Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal (466 books)

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1	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.44 avg rating — 911,760 ratings score: 24,960, and 251 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	Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3.70 avg rating — 3,164,480 ratings score: 23,321, 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
3	Beowulf by Beowulf Poet 3.50 avg rating — 343,402 ratings score: 16,031, and 162 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	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.80 avg rating — 867,240 ratings score: 15,359, 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
5	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.80 avg rating — 3,854,707 ratings score: 13,727, 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
6	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 5,834,267 ratings score: 13,149, 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
7	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 553,685 ratings score: 12,854, 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
8	The Pearl by John Steinbeck 3.56 avg rating — 267,464 ratings score: 12,615, 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
9	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 1,293,750 ratings score: 12,609, 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
10	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.89 avg rating — 2,798,768 ratings score: 11,343, and 116 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	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.56 avg rating — 610,874 ratings score: 11,302, 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
12	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 3.74 avg rating — 2,799,392 ratings score: 11,065, and 114 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	Animal Farm by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 4,468,195 ratings score: 10,522, and 108 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	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4.03 avg rating — 985,268 ratings score: 9,513, and 97 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	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,005,936 ratings score: 8,308, and 85 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	Macbeth by William Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 1,008,554 ratings score: 8,211, 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
17	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 1,005,942 ratings score: 7,718, and 80 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	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 3.52 avg rating — 236,618 ratings score: 7,111, and 73 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	The Odyssey by Homer 3.83 avg rating — 1,177,222 ratings score: 7,079, 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
20	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.74 avg rating — 408,972 ratings score: 6,837, 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
21	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 6,797,596 ratings score: 6,424, 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
22	The Crucible by Arthur Miller 3.61 avg rating — 459,625 ratings score: 6,279, 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
23	Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 3.46 avg rating — 136,553 ratings score: 5,939, and 61 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	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3.90 avg rating — 1,840,120 ratings score: 5,798, and 60 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	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.28 avg rating — 1,058,084 ratings score: 5,777, and 60 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	Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 3.88 avg rating — 348,350 ratings score: 5,529, and 57 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	The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen-Crane 3.35 avg rating — 1,809 ratings score: 5,519, and 57 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	A Separate Peace by John Knowles 3.60 avg rating — 231,122 ratings score: 5,347, and 55 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	Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 4.13 avg rating — 437,683 ratings score: 5,164, and 53 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	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,363,220 ratings score: 4,989, and 53 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	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,296,830 ratings score: 4,495, and 47 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
32	Hamlet by William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 1,037,750 ratings score: 4,463, and 48 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	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 3.90 avg rating — 1,390,113 ratings score: 4,459, and 47 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 Stranger by Albert Camus 4.03 avg rating — 1,365,647 ratings score: 4,338, and 46 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	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.64 avg rating — 162,980 ratings score: 4,071, and 42 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	The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 3.50 avg rating — 59,667 ratings score: 4,003, and 41 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	Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.84 avg rating — 300,846 ratings score: 3,882, and 40 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	Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 3.19 avg rating — 19,478 ratings score: 3,764, and 39 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	Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 3.59 avg rating — 256,797 ratings score: 3,728, and 40 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	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 4.11 avg rating — 514,473 ratings score: 3,703, and 39 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	Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 3.59 avg rating — 297,015 ratings score: 3,684, and 40 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	Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1) by Gary Paulsen 3.79 avg rating — 446,082 ratings score: 3,607, and 38 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	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 370,864 ratings score: 3,526, and 37 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	The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck 4.01 avg rating — 259,602 ratings score: 3,377, and 35 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	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.33 avg rating — 2,433,030 ratings score: 3,216, and 35 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	Silas Marner by George Eliot 3.69 avg rating — 93,025 ratings score: 3,195, and 33 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	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3.97 avg rating — 2,786,322 ratings score: 3,168, and 35 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	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 489,457 ratings score: 3,152, and 34 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	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.29 avg rating — 4,733,973 ratings score: 3,144, and 34 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	Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley 4.16 avg rating — 171,075 ratings score: 2,950, and 32 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	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 