Classics All Educated Persons Should Read

1.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,297 ratings
2.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,443 ratings
3.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,811 ratings
4.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,081 ratings
5.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,557 ratings
6.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,611 ratings
7.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,128 ratings
8.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,923 ratings
9.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,268 ratings
10.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,806 ratings
10.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,290 ratings
12.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,866 ratings
13.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,870 ratings
14.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,987 ratings
15.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,229 ratings
16.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,936 ratings
17.
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 1,079,911 ratings
18.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,585 ratings
19.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,098 ratings
20.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,439 ratings
21.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,634 ratings
22.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,568 ratings
22.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,569 ratings
24.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,227 ratings
25.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,196 ratings
26.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,154 ratings
27.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,035 ratings
28.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,342 ratings
29.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,554 ratings
30.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,698 ratings
31.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,459 ratings
32.
Little Women
Little Women 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,156 ratings
33.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,073 ratings
34.
The Razor’s Edge
The Razor’s Edge 4.19 avg rating — 52,476 ratings
35.
Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings 3.58 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
36.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,035 ratings
37.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
37.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,195 ratings
39.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,805 ratings
40.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,371 ratings
41.
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) 4.56 avg rating — 222,357 ratings
42.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,745 ratings
43.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,435 ratings
43.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,823 ratings
45.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,384 ratings
46.
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating — 60,764 ratings
47.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,796 ratings
48.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel 3.92 avg rating — 15,524 ratings
49.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,101 ratings
50.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,922 ratings
51.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 641,381 ratings
52.
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon 3.95 avg rating — 24,254 ratings
53.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,375 ratings
54.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,991 ratings
55.
Seventeen
Seventeen 3.85 avg rating — 752 ratings
55.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock 3.66 avg rating — 29,098 ratings
57.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 293,946 ratings
58.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,304 ratings
59.
On the Beach
On the Beach 3.98 avg rating — 48,160 ratings
60.
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The Call of the Wild and White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 78,579 ratings
61.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,648 ratings
62.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,339 ratings
63.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,958 ratings
64.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
65.
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
65.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,598 ratings
67.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,979 ratings
68.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,660 ratings
69.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,588 ratings
70.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,263,100 ratings
70.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
72.
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) 4.12 avg rating — 294,101 ratings
73.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,334 ratings
74.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,719,005 ratings
75.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,077 ratings
76.
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
77.
To Build a Fire
To Build a Fire 3.98 avg rating — 25,825 ratings
78.
The Star Rover: The Great Reincarnation Novel
The Star Rover: The Great Reincarnation Novel 4.18 avg rating — 10,230 ratings
79.
White Fang
White Fang 4.03 avg rating — 201,616 ratings
80.
Holy Bible: The New King James Version
Holy Bible: The New King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.41 avg rating — 8,021 ratings
81.
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded 2.76 avg rating — 13,355 ratings
82.
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews 3.26 avg rating — 948 ratings
83.
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein 3.81 avg rating — 458 ratings
84.
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders 3.51 avg rating — 48,076 ratings
85.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,585 ratings
85.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,634 ratings
87.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,715 ratings
88.
The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales
The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales 3.80 avg rating — 262 ratings
89.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War 3.30 avg rating — 108,687 ratings
90.
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.77 avg rating — 41,367 ratings
91.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,273 ratings
92.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,125 ratings
93.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,216 ratings
94.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,366 ratings
95.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,513 ratings
96.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day 3.53 avg rating — 13,349 ratings
97.
The Essential Hemingway
The Essential Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 464 ratings
98.
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn 3.81 avg rating — 21,068 ratings
99.
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright 3.98 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
100.
The Rape of Tamar
The Rape of Tamar 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings
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