Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Series

1.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating β€” 320,795 ratings
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works 4.05 avg rating β€” 14,602 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4.30 avg rating β€” 320,295 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating β€” 44,777 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 3.81 avg rating β€” 75,634 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year 3.56 avg rating β€” 11,578 ratings
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 49,357 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating β€” 126,466 ratings
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Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Captain Blood: His Odyssey 4.18 avg rating β€” 17,390 ratings
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The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga 4.18 avg rating β€” 20,498 ratings
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The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday 3.82 avg rating β€” 44,820 ratings
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Early History of Rome
Early History of Rome
by: Livy
3.96 avg rating β€” 9,759 ratings
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Garden Party and Other Stories
Garden Party and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating β€” 13,139 ratings
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.59 avg rating β€” 17,391 ratings
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The Outline of History, Vol. 1 (of 2)
The Outline of History, Vol. 1 (of 2) 3.99 avg rating β€” 862 ratings
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Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.22 avg rating β€” 649 ratings
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The Lives of the Caesars
The Lives of the Caesars
by: Suetonius
4.02 avg rating β€” 22,151 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
by: Plutarch
4.10 avg rating β€” 5,998 ratings
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The Second Treatise of Government
The Second Treatise of Government 3.78 avg rating β€” 23,638 ratings
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The History of the English Church and People
The History of the English Church and People
by: Bede
3.83 avg rating β€” 4,778 ratings
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The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands 3.63 avg rating β€” 7,477 ratings
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The Travels
The Travels 3.58 avg rating β€” 7,904 ratings
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Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence Man
Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence Man 3.74 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,856 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating β€” 89,883 ratings
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Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,584 ratings
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 78,279 ratings
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story 3.19 avg rating β€” 39,783 ratings
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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 18,171 ratings
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Politics
Politics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating β€” 41,882 ratings
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On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating β€” 14,247 ratings
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The Golden Ass or, the Metamorphoses (Library of Essential Reading Series)
The Golden Ass or, the Metamorphoses (Library of Essential Reading Series)
by: Apuleius
3.86 avg rating β€” 16,754 ratings
32.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 4.03 avg rating β€” 37,357 ratings
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by: Tacitus
3.98 avg rating β€” 9,163 ratings
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The Story of an African Farm
The Story of an African Farm 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,028 ratings
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,976 ratings
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The City of God
The City of God 3.94 avg rating β€” 13,450 ratings
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,047 ratings
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating β€” 16,589 ratings
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Lives. Vol 2
Lives. Vol 2
by: Plutarch
4.19 avg rating β€” 3,210 ratings
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One Hundred and One Famous Poems
One Hundred and One Famous Poems 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,609 ratings
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Green Mansions
Green Mansions 3.69 avg rating β€” 3,268 ratings
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Personal Memoirs
Personal Memoirs 4.13 avg rating β€” 9,497 ratings
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The Worm Ouroboros
The Worm Ouroboros 3.70 avg rating β€” 5,024 ratings
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Memoirs
Memoirs 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,204 ratings
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Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology 4.04 avg rating β€” 13,414 ratings
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Diary of an Old Soul
Diary of an Old Soul 4.35 avg rating β€” 500 ratings
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Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War 4.03 avg rating β€” 412 ratings
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Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth 4.11 avg rating β€” 815 ratings
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The Mabinogion
The Mabinogion
by: Unknown
3.93 avg rating β€” 8,432 ratings
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A Diary From Dixie (1905)
A Diary From Dixie (1905) 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,349 ratings
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating β€” 22,671 ratings
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Ethics/On the Improvement of the Understanding
Ethics/On the Improvement of the Understanding 4.11 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Call of Cthulhu & Other Dark Tales
Call of Cthulhu & Other Dark Tales 4.02 avg rating β€” 115,399 ratings
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Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest 4.15 avg rating β€” 442 ratings
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Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating β€” 24,481 ratings
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The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) 3.59 avg rating β€” 45,013 ratings
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Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay 4.42 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating β€” 34,381 ratings
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating β€” 148,977 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating β€” 26,300 ratings
62.
Democracy in America: Volumes I and II
Democracy in America: Volumes I and II 4.05 avg rating β€” 26,629 ratings
62.
The Complete Works of Saki
The Complete Works of Saki
by: Saki
4.37 avg rating β€” 2,582 ratings
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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works
Love and Friendship and Other Early Works 3.52 avg rating β€” 9,282 ratings
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The Complete Nonsense Books of Edward Lear
The Complete Nonsense Books of Edward Lear 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,057 ratings
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days 3.95 avg rating β€” 274,987 ratings
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Cranford
Cranford 3.83 avg rating β€” 46,860 ratings
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A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time 4.11 avg rating β€” 62,648 ratings
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The Return of the Soldier
The Return of the Soldier 3.69 avg rating β€” 9,009 ratings
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The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
by: Stendhal
3.79 avg rating β€” 19,486 ratings
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Three Early Novels: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs. Craddock, The Magician.
Three Early Novels: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs. Craddock, The Magician. 3.87 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
Voyage of the Beagle 4.02 avg rating β€” 8,291 ratings
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The Gambler
The Gambler 3.91 avg rating β€” 112,186 ratings
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Crome Yellow
Crome Yellow 3.42 avg rating β€” 8,762 ratings
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Alexander's Bridge
Alexander's Bridge 3.41 avg rating β€” 1,888 ratings
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Rob Roy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Rob Roy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) 3.69 avg rating β€” 10,219 ratings
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The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark 3.89 avg rating β€” 11,529 ratings
78.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani 3.91 avg rating β€” 5,991 ratings
78.
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women 3.88 avg rating β€” 3,686 ratings
78.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating β€” 144,876 ratings
81.
The Kama Sutra and Ananga Ranga
The Kama Sutra and Ananga Ranga 3.45 avg rating β€” 6,795 ratings
81.
Conversations with Socrates
Conversations with Socrates
by: Xenophon
4.05 avg rating β€” 2,905 ratings
83.
The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams 3.63 avg rating β€” 4,868 ratings
84.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 484,800 ratings
84.
Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare 3.94 avg rating β€” 6,796 ratings
84.
How We Think
How We Think 3.86 avg rating β€” 995 ratings
84.
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan 4.08 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
88.
Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 57,313 ratings
88.
From Manassas to Appomatox
From Manassas to Appomatox 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,053 ratings
90.
The Sense of Beauty Library of Essential Reading Series
The Sense of Beauty Library of Essential Reading Series 3.82 avg rating β€” 342 ratings
90.
The Rough Riders
The Rough Riders 3.78 avg rating β€” 3,503 ratings
92.
The Civil War
The Civil War 4.07 avg rating β€” 7,110 ratings
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The American Crisis
The American Crisis 4.04 avg rating β€” 802 ratings
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The Conquest of Gaul
The Conquest of Gaul 4.01 avg rating β€” 13,200 ratings
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The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown
The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown 4.03 avg rating β€” 10,583 ratings
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Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends 3.85 avg rating β€” 404 ratings
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From Ritual to Romance
From Ritual to Romance 3.73 avg rating β€” 653 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci & a Memory of His Childhood
Leonardo da Vinci & a Memory of His Childhood 3.44 avg rating β€” 1,613 ratings
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The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation 3.81 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World 4.19 avg rating β€” 8,228 ratings
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