John Cowper Powys' 100 Best Books

1.
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs 4.26 avg rating — 19,807 ratings
2.
The Good Girl
The Good Girl 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
2.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
4.
Round the Corner
Round the Corner 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
4.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,617 ratings
6.
Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall
Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall 4.16 avg rating — 411 ratings
7.
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
8.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 3.76 avg rating — 3,412 ratings
9.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy 4.19 avg rating — 41,140 ratings
10.
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) 4.18 avg rating — 20,498 ratings
11.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,459 ratings
12.
Almayer's Folly
Almayer's Folly 3.56 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
13.
Youth, a Narrative
Youth, a Narrative 3.67 avg rating — 3,738 ratings
14.
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl 3.77 avg rating — 11,715 ratings
15.
The Bacchae
The Bacchae
by: Euripides
3.93 avg rating — 24,377 ratings
16.
The Seagull
The Seagull 3.91 avg rating — 36,910 ratings
17.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,835 ratings
17.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,888 ratings
19.
The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)
The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 130,565 ratings
19.
The Portable Walt Whitman
The Portable Walt Whitman 4.31 avg rating — 890 ratings
21.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,080 ratings
21.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,973 ratings
23.
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native 3.88 avg rating — 39,908 ratings
23.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets 4.25 avg rating — 110,529 ratings
25.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems
by: Catullus
4.10 avg rating — 11,444 ratings
26.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,126 ratings
27.
The Odes of Horace
The Odes of Horace
by: Horatius
4.05 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
28.
The Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor 3.65 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
29.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,348 ratings
29.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,816 ratings
31.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,568 ratings
32.
Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1 4.17 avg rating — 937 ratings
33.
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary 4.43 avg rating — 758 ratings
34.
The Tragic Muse
The Tragic Muse 3.81 avg rating — 331 ratings
35.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,967 ratings
35.
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions 4.16 avg rating — 12,147 ratings
35.
Faust
Faust 3.90 avg rating — 48,400 ratings
38.
The Soft Side
The Soft Side 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
39.
The Triumph of Death
The Triumph of Death 3.74 avg rating — 396 ratings
39.
Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo 3.81 avg rating — 19,210 ratings
41.
The Better Sort
The Better Sort 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
41.
The Insulted and Humiliated
The Insulted and Humiliated 4.25 avg rating — 23,181 ratings
43.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,692 ratings
43.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,557 ratings
45.
The Titan (Trilogy of desire, #2)
The Titan (Trilogy of desire, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
46.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond
The Adventures of Harry Richmond really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
47.
Conversations of Goethe
Conversations of Goethe 4.26 avg rating — 595 ratings
48.
Le Livre de mon ami
Le Livre de mon ami 3.59 avg rating — 201 ratings
49.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.37 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
50.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,732 ratings
51.
The Story of Louie
The Story of Louie 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
52.
Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering 3.77 avg rating — 726 ratings
52.
The Fool In Christ: Emmanuel Quint
The Fool In Christ: Emmanuel Quint 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
54.
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove 3.79 avg rating — 17,386 ratings
54.
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors 3.63 avg rating — 12,858 ratings
56.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 423,096 ratings
56.
Plato and Platonism
Plato and Platonism 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings
58.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. 3.60 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
59.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,060 ratings
60.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating — 397,747 ratings
61.
Intentions
Intentions 3.90 avg rating — 708 ratings
62.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Heart of Mid-Lothian 3.69 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
62.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,672 ratings
64.
De Profundis
De Profundis 4.22 avg rating — 24,405 ratings
65.
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Sketches from a Hunter's Album 3.96 avg rating — 8,873 ratings
66.
Man and Superman
Man and Superman 3.85 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
66.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
68.
The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant 4.24 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
69.
Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean 3.55 avg rating — 693 ratings
70.
A Night in the Luxembourg (1919)
A Night in the Luxembourg (1919) 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
71.
Chance
Chance 3.65 avg rating — 864 ratings
72.
Imaginary Portraits and Gaston De Latour: An Unfinished Romance
Imaginary Portraits and Gaston De Latour: An Unfinished Romance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
73.
Le Disciple
Le Disciple 3.33 avg rating — 181 ratings
74.
The Confession of a Fool
The Confession of a Fool 3.63 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
75.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.08 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
75.
The Song Of Songs
The Song Of Songs 4.30 avg rating — 377 ratings
75.
Walter Pater, 'Imaginary Portraits'
Walter Pater, 'Imaginary Portraits' 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
78.
Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard
Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard 3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings
79.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,548 ratings
79.
The Toilers of the Sea
The Toilers of the Sea 4.05 avg rating — 4,855 ratings
81.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,280 ratings
81.
L'Orme du mail (Histoire contemporaine #1)
L'Orme du mail (Histoire contemporaine #1) 3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
83.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,617 ratings
84.
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia 3.87 avg rating — 324 ratings
85.
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works 3.74 avg rating — 771 ratings
86.
Sanine, and The Revolutionist
Sanine, and The Revolutionist 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
87.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,504 ratings
88.
Foma Gordyeff
Foma Gordyeff 3.64 avg rating — 395 ratings
89.
Virgin Soil
Virgin Soil 3.82 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
90.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,884 ratings
91.
The Flame
The Flame 3.36 avg rating — 313 ratings
92.
Four Major Plays, Vol. 1: A Doll House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
Four Major Plays, Vol. 1: A Doll House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder 4.04 avg rating — 1,984 ratings
93.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida 3.41 avg rating — 12,223 ratings
94.
Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens 3.44 avg rating — 7,641 ratings
95.
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 4.48 avg rating — 193 ratings
96.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure 3.67 avg rating — 30,564 ratings
97.
Milton: Poems
Milton: Poems 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings
98.
Clayhanger (The Five Towns #6)
Clayhanger (The Five Towns #6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 522 ratings
99.
The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
The Human Comedy: Selected Stories 4.09 avg rating — 494 ratings
100.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,066 ratings
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