From Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer (Books 1-100)

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,291 ratings
2.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,340 ratings
3.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,070 ratings
4.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 165,247 ratings
5.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,553 ratings
6.
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating — 86,241 ratings
7.
RashĹŤmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories 4.14 avg rating — 9,857 ratings
8.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,458 ratings
9.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,743 ratings
10.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
11.
Vintage Baldwin
Vintage Baldwin 4.38 avg rating — 278 ratings
12.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,504 ratings
13.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
14.
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 3.91 avg rating — 521 ratings
15.
Believers: A novella and stories
Believers: A novella and stories 3.88 avg rating — 669 ratings
16.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 4.27 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
17.
The House in Paris
The House in Paris 3.72 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
18.
Two Serious Ladies
Two Serious Ladies 3.58 avg rating — 4,156 ratings
19.
Collected Stories and Later Writings
Collected Stories and Later Writings 4.40 avg rating — 144 ratings
20.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,548 ratings
21.
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics 4.15 avg rating — 20,425 ratings
22.
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,207 ratings
23.
Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,968 ratings
24.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
25.
Chekhov: A Life in Letters
Chekhov: A Life in Letters 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
26.
The Tales of Chekhov
The Tales of Chekhov 3.85 avg rating — 426 ratings
27.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,959 ratings
28.
Dickens: Bleak House
Dickens: Bleak House 4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings
29.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son 3.96 avg rating — 16,457 ratings
30.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,885 ratings
31.
I Sailed with Magellan
I Sailed with Magellan 4.08 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
32.
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg 4.10 avg rating — 747 ratings
33.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,995 ratings
34.
Searches and Seizures
Searches and Seizures 4.05 avg rating — 152 ratings
35.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,430 ratings
36.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,450 ratings
37.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,721 ratings
38.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,082 ratings
39.
Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters
by: Paula Fox
3.52 avg rating — 9,442 ratings
40.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,270 ratings
41.
Paris Stories
Paris Stories 3.95 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
42.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,166 ratings
43.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Wonders of the Invisible World 3.92 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
44.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
45.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,274 ratings
46.
Doting
Doting 3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings
47.
Loving
Loving 3.52 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
48.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,862 ratings
49.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,883 ratings
50.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,114 ratings
51.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.40 avg rating — 227 ratings
52.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,063 ratings
53.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,392 ratings
54.
Pictures from an Institution
Pictures from an Institution 3.46 avg rating — 508 ratings
55.
Angels
Angels 3.98 avg rating — 5,631 ratings
56.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,244 ratings
57.
Le Divorce
Le Divorce 2.96 avg rating — 4,893 ratings
58.
Persian Nights
Persian Nights 3.38 avg rating — 444 ratings
59.
Life of Savage;
Life of Savage; 3.25 avg rating — 118 ratings
60.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,166 ratings
61.
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka 4.09 avg rating — 20,578 ratings
62.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,416 ratings
63.
A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy 3.99 avg rating — 22,495 ratings
64.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope 4.37 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
65.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield 4.14 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
66.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,206 ratings
67.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.87 avg rating — 25,860 ratings
68.
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City 3.80 avg rating — 36,201 ratings
69.
Bartleby and Benito Cereno
Bartleby and Benito Cereno 3.78 avg rating — 2,790 ratings
70.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,861 ratings
71.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,973 ratings
72.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating — 7,180 ratings
73.
Lectures on Russian Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature 4.25 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
74.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,350 ratings
75.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,517 ratings
76.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,608 ratings
77.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,393 ratings
78.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,566 ratings
79.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.87 avg rating — 7,779 ratings
80.
The Story of a Life
The Story of a Life 4.45 avg rating — 684 ratings
81.
Freedomland
Freedomland 3.66 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
82.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,170 ratings
83.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
84.
Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,357 ratings
85.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 86,091 ratings
86.
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go 4.02 avg rating — 542 ratings
87.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,185 ratings
88.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,718 ratings
89.
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
The Russian Debutante's Handbook 3.56 avg rating — 7,332 ratings
90.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,039 ratings
91.
A Ship Made of Paper
A Ship Made of Paper 3.22 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
92.
Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4)
Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4) 3.77 avg rating — 6,431 ratings
93.
Some Hope: A Trilogy
Some Hope: A Trilogy 3.79 avg rating — 3,532 ratings
94.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children 3.57 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
95.
Flaubert & Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait.
Flaubert & Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait. 4.02 avg rating — 217 ratings
96.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,204 ratings
97.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,060 ratings
98.
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
by: Rex Stout
4.18 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
99.
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis 3.63 avg rating — 6,770 ratings
100.
Sleepwalker in a Fog
Sleepwalker in a Fog 3.94 avg rating — 249 ratings