Book List from "How to Read Literature Like a Professor"

1.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,530 ratings
2.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,537 ratings
3.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,404 ratings
4.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,625 ratings
5.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,639 ratings
6.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,108 ratings
7.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,091 ratings
8.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,638 ratings
9.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
10.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,031 ratings
11.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by: Unknown
3.76 avg rating — 75,121 ratings
12.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,655 ratings
13.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,366 ratings
13.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,806 ratings
15.
Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,450 ratings
16.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
17.
Duino Elegies
Duino Elegies 4.39 avg rating — 9,806 ratings
18.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,222 ratings
19.
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
20.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,742 ratings
21.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,776 ratings
22.
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
23.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,271 ratings
24.
Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating — 45,693 ratings
24.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,073 ratings
26.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
27.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,338 ratings
28.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,082 ratings
29.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,944 ratings
30.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
31.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,224 ratings
32.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.80 avg rating — 33,712 ratings
33.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
34.
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 169,160 ratings
35.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,120 ratings
36.
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost 4.24 avg rating — 48,973 ratings
37.
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 3,336,657 ratings
38.
The Complete Works
The Complete Works 4.48 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
39.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,617 ratings
40.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,031 ratings
40.
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by: Sophocles
3.99 avg rating — 69,737 ratings
42.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,237 ratings
43.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,314 ratings
44.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,142 ratings
45.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon 3.87 avg rating — 113,191 ratings
46.
Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,961 ratings
46.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop 3.79 avg rating — 23,382 ratings
48.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,666 ratings
49.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,484 ratings
50.
The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Waste Land and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 72,694 ratings
51.
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato 3.91 avg rating — 14,427 ratings
52.
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 28,024 ratings
53.
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,012,876 ratings
54.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,469 ratings
55.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables 3.45 avg rating — 42,104 ratings
55.
Opened Ground
Opened Ground 4.27 avg rating — 5,811 ratings
55.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,146 ratings
58.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,364 ratings
58.
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene 3.58 avg rating — 17,146 ratings
60.
Water Music
Water Music 4.19 avg rating — 5,375 ratings
61.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,468 ratings
62.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 4.29 avg rating — 37,556 ratings
63.
Hotel du Lac
Hotel du Lac 3.61 avg rating — 24,746 ratings
64.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,917 ratings
65.
Wise Children
Wise Children 3.90 avg rating — 9,435 ratings
66.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,479 ratings
67.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,034 ratings
68.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,180 ratings
69.
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales 4.13 avg rating — 493 ratings
70.
The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)
The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4) 4.18 avg rating — 12,160 ratings
71.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats 4.23 avg rating — 39,743 ratings
72.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,456 ratings
73.
W. H. Auden Poems
W. H. Auden Poems 4.26 avg rating — 84 ratings
74.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
75.
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion 3.67 avg rating — 28,235 ratings
76.
Loving
Loving 3.52 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
77.
Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
78.
T.C. Boyle Stories
T.C. Boyle Stories 4.21 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
79.
Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales 3.91 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
80.
Living
Living 3.69 avg rating — 502 ratings
81.
The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13) 4.24 avg rating — 5,948 ratings
81.
Selected Short Stories
Selected Short Stories 3.86 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
83.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,741 ratings
84.
The Virgin and the Gipsy
The Virgin and the Gipsy 3.44 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
85.
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories 3.86 avg rating — 9,650 ratings
86.
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
87.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,867 ratings
87.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 3.62 avg rating — 32,112 ratings
89.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man 4.37 avg rating — 8,161 ratings
90.
World's End
World's End 4.02 avg rating — 4,457 ratings
91.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 3.96 avg rating — 159 ratings
92.
Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus 3.88 avg rating — 14,348 ratings
93.
Pricksongs and Descants
Pricksongs and Descants 3.76 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
94.
The Bridge
The Bridge 4.09 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
95.
The Magus
The Magus 4.05 avg rating — 62,317 ratings
96.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories 3.97 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
97.
Blindness
Blindness 3.48 avg rating — 318 ratings
98.
Party Going
Party Going 3.49 avg rating — 961 ratings
99.
North
North 4.07 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
100.
Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2)
Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 67,119 ratings
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