Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

1.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,855 ratings
2.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,411 ratings
3.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,654 ratings
4.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,528 ratings
5.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,626 ratings
6.
The Complete Works
The Complete Works 4.48 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
7.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,669 ratings
8.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,347 ratings
9.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,464 ratings
9.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,554 ratings
11.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,252 ratings
12.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,396 ratings
13.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,151 ratings
14.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,140 ratings
15.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,009 ratings
16.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,666 ratings
17.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,984 ratings
18.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
19.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,035 ratings
20.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,654 ratings
21.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,104 ratings
22.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,931 ratings
23.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,988 ratings
24.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,178 ratings
25.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,099 ratings
26.
The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,619 ratings
27.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,638 ratings
28.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,534 ratings
29.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,800 ratings
30.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,730 ratings
31.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,574 ratings
32.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
33.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,530 ratings
34.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,410 ratings
35.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,222 ratings
36.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,125 ratings
37.
The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,488 ratings
38.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,634 ratings
39.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,923 ratings
40.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,958 ratings
41.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,246 ratings
41.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.86 avg rating — 65,073 ratings
43.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
44.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,197 ratings
45.
History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94 avg rating — 39,936 ratings
46.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,346 ratings
46.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,022 ratings
48.
John Donne's Poetry
John Donne's Poetry 4.11 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
48.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,582 ratings
50.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 4.17 avg rating — 22,744 ratings
51.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,979 ratings
52.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,951 ratings
53.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,957 ratings
54.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,053 ratings
55.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,641 ratings
56.
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,308 ratings
57.
Electra
Electra
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 8,154 ratings
57.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,538 ratings
59.
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Lysistrata and Other Plays 3.87 avg rating — 52,371 ratings
60.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
61.
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost 4.24 avg rating — 48,975 ratings
62.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,745 ratings
63.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,329 ratings
64.
The Analects
The Analects
by: Confucius
3.81 avg rating — 23,508 ratings
65.
Tartuffe and Other Plays
Tartuffe and Other Plays
by: Molière
3.87 avg rating — 467 ratings
66.
Ramayana
Ramayana
by: Vālmīki
4.19 avg rating — 5,258 ratings
67.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats 4.23 avg rating — 39,744 ratings
68.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,356 ratings
69.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,265 ratings
70.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
71.
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women
by: Euripides
3.88 avg rating — 12,271 ratings
72.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
73.
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by: Sophocles
3.75 avg rating — 15,986 ratings
74.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
75.
Politics
Politics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating — 41,881 ratings
76.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,926 ratings
77.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,273 ratings
78.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,189 ratings
79.
The Origin of Species / The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species / The Voyage of the Beagle 4.15 avg rating — 704 ratings
80.
Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating — 28,472 ratings
81.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,234 ratings
81.
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,565 ratings
83.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,028 ratings
84.
Essais
Essais 4.23 avg rating — 21,556 ratings
85.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
86.
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,624 ratings
86.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,343 ratings
88.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,263 ratings
89.
The Bacchae
The Bacchae
by: Euripides
3.93 avg rating — 24,375 ratings
90.
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,559 ratings
91.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Part 1
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Part 1
by: Unknown
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
91.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,594 ratings
93.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches 4.02 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
94.
The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
94.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,956 ratings
96.
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native 3.88 avg rating — 39,906 ratings
97.
The Major Works
The Major Works 4.04 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
98.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Long Day’s Journey into Night 4.06 avg rating — 42,394 ratings
99.
Pensées
Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,064 ratings
100.
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating — 109,321 ratings
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