Century Title Author Ratings Score
21st Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) J.K. Rowling 4.61 — 1,760,197 ratings 363,014
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins 4.35 — 4,700,100 ratings 272,613
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 4.25 — 1,794,915 ratings 238,248
The Book Thief Markus Zusak 4.36 — 1,205,038 ratings 226,718
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) J.K. Rowling 4.53 — 1,703,431 ratings 201,583
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) J.K. Rowling 4.46 — 1,767,108 ratings 182,198
The Help Kathryn Stockett 4.45 — 1,521,497 ratings 150,545
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 4.33 — 825,635 ratings 148,584
Life of Pi Yann Martel 3.88 — 1,053,540 ratings 140,285
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Suzanne Collins 4.30 — 1,931,003 ratings 136,173
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 3.94 — 1,264,280 ratings 131,513
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) Stieg Larsson 4.10 — 1,834,439 ratings 130,694
The Fault in Our Stars John Green 4.28 — 2,311,917 ratings 119,098
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Dan Brown 3.78 — 1,512,129 ratings 114,438
The Road Cormac McCarthy 3.95 — 537,613 ratings 109,875
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen 4.06 — 1,070,867 ratings 105,337
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon 3.85 — 886,042 ratings 100,581
Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter, #1-7) J.K. Rowling 4.74 — 196,024 ratings 94,834
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Suzanne Collins 4.03 — 1,811,586 ratings 94,706
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 3.77 — 1,605,006 ratings 80,191
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 3.97 — 493,763 ratings 79,731
Twilight (Twilight, #1) Stephenie Meyer 3.57 — 3,756,083 ratings 78,379
Atonement Ian McEwan 3.87 — 355,539 ratings 74,088
Divergent (Divergent, #1) Veronica Roth 4.25 — 2,093,879 ratings 73,865
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) Rick Riordan 4.22 — 1,328,903 ratings 69,373
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) Cassandra Clare 4.12 — 1,181,093 ratings 68,261
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) Carlos Ruiz Zafón 4.24 — 302,846 ratings 67,907
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 3.97 — 307,094 ratings 66,98
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 4.01 — 907,514 ratings 65,877
American Gods (American Gods, #1) Neil Gaiman 4.11 — 459,088 ratings 63,75
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 4.05 — 858,609 ratings 63,145
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 4.23 — 612,047 ratings 61,984
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Dan Brown 3.85 — 1,979,340 ratings 61,444
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) Stieg Larsson 4.22 — 619,747 ratings 57,207
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 3.80 — 307,990 ratings 53,719
Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) Stephenie Meyer 3.70 — 1,087,376 ratings 48,721
The Host (The Host, #1) Stephenie Meyer 3.84 — 760,934 ratings 48,543
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 4.01 — 165,420 ratings 48,123
Eclipse (Twilight, #3) Stephenie Meyer 3.70 — 1,148,357 ratings 46,93
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer 4.11 — 408,534 ratings 45,336
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) Stieg Larsson 4.20 — 508,349 ratings 44,381
New Moon (Twilight, #2) Stephenie Meyer 3.52 — 1,169,424 ratings 43,677
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 3.50 — 1,165,261 ratings 43,184
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3) Cassandra Clare 4.34 — 598,163 ratings 38,603
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami 4.13 — 181,228 ratings 37,336
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 4.11 — 307,811 ratings 35,175
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) Cassandra Clare 4.21 — 562,913 ratings 34,845
Room Emma Donoghue 4.02 — 525,272 ratings 34,09
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart Tim Butcher 4.04 — 5,162 ratings 33,774
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) Steven D. Levitt 3.93 — 534,898 ratings 32,969
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) Patrick Rothfuss 4.55 — 409,731 ratings 32,564
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 3.77 — 126,478 ratings 32,445
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 3.88 — 172,363 ratings 32,115
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog John Grogan 4.11 — 363,671 ratings 30,53
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 3.95 — 221,250 ratings 30,341
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) Philippa Gregory 4.04 — 389,591 ratings 30,172
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) Richelle Mead 4.14 — 434,326 ratings 30,128
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 3.76 — 201,593 ratings 29,697
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson 3.98 — 334,071 ratings 29,524
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 3.96 — 186,948 ratings 28,93
Bel Canto Ann Patchett 3.92 — 193,168 ratings 28,813
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 4.12 — 105,320 ratings 28,678
