1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - unabridged

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,346 ratings
2.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,562 ratings
3.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,186 ratings
4.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,609 ratings
5.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,943 ratings
5.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,995 ratings
7.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,018 ratings
8.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,347 ratings
9.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,155 ratings
10.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,494 ratings
11.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,680 ratings
12.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,061 ratings
13.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,074 ratings
14.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,255 ratings
15.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,473 ratings
16.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher 3.85 avg rating — 83,648 ratings
17.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating — 7,318 ratings
18.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,189 ratings
19.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,622 ratings
20.
The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom 3.07 avg rating — 14,384 ratings
21.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,407 ratings
22.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,913 ratings
23.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,162 ratings
24.
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating — 128,596 ratings
25.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,905,031 ratings
26.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 4.29 avg rating — 4,346,565 ratings
27.
Saturday
Saturday 3.64 avg rating — 72,559 ratings
28.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,968 ratings
29.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
30.
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
31.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,655 ratings
31.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,217 ratings
31.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,761 ratings
34.
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal 4.02 avg rating — 48,435 ratings
35.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders 3.51 avg rating — 48,079 ratings
35.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,763 ratings
37.
The Sea
The Sea 3.55 avg rating — 34,132 ratings
38.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
38.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,672 ratings
40.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,276 ratings
41.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
42.
The Colour
The Colour 3.86 avg rating — 6,444 ratings
43.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum 4.14 avg rating — 71,257 ratings
44.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,889 ratings
45.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,668 ratings
46.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,877 ratings
47.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,312 ratings
48.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,730 ratings
48.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,790 ratings
50.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,709 ratings
51.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,295 ratings
51.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,996 ratings
53.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,127 ratings
54.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,417 ratings
55.
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue 3.42 avg rating — 16,434 ratings
55.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe 3.76 avg rating — 97,943 ratings
57.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,122 ratings
58.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating — 67,312 ratings
59.
Love in Excess
Love in Excess 3.33 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
60.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,456 ratings
61.
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady 3.39 avg rating — 8,499 ratings
61.
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point 3.89 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
63.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,569,048 ratings
64.
A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-5)
A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-5) 4.60 avg rating — 64,132 ratings
65.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko 3.01 avg rating — 16,385 ratings
66.
A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub 3.45 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
67.
On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,032 ratings
67.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,107 ratings
69.
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream 3.67 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
69.
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 4.23 avg rating — 219,200 ratings
71.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,969 ratings
72.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,592 ratings
72.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,339 ratings
74.
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews 3.28 avg rating — 5,983 ratings
75.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy 3.83 avg rating — 10,104 ratings
76.
Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,357 ratings
76.
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey 3.71 avg rating — 78,704 ratings
76.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 153,279 ratings
79.
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 3.27 avg rating — 13,098 ratings
80.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,590 ratings
81.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto 3.19 avg rating — 39,786 ratings
81.
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland 3.98 avg rating — 2,611 ratings
83.
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield 3.46 avg rating — 10,544 ratings
84.
Possession: A Romance
Possession: A Romance 3.90 avg rating — 83,132 ratings
85.
Cecilia
Cecilia 3.77 avg rating — 3,914 ratings
86.
The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,716 ratings
87.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,873 ratings
88.
Edelman, bedelman, schutter, spion
Edelman, bedelman, schutter, spion 4.06 avg rating — 102,519 ratings
89.
Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4)
Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4) 3.69 avg rating — 10,219 ratings
90.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,222 ratings
91.
The Monastery
The Monastery 3.45 avg rating — 492 ratings
91.
Melmoth the Wanderer
Melmoth the Wanderer 3.73 avg rating — 5,453 ratings
93.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,835 ratings
93.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,081 ratings
95.
The Nose
The Nose 3.95 avg rating — 14,009 ratings
96.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet 3.79 avg rating — 25,137 ratings
96.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,730 ratings
98.
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
by: Stendhal
3.79 avg rating — 19,486 ratings
99.
The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,391 ratings
100.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,393 ratings
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