100 Essential Penguin Classics (Actually 96 Books)

1.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,416 ratings
2.
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History 3.92 avg rating — 3,712 ratings
3.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,555 ratings
4.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,470 ratings
5.
Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,323 ratings
6.
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,142 ratings
7.
Devil on the Cross
Devil on the Cross 3.93 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
8.
Amiable with Big Teeth
Amiable with Big Teeth 3.61 avg rating — 332 ratings
9.
Dark Tales
Dark Tales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,081 ratings
10.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,454 ratings
11.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,253 ratings
12.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,114 ratings
13.
The River Between
The River Between 3.79 avg rating — 5,151 ratings
14.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,300 ratings
15.
Something to Remember Me By
Something to Remember Me By 3.72 avg rating — 225 ratings
16.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,010 ratings
17.
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual 4.25 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
18.
My Inventions and Other Writings
My Inventions and Other Writings 3.93 avg rating — 817 ratings
19.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned 3.73 avg rating — 63,660 ratings
20.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,048 ratings
21.
Revolutionary Suicide
Revolutionary Suicide 4.48 avg rating — 6,763 ratings
22.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,321 ratings
23.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,569 ratings
24.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,643 ratings
25.
The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,815 ratings
26.
On the Road: The Original Scroll
On the Road: The Original Scroll 4.11 avg rating — 13,379 ratings
27.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,825 ratings
28.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book 4.02 avg rating — 9,590 ratings
29.
Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind 4.15 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
30.
Ceremony
Ceremony 3.84 avg rating — 25,797 ratings
31.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,432 ratings
32.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,825 ratings
33.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
34.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,125 ratings
35.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men 4.07 avg rating — 36,167 ratings
36.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,182 ratings
37.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 16,590 ratings
38.
Kokoro
Kokoro 4.04 avg rating — 39,440 ratings
39.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin 3.73 avg rating — 36,730 ratings
40.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,875 ratings
41.
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,753 ratings
42.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,440 ratings
43.
East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee 3.71 avg rating — 318 ratings
44.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
45.
Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter 4.23 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
46.
The Hanging on Union Square
The Hanging on Union Square 3.93 avg rating — 292 ratings
47.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,217 ratings
48.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,606 ratings
49.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,703 ratings
50.
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Lysistrata and Other Plays 3.87 avg rating — 52,375 ratings
51.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,367 ratings
52.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,017 ratings
53.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1-2)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1-2) 4.06 avg rating — 597,718 ratings
54.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 3.62 avg rating — 32,116 ratings
55.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,239 ratings
56.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,996 ratings
57.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,231 ratings
58.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,943 ratings
59.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,072 ratings
60.
Herzog
Herzog 3.76 avg rating — 22,523 ratings
61.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,643 ratings
62.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion 3.89 avg rating — 108,313 ratings
63.
Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,724 ratings
64.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,453 ratings
65.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,361 ratings
66.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,622 ratings
67.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,722 ratings
68.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,863 ratings
69.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 847,023 ratings
70.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,709 ratings
71.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,403 ratings
72.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,372 ratings
73.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,295 ratings
74.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,295 ratings
75.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,405 ratings
76.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island 3.85 avg rating — 528,316 ratings
77.
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,533 ratings
78.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,288 ratings
79.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,959 ratings
80.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,389 ratings
81.
The Stonewall Reader
The Stonewall Reader 4.36 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
82.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,878 ratings
83.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,168 ratings
84.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,128 ratings
85.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,964 ratings
86.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,253 ratings
87.
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,623 ratings
88.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,385 ratings
89.
The Analects
The Analects
by: Confucius
3.81 avg rating — 23,511 ratings
90.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,286 ratings
91.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,648 ratings
92.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,202 ratings
93.
The Travels
The Travels 3.58 avg rating — 7,904 ratings
94.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,743 ratings
95.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,063 ratings
96.
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
by: Du Nguyen
4.30 avg rating — 1,717 ratings