Penguin Classics Books

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,919,765 ratings — published 1818
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The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,906,648 ratings — published 1890
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Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,343,794 ratings — published 1847
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Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,853,313 ratings — published 1813
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Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,162,947 ratings — published 1847
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The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,034,885 ratings — published 1844
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Emma Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 992,343 ratings — published 1815
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Dracula Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,491,600 ratings — published 1897
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The Odyssey The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,204,635 ratings — published -800
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Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,097,578 ratings — published 1866
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Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,305,520 ratings — published 1811
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Great Expectations Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 879,029 ratings — published 1861
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A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,017,603 ratings — published 1859
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Anna Karenina Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 939,837 ratings — published 1878
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Persuasion Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 784,796 ratings — published 1817
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The Iliad The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 514,354 ratings — published -800
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.57 — 619,836 ratings — published 1851
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Little Women (Little Women, #1) Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,480,418 ratings — published 1868
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 304,088 ratings — published 1891
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,341,660 ratings — published 1885
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Mansfield Park Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 382,109 ratings — published 1814
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Oliver Twist Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 430,267 ratings — published 1838
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The Woman in White The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 167,050 ratings — published 1859
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War and Peace War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,461 ratings — published 1869
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Northanger Abbey Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 458,198 ratings — published 1817
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 612,628 ratings — published 1871
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Don Quixote Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,606 ratings — published 1615
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Middlemarch Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 180,558 ratings — published 1872
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Les Misérables Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 847,857 ratings — published 1862
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Madame Bovary Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 378,195 ratings — published 1856
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The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,854 ratings — published 1400
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Meditations Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 356,348 ratings — published 180
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Paradise Lost Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 183,812 ratings — published 1667
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The Aeneid The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,583 ratings — published -19
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Metamorphoses Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,866 ratings — published 8
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The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 400,630 ratings — published 1959
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The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.44 — 925,111 ratings — published 1850
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Gulliver’s Travels Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 300,375 ratings — published 1726
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Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,529 ratings — published 1847
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The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,439 ratings — published 1880
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The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 352,130 ratings — published 1898
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Inferno Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,826 ratings — published 1321
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East of Eden East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.44 — 651,824 ratings — published 1952
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David Copperfield David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 260,618 ratings — published 1850
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The Republic The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,635 ratings — published -400
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.43 — 562,326 ratings — published 1899
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 132,664 ratings — published 1848
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The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,001,209 ratings — published 1939
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Far From the Madding Crowd Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 167,322 ratings — published 1874
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 57 times as penguin-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,588 ratings — published 1902
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“That's the horror of it for me, that I understand everything!”
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tacitus
“But the more I reflect on events recent and past, the more I am struck by the element of the absurd in everything humans do.”
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

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