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See 4.05 — 280,921 ratings 27,9
The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein 4.19 — 339,649 ratings 27,871
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 3.99 — 158,200 ratings 27,528
The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 4.35 — 70,854 ratings 27,281
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 4.19 — 196,699 ratings 27,185
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 4.03 — 445,165 ratings 25,882
The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 3.64 — 504,115 ratings 25,392
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 3.80 — 146,522 ratings 24,447
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 3.90 — 140,303 ratings 22,743
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore 4.26 — 121,876 ratings 22,722
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time Greg Mortenson 3.64 — 280,743 ratings 22,564
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 3.89 — 168,000 ratings 22,424
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 4.02 — 1,531,608 ratings 22,115
The Shack Wm. Paul Young 3.72 — 406,521 ratings 21,839
Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 4.13 — 337,787 ratings 20,887
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 4.09 — 242,049 ratings 20,221
The History of Love Nicole Krauss 3.91 — 100,324 ratings 19,695
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan 4.17 — 144,510 ratings 19,607
What Is the What Dave Eggers 4.15 — 62,989 ratings 19,262
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand 4.41 — 487,238 ratings 19,173
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell 3.88 — 340,018 ratings 19,131
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 3.71 — 120,723 ratings 18,434
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris 4.08 — 197,295 ratings 17,527
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski 3.60 — 77,820 ratings 17,117
Empire Falls Richard Russo 3.90 — 90,569 ratings 16,842
John Adams David McCullough 4.06 — 205,707 ratings 16,686
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss 3.86 — 81,553 ratings 16,613
Gilead (Gilead, #1) Marilynne Robinson 3.84 — 55,356 ratings 16,23
A Million Little Pieces James J. Frey 3.62 — 186,123 ratings 16,208
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 3.85 — 94,348 ratings 16,118
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens 3.95 — 66,939 ratings 15,057
Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) Neil Gaiman 3.99 — 144,443 ratings 14,754
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks 4.00 — 97,559 ratings 14,314
Looking for Alaska John Green 4.10 — 783,627 ratings 14,283
The Secret Magdalene Ki Longfellow 4.21 — 3,021 ratings 13,98
Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 4.11 — 65,663 ratings 13,802
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne 4.09 — 303,394 ratings 13,076
Insurgent (Divergent, #2) Veronica Roth 4.08 — 915,583 ratings 13
20th To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 4.25 — 3,215,475 ratings 1,225,828
1984 George Orwell 4.13 — 1,926,216 ratings 806,188
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) J.R.R. Tolkien 4.47 — 417,828 ratings 704,455
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.88 — 2,642,205 ratings 651,896
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) J.K. Rowling 4.43 — 4,487,117 ratings 618,731
Animal Farm George Orwell 3.86 — 1,907,394 ratings 430,649
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 4.09 — 1,961,650 ratings 418,49
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 4.24 — 2,114,691 ratings 416,257
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 3.79 — 2,024,955 ratings 367,457
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 3.97 — 1,116,102 ratings 363,651
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 3.92 — 527,968 ratings 340,531
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) C.S. Lewis 4.19 — 1,497,512 ratings 333,95
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 4.03 — 554,968 ratings 324,226
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 3.96 — 1,026,378 ratings 313,858
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.28 — 798,322 ratings 312,625
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 3.79 — 2,024,955 ratings 297,576
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 4.28 — 866,431 ratings 291,706
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 3.83 — 1,465,757 ratings 281,436
Il signore delle mosche William Golding 3.64 — 1,600,572 ratings 268,782
The Giver (The Giver, #1) Lois Lowry 4.12 — 1,316,732 ratings 267,481
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) J.K. Rowling 4.52 — 1,870,819 ratings 259,491
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 4.05 — 854,637 ratings 247,543
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 3.88 — 479,651 ratings 246,517
East of Eden John Steinbeck 4.34 — 323,998 ratings 222,992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 4.18 — 496,773 ratings 211,207
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-5) Douglas Adams 4.37 — 232,082 ratings 206,2
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 4.07 — 1,371,914 ratings 201,553
The Stranger Albert Camus 3.95 — 453,316 ratings 194,05
