12,309 books
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11,250 voters
Classic Books
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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12710 times as classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,938,553 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 10842 times as classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,038,762 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 10632 times as classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,062,590 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9407 times as classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,655,837 ratings — published 1948
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9005 times as classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,382,486 ratings — published 1847
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8601 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,716,760 ratings — published 1945
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8130 times as classic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,249,981 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7697 times as classic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,956,617 ratings — published 1890
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7480 times as classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,966,204 ratings — published 1818
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 7287 times as classic)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,513,709 ratings — published 1868
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6921 times as classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,969,550 ratings — published 1951
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6283 times as classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,274,949 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 6093 times as classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,908,577 ratings — published 1937
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5996 times as classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,935,514 ratings — published 1963
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5932 times as classic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,867,935 ratings — published 1590
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5761 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,430 ratings — published 1897
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 5545 times as classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322,085 ratings — published 1811
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5441 times as classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,009,048 ratings — published 1815
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 5077 times as classic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,060,248 ratings — published 1846
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4817 times as classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,347,825 ratings — published 1885
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4794 times as classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,128,621 ratings — published 1866
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4679 times as classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,565,830 ratings — published 1937
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4569 times as classic)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,026,833 ratings — published 1859
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4439 times as classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 798,666 ratings — published 1817
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4390 times as classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,126,060 ratings — published 1932
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4265 times as classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 955,425 ratings — published 1843
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4250 times as classic)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,323,696 ratings — published 1911
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4237 times as classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 887,899 ratings — published 1861
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4231 times as classic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,231,521 ratings — published -700
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4221 times as classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 954,851 ratings — published 1878
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4144 times as classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,557,383 ratings — published 1943
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3880 times as classic)
avg rating 3.44 — 934,495 ratings — published 1850
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3816 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,077,893 ratings — published 1601
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3815 times as classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,351,907 ratings — published 1952
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 3794 times as classic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,140,966 ratings — published 1908
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3776 times as classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,505,529 ratings — published 1915
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3495 times as classic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,619 ratings — published 1623
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3430 times as classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,036,042 ratings — published 1876
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3377 times as classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,250 ratings — published 1862
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3200 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,014,956 ratings — published 1939
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3192 times as classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 749,335 ratings — published 1938
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3165 times as classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 685,786 ratings — published 1886
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3135 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,479,432 ratings — published 1942
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3133 times as classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,281,206 ratings — published 1947
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3106 times as classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 465,773 ratings — published 1817
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 3064 times as classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,210,036 ratings — published 1954
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2978 times as classic)
avg rating 3.57 — 628,395 ratings — published 1851
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2954 times as classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,280,156 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2933 times as classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,522 ratings — published 1955
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2907 times as classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,266,509 ratings — published 1936
“Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.”
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“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.”
― The Odyssey
even so I will endure…
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.”
― The Odyssey











