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by Ray Bradbury

54,271 members

1,006 reviews

4

11 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

47,101 members

285 reviews

½ 4.5

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

3

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,735 members

310 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,815 members

435 reviews

3.8

10 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

55,091 members

490 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,roby72

6

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,850 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

11 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

7

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

7 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963

8

26,728 members

240 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

25,654 members

259 reviews

4

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,113 members

769 reviews

4.1

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Magician's Nephew

29,607 members

366 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Silver Chair

24,146 members

197 reviews

3.9

9 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, merrystar, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Jack Kerouac

28,025 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, mkbird, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, Bretzky1

14

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,803 members

112 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by John Steinbeck

23,550 members

425 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, mkbird, sturlington, ncgraham, thecoroner, alex68

16

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,848 members

565 reviews

4.1

7 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

17

The Horse and His Boy

25,780 members

244 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Last Battle

23,495 members

194 reviews

3.9

8 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, sturlington, ncgraham, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

8 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, Myyst, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,927 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, roby72, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, ahef1963,ncgraham

21

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,496 members

125 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,386 members

140 reviews

3.9

7 Members: eromsted, roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz

1,163 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68

24

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,732 members

325 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, Myyst, sturlington, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963

25

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,100 members

98 reviews

4.1

6 Members: roby72, mkbird, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68

26

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,439 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, norabelle414, Myyst, sturlington, fundevogel, alex68

27

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,595 members

126 reviews

4.2

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,933 members

227 reviews

3.9

6 Members: inge87, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

12,005 members

148 reviews

4

5 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Isaac Asimov

15,114 members

271 reviews

4

6 Members: norabelle414, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

31

2,592 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

32

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,231 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

33

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

984 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

34

The Once and Future King

15,403 members

207 reviews

4.1

7 Members: eromsted, norabelle414, mkbird, sturlington, fundevogel, alex68, ahef1963,aulsmith

35

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,878 members

508 reviews

3.8

6 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper,ncgraham

36

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,860 members

433 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,249 members

114 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,738 members

16 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

39

The Adventures of Augie March

3,872 members

73 reviews

3.8

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

40

by Ralph Ellison

16,270 members

212 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, alex68, Bretzky1

41

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

by Carlo Emilio Gadda

1,202 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

42

by Isaac Asimov

20,692 members

392 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

4 Members: inge87, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by John Wyndham

4,783 members

122 reviews

3.9

5 Members: edwinbcn, mkbird, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

45

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

by Truman Capote

8,361 members

222 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,252 members

199 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

47

by Boris Pasternak

11,495 members

152 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

48

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,596 members

151 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

49

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,310 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner

50

Howl and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

5,602 members

67 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

94 members

1 review

3.1

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

52

by Pauline Réage

3,648 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: fundevogel, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

53

The Grand Sophy

by Georgette Heyer

2,990 members

134 reviews

4.2

4 Members: inge87, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

54

Nine Coaches Waiting

by Mary Stewart

1,621 members

47 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, merrystar, ahef1963

55

by Eugène Ionesco

1,426 members

16 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

56

by Georgette Heyer

2,170 members

95 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

57

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,512 members

207 reviews

4

4 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

58

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,243 members

232 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

3,358 members

74 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

60

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,692 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

61

2,546 members

29 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

62

by John Steinbeck

2,867 members

46 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,238 members

81 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

64

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,589 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

65

by J. D. Salinger

11,803 members

112 reviews

4.1

3 Members: eromsted, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,055 members

28 reviews

4.2

2 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn

67

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,712 members

93 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

68

The Sound of Waves

by Yukio Mishima

1,815 members

42 reviews

3.8

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

69

Horton Hears a Who!

6,404 members

128 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,128 members

23 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

71

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

625 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

72

The Mousetrap: A Play

by Agatha Christie

100 members

2 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963

73

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,160 members

70 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

74

My Father's Glory

by Marcel Pagnol

856 members

10 reviews

4

3 Members: inge87, mkbird, alex68

75

22,534 members

398 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: edwinbcn, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1,sturlington

76

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,571 members

172 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II)

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5,282 members

45 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

78

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,440 members

15 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, Myyst, alex68

79

The Moon and the Bonfires

by Cesare Pavese

1,415 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

80

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,831 members

191 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: eromsted, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Pär Lagerkvist

1,411 members

25 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

82

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

10,453 members

127 reviews

4

3 Members: eromsted, alex68, ahef1963

83

27,818 members

576 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

626 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: mkbird, thecoroner, alex68

85

The Dying Earth

1,446 members

35 reviews

3.8

3 Members: mkbird, Myyst, alex68

86

by Flannery O'Connor

3,884 members

112 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

87

The Ugly American

by William J. Lederer

1,305 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: mkbird, Bretzky1

88

A Time to Keep Silence

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

820 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: inge87, mkbird

89

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,861 members

113 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

90

A Town Like Alice

3,768 members

140 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

91

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,536 members

79 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

92

8,534 members

126 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Unknown Ajax

by Georgette Heyer

1,526 members

55 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

94

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

9,144 members

164 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

95

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,563 members

37 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963

96

The Cat in the Hat

20,696 members

531 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

97

by Margery Sharp

1,146 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

98

4,914 members

177 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

99

The City and the Stars

by Arthur C. Clarke

2,997 members

57 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

100

Excellent Women

2,756 members

126 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, alex68

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