The Western Canon

1.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,644 ratings
2.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,627 ratings
3.
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
4.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,633 ratings
5.
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
by: Plato
4.16 avg rating — 23,612 ratings
6.
Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs
Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs 4.06 avg rating — 6,766 ratings
7.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,138 ratings
8.
The Satyricon
The Satyricon
by: Petronius
3.78 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
9.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,103 ratings
10.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,706 ratings
11.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
12.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
13.
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth 4.42 avg rating — 18,027 ratings
14.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,558 ratings
15.
The Essays
The Essays 3.81 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
16.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
by: Molière
3.66 avg rating — 42,284 ratings
17.
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope
by: Molière
3.76 avg rating — 24,905 ratings
18.
Faust
Faust 3.90 avg rating — 48,393 ratings
19.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,952 ratings
20.
Wilhelm Tell
Wilhelm Tell 3.21 avg rating — 8,821 ratings
21.
Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama 3.77 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
22.
Michael Kohlhaas
Michael Kohlhaas 3.55 avg rating — 6,176 ratings
23.
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland 3.98 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
24.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,098 ratings
25.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,795 ratings
26.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,527 ratings
27.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
28.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.06 avg rating — 14,664 ratings
29.
Les Miserables
Les Miserables 4.21 avg rating — 830,219 ratings
30.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,956 ratings
31.
Cousin Pons
Cousin Pons 3.98 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
32.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,050 ratings
33.
L'Assomoir
L'Assomoir 4.08 avg rating — 18,737 ratings
34.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,643 ratings
35.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck 3.80 avg rating — 10,894 ratings
36.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt 3.71 avg rating — 9,059 ratings
37.
Poems of Heinrich Heine
Poems of Heinrich Heine 4.12 avg rating — 593 ratings
38.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,555 ratings
39.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,212 ratings
40.
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason 3.96 avg rating — 40,916 ratings
41.
Critique of Judgment
Critique of Judgment 4.09 avg rating — 9,512 ratings
42.
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,985 ratings
43.
Essays and Aphorisms
Essays and Aphorisms 4.17 avg rating — 8,828 ratings
44.
The Birth of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy 3.98 avg rating — 20,453 ratings
45.
The Will to Power
The Will to Power 4.06 avg rating — 11,018 ratings
46.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,702 ratings
47.
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat 4.33 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
48.
Collected Poems and Other Verse
Collected Poems and Other Verse 4.21 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
49.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,249 ratings
50.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,772 ratings
51.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,150 ratings
52.
Strait is the Gate
Strait is the Gate 3.57 avg rating — 6,009 ratings
53.
La Symphonie pastorale
La Symphonie pastorale 3.62 avg rating — 7,252 ratings
54.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,294 ratings
55.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,296 ratings
56.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,695 ratings
57.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,765 ratings
58.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,338 ratings
59.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,936 ratings
60.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,170 ratings
61.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,400 ratings
62.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,270 ratings
63.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,732 ratings
64.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
65.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,908 ratings
66.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,593 ratings
67.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger 3.72 avg rating — 7,844 ratings
68.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,668 ratings
69.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,239 ratings
70.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.37 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
71.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,101 ratings
72.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,959 ratings
73.
T S Eliot - Waste Land And Other Poems
T S Eliot - Waste Land And Other Poems
by: R. Tilak
4.25 avg rating — 188 ratings