The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet (745 books)

This is a list, which allows you to vote for the books that you consider as some of "the great classics" but, unfortunately, have never gotten a chance to read.

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1	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.21 avg rating — 842,118 ratings score: 48,788, and 497 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 364,945 ratings score: 44,295, and 453 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 928,452 ratings score: 37,334, and 387 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.91 avg rating — 304,428 ratings score: 33,276, and 345 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.39 avg rating — 384,532 ratings score: 32,053, and 338 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 137,607 ratings score: 31,246, and 326 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4.32 avg rating — 1,020,111 ratings score: 31,004, and 323 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 1,010,654 ratings score: 26,864, and 285 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.57 avg rating — 614,483 ratings score: 26,829, and 285 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,315,519 ratings score: 25,946, and 274 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.29 avg rating — 1,073,889 ratings score: 24,895, and 274 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,431,074 ratings score: 24,398, and 260 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 4.09 avg rating — 1,292,533 ratings score: 22,548, and 238 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3.91 avg rating — 1,875,421 ratings score: 21,854, and 234 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 6,858,555 ratings score: 21,620, and 235 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 373,701 ratings score: 21,030, and 226 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.80 avg rating — 872,024 ratings score: 19,265, and 210 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.87 avg rating — 942,525 ratings score: 18,899, and 211 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Middlemarch by George Eliot 4.04 avg rating — 178,808 ratings score: 18,887, and 202 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.44 avg rating — 917,392 ratings score: 18,008, and 197 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 4.10 avg rating — 346,271 ratings score: 17,834, and 197 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,035,693 ratings score: 17,662, and 196 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.29 avg rating — 4,780,370 ratings score: 17,283, and 192 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 4.17 avg rating — 2,451,311 ratings score: 17,256, and 186 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3.97 avg rating — 2,821,632 ratings score: 17,255, and 192 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.21 avg rating — 216,319 ratings score: 16,718, and 189 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 3.81 avg rating — 133,043 ratings score: 15,098, and 173 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) by Mark Twain 3.83 avg rating — 1,335,368 ratings score: 15,011, and 167 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.80 avg rating — 3,881,694 ratings score: 14,126, and 161 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Bleak House by Charles Dickens 4.02 avg rating — 113,999 ratings score: 13,375, and 152 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 3.97 avg rating — 195,147 ratings score: 13,369, and 155 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3.92 avg rating — 242,361 ratings score: 13,369, and 148 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.97 avg rating — 165,909 ratings score: 13,038, and 148 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 5,891,373 ratings score: 12,830, and 144 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 4.13 avg rating — 1,867,157 ratings score: 12,595, and 149 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.78 avg rating — 355,321 ratings score: 12,551, and 150 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 4.04 avg rating — 257,988 ratings score: 11,932, and 140 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.31 avg rating — 1,255,437 ratings score: 11,872, and 142 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 557,136 ratings score: 11,577, and 131 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3.86 avg rating — 378,986 ratings score: 11,106, and 130 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.84 avg rating — 302,136 ratings score: 11,025, and 134 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4.44 avg rating — 633,930 ratings score: 10,964, and 137 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Persuasion by Jane Austen 4.15 avg rating — 774,203 ratings score: 10,584, and 126 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann 4.08 avg rating — 13,862 ratings score: 10,504, and 124 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 4.01 avg rating — 102,780 ratings score: 10,109, and 128 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 4.17 avg rating — 404,853 ratings score: 10,070, and 118 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.08 avg rating — 171,797 ratings score: 10,045, and 121 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Metamorphoses by Ovid 4.10 avg rating — 78,134 ratings score: 10,037, and 119 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Paradise Lost by John Milton 3.86 avg rating — 182,077 ratings score: 9,991, and 123 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 4.34 avg rating — 14,041 ratings score: 9,888, and 126 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3.80 avg rating — 85,069 ratings score: 9,572, and 118 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Odyssey by Homer 3.83 avg rating — 1,187,959 ratings score: 9,538, and 118 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 3.98 avg rating — 95,998 ratings score: 9,509, and 115 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 214,027 ratings score: 9,367, and 115 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.64 avg rating — 163,804 ratings score: 8,965, and 112 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3.82 avg rating — 352,730 ratings score: 8,836, and 111 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Animal Farm by George Orwell 4.02 avg rating — 4,526,051 ratings score: 8,658, and 106 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 3.53 avg rating — 237,591 ratings score: 8,479, and 109 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 4.02 avg rating — 217,741 ratings score: 8,247, and 110 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Divine Comedy: Paradise/Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 3.96 avg rating — 21,780 ratings score: 8,179, and 94 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 3.92 avg rating — 1,016,095 ratings score: 7,980, and 101 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Republic by Plato 3.97 avg rating — 225,388 ratings score: 7,780, and 96 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Hard Times by Charles Dickens 3.55 avg rating — 74,336 ratings score: 7,691, and 96 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.19 avg rating — 78,469 ratings score: 7,585, and 94 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Hamlet by William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 1,047,166 ratings score: 7,565, and 91 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 3.85 avg rating — 224,355 ratings score: 7,528, and 92 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Villette by Charlotte Brontë 3.78 avg rating — 80,389 ratings score: 7,284, and 91 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 3.50 avg rating — 137,525 ratings score: 7,232, and 93 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 4.20 avg rating — 35,525 ratings score: 7,144, and 94 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 3.90 avg rating — 1,415,617 ratings score: 7,040, and 93 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 3.98 avg rating — 105,661 ratings score: 6,949, and 90 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 3.73 avg rating — 23,013 ratings score: 6,835, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4.28 avg rating — 418,239 ratings score: 6,622, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Call of the Wild by Jack London 3.91 avg rating — 471,190 ratings score: 6,616, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Dracula by Bram Stoker 4.02 avg rating — 1,470,359 ratings score: 6,402, and 83 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 767,763 ratings score: 6,307, and 81 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 4.11 avg rating — 518,506 ratings score: 6,216, and 82 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Candide by Voltaire 3.76 avg rating — 300,804 ratings score: 6,192, and 82 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4.11 avg rating — 541,923 ratings score: 6,191, and 82 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 3.85 avg rating — 32,063 ratings score: 6,086, and 87 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.63 avg rating — 79,926 ratings score: 6,081, and 81 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 4.20 avg rating — 778,617 ratings score: 5,686, and 77 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 4.01 avg rating — 165,796 ratings score: 5,608, and 75 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 100,913 ratings score: 5,607, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	The Princess Bride by William Goldman 4.27 avg rating — 946,661 ratings score: 5,445, and 74 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.77 avg rating — 149,441 ratings score: 5,385, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 4.13 avg rating — 58,992 ratings score: 5,242, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 3.79 avg rating — 23,851 ratings score: 5,217, and 78 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 492,608 ratings score: 5,159, and 74 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 3.99 avg rating — 47,904 ratings score: 5,149, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Thomas Malory 3.92 avg rating — 39,431 ratings score: 5,093, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 3.73 avg rating — 134,859 ratings score: 4,989, and 72 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 4.13 avg rating — 61,327 ratings score: 4,962, and 68 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais 3.65 avg rating — 16,224 ratings score: 4,878, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 3.88 avg rating — 43,505 ratings score: 4,726, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare 3.94 avg rating — 577,404 ratings score: 4,717, and 63 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 3.68 avg rating — 13,611 ratings score: 4,529, and 67 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 3.83 avg rating — 11,494 ratings score: 4,524, and 65 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	The Stranger by Albert Camus 4.03 avg rating — 1,390,792 ratings score: 4,396, and 58 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 3.52 avg rating — 48,626 ratings score: 4,345, and 68 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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745 books · 1,812 voters · list created March 30th, 2010 by Derya (votes) .