136,971 ratings score: 2,824, and 30 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 House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 3.68 avg rating — 229,342 ratings score: 2,780, and 30 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	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 194,688 ratings score: 2,718, and 29 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	The Iliad by Homer 3.93 avg rating — 504,044 ratings score: 2,665, and 30 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	The Awakening by Kate Chopin 3.69 avg rating — 225,514 ratings score: 2,653, and 29 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	The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 2,775,233 ratings score: 2,568, and 28 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	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.91 avg rating — 302,328 ratings score: 2,565, and 28 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	Othello by William Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 433,235 ratings score: 2,503, and 28 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	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.84 avg rating — 220,291 ratings score: 2,486, and 27 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	Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison 3.98 avg rating — 485,218 ratings score: 2,467, and 26 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	Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3.93 avg rating — 79,221 ratings score: 2,288, and 24 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	Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 4.23 avg rating — 782,066 ratings score: 2,285, and 26 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	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 3.68 avg rating — 329,122 ratings score: 2,233, and 24 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	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown 3.76 avg rating — 77,215 ratings score: 2,172, and 23 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	The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 4.20 avg rating — 4,141,097 ratings score: 2,159, and 23 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	A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 3.85 avg rating — 109,378 ratings score: 2,149, and 23 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	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 3.30 avg rating — 109,589 ratings score: 2,138, and 24 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	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) by Mark Twain 3.83 avg rating — 1,331,389 ratings score: 2,055, and 24 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	The Call of the Wild by Jack London 3.91 avg rating — 467,925 ratings score: 2,032, and 23 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	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3.99 avg rating — 315,634 ratings score: 1,920, and 22 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 Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 1,573,993 ratings score: 1,848, and 20 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	Old Yeller by Fred Gipson 4.11 avg rating — 103,177 ratings score: 1,837, and 20 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	A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 3.77 avg rating — 162,153 ratings score: 1,826, and 20 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	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.21 avg rating — 838,738 ratings score: 1,677, and 19 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	The Aeneid by Virgil 3.87 avg rating — 142,081 ratings score: 1,676, and 18 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	The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous 3.75 avg rating — 117,023 ratings score: 1,572, and 18 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	Holy Bible: New International Version by Anonymous 4.63 avg rating — 95,709 ratings score: 1,550, and 17 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	Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) by Richard Adams 4.09 avg rating — 503,231 ratings score: 1,548, and 17 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	Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3.99 avg rating — 881,668 ratings score: 1,541, and 18 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	My Ántonia by Willa Cather 3.84 avg rating — 146,611 ratings score: 1,521, and 17 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	Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 3.70 avg rating — 51,014 ratings score: 1,518, and 16 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	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3.72 avg rating — 185,330 ratings score: 1,484, and 16 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	Night by Elie Wiesel 4.38 avg rating — 1,350,509 ratings score: 1,475, and 16 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	The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.30 avg rating — 4,410,769 ratings score: 1,461, and 17 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	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 921,111 ratings score: 1,429, and 17 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	My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier 3.44 avg rating — 19,306 ratings score: 1,344, and 14 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	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 3.92 avg rating — 200,866 ratings score: 1,320, and 14 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	King Lear by William Shakespeare 3.91 avg rating — 235,653 ratings score: 1,316, and 15 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 Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3.38 avg rating — 177,591 ratings score: 1,285, and 14 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	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3.99 avg rating — 2,052,855 ratings score: 1,268, and 14 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	The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1) by James Fenimore Cooper 3.70 avg rating — 14,595 ratings score: 1,255, and 14 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	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3.82 avg rating — 350,310 ratings score: 1,224, and 14 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	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou 4.30 avg rating — 576,454 ratings score: 1,210, and 13 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	Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 4.06 avg rating — 585,853 ratings score: 1,147, and 12 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 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.69 avg rating — 152,847 ratings score: 1,090, and 12 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	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.78 avg rating — 351,524 ratings score: 1,088, and 12 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	Paradise Lost by John Milton 3.85 avg rating — 180,623 ratings score: 1,062, and 11 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	Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 615,300 ratings score: 1,059, and 11 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 Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.08 avg rating — 170,351 ratings score: 1,026, and 12 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	Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 3.89 avg rating — 109,180 ratings score: 1,026, and 11 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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message 1: by Tra-Kay (last edited Jul 29, 2013 10:58AM) (new)

