3535's votes on the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

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1	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.91 avg rating — 303,635 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 3.73 avg rating — 22,999 ratings 3535 added it to classics See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec 4.18 avg rating — 10,095 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3.80 avg rating — 84,987 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Middlemarch by George Eliot 4.04 avg rating — 178,451 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,307,465 ratings 3535 added it to classics See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann 4.08 avg rating — 13,816 ratings 3535 added it to classics See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White 3.75 avg rating — 705 ratings 3535 added it to classics See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Vivisector by Patrick White 4.05 avg rating — 1,163 ratings 3535 added it to classics See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 4.20 avg rating — 35,370 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 3.85 avg rating — 197,450 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Possession by A.S. Byatt 3.90 avg rating — 84,198 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt 3.69 avg rating — 18,989 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt 3.84 avg rating — 2,857 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes 4.12 avg rating — 1,347 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Magus by John Fowles 4.05 avg rating — 63,607 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 132,494 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.14 avg rating — 393,790 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Underworld by Don DeLillo 3.95 avg rating — 33,700 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler 3.98 avg rating — 3,178 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Famished Road by Ben Okri 3.73 avg rating — 13,559 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Trust by Cynthia Ozick 3.26 avg rating — 70 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Het verdriet van België by Hugo Claus 3.64 avg rating — 3,847 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 163,108 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco 3.49 avg rating — 16,324 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Baudolino by Umberto Eco 3.80 avg rating — 25,294 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 363,874 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch 4.17 avg rating — 17,695 ratings 3535 added it to dutch See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 4.02 avg rating — 15,447 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek 4.09 avg rating — 20,932 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike 4.25 avg rating — 1,695 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel 4.27 avg rating — 252 ratings 3535 added it to literary-bio-and-crit See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton 4.10 avg rating — 1,899 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.08 avg rating — 171,250 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 3.83 avg rating — 58,907 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) by Vikram Seth 4.11 avg rating — 49,866 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 4.31 avg rating — 14,369 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 137,398 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 4.19 avg rating — 7,362 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon 4.14 avg rating — 12,507 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 3.80 avg rating — 5,335 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 4.13 avg rating — 61,011 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 4.01 avg rating — 47,941 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 4.34 avg rating — 14,006 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 3.81 avg rating — 132,927 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.39 avg rating — 382,703 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 4.25 avg rating — 100,929 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.56 avg rating — 613,229 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 925,349 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.26 avg rating — 10,177 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky 4.23 avg rating — 399 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco 3.91 avg rating — 74,682 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 4.04 avg rating — 257,452 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 4.09 avg rating — 31,297 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 34,508 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,762 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3.96 avg rating — 16,677 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse 4.10 avg rating — 42,227 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 3.68 avg rating — 13,590 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 3.85 avg rating — 31,999 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser 3.59 avg rating — 17,289 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Bleak House by Charles Dickens 4.02 avg rating — 113,799 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 4.10 avg rating — 345,743 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 4.02 avg rating — 217,267 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys 3.96 avg rating — 3,319 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson 3.39 avg rating — 8,544 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.57 avg rating — 5,298 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.44 avg rating — 1,726 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.59 avg rating — 9,321 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch 3.96 avg rating — 25,342 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 18,193 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon 4.05 avg rating — 10,192 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4.01 avg rating — 266,696 ratings 3535 added it to contemporary-fiction See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov 4.12 avg rating — 12,925 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.97 avg rating — 165,638 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann 4.44 avg rating — 2,186 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Islands by Dan Sleigh 3.63 avg rating — 439 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Agaat: A Novel by Marlene van Niekerk 4.04 avg rating — 1,600 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding 3.75 avg rating — 34,262 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars