The Center for Fiction's 200 Books...200 Years [the first 100]

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,361 ratings
2.
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Complete Collection of Poems and Tales
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Complete Collection of Poems and Tales 4.40 avg rating — 291,486 ratings
3.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,067 ratings
4.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,841 ratings
5.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,244 ratings
6.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,795 ratings
7.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,365 ratings
8.
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter 3.63 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
9.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,455 ratings
10.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,662 ratings
11.
Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 3.74 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
12.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,101 ratings
13.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,550 ratings
14.
Les Miserables
Les Miserables 4.21 avg rating — 830,227 ratings
15.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,625 ratings
16.
Felix Holt: The Radical
Felix Holt: The Radical 3.71 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
17.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,116 ratings
18.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,978 ratings
19.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,287 ratings
20.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 293,946 ratings
21.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,929 ratings
22.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,884 ratings
23.
L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)
L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18) 3.94 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
24.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,806 ratings
25.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,103 ratings
26.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,564 ratings
27.
The Claudine Novels
The Claudine Novels
by: Colette
4.17 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
28.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,538 ratings
29.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,236 ratings
30.
Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)
Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 4,435 ratings
31.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare 3.82 avg rating — 44,816 ratings
32.
Peter Pan and Wendy
Peter Pan and Wendy 4.03 avg rating — 366,968 ratings
33.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
34.
Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 36,326 ratings
35.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,922 ratings
36.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,345 ratings
37.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,887 ratings
38.
Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,324 ratings
39.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,949 ratings
40.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,507 ratings
41.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,323 ratings
42.
Lud-in-the-Mist
Lud-in-the-Mist 3.86 avg rating — 9,255 ratings
43.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,038 ratings
44.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,186 ratings
45.
Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,701 ratings
46.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,472 ratings
47.
Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el norte de México
Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el norte de México 4.05 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
48.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,717 ratings
49.
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) 4.20 avg rating — 702,494 ratings
50.
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 76,597 ratings
51.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.60 avg rating — 14,251 ratings
52.
East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee 3.71 avg rating — 318 ratings
53.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,791 ratings
54.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,804 ratings
55.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,599 ratings
56.
The Outsider And Others
The Outsider And Others 4.43 avg rating — 61 ratings
57.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,840 ratings
58.
Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,288 ratings
59.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,562 ratings
60.
The Street
The Street
by: Ann Petry
4.27 avg rating — 12,961 ratings
61.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,450 ratings
62.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,532 ratings
63.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
64.
The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt 4.02 avg rating — 80,966 ratings
65.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,962 ratings
66.
Maud Martha
Maud Martha 4.10 avg rating — 3,717 ratings
67.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,519 ratings
68.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,237 ratings
69.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,518 ratings
70.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,091 ratings
71.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,508 ratings
72.
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5) 4.07 avg rating — 116,436 ratings
73.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,092 ratings
74.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,329 ratings
75.
The Nine Guardians: A Novel
The Nine Guardians: A Novel 4.20 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
76.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,051 ratings
77.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,336 ratings
78.
Solaris
Solaris 3.99 avg rating — 124,299 ratings
79.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,252 ratings
80.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,857 ratings
81.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,066 ratings
82.
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. 4.13 avg rating — 16,768 ratings
83.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,371 ratings
84.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,086 ratings
85.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,279 ratings
86.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,013 ratings
87.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,966 ratings
88.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 495,990 ratings
89.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,302 ratings
90.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,868 ratings
91.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,462 ratings
92.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret 3.94 avg rating — 252,114 ratings
93.
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,258 ratings
94.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,110 ratings
95.
The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel 3.85 avg rating — 5,846 ratings
96.
Maurice
Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 55,449 ratings
97.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,389 ratings
98.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating — 93,530 ratings
99.
The Summer Book
The Summer Book 4.01 avg rating — 50,814 ratings
100.
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo 3.85 avg rating — 4,795 ratings