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100 World Classics

Description: These are the 100 world classics listed in The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics by W. John Campbell.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Charlotte Brontë

60,904 members

929 reviews

4.2

10 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

2

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

55,268 members

782 reviews

3.9

9 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

44,355 members

529 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

37,679 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

9 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

5

Pride and Prejudice

83,479 members

1,386 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

6

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

35,462 members

441 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier, foobar2020

7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

34,179 members

328 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

8

by William Shakespeare

33,890 members

300 reviews

4.2

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

9

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

29,617 members

279 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, foobar2020

10

by William Shakespeare

26,939 members

235 reviews

4

8 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, foobar2020

11

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

74,354 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle,cej1027

12

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

39,639 members

441 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

13

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,658 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

14

The Call of the Wild

21,079 members

327 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

15

by William Shakespeare

15,534 members

152 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, foobar2020

16

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

13,594 members

51 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier, foobar2020

17

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,761 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jasmaynard, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, foobar2020

18

by George Orwell

84,409 members

1,290 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

19

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,988 members

392 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by William Shakespeare

17,488 members

135 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

by Pearl S. Buck

14,190 members

265 reviews

4

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, JFGrenier, foobar2020

22

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,963 members

244 reviews

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

23

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,416 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

6 Members: aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

24

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,926 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aulsmith, gtross, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

25

by Henrik Ibsen

5,530 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

by George Orwell

60,834 members

869 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

by Mary Shelley

44,294 members

726 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

28

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

40,283 members

672 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

by Herman Melville

36,705 members

548 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, BobbiannMarkle, JFGrenier

30

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

35,258 members

479 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

31,681 members

507 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

32

by Charles Dickens

25,167 members

240 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

33

by Niccolò Machiavelli

24,687 members

259 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda, JFGrenier

34

by Dante Alighieri

24,602 members

213 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

20,413 members

181 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

36

by William Shakespeare

14,228 members

177 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,300 members

164 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

13,105 members

194 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

39

by William Shakespeare

12,892 members

112 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

12,040 members

132 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

41

by William Shakespeare

11,169 members

113 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

42

by Edith Wharton

9,760 members

218 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

43

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

51,081 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

44

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

31,607 members

457 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, thecoroner, Bretzky1, JFGrenier

45

by Gustave Flaubert

27,014 members

387 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Beowulf Poet

26,276 members

335 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

21,094 members

318 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,703 members

249 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, steller0707, BobbiannMarkle

49

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,785 members

116 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

by Charles Dickens

10,922 members

132 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

51

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,276 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aulsmith, jasmaynard, ahef1963, JFGrenier

52

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,146 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

53

by Joseph Heller

40,884 members

533 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

54

by Albert Camus

36,539 members

509 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

55

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,676 members

300 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

56

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

23,046 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, steller0707

57

22,631 members

143 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,712 members

284 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, BobbiannMarkle

59

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,708 members

215 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

20,407 members

338 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

61

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,561 members

408 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

62

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

19,500 members

187 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963, steller0707

63

by Albert Camus

18,999 members

250 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Henry David Thoreau

14,550 members

188 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1

65

14,458 members

115 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ahef1963

66

by John Steinbeck

13,620 members

206 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by George Eliot

11,700 members

154 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, JFGrenier

68

9,438 members

184 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

69

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,188 members

42 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

70

by Christopher Marlowe

5,180 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

71

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,188 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963

72

54,506 members

464 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

73

41,244 members

387 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

74

23,722 members

201 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

75

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,476 members

343 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,777 members

351 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

77

The Joy Luck Club

17,962 members

202 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,762 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

79

by Ralph Ellison

16,656 members

213 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1

80

by William Faulkner

15,262 members

218 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, steller0707

81

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

15,253 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

82

by Upton Sinclair

11,998 members

133 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

83

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,724 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

84

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

9,038 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

85

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,486 members

115 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

86

by William Shakespeare

7,826 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

87

by William Shakespeare

6,402 members

88 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

88

3,684 members

85 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

89

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

2,007 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

90

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,822 members

165 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

91

by Toni Morrison

13,983 members

245 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

92

by Hermann Hesse

13,883 members

191 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

93

Light in August

by William Faulkner

9,483 members

106 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

94

by Joseph Conrad

9,298 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

95

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,576 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

96

by Richard Wright

7,949 members

101 reviews

4

97

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,499 members

128 reviews

4.1

98

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,722 members

55 reviews

½ 3.3

99

Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus

422 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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Started: sturlington
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