Oct 15, 2008 07:31PM

"Where The Red Fern Grows" on this list?! SICK.

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message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

Dec 05, 2008 08:32PM

Most of these I liked altho I was required to read some of them too but Heart of Darkness was the pits to me. Several here I still hope to read someday.

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message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Feb 18, 2009 09:17PM

Well, I tried the Mill on the Floss and it may get better but I cannot go on any longer with her boring childhood.

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message 4: by Max (new)

Feb 25, 2009 10:03PM

90% of these books are AWESOME
You guys are lame
Like... who was reading Ulysses in school?!
Sounds like a cool school to me

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message 5: by Linda (new)

Mar 14, 2009 01:59PM

Jim Trelease makes the point in The Read Aloud Handbook that many classics are not appropriate teen reading. Forcing them down the throats of teens can turn them off classics permanently. Though i love to read, I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the notion that some or even many of these books that I hated as a teen might have something to offer me now.

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message 6: by Linda (new)

Apr 17, 2009 02:25PM

I am stumped as to why many of these titles are on this list, ie. Red Fern, Island of Blue Dolphins, Number the Stars ?? The only thing I can think is that the reader was given the book when he/she was not mature enough to appreciate it. I hated The Grapes of Wrath in high school, but appreciated it later as an adult.

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message 7: by Linda (new)

Apr 17, 2009 02:37PM

(Forgive the italics above, I couldn't figure out how to end them.)

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message 8: by Rachael (new)

Apr 17, 2009 03:35PM

I read the Island of the Blue Dolphins in fourth grade (but by my choice) and thought it was amazing. I can't believe it is on this list. I read a lot of classics even though I'm only 13 and I love them. Maybe if teachers just let us pick up the books in our own time we'll learn to appreciate them.

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message 9: by Rachael (new)

Apr 17, 2009 03:39PM

My teacher is forcing my class to read the narnia series and it's driving me nuts. Like group one gets book one and so on. I tried reading those books a few years ago but they were just too confusing and now I have to read book five without any clue what is going on.

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message 10: by Helenn (last edited Apr 17, 2009 06:55PM) (new)

Apr 17, 2009 06:53PM

With me is not the book itself... is that they make me analyze them and try to find meaning and essays and homeworks and horrible class discussion...

My teacher force The Rape of the Lock down my throat! It was horrible... and he kept laughing ... and then he made us analyze it and write in the style of it. Oh goody!
Then he move on with the poems and so we got Andrew Marvell and thus my hatred for him began. I just didn't understand them and then writing in his style and analyze them was just a pain. His poems are so long and have so much to do with his time period that it just ....
As for the English Teacher and Great Expectations... I just didn't like them for selfish, none school related reasons: since the analyzing was fairly simple what annoy me was the characters in them!

I am sure that I will soon have a book for my fifth, but for now I would have preferred root canalS during the MONTHS we spend working on those books.

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message 11: by Linda (new)

Apr 17, 2009 07:49PM

Wow, reading the Narnia books jigsaw-style... That's dumb.

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message 12: by Emily (new)

May 24, 2009 06:47PM

I actually sort of enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, though that might have been because it was the first time that I really understood the symbolism of a book instead of just thinking that the teacher was making it up (I swear some of my teachers did). I also just enjoyed the discussion we had. I also really enjoyed The Crucible. It had a lot of good points to it.
I hated A Separate Peace though. I think that is my least favorite book ever.

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message 13: by Eastofoz (new)

Jun 23, 2009 02:01PM

Hilarious list title :D

Some of these books are just not meant for teen readers like some others have said. Have to wonder what the teachers were thinking when they decided to add these to their course. There are so many others that teens could relate too, but then again if it's taught well they just may like it :)

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message 14: by b (new)

Aug 14, 2009 06:19PM

I 100% second what Max @ 02/25/2009 10:03PM had to say. You'd prefer root canal over something like Crime and Punishment?? Maybe it's not the books, it's you.

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message 15: by Cynthia (new)

Aug 23, 2009 10:43AM

Oh, boy. I love pretty much all of these books.

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message 16: by Bex (new)

Aug 28, 2009 01:53PM

This list disappoints me.
I'll admit that there are a few clunkers listed here, but there are also some amazing books on here as well.

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message 17: by Nicole (new)

Sep 08, 2009 07:22AM

hmmm.. some I agree with such as Great Expectations and Heart of Darkness.. but I really liked some of the other books on here like Catch-22, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World... The Scarlet Letter wasn't TOO bad.. it had it's moments...

