1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die That Are Available From Project Gutenberg

1.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,067 ratings
2.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,841 ratings
3.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,361 ratings
4.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,028 ratings
5.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild 3.91 avg rating — 461,059 ratings
6.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,922 ratings
7.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 641,365 ratings
8.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,223 ratings
9.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,630 ratings
10.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,547 ratings
11.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,244 ratings
12.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,715 ratings
13.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,550 ratings
14.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island 3.85 avg rating — 528,251 ratings
15.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,227 ratings
16.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,432 ratings
17.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,287 ratings
18.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,650 ratings
19.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,116 ratings
20.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine 3.89 avg rating — 552,942 ratings
21.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,662 ratings
22.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,292 ratings
23.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone 3.91 avg rating — 97,253 ratings
24.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,960 ratings
25.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,255 ratings
26.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,342 ratings
27.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress 4.07 avg rating — 154,140 ratings
28.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,139 ratings
29.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe 3.76 avg rating — 97,936 ratings
30.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 4.03 avg rating — 37,355 ratings
31.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,097 ratings
32.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,195 ratings
33.
The Purloined Letter (C. Auguste Dupin, #3)
The Purloined Letter (C. Auguste Dupin, #3) 3.63 avg rating — 13,676 ratings
34.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,455 ratings
35.
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal 4.02 avg rating — 48,425 ratings
36.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,253 ratings
37.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum 4.14 avg rating — 71,254 ratings
38.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,978 ratings
39.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,323 ratings
40.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,980 ratings
41.
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 3.27 avg rating — 13,096 ratings
42.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
43.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,183 ratings
44.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,585 ratings
45.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,845 ratings
46.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,406 ratings
47.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales 4.17 avg rating — 74,601 ratings
48.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,124 ratings
49.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,111 ratings
50.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,795 ratings
51.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau 3.73 avg rating — 131,603 ratings
52.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,564 ratings
53.
The Iron Heel
The Iron Heel 3.77 avg rating — 11,956 ratings
54.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,455 ratings
55.
Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 67,101 ratings
56.
Cecilia
Cecilia 3.77 avg rating — 3,914 ratings
57.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,373 ratings
58.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,869 ratings
59.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating — 128,589 ratings
60.
Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4)
Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4) 3.69 avg rating — 10,219 ratings
60.
Camilla
Camilla 3.75 avg rating — 2,883 ratings
62.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,936 ratings
63.
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 51,858 ratings
63.
Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent 3.16 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
65.
Evelina
Evelina 3.70 avg rating — 18,231 ratings
65.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,887 ratings
67.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,717 ratings
68.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,236 ratings
69.
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby 3.94 avg rating — 46,292 ratings
70.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,401 ratings
71.
A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub 3.45 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
72.
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) 4.18 avg rating — 20,497 ratings
73.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 3.76 avg rating — 3,411 ratings
74.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,594 ratings
75.
Candide oder Der Optimismus
Candide oder Der Optimismus
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,527 ratings
76.
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 47,214 ratings
77.
The Water Babies
The Water Babies 3.38 avg rating — 9,745 ratings
78.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,922 ratings
79.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,263 ratings
80.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit 3.83 avg rating — 16,842 ratings
80.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,958 ratings
82.
A Sentimental Journey
A Sentimental Journey 3.31 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
83.
Martin Eden
Martin Eden 4.48 avg rating — 51,268 ratings
84.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,538 ratings
85.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto 3.19 avg rating — 39,779 ratings
85.
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.77 avg rating — 41,367 ratings
87.
The Golden Ass
The Golden Ass
by: Apuleius
3.86 avg rating — 16,754 ratings
88.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders 3.51 avg rating — 48,076 ratings
88.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days 3.95 avg rating — 274,966 ratings
90.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,750 ratings
91.
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis 4.01 avg rating — 41,007 ratings
92.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend 4.09 avg rating — 30,888 ratings
93.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables 3.45 avg rating — 42,104 ratings
94.
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield 3.46 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
95.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
96.
The Garden Party and Other Stories
The Garden Party and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating — 13,138 ratings
96.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,101 ratings
98.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,343 ratings
99.
The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,708 ratings
100.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,588 ratings
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