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 4.03 — 548,425 ratings 191,764
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) J.R.R. Tolkien 4.33 — 1,739,737 ratings 189,497
Charlotte's Web E.B. White 4.14 — 1,029,374 ratings 188,682
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) Madeleine L'Engle 4.04 — 616,709 ratings 185,313
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) C.S. Lewis 4.24 — 390,425 ratings 183,239
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) J.K. Rowling 4.36 — 1,808,401 ratings 180,333
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 3.72 — 536,334 ratings 177,539
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card 4.29 — 835,985 ratings 169,396
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 4.38 — 678,172 ratings 165,381
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 4.23 — 300,025 ratings 157,815
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) J.R.R. Tolkien 4.50 — 489,064 ratings 155,363
Night Elie Wiesel 4.29 — 670,429 ratings 152,498
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) J.R.R. Tolkien 4.41 — 509,385 ratings 152,261
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 3.97 — 426,147 ratings 149,127
Watership Down (Watership Down #1) Richard Adams 4.05 — 297,504 ratings 146,047
In Cold Blood Truman Capote 4.04 — 390,600 ratings 139,702
Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 4.29 — 453,372 ratings 138,477
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 3.81 — 1,307,610 ratings 138,101
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 3.68 — 286,270 ratings 136,685
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 4.02 — 548,368 ratings 133,173
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) L.M. Montgomery 4.22 — 510,497 ratings 132,301
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 3.89 — 313,298 ratings 131,708
The Color Purple Alice Walker 4.16 — 390,230 ratings 129,492
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 4.50 — 120,174 ratings 126,798
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 4.22 — 239,557 ratings 125,342
The Stand Stephen King 4.34 — 449,459 ratings 125,128
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 4.08 — 235,217 ratings 125,019
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 4.22 — 610,659 ratings 123,56
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 3.98 — 397,302 ratings 123,397
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 3.77 — 385,496 ratings 122,833
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 4.11 — 661,628 ratings 120,471
The Lorax Dr. Seuss 4.35 — 224,546 ratings 120,446
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 4.11 — 213,560 ratings 119,965
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) Roald Dahl 4.10 — 485,036 ratings 117,658
The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) Ken Follett 4.29 — 475,197 ratings 114,659
On the Road Jack Kerouac 3.65 — 268,259 ratings 113,034
Dune Frank Herbert 4.18 — 501,902 ratings 111,957
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 3.83 — 290,897 ratings 110,69
Ulysses James Joyce 3.73 — 82,932 ratings 108,625
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 4.32 — 145,665 ratings 106,395
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton 4.05 — 651,869 ratings 103,691
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) Douglas Adams 4.20 — 974,746 ratings 101,699
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) Pearl S. Buck 3.97 — 188,782 ratings 101,12
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 3.91 — 249,951 ratings 99,547
Beloved (The Trilogy, #1) Toni Morrison 3.76 — 235,251 ratings 99,49
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 3.89 — 178,702 ratings 96,28
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.28 — 798,322 ratings 92,461
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 3.84 — 247,381 ratings 91,089
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 3.89 — 513,974 ratings 90,12
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) Frank McCourt 4.07 — 401,648 ratings 89,88
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 4.20 — 314,380 ratings 89,877
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 3.86 — 128,801 ratings 89,531
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 3.95 — 198,607 ratings 89,065
The World According to Garp John Irving 4.07 — 174,645 ratings 86,08
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.19 — 190,320 ratings 83,27
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 3.78 — 199,119 ratings 81,995
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 3.83 — 122,358 ratings 81,021
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 3.86 — 189,940 ratings 80,517
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 3.97 — 436,026 ratings 78,773
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 4.04 — 273,035 ratings 76,95
Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis 4.31 — 183,441 ratings 72,404
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 3.81 — 105,973 ratings 71,553
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 4.47 — 112,147 ratings 66,388
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 4.05 — 316,353 ratings 66,159
Sophie's Choice William Styron 4.18 — 69,215 ratings 66,049
