Pompous Books to Read in Public

1.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,338 ratings
2.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,658 ratings
3.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,977 ratings
4.
Swann's Way
Swann's Way 4.16 avg rating — 66,160 ratings
5.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,555 ratings
6.
Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,067 ratings
7.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,504 ratings
8.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,893 ratings
9.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
10.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,247 ratings
11.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
12.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,103 ratings
13.
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason 3.96 avg rating — 40,916 ratings
14.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,404 ratings
15.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,101 ratings
16.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,522 ratings
17.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,193 ratings
18.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,295 ratings
19.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,098 ratings
20.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,772 ratings
21.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
22.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,219 ratings
23.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,782 ratings
24.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,643 ratings
25.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
26.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,270 ratings
27.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,994 ratings
28.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,783 ratings
29.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,668 ratings
30.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,627 ratings
31.
Faust, and the Urfaust
Faust, and the Urfaust 4.02 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
32.
Time Regained
Time Regained 4.51 avg rating — 8,006 ratings
33.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,211 ratings
34.
Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,673 ratings
35.
The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,319 ratings
36.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,908 ratings
37.
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,936 ratings
38.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,972 ratings
39.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,952 ratings
40.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating — 109,309 ratings
41.
The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,578 ratings
42.
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,985 ratings
43.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,246 ratings
44.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,680 ratings
45.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
46.
The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)
The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 11,429 ratings
47.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,845 ratings
48.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I 4.17 avg rating — 3,395 ratings
49.
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
50.
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
51.
The Will to Power
The Will to Power 4.06 avg rating — 11,018 ratings
52.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend 4.09 avg rating — 30,888 ratings
52.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,776 ratings
54.
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 — 78,033 ratings
55.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,317 ratings
56.
Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4) 4.32 avg rating — 9,486 ratings
57.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,625 ratings
58.
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2) 4.39 avg rating — 17,091 ratings
59.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,450 ratings
60.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,679 ratings
61.
Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,277 ratings
62.
Existentialism is a Humanism
Existentialism is a Humanism 3.98 avg rating — 44,084 ratings
63.
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 3.96 avg rating — 111,007 ratings
64.
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 330,495 ratings
65.
The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky 3.89 avg rating — 30,062 ratings
66.
Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
67.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,848 ratings
68.
History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94 avg rating — 39,936 ratings
69.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
70.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,379 ratings
71.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King 3.76 avg rating — 15,910 ratings
72.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,150 ratings
73.
What Is Philosophy?
What Is Philosophy? 4.15 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
74.
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 3.87 avg rating — 3,559 ratings
75.
Mythology
Mythology 4.03 avg rating — 58,932 ratings
76.
The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) 4.38 avg rating — 3,310 ratings
77.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,244 ratings
78.
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ 4.15 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
79.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe 3.76 avg rating — 97,932 ratings
79.
The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
81.
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil 3.87 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
82.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits 4.19 avg rating — 12,863 ratings
83.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume II
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume II 4.24 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
84.
Poetry, Language, Thought
Poetry, Language, Thought 4.11 avg rating — 3,638 ratings
85.
Under the Net
Under the Net 3.77 avg rating — 16,014 ratings
86.
Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by: C.G. Jung
4.19 avg rating — 32,157 ratings
87.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,170 ratings
88.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,355 ratings
89.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Complete Works of William Shakespeare 4.48 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
90.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 4.04 avg rating — 92,115 ratings
91.
VALIS
VALIS 3.92 avg rating — 32,014 ratings
91.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
93.
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating — 44,774 ratings
94.
The Prague Cemetery
The Prague Cemetery 3.51 avg rating — 29,531 ratings
95.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,644 ratings
96.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,395 ratings
97.
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat 4.33 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
98.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,960 ratings
99.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,684 ratings
100.
The Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied
by: Unknown
3.82 avg rating — 8,697 ratings
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