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1

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,867 members

616 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,814 members

435 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Isaac Asimov

20,692 members

392 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Albert Camus

18,602 members

249 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by George Eliot

17,833 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,801 members

251 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,441 members

303 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Isaac Asimov

15,112 members

271 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

13,896 members

232 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Charles Dickens

13,737 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,418 members

209 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

13,017 members

289 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,868 members

338 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Michael Cunningham

12,765 members

232 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,520 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by George Eliot

11,413 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Wilkie Collins

10,861 members

251 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Raymond Chandler

10,346 members

285 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,098 members

326 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

9,233 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Charlotte Brontë

8,849 members

146 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,760 members

119 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Henry Fielding

8,172 members

95 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,075 members

181 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,614 members

169 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,801 members

225 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,248 members

114 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,562 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by George Eliot

4,240 members

70 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Anne Enright

4,067 members

204 reviews

3.1

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,487 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

2,786 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,561 members

25 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Louisa May Alcott

26,675 members

402 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

35

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,554 members

469 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,426 members

476 reviews

4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,640 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

38

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

39

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,666 members

342 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,305 members

268 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

41

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

14,011 members

247 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

42

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,991 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,155 members

489 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

44

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,997 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

45

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,606 members

260 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

46

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,231 members

224 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

47

11,061 members

173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

48

by J. M. Coetzee

10,888 members

279 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

49

The New York Trilogy

9,881 members

155 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

50

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

9,635 members

423 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

51

by E. M. Forster

8,820 members

133 reviews

4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

52

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

8,658 members

515 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

53

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,017 members

156 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

54

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,791 members

124 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

55

by Daniel Defoe

7,720 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

56

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

7,480 members

245 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

57

The Wasp Factory

7,128 members

204 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

58

The Inheritance of Loss

6,955 members

195 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

59

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6,954 members

297 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

60

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,603 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

61

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,570 members

172 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

62

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,563 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

63

6,371 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

64

by Kingsley Amis

5,825 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

65

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,802 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

66

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,422 members

190 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

67

by Isak Dinesen

5,254 members

100 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Marguerite Duras

5,184 members

156 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

69

by Graham Greene

5,172 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

70

4,792 members

75 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Joseph Conrad

4,790 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

72

4,511 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

73

Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

4,387 members

78 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

74

by Margaret Atwood

4,335 members

110 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

75

Oscar and Lucinda

4,149 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

76

by J. G. Ballard

3,562 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

77

3,399 members

60 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

78

3,350 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

79

Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

by John Cleland

3,340 members

58 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

80

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,298 members

92 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

81

by Robertson Davies

3,232 members

88 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

82

by Djuna Barnes

3,145 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

2,842 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

84

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,824 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

85

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,529 members

42 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

by Heinrich Böll

2,509 members

47 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

87

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,164 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

88

The Honorary Consul

by Graham Greene

2,145 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

89

Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

2,064 members

45 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Nadine Gordimer

1,820 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

91

by Ford Madox Ford

1,766 members

26 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Enormous Room

by E. E. Cummings

1,472 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

93

1,471 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

94

1,462 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

95

So Long a Letter

1,325 members

44 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

96

Burger's Daughter

by Nadine Gordimer

1,077 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

97

The Man of Property

by John Galsworthy

1,048 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Radiant Way

by Margaret Drabble

819 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

99

by Mulk Raj Anand

733 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

100

Clear Light of Day

721 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

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