The Red Tent Anita Diamant 4.15 — 439,437 ratings 65,86
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 4.12 — 167,783 ratings 65,461
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 4.08 — 231,460 ratings 65,34
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger 3.98 — 158,852 ratings 64,236
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 3.60 — 99,708 ratings 63,203
Blindness José Saramago 4.07 — 125,688 ratings 61,148
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 3.76 — 90,947 ratings 60,53
19th Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 4.24 — 2,078,674 ratings 196,974
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 4.10 — 1,260,314 ratings 153,966
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 4.05 — 636,524 ratings 100,737
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 3.82 — 946,641 ratings 100,542
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.18 — 421,487 ratings 80,6
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 3.74 — 847,290 ratings 76,597
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 4.06 — 366,695 ratings 73,012
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 4.21 — 579,496 ratings 72,265
Dracula Bram Stoker 3.97 — 654,990 ratings 64,332
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 4.14 — 553,307 ratings 63,629
Emma Jane Austen 3.98 — 474,148 ratings 63,53
Little Women (Little Women, #1) Louisa May Alcott 4.03 — 1,268,691 ratings 62,421
Persuasion Jane Austen 4.13 — 384,306 ratings 61,673
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 3.80 — 973,588 ratings 60,958
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 4.05 — 751,777 ratings 59,329
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 4.02 — 448,529 ratings 58,809
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 3.80 — 655,528 ratings 55,759
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 3.74 — 483,766 ratings 53,406
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 4.02 — 423,033 ratings 50,58
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.30 — 170,777 ratings 41,271
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 4.10 — 181,838 ratings 39,278
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) Arthur Conan Doyle 4.29 — 177,492 ratings 39,049
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde 4.17 — 219,759 ratings 37,603
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville 3.46 — 384,945 ratings 34,718
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 3.89 — 572,473 ratings 34,136
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.37 — 542,835 ratings 31,65
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 3.75 — 180,511 ratings 31,026
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 3.82 — 297,774 ratings 30,814
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 4.05 — 213,541 ratings 29,958
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 3.64 — 176,775 ratings 29,54
Mansfield Park Jane Austen 3.83 — 212,175 ratings 28,168
The Time Machine H.G. Wells 3.86 — 287,546 ratings 27,97
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 4.13 — 98,798 ratings 27,746
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 3.79 — 221,721 ratings 27,006
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm 4.31 — 125,149 ratings 26,652
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 3.84 — 242,564 ratings 26,042
Alice in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) Lewis Carroll 4.02 — 398,372 ratings 25,193
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe 4.15 — 195,998 ratings 24,708
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle 4.14 — 204,989 ratings 24,364
Middlemarch George Eliot 3.93 — 102,053 ratings 23,826
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) L. Frank Baum 3.98 — 267,623 ratings 22,645
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 3.79 — 242,905 ratings 22,424
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 3.96 — 126,092 ratings 21,223
Bleak House Charles Dickens 3.99 — 71,688 ratings 20,888
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 3.96 — 158,732 ratings 19,529
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin 3.96 — 69,881 ratings 19,455
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.18 — 86,780 ratings 18,878
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 3.79 — 172,375 ratings 18,463
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 3.98 — 99,452 ratings 18,043
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 3.76 — 94,605 ratings 17,504
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) Jules Verne 3.86 — 142,319 ratings 17,313
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.17 — 65,641 ratings 17,289
The Complete Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 4.28 — 92,788 ratings 17,251
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 4.12 — 62,511 ratings 17,24
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 3.82 — 149,503 ratings 16,748
Faust: First Part Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.93 — 47,582 ratings 15,398
Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages, #11) Jules Verne 3.90 — 135,499 ratings 14,839
Heidi Johanna Spyri 3.97 — 152,429 ratings 13,662
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 3.68 — 74,704 ratings 13,571
