The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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88 books — 17 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,319 books — 5,846 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBlack Beauty by Anna SewellAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 345 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,445 voters