Deceased authors...I wish I could have met

1.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde 4.47 avg rating — 15,292 ratings
2.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,252 ratings
3.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,140 ratings
4.
The Complete Tales and Poems
The Complete Tales and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,507 ratings
5.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,600 ratings
6.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,964 ratings
7.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,434 ratings
8.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,037 ratings
9.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,114 ratings
10.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,625 ratings
11.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 4.29 avg rating — 4,346,445 ratings
12.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,516 ratings
13.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats 4.23 avg rating — 39,744 ratings
14.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating — 992,217 ratings
14.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,770 ratings
16.
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker 4.33 avg rating — 11,888 ratings
16.
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 96,281 ratings
16.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,472 ratings
19.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,672 ratings
19.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories 3.83 avg rating — 286,601 ratings
21.
Impossible Vacation
Impossible Vacation 3.74 avg rating — 843 ratings
21.
The Nose
The Nose 3.72 avg rating — 16,397 ratings
23.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 11,537 ratings
23.
Raising Demons
Raising Demons 4.15 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
25.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,013 ratings
25.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
by: C.G. Jung
4.02 avg rating — 4,490 ratings
27.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,607 ratings
28.
Solomon Gursky Was Here, a novel
Solomon Gursky Was Here, a novel 3.98 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
28.
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth 4.26 avg rating — 53,108 ratings
28.
The Assault
The Assault 3.74 avg rating — 19,131 ratings
31.
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2) 4.35 avg rating — 155,374 ratings
31.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,941 ratings
33.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,962 ratings
33.
Het behouden huis
Het behouden huis 3.47 avg rating — 4,133 ratings
35.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,715 ratings
35.
Diary of a Witch
Diary of a Witch 3.89 avg rating — 333 ratings
37.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 103,315 ratings
38.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,941 ratings
39.
The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,869 ratings