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 3.91 — 93,031 ratings 13,379
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 3.94 — 188,954 ratings 13,201
The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling really liked it 4.00 — 68,116 ratings 12,932
The Awakening Kate Chopin 3.62 — 130,358 ratings 12,922
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 3.90 — 60,927 ratings 12,752
Villette Charlotte Brontë 3.74 — 45,987 ratings 12,595
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx 3.50 — 65,788 ratings 11,997
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 3.90 — 55,570 ratings 11,896
Walden Henry David Thoreau 3.79 — 115,330 ratings 11,847
The Red and the Black Stendhal 3.87 — 39,764 ratings 11,542
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) Arthur Conan Doyle 3.96 — 67,474 ratings 11,413
Poems Emily Dickinson 4.23 — 3,568 ratings 11,216
Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire 4.27 — 32,761 ratings 11,068
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 3.74 — 69,055 ratings 10,563
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 3.98 — 45,330 ratings 10,484
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 3.83 — 87,450 ratings 10,368
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages, #3) Jules Verne 3.84 — 107,678 ratings 10,166
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 3.45 — 63,088 ratings 9,387
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell 4.07 — 33,229 ratings 9,301
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 3.75 — 71,883 ratings 9,256
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4.01 — 62,606 ratings 9,139
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 3.76 — 57,339 ratings 9,038
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 3.41 — 293,582 ratings 8,171
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 3.74 — 1,397 ratings 8,085
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 3.79 — 42,316 ratings 8,033
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 3.94 — 46,830 ratings 7,862
Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac 3.82 — 31,944 ratings 7,785
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 3.96 — 158,732 ratings 7,676
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) Jerome K. Jerome 3.91 — 36,262 ratings 7,46
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 3.96 — 34,944 ratings 7,456
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells 3.72 — 67,774 ratings 7,292
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 4.07 — 19,666 ratings 6,859
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 4.08 — 35,831 ratings 6,842
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 3.85 — 53,494 ratings 6,748
The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen 4.02 — 15,858 ratings 6,558
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 3.77 — 37,210 ratings 6,53
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells 3.62 — 89,954 ratings 6,487
Agnes Grey Anne Brontë 3.64 — 36,471 ratings 6,052
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 3.84 — 26,338 ratings 6,047
Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) Émile Zola 4.09 — 20,906 ratings 5,974
Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell 3.84 — 27,730 ratings 5,863
18th Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 3.55 — 180,962 ratings 21,355
Candide Voltaire 3.75 — 164,213 ratings 19,776
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 3.66 — 189,414 ratings 19,078
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.63 — 51,888 ratings 11,525
Les Liaisons dangereuses Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos 4.07 — 32,608 ratings 8,982
Songs of Innocence and of Experience William Blake 4.11 — 28,005 ratings 7,833
The Constitution of the United States of America Founding Fathers 4.54 — 19,031 ratings 7,807
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3.92 — 37,755 ratings 7,569
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 3.73 — 25,970 ratings 6,54
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 3.49 — 32,542 ratings 5,934
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings Thomas Paine 4.12 — 12,921 ratings 5,871
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 3.96 — 9,417 ratings 5,853
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 3.89 — 11,210 ratings 5,734
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States Founding Fathers 4.44 — 16,657 ratings 5,182
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne 3.74 — 15,323 ratings 5,052
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 3.82 — 39,421 ratings 4,81
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works Jonathan Swift 4.04 — 12,679 ratings 4,578
Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot 3.85 — 5,179 ratings 4,57
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 3.86 — 19,414 ratings 4,208
Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.62 — 5,273 ratings 4,159
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 4.04 — 26,853 ratings 4,118
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake 4.26 — 6,520 ratings 3,866
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 3.90 — 20,410 ratings 3,671
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole 3.18 — 15,181 ratings 3,648
