The 100 Most-Often-Recommended Works

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,280 ratings
2.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,801,020 ratings
3.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,545 ratings
4.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,715 ratings
5.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,163 ratings
6.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,712 ratings
7.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,044 ratings
8.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,063 ratings
9.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,878 ratings
9.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,884 ratings
11.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,615 ratings
12.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,864 ratings
13.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,591 ratings
14.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,016 ratings
15.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
16.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,316,000 ratings
17.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,050 ratings
18.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,104 ratings
19.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,403 ratings
20.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,028 ratings
21.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,134 ratings
22.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,568 ratings
23.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,942 ratings
24.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,051 ratings
25.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,285 ratings
26.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating — 397,747 ratings
27.
Our Town
Our Town 3.74 avg rating — 58,055 ratings
28.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,375 ratings
29.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,643 ratings
30.
The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,198 ratings
31.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage 3.30 avg rating — 108,701 ratings
32.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day 3.53 avg rating — 13,351 ratings
33.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,064 ratings
34.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,887 ratings
35.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,721 ratings
36.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,390 ratings
37.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,998 ratings
38.
Babbitt
Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
39.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,967 ratings
40.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,860 ratings
41.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,037 ratings
42.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating — 252,793 ratings
43.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion 3.89 avg rating — 108,312 ratings
44.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,292 ratings
44.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,396 ratings
46.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,223 ratings
47.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,545 ratings
48.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,972 ratings
49.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,061 ratings
50.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,648 ratings
51.
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope
by: Molière
3.76 avg rating — 24,910 ratings
52.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,816 ratings
53.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,222 ratings
54.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,888 ratings
54.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,296 ratings
54.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,106 ratings
57.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,389 ratings
58.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,402 ratings
59.
Holy Bible: New International Version
Holy Bible: New International Version
by: Anonymous
4.62 avg rating — 94,554 ratings
59.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,236 ratings
59.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail 4.54 avg rating — 4,440 ratings
62.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,170 ratings
63.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,813 ratings
63.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,927 ratings
65.
Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman 3.31 avg rating — 286,829 ratings
66.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,798 ratings
67.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4.06 avg rating — 72,640 ratings
68.
Sonny's Blues
Sonny's Blues 4.32 avg rating — 9,289 ratings
69.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,750 ratings
70.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
71.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,412 ratings
72.
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,350 ratings
73.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,201 ratings
74.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,970 ratings
75.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,835 ratings
76.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,403 ratings
77.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,530 ratings
78.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,836 ratings
79.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,392 ratings
80.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,014 ratings
81.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,414 ratings
82.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,129 ratings
83.
The Assistant
The Assistant 3.90 avg rating — 11,025 ratings
84.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice 3.69 avg rating — 65,730 ratings
85.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,049 ratings
86.
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
87.
Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle 3.97 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
88.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,544 ratings
89.
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 4.36 avg rating — 69,959 ratings
90.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe 3.76 avg rating — 97,942 ratings
91.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,585 ratings
92.
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 62,571 ratings
93.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,481 ratings
94.
Thirteen Stories (Harvest Book)
Thirteen Stories (Harvest Book) 3.86 avg rating — 693 ratings
95.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,958 ratings
96.
Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
97.
The Orestia
The Orestia
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,637 ratings
98.
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children 3.62 avg rating — 22,268 ratings
99.
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard 3.69 avg rating — 44,053 ratings
100.
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus 3.80 avg rating — 71,012 ratings
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