Best Books From Before 1950

1.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,019 ratings
2.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,862 ratings
3.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,697 ratings
4.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 4.29 avg rating — 4,345,662 ratings
5.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,104 ratings
6.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,810 ratings
7.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating — 992,049 ratings
8.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,566 ratings
9.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,637 ratings
10.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,879 ratings
11.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,622 ratings
12.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,993 ratings
13.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,853 ratings
14.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,355,996 ratings
15.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,725 ratings
16.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,101 ratings
17.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,193 ratings
18.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,262,985 ratings
18.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,543 ratings
20.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,517 ratings
21.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,390 ratings
22.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,682 ratings
23.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 214,384 ratings
24.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,512 ratings
25.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,541 ratings
26.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,821 ratings
27.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,016 ratings
28.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,483 ratings
29.
I, Claudius
I, Claudius 4.24 avg rating — 71,599 ratings
30.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,989 ratings
31.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,068 ratings
32.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating — 397,684 ratings
33.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,510 ratings
34.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,612 ratings
35.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
36.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,307 ratings
37.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,784 ratings
38.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,020 ratings
39.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,618 ratings
40.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.94 avg rating — 568,034 ratings
41.
Little Women
Little Women 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,935 ratings
42.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating — 428,017 ratings
43.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,137 ratings
44.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables 4.32 avg rating — 1,079,791 ratings
45.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,767,556 ratings
46.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None 4.28 avg rating — 1,544,035 ratings
47.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,795 ratings
48.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,362 ratings
49.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,018 ratings
50.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,760 ratings
51.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,454 ratings
52.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,668 ratings
53.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,030 ratings
54.
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) 4.20 avg rating — 702,421 ratings
55.
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,829 ratings
56.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,227 ratings
57.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar 3.71 avg rating — 215,351 ratings
57.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,965 ratings
59.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,955 ratings
60.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 3.92 avg rating — 138,895 ratings
61.
The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating — 222,551 ratings
62.
The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,553 ratings
63.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,664 ratings
64.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,039 ratings
65.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,340 ratings
66.
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing 4.06 avg rating — 254,885 ratings
67.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress 4.07 avg rating — 154,126 ratings
68.
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating — 44,772 ratings
69.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,208 ratings
70.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,279 ratings
71.
The Divine Comedy I: Hell
The Divine Comedy I: Hell 4.03 avg rating — 200,489 ratings
72.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,909 ratings
73.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,765 ratings
74.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,395 ratings
75.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,390 ratings
75.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,437 ratings
77.
Robert Frost's Poems
Robert Frost's Poems 4.28 avg rating — 3,607 ratings
78.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,578 ratings
79.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,965 ratings
80.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,355 ratings
81.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,119 ratings
82.
Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,878 ratings
83.
As You Like It
As You Like It 3.81 avg rating — 87,364 ratings
84.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,356 ratings
85.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,456 ratings
86.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,280 ratings
87.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,777 ratings
87.
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table 3.92 avg rating — 38,981 ratings
89.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland 4.03 avg rating — 395,719 ratings
90.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 499,071 ratings
91.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,164 ratings
92.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,266 ratings
93.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
94.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.59 avg rating — 17,388 ratings
95.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,467 ratings
96.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,642 ratings
97.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,169 ratings
98.
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) 4.20 avg rating — 31,534 ratings
98.
Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,447 ratings
100.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,084 ratings
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