The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.75 — 26,058 ratings 3,605
The Monk Matthew Lewis 3.80 — 15,849 ratings 3,53
Evelina Fanny Burney 3.64 — 10,880 ratings 3,296
The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope 3.56 — 10,472 ratings 3,028
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 3.37 — 10,483 ratings 2,892
Common Sense Thomas Paine 3.96 — 21,502 ratings 2,754
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson 3.33 — 6,463 ratings 2,591
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland 3.32 — 8,223 ratings 2,373
Emile or On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.61 — 2,818 ratings 2,329
Zadig Voltaire 3.77 — 3,762 ratings 2,32
Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth 3.93 — 8,723 ratings 2,317
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.78 — 1,795 ratings 2,282
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine 4.12 — 6,040 ratings 2,246
Rights of Man Thomas Paine 4.02 — 7,412 ratings 2,213
Die Räuber Friedrich Schiller 3.58 — 5,024 ratings 2,033
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 2.76 — 7,443 ratings 1,959
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 3.90 — 12,485 ratings 1,942
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 3.46 — 7,158 ratings 1,91
A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe 3.53 — 4,051 ratings 1,869
The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 3.91 — 2,571 ratings 1,861
The Adventures of Baron Münchausen Rudolf Erich Raspe 3.87 — 5,889 ratings 1,857
Reveries of the Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.70 — 2,446 ratings 1,537
New Science Giambattista Vico 3.97 — 487 ratings 1,482
Persian Letters Montesquieu 3.71 — 4,236 ratings 1,402
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith 3.65 — 7,544 ratings 1,375
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant 3.78 — 10,152 ratings 1,367
Critique of Judgment Immanuel Kant 4.05 — 5,912 ratings 1,342
Cecilia Fanny Burney 3.73 — 2,771 ratings 1,326
Roxana Daniel Defoe 3.43 — 3,114 ratings 1,315
A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology Samuel Johnson 4.25 — 80 ratings 1,264
Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke 3.71 — 3,777 ratings 1,258
L'Ingénu Voltaire 3.59 — 1,496 ratings 1,199
Don Karlos: Infant von Spanien Friedrich Schiller 3.45 — 1,059 ratings 1,179
Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Olaudah Equiano 3.69 — 7,542 ratings 1,151
Kabale und Liebe Friedrich Schiller 3.25 — 4,238 ratings 1,087
Hymns to the Night Novalis 4.17 — 856 ratings 1,056
The Nun Denis Diderot 3.67 — 3,829 ratings 1,031
School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3.63 — 4,473 ratings 1,028
Vathek William Beckford 3.29 — 3,875 ratings 1,017
Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost 3.51 — 6,938 ratings 984
A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne 3.35 — 3,842 ratings 983
The Beggar's Opera John Gay 3.43 — 2,222 ratings 974
The Novices of Sais Novalis 4.11 — 202 ratings 942
Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland Friedrich Hölderlin 3.99 — 989 ratings 933
Camilla Fanny Burney 3.71 — 2,036 ratings 924
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant 3.88 — 6,383 ratings 922
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream Denis Diderot 3.66 — 1,016 ratings 907
Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant 3.88 — 7,232 ratings 904
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding 3.29 — 4,054 ratings 893
Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors Marquis de Sade 3.49 — 3,605 ratings 843
Notes on the State of Virginia Thomas Jefferson 3.50 — 356 ratings 839
Encyclopedie 1 Denis Diderot 4.08 — 39 ratings 816
Micromegas Voltaire 3.68 — 2,056 ratings 813
The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox 3.55 — 1,914 ratings 812
Justine Marquis de Sade 3.42 — 7,624 ratings 808
Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard Pierre de Marivaux 3.70 — 2,934 ratings 801
Monadology Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 3.79 — 622 ratings 801
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson 3.43 — 4,316 ratings 760
Maria Stuart Friedrich Schiller 3.47 — 3,532 ratings 756
An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 4.03 — 471 ratings 753
The Servant of Two Masters Carlo Goldoni 3.84 — 910 ratings 745
The Italian Ann Radcliffe 3.51 — 3,463 ratings 682
The Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 4.12 — 2,681 ratings 680
The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3.66 — 1,631 ratings 678
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards 3.69 — 1,578 ratings 670
Paul et Virginie Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 3.76 — 3,559 ratings 650
Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley 3.82 — 741 ratings 626
The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu 3.95 — 3,337 ratings 598
Wallenstein II: Wallensteins Tod Friedrich Schiller 3.66 — 134 ratings 564
Götz von Berlichingen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.30 — 977 ratings 551
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Samuel Johnson 3.52 — 464 ratings 543
Philosophical Dictionary Voltaire 4.08 — 1,371 ratings 543
An Essay on Criticism Alexander Pope 3.73 — 812 ratings 537
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 3.90 — 8,787 ratings 537