Tags: literary-classics, literary-fiction

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message 1: by Danna (new)

May 24, 2011 04:29AM

yeah... 2 bad I have 2 read those. But I might actually enjoy 'em, I <3 classics

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message 2: by Maurizio (matemati) (new)

Jun 25, 2011 06:02PM

I voted just for the ones I'm planning to read, sooner or later.
Some I haven't read, but I'm not interested in.

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message 3: by Sally Anne (new)

Nov 10, 2011 03:01PM

Way too few women on this list.

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message 4: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Nov 10, 2011 03:25PM

It might mean that we'd read a lot of classics by women.

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message 5: by Sally Anne (new)

Nov 12, 2011 04:52AM

I believe we have and there are.

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message 6: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Nov 12, 2011 09:32AM

I'm afraid I don't get your point, then.

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message 7: by Sally Anne (new)

Nov 12, 2011 09:45AM

They ane not included, not enough of them.

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message 8: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Nov 12, 2011 09:56AM

This list is for classics we haven't read. If we've read classics by women, we aren't voting for them here, because we've read them.

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message 9: by Sally Anne (new)

Nov 12, 2011 10:03AM

Ah, confusing somehow. But I suppose I was mentioning that there are lots of classics by women that haven't been read. Or maybe I should just shut up.

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message 10: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Nov 12, 2011 10:07AM

Is confusing, isn't it? You go to vote for a book, and have to go, wait, am I voting for ones I've read, or ones I want to read?

