Penguin Classics

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,272 ratings
2.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,816 ratings
3.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,826 ratings
4.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,226 ratings
5.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,200 ratings
6.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,085 ratings
7.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,150 ratings
8.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,639 ratings
9.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,053 ratings
10.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,606 ratings
11.
Little Women
Little Women 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,079 ratings
12.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,955 ratings
13.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,800 ratings
14.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,123 ratings
15.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,792 ratings
16.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,276 ratings
17.
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 — 597,640 ratings
18.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,169 ratings
19.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,541 ratings
20.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,767,690 ratings
21.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,429 ratings
22.
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 — 138,901 ratings
23.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,656 ratings
24.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,632 ratings
25.
Beowulf: A Verse Translation
Beowulf: A Verse Translation
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,031 ratings
26.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,215 ratings
27.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,728 ratings
28.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,091 ratings
29.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,927 ratings
30.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,176 ratings
31.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,982 ratings
32.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,085 ratings
33.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,594 ratings
34.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,521 ratings
35.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine 3.89 avg rating — 552,933 ratings
36.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,452 ratings
37.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,229 ratings
38.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,197 ratings
39.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,585 ratings
40.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,743 ratings
41.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,314 ratings
42.
Candide, or Optimism
Candide, or Optimism
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,526 ratings
43.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 376,296 ratings
44.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,505 ratings
45.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,659 ratings
46.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 162,713 ratings
47.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,959 ratings
48.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,699 ratings
49.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,135 ratings
50.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,624 ratings
51.
The Pearl
The Pearl 3.56 avg rating — 261,797 ratings
52.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,692 ratings
53.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers 4.10 avg rating — 340,220 ratings
54.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,955 ratings
55.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,644 ratings
56.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,367 ratings
57.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,917 ratings
58.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
59.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,092 ratings
60.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,289 ratings
61.
The Complete Fables
The Complete Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating — 128,592 ratings
62.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,996 ratings
63.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,977 ratings
64.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,505 ratings
65.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,405 ratings
66.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,739 ratings
67.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,221 ratings
68.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice 3.78 avg rating — 199,206 ratings
69.
The Golden Ass
The Golden Ass
by: Apuleius
3.86 avg rating — 16,754 ratings
70.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,806 ratings
71.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,102 ratings
72.
We
We 3.88 avg rating — 107,856 ratings
73.
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Saga of the Volsungs
by: Anonymous
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,855 ratings
74.
The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating — 44,775 ratings
75.
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey 3.71 avg rating — 78,684 ratings
76.
The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,709 ratings
77.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,924 ratings
78.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
by: Anonymous
4.01 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
79.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,263,063 ratings
80.
The Mabinogion
The Mabinogion
by: Unknown
3.93 avg rating — 8,433 ratings
81.
Wives and Daughters
Wives and Daughters 4.13 avg rating — 50,106 ratings
82.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating — 252,762 ratings
83.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,685 ratings
84.
Notes from Underground & The Double
Notes from Underground & The Double 4.15 avg rating — 7,816 ratings
85.
Cranford
Cranford 3.83 avg rating — 46,857 ratings
86.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 4.02 avg rating — 115,387 ratings
87.
Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales 4.13 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
87.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,263 ratings
87.
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97,917 ratings
90.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,530 ratings
91.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,706 ratings
92.
Maurice
Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 55,447 ratings
93.
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons 4.05 avg rating — 57,184 ratings
94.
The Analects
The Analects
by: Confucius
3.81 avg rating — 23,508 ratings
95.
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,642 ratings
96.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,073 ratings
97.
The Penguin Book of Witches
The Penguin Book of Witches 3.54 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
98.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,161 ratings
99.
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore
by: Unknown
4.26 avg rating — 11,711 ratings
100.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,058 ratings
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