Great Books: No Novels Need Apply

1.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating β€” 1,156,806 ratings
2.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,020,270 ratings
3.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating β€” 992,229 ratings
4.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating β€” 494,735 ratings
5.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating β€” 139,155 ratings
6.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,767,987 ratings
7.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating β€” 338,059 ratings
8.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 4.04 avg rating β€” 92,119 ratings
9.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating β€” 397,742 ratings
10.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating β€” 76,416 ratings
11.
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating β€” 38,624 ratings
12.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land 4.11 avg rating β€” 57,833 ratings
13.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating β€” 170,488 ratings
14.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating β€” 234,642 ratings
15.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating β€” 232,714 ratings
16.
Apology
Apology
by: Plato
4.19 avg rating β€” 63,766 ratings
17.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating β€” 177,972 ratings
18.
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing 4.06 avg rating β€” 254,913 ratings
19.
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating β€” 128,595 ratings
20.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating β€” 217,132 ratings
21.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.94 avg rating β€” 568,114 ratings
22.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice 3.78 avg rating β€” 199,217 ratings
23.
The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating β€” 222,574 ratings
24.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 4.09 avg rating β€” 51,000 ratings
25.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating β€” 114,646 ratings
26.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3.97 avg rating β€” 61,822 ratings
27.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating β€” 170,166 ratings
28.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 4.07 avg rating β€” 29,330 ratings
29.
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 4.23 avg rating β€” 219,199 ratings
30.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating β€” 235,185 ratings
31.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe 3.66 avg rating β€” 42,287 ratings
32.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating β€” 167,125 ratings
33.
The Prophet
The Prophet 4.23 avg rating β€” 321,148 ratings
34.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating β€” 232,036 ratings
35.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull 3.86 avg rating β€” 267,265 ratings
36.
Richard III
Richard III 3.91 avg rating β€” 57,239 ratings
37.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating β€” 52,374 ratings
38.
North of Boston
North of Boston 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,193 ratings
39.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating β€” 220,235 ratings
40.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating β€” 84,395 ratings
41.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman 3.58 avg rating β€” 252,789 ratings
42.
The Symposium
The Symposium
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating β€” 85,865 ratings
43.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating β€” 320,304 ratings
44.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating β€” 428,081 ratings
45.
Faust: Der TragΓΆdie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust
Faust: Der TragΓΆdie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,396 ratings
46.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating β€” 105,241 ratings
47.
Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus 3.80 avg rating β€” 71,012 ratings
48.
Duino Elegies
Duino Elegies 4.39 avg rating β€” 9,807 ratings
49.
Man and Superman
Man and Superman 3.85 avg rating β€” 4,661 ratings
50.
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.29 avg rating β€” 108,192 ratings
51.
Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House 4.13 avg rating β€” 63,555 ratings
52.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus 4.24 avg rating β€” 4,056 ratings
53.
Richard II
Richard II 3.78 avg rating β€” 27,041 ratings
54.
The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi 4.39 avg rating β€” 49,832 ratings
55.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating β€” 169,554 ratings
56.
No Exit
No Exit 4.11 avg rating β€” 44,811 ratings
57.
Antigone
Antigone 3.77 avg rating β€” 29,277 ratings
58.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating β€” 141,063 ratings
59.
Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads 3.95 avg rating β€” 12,916 ratings
60.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper 4.07 avg rating β€” 338,325 ratings
61.
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating β€” 86,241 ratings
62.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating β€” 42,711 ratings
63.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating β€” 48,607 ratings
64.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating β€” 162,881 ratings
65.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra 3.71 avg rating β€” 42,730 ratings
66.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating β€” 291,509 ratings
67.
Bartleby the Scrivener
Bartleby the Scrivener 3.93 avg rating β€” 72,190 ratings
68.
Saint Joan
Saint Joan 3.78 avg rating β€” 9,495 ratings
69.
Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast 4.57 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
70.
Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems
Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems 4.49 avg rating β€” 403 ratings
71.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Long Day’s Journey into Night 4.06 avg rating β€” 42,399 ratings
71.
Don Juan
Don Juan 3.78 avg rating β€” 8,808 ratings
73.
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.17 avg rating β€” 33,614 ratings
74.
Our Town
Our Town 3.74 avg rating β€” 58,055 ratings
74.
The Social Contract
The Social Contract 3.78 avg rating β€” 55,709 ratings
76.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating β€” 33,254 ratings
76.
Angelica and Francesca
Angelica and Francesca 4.57 avg rating β€” 407 ratings
78.
Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood 4.02 avg rating β€” 10,436 ratings
79.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating β€” 62,415 ratings
80.
Fables
Fables 4.02 avg rating β€” 15,250 ratings
81.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating β€” 109,339 ratings
82.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra 3.67 avg rating β€” 2,235 ratings
83.
Angels in America
Angels in America 4.30 avg rating β€” 22,977 ratings
84.
Love Poems and Sonnets
Love Poems and Sonnets 4.26 avg rating β€” 6,562 ratings
85.
Major Barbara
Major Barbara 3.66 avg rating β€” 7,244 ratings
86.
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 4.23 avg rating β€” 21,775 ratings
87.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Volume 1 (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, #1)
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Volume 1 (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, #1) 3.88 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
88.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating β€” 28,038 ratings
89.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating β€” 206,783 ratings
90.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 3.71 avg rating β€” 12,948 ratings
91.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets 4.25 avg rating β€” 110,527 ratings
92.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by: Unknown
3.76 avg rating β€” 75,130 ratings
93.
Death in Venice and Other Tales
Death in Venice and Other Tales 3.92 avg rating β€” 16,076 ratings
94.
Chanting Mantras with Best Chords (AoL Mindfulness, #6)
Chanting Mantras with Best Chords (AoL Mindfulness, #6) 4.67 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
94.
The Middle Ground: Stories
The Middle Ground: Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
94.
Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance
Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance 4.40 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
97.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating β€” 328,912 ratings
97.
Butterflies and Lies: Poems
Butterflies and Lies: Poems 4.40 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
99.
Cymbeline
Cymbeline 3.60 avg rating β€” 11,594 ratings
100.
The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age
The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age 3.78 avg rating β€” 388 ratings
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