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Description: The books which are on all the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die lists (currently five). This list shrinks with every new publication, whereas the other grows.
Members: 20 participating members
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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,835 members

1,132 reviews

3.8

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

2

by George Orwell

58,027 members

852 reviews

4

13 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

3

Pride and Prejudice

77,831 members

1,336 reviews

½ 4.4

11 Members: Morphidae, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

4

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,097 members

1,421 reviews

½ 4.4

12 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

5

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,923 members

669 reviews

3.9

11 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

6

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,136 members

421 reviews

3.9

11 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

by Charlotte Brontë

57,052 members

895 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

8

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,325 members

751 reviews

3.9

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

9

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,872 members

685 reviews

4.1

11 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

10

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,932 members

464 reviews

4

10 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by J. R. R. Tolkien

91,148 members

1,159 reviews

½ 4.3

10 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

12

by George Orwell

79,290 members

1,241 reviews

4.2

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

13

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,794 members

1,061 reviews

3.8

9 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

14

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

52,569 members

464 reviews

½ 4.4

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, Tigardite, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, shedfire,alex68

15

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,181 members

614 reviews

4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

16

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,027 members

708 reviews

4.2

10 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, si, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

17

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,381 members

361 reviews

½ 3.4

9 Members: gilroy, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,708 members

489 reviews

3.8

9 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

19

by Sylvia Plath

27,265 members

481 reviews

4

9 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,889 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

21

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,496 members

234 reviews

4.1

9 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

22

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

9 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

23

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42,840 members

738 reviews

4.2

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, gravir

24

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,743 members

508 reviews

3.9

9 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707,alex68

25

by Mary Shelley

40,925 members

692 reviews

3.8

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

26

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,796 members

640 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

27

by Albert Camus

34,445 members

488 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

28

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,239 members

457 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, NoPlanetB, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,008 members

546 reviews

4.1

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

30

19,983 members

305 reviews

3.8

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

31

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,893 members

585 reviews

4.2

8 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

32

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,054 members

330 reviews

4.1

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

33

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

18,570 members

463 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

34

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,454 members

296 reviews

4

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

35

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,213 members

261 reviews

4

8 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

36

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,120 members

139 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Wilkie Collins

10,485 members

246 reviews

4

8 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

38

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

7,573 members

123 reviews

4

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

39

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,268 members

114 reviews

4.1

8 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

40

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,322 members

669 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj

41

42,667 members

996 reviews

3.9

8 Members: gilroy, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir,alex68

42

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,610 members

423 reviews

3.8

7 Members: gilroy, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

43

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,583 members

430 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

44

by Gustave Flaubert

25,560 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

45

by Louisa May Alcott

25,471 members

393 reviews

4

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

46

by Toni Morrison

22,098 members

398 reviews

3.9

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

47

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,977 members

460 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

48

The Secret History

19,280 members

523 reviews

4.1

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NoPlanetB, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

49

by George Eliot

17,151 members

324 reviews

4.2

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

50

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,679 members

310 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,051 members

243 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

52

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,766 members

288 reviews

3.9

8 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,aprille

53

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,570 members

171 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

54

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,273 members

247 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,438 members

332 reviews

4.1

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

56

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,489 members

304 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,384 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

58

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8,170 members

207 reviews

3.9

7 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,637 members

220 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

60

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,098 members

113 reviews

4.2

7 Members: aprille, merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

61

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2,583 members

45 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

62

by J. R. R. Tolkien

46,573 members

297 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

63

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

44,762 members

271 reviews

½ 4.5

7 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

64

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,922 members

1,114 reviews

4.1

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

65

Sense and Sensibility

36,911 members

509 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

66

36,669 members

494 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

67

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,586 members

296 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

68

21,823 members

352 reviews

3.8

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

69

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,004 members

425 reviews

3.8

6 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

70

by Virginia Woolf

19,941 members

322 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

71

The Name of the Rose

19,154 members

302 reviews

4.2

6 Members: FAMeulstee, merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, gravir

72

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,153 members

362 reviews

3.9

6 Members: FAMeulstee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

73

18,895 members

480 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir,alex68

74

The War of the Worlds

17,697 members

301 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj

75

The Time Machine

17,083 members

328 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

76

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,847 members

459 reviews

4.2

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

77

by Isaac Asimov

14,529 members

259 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

78

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,202 members

221 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: gilroy, aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

79

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,273 members

213 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

80

by Michael Cunningham

12,486 members

225 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

81

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,159 members

251 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

82

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,688 members

152 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, Morphidae, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

83

by J. M. Coetzee

10,615 members

268 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

84

by Raymond Chandler

9,980 members

277 reviews

4

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Edith Wharton

9,275 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

86

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,453 members

118 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

87

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,172 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

88

Portnoy's Complaint

7,236 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, FAMeulstee, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707, gravir

89

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,423 members

106 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

90

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,377 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,971 members

190 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, skavlanj

92

Death in Venice

5,220 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, gravir

93

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,672 members

107 reviews

3.8

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, FAMeulstee, alex68, kara.shamy, skavlanj

94

by Flannery O'Connor

3,737 members

113 reviews

3.8

6 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

95

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,375 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aprille, sturlington, ahef1963, NinieB, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

96

A Modest Proposal [essay]

by Jonathan Swift

1,240 members

45 reviews

4

6 Members: aprille, hipdeep, sturlington, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

97

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,160 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,182 members

732 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, gravir,alex68

99

37,239 members

606 reviews

4.1

5 Members: FAMeulstee, alex68, NinieB, skavlanj, steller0707

100

by Herman Melville

34,233 members

521 reviews

3.8

5 Members: FAMeulstee, sturlington, alex68, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

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