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message 11: by Charity (new)

Apr 06, 2012 04:54PM

I voted for ones I want to read -- indeed, that I feel I need to read someday, if only so I can say I did. :)

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message 12: by Cleopatra (new)

May 13, 2012 11:59PM

I've only read 12 of those books, i wish i had time to read the rest of them within this year, yet i know it's impossible!

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message 13: by Danna (new)

May 14, 2012 12:03AM

Same here. And my situation is even thougher: only 3 book out of top 100 read... :|

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message 14: by Amelia (new)

Sep 06, 2012 11:29PM

How can you consider something "a great classic" if you haven't actually read it yet?

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message 15: by Derya (new)

Sep 07, 2012 07:11AM

Well, how can't you?

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message 16: by Erick (new)

Oct 12, 2012 05:17AM

hahahahahahahahahahaha

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message 17: by Sketchbook (new)

Oct 20, 2012 10:13AM

I hate Lists (of any kind). So ignore. But I must protest fact that no serious myopics are on the List and no one with webbed feet.

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message 18: by Marren (new)

Mar 19, 2013 03:45PM

Hmm, I am voting for books that I have not read, which are "considered" as classics that I am interested in reading one day.

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message 19: by Christina (new)

Aug 29, 2013 09:44PM

Does anyone know how I can add this list of books I want to read? Or save this list as a list or group to follow?

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message 20: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Dec 14, 2013 06:07AM

There are a lot more unread classics on my list than the 100 I'm allowed to vote for.... :-)

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message 21: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Dec 14, 2013 08:08AM

There are lists where I wish I had a few hundred more votes...

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message 22: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Dec 14, 2013 08:36AM

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "There are lists where I wish I had a few hundred more votes..."

Couldn't agree more... :-)

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message 23: by Kirsten (new)

Jul 08, 2014 02:02PM

I think there should be a "yet..." added. ;P I do intend to read a lot of the books that I voted for. When I do, I'll have to remember to come back and update my votes!

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message 24: by Kirsten (new)

Jul 08, 2014 02:03PM

Christina wrote: "Does anyone know how I can add this list of books I want to read? Or save this list as a list or group to follow?"

If you click "like" at the bottom of the list, Goodreads will keep it in a special section for lists you've liked. :)

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message 25: by Dustin (new)

Jul 24, 2014 11:11AM

Holy SMOKES, I really need to tackle a LOT more Classics!

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message 26: by Richard (new)

Jul 24, 2014 11:17AM

Dustin wrote: "Holy SMOKES, I really need to tackle a LOT more Classics!"

Some of the titles on your list are ones I need to read too, Dustin. Maybe we could pick one and do a buddy-read sometime.

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message 27: by jo (new)

Jul 31, 2014 01:09PM

white and male and eurocentric, i.e. the definition of "classic." ugh.

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message 28: by Danna (new)

Aug 01, 2014 01:50AM

jo wrote: "white and male and eurocentric, i.e. the definition of "classic." ugh."

Agreed!

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message 29: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited May 01, 2017 05:21AM) (new)

Aug 01, 2014 02:50AM

jo wrote: "white and male and eurocentric, i.e. the definition of "classic." ugh."

I think you are selling women a bit short here...

How about Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, Tasma, Catherine Helen Spence, Fanny Burney, Anne Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Lennox, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Marguerite de Navarre, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki Shikibu, Colette, Zora Neale Hurston, Sappho, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Gaskell, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Augusta Ward, Elizabeth Bekker Wolff, Nella Larsen, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and so on and so forth. And this list is just coming from a white Western European female... Just think what someone outside of Europe may come up with, as I was only taught about Western European literature in secondary school.

So no, not quite 'white and male and eurocentric'. Don't forget either, by the way, that a lot of literature was oral for a long time in large parts of the world.

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message 30: by jo (new)

Aug 01, 2014 06:37AM

i'm not selling women short, just our concept of classics! all the women you mention are terrific writers and they are definitely classics, but there are so many more. i don't think for a second that are not as many fabulous women writers (in all times) as there are men: this list however doesn't acknowledge them.

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message 31: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 17, 2015 10:52AM) (new)

Aug 01, 2014 06:44AM

jo wrote: "i'm not selling women short, just our concept of classics! all the women you mention are terrific writers and they are definitely classics, but there are so many more. i don't think for a second th..."

'Our' concept of classics might not be as much 'ours' as you think :-) I'm Dutch you see, and even though I acknowledge, of course, the fact that there are more male than female authors in classic literature, I don't tend to think of classics in the terms of white, male or European... :-) (Just one example: Het hoofdkussenboek / The Pillow Book, which is neither 'white', nor 'male', nor 'European')

But a Listopia is as elaborate as people make it, so all I can say is, add more classic women authors :-0

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message 32: by jo (new)

Aug 01, 2014 09:00AM

right. and right. i thought about taking on that task, and then i realized that, much as i love having something to distract me to what i should be doing, maybe this is not the best idea for me right now.

