

Classics are just phenomenal! They are basis of books today and a reason why I keep reading!

It is impossible I have finally got somenone who loves La dame aux camelias, this story is one of the best love stories EVER>

How does #181 Isn't It Pretty To Think So? qualify for this list?


Isn't It Pretty To Think So?

Great idea - building a library to pass on to future generations. Thanks for the idea!
The Godfather is a classic? I liked it but a classic?
I read the book and the part about the horse was much too graphic. I would not call it a classic yet but I am not sure how that is determined.
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks


The Fault In Our Stars
The Book Thief
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Dear John
Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope (this is a YA modernization of the classic Austen novel)
Code Name Verity
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... And It's All Small Stuff
Looking For Alaska
I Know This Much Is True
Angela's Ashes
Many of these books are good, but it's too soon to say whether they'll become classics for future readers.

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis is a great cycle of poetry.
The Illustrated Man by the late Ray Bradbury is excellent as are ANY OF HIS WRITINGS!
Other good reads:
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Hawaii by James Mitchener
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul


Although Baroness Orczy should be credited for creating the disguised-hero-alter-ego oeuvre, I don't think that she had any talent!


Hi Bruce, I retired from "corporate America" recently but am doing lots of different things now. I too am catching up on my reading. I think this list is a pretty good place to start. I've read seven of the top ten and Jane Eyre is next!


Bruce, I read Jane Eyre. Worst book I've ever read. IF you dare read it, don't say I didn't warn you.

The Harry Potter series is in there at least three times, still.
From the 1046 I have 956 non-duplicated books.
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