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Listopia > Top 100 World Class Classics
A list for the Classic novel readers of the top 100 World Classic favorites.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 522,729 ratings
score: 248,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,865,077 ratings
score: 247,
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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4.06 avg rating — 91,348 ratings
score: 190,
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127,352 ratings
score: 186,
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 205,001 ratings
score: 183,
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 111,486 ratings
score: 182,
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 43,160 ratings
score: 178,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,216,898 ratings
score: 152,
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,166,398 ratings
score: 148,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,481,552 ratings
score: 145,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,490,805 ratings
score: 141,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,901,184 ratings
score: 125,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,139,189 ratings
score: 122,
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Aesop's Fables
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4.05 avg rating — 129,939 ratings
score: 122,
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Don Juan
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3.78 avg rating — 8,953 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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4.19 avg rating — 78,617 ratings
score: 99,
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 135,879 ratings
score: 98,
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Silas Marner
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3.69 avg rating — 94,170 ratings
score: 97,
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Our Town
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3.75 avg rating — 59,409 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 90,208 ratings
score: 94,
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Paradise Lost
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3.86 avg rating — 183,550 ratings
score: 93,
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 84,291 ratings
score: 92,
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.09 avg rating — 173,691 ratings
score: 91,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 299,919 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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4.50 avg rating — 1,135,583 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 264,409 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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House Made of Dawn
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3.62 avg rating — 10,550 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 739,069 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 125,846 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 150,376 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Winesburg, Ohio
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3.84 avg rating — 37,128 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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4.06 avg rating — 73,822 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Ethan Frome
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3.46 avg rating — 139,015 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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The Castle
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3.91 avg rating — 76,361 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,172,793 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 1,049,895 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 496,837 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 2,026,620 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 223,526 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 561,468 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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3.86 avg rating — 273,996 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 584,654 ratings
score: 68,
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The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 133,404 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 197,295 ratings
score: 66,
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The Joy Luck Club
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3.97 avg rating — 711,079 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 14,956 ratings
score: 64,
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 86,222 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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The House of the Seven Gables
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3.45 avg rating — 43,193 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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Tortilla Flat
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3.83 avg rating — 63,832 ratings
score: 61,
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1 person voted
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,371,493 ratings
score: 57,
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The Jungle
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3.78 avg rating — 155,256 ratings
score: 56,
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And Then There Were None
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4.27 avg rating — 1,632,520 ratings
score: 55,
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,473 ratings
score: 54,
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 38,741 ratings
score: 53,
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 883,729 ratings
score: 52,
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1 person voted
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Of Mice and Men
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3.90 avg rating — 2,856,315 ratings
score: 51,
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 670,755 ratings
score: 50,
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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3.50 avg rating — 138,694 ratings
score: 49,
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 355,923 ratings
score: 47,
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 999,792 ratings
score: 45,
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 389,115 ratings
score: 44,
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 261,436 ratings
score: 42,
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,323,593 ratings
score: 41,
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 164,913 ratings
score: 40,
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 188,193 ratings
score: 39,
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 319,874 ratings
score: 38,
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My Ántonia
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3.85 avg rating — 148,350 ratings
score: 37,
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 304,819 ratings
score: 36,
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 327,125 ratings
score: 35,
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Main Street
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3.78 avg rating — 26,950 ratings
score: 34,
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 399,916 ratings
score: 33,
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,422,046 ratings
score: 32,
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 155,635 ratings
score: 31,
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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3.19 avg rating — 19,740 ratings
score: 30,
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Death in Venice
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3.68 avg rating — 69,466 ratings
score: 29,
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 181,578 ratings
score: 28,
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 332,912 ratings
score: 26,
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Frankenstein
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3.91 avg rating — 1,913,673 ratings
score: 25,
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Ivanhoe
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3.77 avg rating — 99,400 ratings
score: 24,
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 543,381 ratings
score: 21,
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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4.07 avg rating — 142,144 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,340,724 ratings
score: 19,
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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4.07 avg rating — 67,093 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,094,263 ratings
score: 17,
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Utopia
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3.55 avg rating — 83,737 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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4.14 avg rating — 228,748 ratings
score: 15,
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Cousin Bette
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3.85 avg rating — 10,745 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.92 avg rating — 475,518 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 391,136 ratings
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Sons and Lovers
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3.64 avg rating — 55,961 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 513,413 ratings
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 219,972 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 307,195 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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Germinal
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 618,998 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 367,938 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,032,617 ratings
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