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message 18: by Bean (new)

Oct 06, 2009 02:50PM

This is a horrifying list. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the only one that I've read which I'll admit I wasn't moved by. Many of these I read in school, but I loved them!

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message 19: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Oct 07, 2009 10:26AM

I had a notorious book-killer teaching several of mine, which didn't help, I'm sure.

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message 20: by Jan C (new)

Oct 08, 2009 04:52AM

I didn't see Albert Camus' The Plague (I don't know how to turn on or off the italics). Actually we didn't read it. We read maybe a quarter of it and the girls voted that we didn't want to read a book with a bunch of rats in it!

I hated The Scarlet Letter. And I was, oh, so glad that they changed their mind about our having to read Silas Marner - after having made everyone buy it.

I enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath and Animal Farm.

But, oooooooooh, The Rape of the Lock. Ruined Pope for me forever.

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message 21: by John (new)

Dec 01, 2009 12:50PM

I deleted my votes from this list when i realised how dumb it was. Maybe i'm being too pedantic here, but I would happily read this entire list of largely decent books rather than have a root canal. Perhaps i'm unusual in that respect.

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message 22: by Sandra (new)

Dec 08, 2009 04:12AM

I have had a root canal treatment and as horrible as it was I do prefer that than to have read the 2 books I listed. I really, really hated those books. The memory of them will always be there, whereas the pain of dentistry fades fairly quickly.

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message 23: by Jessica (new)

Jan 14, 2010 05:27AM

Fahrenheit 451 should be up here. Just sayin!

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message 24: by Natasha (new)

Jan 28, 2010 08:26PM

I disagree with this list entirely. I disagree with the whole IDEA of this list.

A great majority of this list are books I fell in love with at school. This list is mocking literature. Period.

Half of these books made me want to be an English major! This list really needs to be rethought.

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message 25: by Michael (last edited Feb 19, 2010 05:59PM) (new)

Feb 19, 2010 05:56PM

Hmm, I agree with a lot of the comments here. What are you even voting on, which were 'most terrible', or which of the terrible were slightly ok?

I have to say, people's hatred of these books must stem from just being forced to read them by an incredibly mediocre teacher, or associating them with some other terrible school experience. As an assignment, I had to note every instance of metaphor, simile, or personification in The Scarlet Letter, which everyone knows is pretty much rewriting the whole book verbatim. So I hated it - but in retrospect I really like the story.

Also, I was forced to read David Baldacci's Wish You Well, FOR SCHOOL, the following year, because box upon box of it was donated to my high school. That cliche piece of garbage had to be the worst waste of my education I've experienced, period. I transfered high schools shortly after that.

Lastly, I can never get why Heart of Darkness is so reviled. I love it!!! I can understand, it's like watching a movie that goes on and on and on and seems to go nowhere, then suddenly climaxes. But again, I'd blame horrible teachers more than the book itself.

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message 26: by Michael (new)

Feb 19, 2010 06:02PM

Rachael wrote: "My teacher is forcing my class to read the narnia series and it's driving me nuts. Like group one gets book one and so on. I tried reading those books a few years ago but they were just too confusing"

No, noo!!!!! I hope school doesn't ruin them for you - you should pick them up later when you're not forced to. I read them first at your age and they're still my favorite books, ever.

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message 27: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Feb 20, 2010 09:23AM

Silas Marner is top of the list for me, as we were made to diagram sentences from it. Bleh!

Michael - on the matter of Heart of Darkness, it may be a gender difference. I've met a lot of women who didn't like it (including myself), and a lot of men who did.

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message 28: by Jay (new)

Mar 05, 2010 03:51PM

Your teacher is silly

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message 29: by Jim (new)

Mar 08, 2010 02:15PM

I created this list and put five books on it, the rest have been added by the community....

I am so amused by the commenters who are offended by this...jeez, get a sense of humor will ya? No one is mocking literature, no one is casting aspersions at anything! You'd think I was supporting book burning.

This is fun...nothing else. I agree with many of the commenters that it was more the school expereince in relation to the book than the book itself that made me recoil.

Please, people...have some fun....

