Read The World - The Peirene 100 Essential Classics From Around The Globe

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,136 ratings
2.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,996 ratings
3.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,046 ratings
4.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,074 ratings
5.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,264 ratings
6.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,500 ratings
7.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,840 ratings
8.
The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,153 ratings
9.
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore 4.12 avg rating — 528,232 ratings
10.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,050 ratings
11.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,525 ratings
12.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,184 ratings
13.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,026 ratings
14.
Perfume. The story of a murderer
Perfume. The story of a murderer 4.04 avg rating — 530,105 ratings
15.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,742 ratings
16.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,214 ratings
16.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,090 ratings
18.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,580 ratings
19.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,503 ratings
20.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,706 ratings
21.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,955 ratings
22.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,800 ratings
23.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,654 ratings
24.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,239 ratings
25.
The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,619 ratings
26.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,444 ratings
27.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,850 ratings
28.
The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,382 ratings
29.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,664 ratings
30.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,228 ratings
31.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea 3.84 avg rating — 49,512 ratings
32.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,017 ratings
33.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,104 ratings
34.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,889 ratings
35.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 3.69 avg rating — 17,763 ratings
36.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
37.
Snow
Snow 3.62 avg rating — 48,684 ratings
38.
Gösta Berling's Saga
Gösta Berling's Saga 3.63 avg rating — 6,281 ratings
39.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,152 ratings
40.
The Enchanted April
The Enchanted April 3.90 avg rating — 38,748 ratings
41.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Grand Meaulnes 3.72 avg rating — 14,908 ratings
42.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,844 ratings
43.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,794 ratings
44.
Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus 3.88 avg rating — 14,348 ratings
45.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,559 ratings
46.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
47.
Molloy
Molloy 4.04 avg rating — 9,530 ratings
48.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
48.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,962 ratings
50.
The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled 3.59 avg rating — 17,605 ratings
51.
Good Morning, Midnight
Good Morning, Midnight
by: Jean Rhys
3.86 avg rating — 12,139 ratings
52.
The Ice Palace
The Ice Palace 3.85 avg rating — 13,759 ratings
53.
Resurrection
Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 27,226 ratings
54.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard 3.73 avg rating — 3,577 ratings
55.
The Wall
The Wall 4.03 avg rating — 27,527 ratings
56.
The Book of Chameleons
The Book of Chameleons 3.82 avg rating — 5,087 ratings
56.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by: Amos Oz
4.23 avg rating — 12,546 ratings
58.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin 3.73 avg rating — 36,721 ratings
59.
Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral 4.38 avg rating — 11,135 ratings
59.
The Days of Abandonment
The Days of Abandonment 3.87 avg rating — 54,897 ratings
61.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest 3.27 avg rating — 15,798 ratings
62.
Every Man Dies Alone
Every Man Dies Alone 4.27 avg rating — 35,340 ratings
63.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
4.09 avg rating — 382,947 ratings
64.
Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart 4.02 avg rating — 15,028 ratings
65.
All Fires the Fire
All Fires the Fire 4.29 avg rating — 13,013 ratings
66.
What I Loved
What I Loved 4.09 avg rating — 21,734 ratings
67.
They Were Counted
They Were Counted 4.20 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
68.
The Driver's Seat
The Driver's Seat 3.60 avg rating — 12,087 ratings
69.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.02 avg rating — 74,792 ratings
70.
God Dies by the Nile
God Dies by the Nile 3.55 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
71.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,503 ratings
72.
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead 4.05 avg rating — 33,988 ratings
73.
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven 4.17 avg rating — 17,235 ratings
74.
No Longer Human
No Longer Human 3.95 avg rating — 228,388 ratings
75.
Sanshirō
Sanshirō 3.82 avg rating — 5,761 ratings
76.
The Blue Room
The Blue Room 3.34 avg rating — 524 ratings
77.
Chasing the King of Hearts
Chasing the King of Hearts 3.85 avg rating — 775 ratings
78.
Astragal
Astragal 3.66 avg rating — 2,601 ratings
79.
Spring Torrents
Spring Torrents 3.95 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
80.
The Matisse Stories
The Matisse Stories 3.76 avg rating — 3,187 ratings
81.
Beside the Sea
Beside the Sea 3.83 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
82.
A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) 3.72 avg rating — 11,115 ratings
83.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,265 ratings
84.
A Heart So White
A Heart So White 4.02 avg rating — 17,236 ratings
85.
The Concubine
The Concubine 4.15 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
86.
Magda
Magda 3.35 avg rating — 325 ratings
87.
The Garden of the Departed Cats
The Garden of the Departed Cats 4.26 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
88.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping 3.81 avg rating — 57,347 ratings
89.
The Palace of Dreams
The Palace of Dreams 3.95 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
90.
The Temptation of St. Antony
The Temptation of St. Antony 3.82 avg rating — 3,264 ratings
90.
Too Loud a Solitude
Too Loud a Solitude 3.97 avg rating — 25,236 ratings
92.
The Unmade Bed
The Unmade Bed 3.58 avg rating — 680 ratings
93.
The Slaves of Solitude
The Slaves of Solitude 4.08 avg rating — 2,869 ratings
94.
Tongolele no sabía bailar
Tongolele no sabía bailar 3.81 avg rating — 334 ratings
95.
Concrete
Concrete 4.13 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
95.
Stone in a Landslide
Stone in a Landslide 3.87 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
95.
Castigo divino
Castigo divino 4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings
98.
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman 3.36 avg rating — 390 ratings
98.
The Dead Lake
The Dead Lake 3.65 avg rating — 956 ratings
98.
Azul...
Azul... 3.85 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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