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message 33: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 11, 2015 07:49PM

Author spam removed.

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message 34: by Richard (new)

Jul 17, 2015 07:33AM

Glad to say I've read 3 of the ones I originally voted for.

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message 35: by Derya (last edited Jul 17, 2015 07:54AM) (new)

Jul 17, 2015 07:53AM

Richard wrote: "Glad to say I've read 3 of the ones I originally voted for."

Well, congratulations!

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message 36: by Richard (new)

Jul 17, 2015 09:11AM

Derya wrote: "Richard wrote: "Glad to say I've read 3 of the ones I originally voted for."

Well, congratulations!"

Thank you, Derya!

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message 37: by Christina (new)

Aug 27, 2015 01:48PM

Kirsten wrote: "Christina wrote: "Does anyone know how I can add this list of books I want to read? Or save this list as a list or group to follow?"

If you click "like" at the bottom of the list, Goodreads will k..."

Thank you!

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message 38: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Aug 28, 2015 04:48AM) (new)

Aug 28, 2015 04:32AM

To name some of the really old ones I'd love to read : The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Eros ontwortelt mijn hart, Aesop's Fables, Oidipous & Antigone, Shahnameh, De ring van de duif, Rubaiyat, Het boek van Dede Korkoet, De Vier Heemskinderen, The Decameron, The Divine Comedy and Zes dagen. These were all written ages ago... Needless to say I voted for them :-), as well as for several others.

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message 39: by Matthew (new)

Jan 09, 2016 09:47AM

I've read 8 of these!I'm 11.

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message 40: by MissCoria (new)

Mar 11, 2016 07:15AM

Well, let's be honest... I want to read them all :D

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message 41: by Dylan (new)

Jul 25, 2016 07:50AM

jo wrote: "white and male and eurocentric, i.e. the definition of "classic." ugh."

Not sure if you knew this, but it wasn't always 2016. Learn to appreciate all literature from the early days up to now. There's nothing wrong with that.

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message 42: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited May 01, 2017 05:29AM) (new)

May 01, 2017 05:17AM

I've read four of the ones I mentioned earlier on (and removed them from my list of votes, of course). Not that it helps me much, as in the meantime I've bought more classics I'd love to read ;-)

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message 43: by Derya (new)

May 01, 2017 05:56AM

Booklovinglady wrote: "I've read four of the ones I mentioned earlier on (and removed them from my list of votes, of course). Not that it helps me much, as in the meantime I've bought more classics I'd love to read ;-)"
Great! Keep on reading!

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message 44: by Luke (new)

Sep 13, 2017 08:27AM

Dylan wrote: "jo wrote: "white and male and eurocentric, i.e. the definition of "classic." ugh."

Not sure if you knew this, but it wasn't always 2016. Learn to appreciate all literature from the early days up t..."

I sure hope that means you're rocking the great texts from the Heian Period and the Golden Age of Islam and the Ming and Qing dynasties, else your definition of the 'early days' doesn't cover much.

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message 45: by E.Lurie (new)

Feb 23, 2018 07:30AM

Sally Anne wrote: "Way too few women on this list."

Maurizio (matemati) wrote: "I voted just for the ones I'm planning to read, sooner or later.
Some I haven't read, but I'm not interested in."

There's a reason for that. Women were not expected or allowed to have writing careers until very recently in history, but that doesn't negate the value of classics written by men. There is a reason they are classics-they have something valuable to contribute and they have lasted because of that.

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message 46: by Greg (new)

Apr 04, 2018 05:11PM

Now this is a smart list for goodreads. I've read 22 of the top 25, I'm reading Anna Karennina now, and plan to read the other two books this year.

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message 47: by Greg (new)

Apr 04, 2018 05:11PM

E.Lurie wrote: "Sally Anne wrote: "Way too few women on this list."

Maurizio (matemati) wrote: "I voted just for the ones I'm planning to read, sooner or later.
Some I haven't read, but I'm not interested in."

Great answer!

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message 48: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jun 29, 2019 11:37PM

Something is buggy, #264 on p. 3, Faust, First Part, says 8 people voted for it but when you click, there are 11 voters.

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message 49: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Jun 29, 2019 11:49PM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Something is buggy, #264 on p. 3, Faust, First Part, says 8 people voted for it but when you click, there are 11 voters."

The only thing I can think of is that some of the voters have deleted their vote (which doesn't always show). But it is almost impossible to check with 58 pages of voters...

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message 50: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jun 29, 2019 11:52PM

Maybe it's a caching issue.

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