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message 30: by Betelgeuze (new)

Apr 05, 2010 10:31AM

I hate pretty much every Dutch literary book i have ever read.

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message 31: by Alicia (last edited May 15, 2010 02:36PM) (new)

May 15, 2010 02:32PM

While some of these books are wonderful, such as Hamlet, most of them do belong on this list. Finally, an entertaining list, with even more entertaining comments :] Reading 1984 and Atonement were terrible experiences for me...

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message 32: by [deleted user] (new)

May 21, 2010 01:04PM

To Kill A Mockingbird?!? WHAT?!? That is an AMAZING book! I loved it so much I sat through the black and white movie that was also brlliant!

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message 33: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

May 22, 2010 09:49AM

The movie is so brilliant that I may prefer it to the novel, which I also adore.

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message 34: by Rachel (new)

Jun 26, 2010 10:54AM

This list is so sad! How could anyone hate where the red fern grows? And The Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, and The Giver are some of the best books I've read.

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message 35: by Regine (new)

Jun 26, 2010 11:05AM

I agree, most of these books definitley don't deserve to be on this list.

Although The Scarlet Letter is pretty lame.

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message 36: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jun 27, 2010 09:51AM

I liked The Scarlet Letter. The Old Man and the Sea, though - that was dire.

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message 37: by [deleted user] (new)

Jun 27, 2010 09:53AM

I like the Scarlet Letter also.

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message 38: by Jan C (new)

Jun 27, 2010 01:12PM

I liked The Old Man and the Sea but The Scarlet Letter was deadly. Not to mention The Plague.

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message 39: by [deleted user] (new)

Jun 27, 2010 03:46PM

I never read The Plague but would probably like it since I love to read about disease.

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message 40: by Jan C (new)

Jun 27, 2010 06:52PM

This is Albert Camus's The Plague. We read the beginning but then we took a vote on not reading the rest of it. None of the girls (including me) were comfortable reading about all of the rats.

I don't really believe it is "about" disease per se. I probably would still have trouble reading it because of the rats. But it is my understanding that he wrote it in Le Chambon, France, and it was more about the rise of fascism.

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message 41: by Beth (new)

Jul 16, 2010 06:47PM

I almost shredded Animal Farm while reading it. Drove me nuts! Read A Tale of Two Cities for extra credit. I wasn't into it until the end, I'd still rather read it then get a root canal. How many people who have added to this list have actually had a root canal? A Northern Light should be on this list, that book was awful!

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message 42: by Ale and Vicki (new)

Jul 16, 2010 07:37PM

I had to read Hatchet for primary school while I was on holidays and it was pretty bad.

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message 43: by Rachel (new)

Jul 17, 2010 03:58PM

So was brians winter

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message 44: by Some Kid (new)

Aug 25, 2010 05:56PM

Why is the giver, to kill a mocking bird and numbering the stars on this list????

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message 45: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Aug 26, 2010 10:52AM

Presumably because one of the voters didn't like them.

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message 46: by John (new)

Sep 09, 2010 05:55PM

i need a root canal.

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message 47: by [deleted user] (new)

Sep 16, 2010 02:19PM

I'm glad I found this list. It gave me a bunch of books to add to my "to read" list.

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message 48: by Samanthaleigh (last edited Oct 13, 2010 03:47PM) (new)

Oct 13, 2010 03:46PM

Helenn wrote: "With me is not the book itself... is that they make me analyze them and try to find meaning and essays and homeworks and horrible class discussion..."

I completely agree. Most of the books I read in school I probably would have enjoyed if I had read them on my own time. Like I HATE Pride and Prejudice, but I bet it's not really that horrible of a book..

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message 49: by Kamakana (new)

Oct 21, 2010 10:18PM

i do not plan for a root canal- but i would look up many of these books. perhaps because i read them by choice. perhaps everyone should be allowed to read by choice- if your teacher offers you say a list of possible reads, though this might require too much flexibility and reading by that teacher. a book is a gift to each reader: readers have the last choice on whether to enjoy them, not the writers, the teachers, the entire culture industry. a book is a gift, not a punishment, not something to suffer.

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message 50: by Jan C (new)

Oct 22, 2010 06:41AM

When I was in school, I don't recall ever receiving a choice in what we would read. Although we were able to get out of reading The Plague because enough people objected to it. It was all those rats.

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