Books That Deserve a Higher Rating (Avg Rating < 4)

1.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,263 ratings
2.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,706 ratings
3.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,631 ratings
4.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,908 ratings
5.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,756 ratings
6.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar 3.71 avg rating — 215,351 ratings
7.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,989 ratings
8.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,305 ratings
9.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,618 ratings
10.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,454 ratings
11.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,059 ratings
12.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating — 252,744 ratings
13.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,957 ratings
14.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,144 ratings
15.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,017 ratings
16.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,928 ratings
17.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,119 ratings
18.
Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little 3.61 avg rating — 33,412 ratings
18.
The Cement Garden
The Cement Garden 3.54 avg rating — 34,486 ratings
18.
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 45,005 ratings
18.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 231,994 ratings
18.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,606 ratings
18.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner 3.69 avg rating — 91,973 ratings
18.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,894 ratings
18.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,048 ratings
18.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,162 ratings
18.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,266 ratings
18.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,381 ratings
18.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 669,426 ratings
18.
Cujo
Cujo 3.80 avg rating — 312,743 ratings
18.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,616 ratings
19.
The Drowned World
The Drowned World 3.47 avg rating — 20,154 ratings
20.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,672 ratings
21.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,545 ratings
22.
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace 3.60 avg rating — 229,378 ratings
22.
Der Vorleser
Der Vorleser 3.78 avg rating — 226,216 ratings
24.
Washington Square
Washington Square 3.70 avg rating — 25,041 ratings
25.
Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain 3.70 avg rating — 50,450 ratings
26.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,951 ratings
27.
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 2,077,966 ratings
28.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 249,823 ratings
29.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,191 ratings
30.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,505 ratings
31.
The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher 3.60 avg rating — 15,367 ratings
32.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,203 ratings
33.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,017 ratings
34.
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 650,122 ratings
35.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller 3.37 avg rating — 36,980 ratings
36.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,777 ratings
37.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,227 ratings
38.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 3.66 avg rating — 104,096 ratings
39.
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,325 ratings
40.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,157 ratings
41.
Remainder
Remainder 3.67 avg rating — 8,328 ratings
42.
Enduring Love
Enduring Love 3.65 avg rating — 46,945 ratings
43.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,683 ratings
44.
Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall, #1)
Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,510 ratings
45.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,457 ratings
46.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,528 ratings
47.
The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,021 ratings
48.
Our Town
Our Town 3.74 avg rating — 58,044 ratings
49.
A Clergyman's Daughter
A Clergyman's Daughter 3.54 avg rating — 11,216 ratings
50.
Jacob Have I Loved
Jacob Have I Loved 3.69 avg rating — 35,646 ratings
51.
Esther's Inheritance
Esther's Inheritance 3.71 avg rating — 5,039 ratings
52.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor 3.55 avg rating — 14,066 ratings
52.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure 3.67 avg rating — 30,561 ratings
52.
Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking? 3.74 avg rating — 24,742 ratings
55.
Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia #1)
Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia #1) 3.58 avg rating — 8,911 ratings
56.
Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins 3.68 avg rating — 182,953 ratings
57.
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,451 ratings
57.
Scarlett
Scarlett 3.66 avg rating — 67,909 ratings
59.
The Edible Woman
The Edible Woman 3.69 avg rating — 39,571 ratings
60.
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
by: Multatuli
3.53 avg rating — 10,234 ratings
61.
Don Juan
Don Juan
by: Molière
3.55 avg rating — 17,064 ratings
61.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
63.
Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Jim Crace
3.68 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
64.
Het verdriet van België
Het verdriet van België 3.64 avg rating — 3,755 ratings
65.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.94 avg rating — 568,030 ratings
66.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle 3.59 avg rating — 229,229 ratings
67.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto 3.19 avg rating — 39,779 ratings
68.
The Lantern
The Lantern 3.37 avg rating — 5,113 ratings
69.
Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! 3.28 avg rating — 59,343 ratings
70.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 3.54 avg rating — 61,937 ratings
71.
The Tailor of Panama
The Tailor of Panama 3.50 avg rating — 9,835 ratings
72.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 37,504 ratings
73.
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by: Dan Brown
3.93 avg rating — 2,475,225 ratings
74.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 3.66 avg rating — 12,947 ratings
75.
The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates 3.68 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
76.
Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus 3.61 avg rating — 24,712 ratings
77.
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (Raffles, #1)
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (Raffles, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 2,617 ratings
78.
Histoire d'O | Story of O (Story of O, #1)
Histoire d'O | Story of O (Story of O, #1) 3.30 avg rating — 21,732 ratings
79.
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey 3.71 avg rating — 78,681 ratings
79.
The Night Watch
The Night Watch 3.71 avg rating — 32,757 ratings
81.
Slow Man
Slow Man 3.45 avg rating — 9,469 ratings
81.
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Allegiant (Divergent, #3) 3.60 avg rating — 1,122,248 ratings
83.
I, Lucifer
I, Lucifer 3.60 avg rating — 9,534 ratings
83.
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me 3.72 avg rating — 15,769 ratings
85.
Juliet, Naked
Juliet, Naked 3.50 avg rating — 46,488 ratings
86.
Cycle of the Werewolf
Cycle of the Werewolf 3.67 avg rating — 63,263 ratings
87.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,443 ratings
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