Forbidden books (now often considered classics)

1.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,086 ratings
2.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,586 ratings
3.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,023 ratings
4.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,810 ratings
5.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,849 ratings
6.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,299 ratings
7.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,188 ratings
8.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,744 ratings
9.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,719,279 ratings
10.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,664 ratings
11.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,986 ratings
12.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,689 ratings
13.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,400 ratings
14.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,480 ratings
15.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,775 ratings
16.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,098 ratings
17.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,374 ratings
18.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland 4.03 avg rating — 395,719 ratings
19.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,048 ratings
20.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,368 ratings
21.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,700 ratings
22.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,260 ratings
23.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,308 ratings
24.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,646 ratings
25.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,936 ratings
26.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,415 ratings
27.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,989 ratings
28.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,545 ratings
29.
Dokter Zjivago
Dokter Zjivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,116 ratings
30.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild 3.91 avg rating — 461,080 ratings
31.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,632 ratings
32.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,824 ratings
33.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,386 ratings
34.
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 76,600 ratings
35.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 499,137 ratings
36.
Eén dag van Ivan Denisovitsj
Eén dag van Ivan Denisovitsj 3.98 avg rating — 122,142 ratings
37.
Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944
Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,541 ratings
38.
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 3.27 avg rating — 13,096 ratings
39.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,635 ratings
40.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
41.
For Whom The Bell Tolls
For Whom The Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,430 ratings
42.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,054 ratings
42.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,903 ratings
44.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,374 ratings
45.
Odyssee [proza]
Odyssee [proza]
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,723 ratings
46.
Les liaisons dangereuses
Les liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,188 ratings
46.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,399 ratings
48.
Story of O
Story of O 3.30 avg rating — 21,734 ratings
49.
The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom 3.07 avg rating — 14,381 ratings
50.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,924 ratings
51.
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders 3.51 avg rating — 48,078 ratings
52.
Threepenny Novel
Threepenny Novel 3.77 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
53.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,977 ratings
54.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,371 ratings
55.
The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook 3.50 avg rating — 2,539 ratings
56.
Decamerone
Decamerone 3.88 avg rating — 42,708 ratings
57.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,358 ratings
58.
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 3.31 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
59.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating — 43,176 ratings
60.
De goddelijke komedie
De goddelijke komedie 4.08 avg rating — 167,114 ratings
61.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,146 ratings
62.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,474 ratings
63.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,147 ratings
64.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,076 ratings
65.
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)
by: Hergé
3.57 avg rating — 18,930 ratings
66.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,712 ratings
67.
Chess Story
Chess Story 4.27 avg rating — 159,010 ratings
68.
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 13,123 ratings
69.
Gordon
Gordon 3.40 avg rating — 569 ratings
70.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,960 ratings
71.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,783 ratings
72.
Lof der Zotheid of De Dwaasheid gekroond. Een pronkrede
Lof der Zotheid of De Dwaasheid gekroond. Een pronkrede
by: Erasmus
3.83 avg rating — 19,731 ratings
73.
Houtekiet
Houtekiet 3.39 avg rating — 795 ratings
74.
The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,201 ratings
75.
Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood 3.89 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
76.
This Earth of Mankind (Buru #1)
This Earth of Mankind (Buru #1) 4.43 avg rating — 21,804 ratings
77.
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata 3.86 avg rating — 34,047 ratings
78.
Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9)
Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9) 3.84 avg rating — 27,059 ratings
79.
Mieke Maaike's obscene jeugd
Mieke Maaike's obscene jeugd 3.04 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
79.
Song of the Red Ruby
Song of the Red Ruby 4.01 avg rating — 983 ratings
81.
The Time of Indifference
The Time of Indifference 3.73 avg rating — 10,147 ratings
82.
American Psycho
American Psycho 3.80 avg rating — 349,219 ratings
83.
Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter 3.50 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
84.
Totuus Virosta, Latviasta ja Liettuasta
Totuus Virosta, Latviasta ja Liettuasta 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
84.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ 4.18 avg rating — 15,288 ratings
84.
Încercarea labirintului
Încercarea labirintului 4.23 avg rating — 182 ratings
84.
My First Thirty Years
My First Thirty Years 3.67 avg rating — 392 ratings
88.
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye 2.37 avg rating — 150 ratings
89.
July's People
July's People 3.51 avg rating — 8,096 ratings
89.
Joachim van Babylon
Joachim van Babylon 3.31 avg rating — 104 ratings
89.
Op zoek naar mijn huwelijksring
Op zoek naar mijn huwelijksring really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
89.
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children 4.13 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
93.
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Dirty Havana Trilogy 3.78 avg rating — 4,866 ratings
93.
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror
by: Jay Anson
3.83 avg rating — 136,152 ratings
95.
De zwarte tulp
De zwarte tulp 3.85 avg rating — 22,788 ratings
96.
Henry en June
Henry en June 3.93 avg rating — 13,249 ratings
97.
Ecstasy and Me: My Life As A Woman
Ecstasy and Me: My Life As A Woman 3.24 avg rating — 341 ratings
98.
Het stenen bruidsbed
Het stenen bruidsbed 3.19 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
99.
Canto General
Canto General 4.20 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
100.
Pijpelijntjes
Pijpelijntjes 3.24 avg rating — 192 ratings
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