Ambrose University College's Must-Read List, Part One

1.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,523 ratings
2.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,741 ratings
3.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,142 ratings
4.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,361 ratings
5.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,947 ratings
6.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,560 ratings
7.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 4.09 avg rating — 51,000 ratings
8.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,161 ratings
9.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,590 ratings
10.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,642 ratings
11.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,696 ratings
12.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,871 ratings
13.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,783 ratings
14.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,390 ratings
15.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,794 ratings
16.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,229 ratings
17.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,130 ratings
18.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,129 ratings
19.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,637 ratings
20.
Surfacing
Surfacing 3.45 avg rating — 28,052 ratings
21.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,292 ratings
22.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress 4.07 avg rating — 154,161 ratings
22.
The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,184 ratings
24.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,995 ratings
25.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,037 ratings
26.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
27.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,812 ratings
28.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,130 ratings
28.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
30.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,125 ratings
31.
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 20,129 ratings
32.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,018 ratings
33.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,459 ratings
34.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,670 ratings
35.
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules 4.17 avg rating — 192,687 ratings
35.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany 4.24 avg rating — 332,409 ratings
37.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,607 ratings
38.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,690 ratings
39.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,104 ratings
40.
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews 3.28 avg rating — 5,983 ratings
41.
Not Wanted on the Voyage
Not Wanted on the Voyage 3.98 avg rating — 7,181 ratings
42.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,719 ratings
43.
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,650,658 ratings
44.
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion 3.67 avg rating — 28,236 ratings
45.
The Stone Angel
The Stone Angel 3.77 avg rating — 13,219 ratings
45.
The Diviners
The Diviners 4.18 avg rating — 7,915 ratings
47.
Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,457 ratings
48.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,643 ratings
49.
Faust
Faust 3.90 avg rating — 48,400 ratings
50.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 4.42 avg rating — 7,511 ratings
50.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,960 ratings
52.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,830 ratings
53.
Eating Fire : Selected Poetry, 1965-95
Eating Fire : Selected Poetry, 1965-95 4.25 avg rating — 568 ratings
54.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,281 ratings
54.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,829 ratings
56.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,397 ratings
57.
The Music of Chance
The Music of Chance 3.93 avg rating — 12,976 ratings
58.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese 4.11 avg rating — 12,702 ratings
58.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,530 ratings
60.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,716 ratings
61.
Petersburg
Petersburg 3.97 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
61.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,111 ratings
63.
Questions I Asked My Mother
Questions I Asked My Mother
by: Di Brandt
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
64.
The Iliad / The Odyssey
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by: Homer
4.07 avg rating — 82,155 ratings
65.
My Last Duchess and Other Poems
My Last Duchess and Other Poems 4.06 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
66.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 3.66 avg rating — 2,255 ratings
67.
Sartor Resartus
Sartor Resartus 3.63 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
67.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,145 ratings
69.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,063 ratings
70.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.09 avg rating — 6,332 ratings
71.
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture 3.74 avg rating — 30,034 ratings
71.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,166 ratings
73.
Life After God
Life After God 3.84 avg rating — 12,203 ratings
74.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,362 ratings
75.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,117 ratings
76.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
77.
John Donne's Poetry
John Donne's Poetry 4.11 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
78.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 320,304 ratings
79.
The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Waste Land and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 72,702 ratings
79.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,148 ratings
81.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.38 avg rating — 146 ratings
82.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,606 ratings
83.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest 3.27 avg rating — 15,796 ratings
84.
The Shunning
The Shunning 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
85.
You Don't Get to Be a Saint
You Don't Get to Be a Saint 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
86.
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl 3.26 avg rating — 111 ratings
87.
Against Nature
Against Nature 3.80 avg rating — 14,813 ratings
88.
The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled 3.59 avg rating — 17,607 ratings
89.
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors 3.63 avg rating — 12,858 ratings
90.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
91.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,412 ratings
92.
Snow Country
Snow Country 3.57 avg rating — 38,924 ratings
93.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.25 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
94.
Ironweed
Ironweed 3.87 avg rating — 17,432 ratings
95.
Carrie
Carrie 3.99 avg rating — 813,863 ratings
96.
The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900)
The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
97.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life 4.06 avg rating — 67,541 ratings
98.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,447 ratings
99.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice 3.69 avg rating — 65,730 ratings
100.
Bliss & Other Stories
Bliss & Other Stories 3.92 avg rating — 2,295 ratings