Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics

1.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.92 avg rating — 273,876 ratings
2.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,473 ratings
3.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner 3.69 avg rating — 91,991 ratings
4.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,829 ratings
5.
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game 3.95 avg rating — 59,397 ratings
6.
The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,714 ratings
7.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,080 ratings
8.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,992 ratings
9.
Maurice
Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 55,459 ratings
10.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,121 ratings
11.
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal 4.02 avg rating — 48,435 ratings
12.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge 4.01 avg rating — 26,415 ratings
13.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,168 ratings
14.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,061 ratings
15.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,327 ratings
16.
Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron 4.14 avg rating — 21,952 ratings
17.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.06 avg rating — 14,667 ratings
18.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,573 ratings
19.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,591 ratings
20.
Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,275 ratings
21.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,302 ratings
22.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,521 ratings
23.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,405 ratings
23.
We
We 3.88 avg rating — 107,882 ratings
25.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3.97 avg rating — 61,822 ratings
26.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,238 ratings
26.
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig 4.40 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
28.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,868 ratings
29.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe 3.76 avg rating — 97,942 ratings
30.
The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,198 ratings
31.
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating — 68,335 ratings
32.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,325 ratings
33.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,489 ratings
33.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 4.02 avg rating — 115,408 ratings
35.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac 4.06 avg rating — 89,327 ratings
36.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,548 ratings
37.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,146 ratings
38.
Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,131 ratings
39.
The Complete Short Novels
The Complete Short Novels 4.47 avg rating — 11,825 ratings
40.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 4.09 avg rating — 51,000 ratings
41.
I, Claudius
I, Claudius 4.24 avg rating — 71,610 ratings
42.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise 3.64 avg rating — 78,644 ratings
43.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black 3.75 avg rating — 77,978 ratings
44.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,244 ratings
45.
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm 3.88 avg rating — 53,856 ratings
46.
Ariel
Ariel 4.19 avg rating — 86,773 ratings
47.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 72,003 ratings
48.
Green Mansions
Green Mansions 3.69 avg rating — 3,268 ratings
49.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,473 ratings
49.
Moonfleet
Moonfleet 3.96 avg rating — 6,392 ratings
51.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,647 ratings
52.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel 4.07 avg rating — 140,074 ratings
53.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Metamorphosis and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating — 7,119 ratings
54.
Wives and Daughters
Wives and Daughters 4.13 avg rating — 50,114 ratings
55.
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie 4.04 avg rating — 6,051 ratings
56.
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women
by: Euripides
3.88 avg rating — 12,273 ratings
57.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,337 ratings
58.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,189 ratings
59.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ 4.18 avg rating — 15,289 ratings
60.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,273 ratings
61.
Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour 3.86 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
62.
The Sun King (New York Review Books Classics)
The Sun King (New York Review Books Classics) 3.79 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
63.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 3.78 avg rating — 14,342 ratings
64.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,672 ratings
65.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
66.
Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,319 ratings
67.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
68.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,416 ratings
68.
The Little Queen
The Little Queen 3.59 avg rating — 66 ratings
70.
Een nagelaten bekentenis
Een nagelaten bekentenis 3.28 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
71.
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time 4.11 avg rating — 62,648 ratings
71.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.14 avg rating — 205,155 ratings
73.
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh 3.74 avg rating — 6,997 ratings
73.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend 4.09 avg rating — 30,890 ratings
75.
The Minister's Black Veil
The Minister's Black Veil 3.73 avg rating — 8,515 ratings
75.
Laughter in the Dark
Laughter in the Dark 4.01 avg rating — 20,699 ratings
77.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.61 avg rating — 14,255 ratings
77.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 116,717 ratings
77.
Saint Joan
Saint Joan 3.78 avg rating — 9,495 ratings
80.
To Build a Fire
To Build a Fire 3.98 avg rating — 25,830 ratings
81.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop 3.97 avg rating — 41,774 ratings
82.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
83.
The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness 3.76 avg rating — 18,806 ratings
84.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage 3.30 avg rating — 108,701 ratings
85.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,532 ratings
86.
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
87.
Moon-Whales
Moon-Whales 3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
88.
The Betrothed
The Betrothed 3.87 avg rating — 17,052 ratings
88.
Van de koele meren des Doods
Van de koele meren des Doods 3.53 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
90.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,252 ratings
91.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,797 ratings
91.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
A Pair of Blue Eyes 3.79 avg rating — 8,866 ratings
93.
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh 3.60 avg rating — 9,577 ratings
93.
The Inheritors
The Inheritors 3.51 avg rating — 5,408 ratings
95.
The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
by: Suetonius
4.02 avg rating — 22,152 ratings
96.
Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels 4.11 avg rating — 3,000 ratings
97.
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
97.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,622 ratings
99.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,963 ratings
99.
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason 4.12 avg rating — 9,302 ratings
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