Four Comedies Carlo Goldoni 4.05 — 41 ratings 535
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett 3.44 — 2,246 ratings 514
17th Hamlet William Shakespeare really liked it 4.00 — 553,100 ratings 24,733
Macbeth William Shakespeare 3.88 — 507,446 ratings 20,441
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.85 — 153,315 ratings 16,89
Paradise Lost John Milton 3.79 — 101,575 ratings 11,646
King Lear William Shakespeare 3.89 — 142,308 ratings 10,625
Othello William Shakespeare 3.87 — 247,530 ratings 9,457
The Tempest William Shakespeare 3.80 — 128,773 ratings 7,616
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 3.65 — 130,502 ratings 6,225
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 3.97 — 124,680 ratings 5,479
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 3.97 — 72,195 ratings 5,324
Tartuffe Molière 3.66 — 23,677 ratings 4,258
Holy Bible: King James Version Anonymous 4.43 — 165,728 ratings 4,217
As You Like It William Shakespeare 3.83 — 59,625 ratings 4,148
Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare 4.24 — 60,541 ratings 4,064
Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe 3.79 — 43,141 ratings 3,58
The Misanthrope Molière 3.78 — 14,005 ratings 3,534
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy René Descartes 3.67 — 20,441 ratings 2,991
Phèdre Jean Racine 3.70 — 10,059 ratings 2,712
Le Malade imaginaire Molière 3.74 — 5,903 ratings 2,661
Fables Jean de La Fontaine 4.02 — 9,644 ratings 2,551
Pensées Blaise Pascal 3.96 — 8,350 ratings 2,527
The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 3.69 — 19,035 ratings 2,2
Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 4.20 — 8,253 ratings 2,159
L'Avare Molière 3.67 — 8,793 ratings 2,132
Don Juan Molière 3.67 — 6,514 ratings 1,991
La vida es sueño Pedro Calderón de la Barca 3.97 — 9,533 ratings 1,929
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Molière 3.75 — 7,192 ratings 1,889
The Princesse de Clèves Madame de La Fayette 3.43 — 6,656 ratings 1,886
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 3.66 — 27,324 ratings 1,736
Ethics Baruch Spinoza really liked it 4.00 — 9,485 ratings 1,663
Henry VIII William Shakespeare 3.57 — 4,961 ratings 1,554
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke 3.81 — 11,581 ratings 1,511
John Donne's Poetry John Donne 4.11 — 6,763 ratings 1,481
The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton 4.19 — 3,660 ratings 1,345
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623 William Shakespeare 4.73 — 293 ratings 1,328
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 4.20 — 1,002 ratings 1,208
Le Cid Pierre Corneille 3.62 — 8,025 ratings 1,082
Andromaque Jean Racine 3.74 — 4,232 ratings 1,071
The Duchess of Malfi John Webster 3.60 — 9,446 ratings 1,043
The School for Wives Molière 3.69 — 4,333 ratings 1,041
Second Treatise of Government John Locke 3.75 — 14,543 ratings 1,02
Discourse on Metaphysics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 3.56 — 131 ratings 987
Maxims François de La Rochefoucauld 4.04 — 2,081 ratings 986
Fuenteovejuna Lope de Vega 3.53 — 4,108 ratings 936
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo Galilei 4.08 — 995 ratings 883
Cymbeline William Shakespeare 3.56 — 5,156 ratings 863
The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence 4.32 — 25,266 ratings 854
Tis Pity She's a Whore John Ford 3.67 — 3,073 ratings 843
Two Treatises of Government John Locke 3.80 — 12,784 ratings 807
Historia de la vida del Buscón Francisco de Quevedo 3.68 — 1,220 ratings 728
Coriolanus William Shakespeare 3.71 — 9,099 ratings 716
Horace Pierre Corneille 3.56 — 593 ratings 707
Areopagitica John Milton 3.85 — 1,404 ratings 706
Measure for Measure William Shakespeare 3.67 — 16,873 ratings 706
Volpone Ben Jonson 3.48 — 5,683 ratings 664
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Bash_ Matsuo 4.15 — 2,189 ratings 644
Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 3.69 — 1,345 ratings 624
The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert George Herbert 4.11 — 304 ratings 619
El Burlador De Sevilla Tirso de Molina 3.64 — 2,196 ratings 618
All's Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare 3.64 — 10,506 ratings 612
Oroonoko Aphra Behn 2.96 — 6,457 ratings 607
The Changeling Thomas Middleton 3.64 — 1,606 ratings 569
The Way of the World William Congreve 3.35 — 2,478 ratings 564
Los Sueños Francisco de Quevedo 3.79 — 185 ratings 561
Samson Agonistes John Milton 3.73 — 1,622 ratings 528
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare 3.67 — 23,124 ratings 526
The White Devil John Webster 3.60 — 1,138 ratings 521
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare 3.36 — 5,597 ratings 489
The Dog in the Manger Lope de Vega 3.75 — 555 ratings 483
The Country Wife William Wycherley 3.37 — 2,870 ratings 435
Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version Ben Jonson 3.12 — 142 ratings 404
Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson 3.40 — 505 ratings 402
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Izaak Walton 3.82 — 432 ratings 378
Lucifer Joost van den Vondel 3.22 — 264 ratings 374
Pericles William Shakespeare 3.40 — 3,185 ratings 370
The New Organon Francis Bacon 3.71 — 985 ratings 361
Timon of Athens William Shakespeare 3.38 — 2,790 ratings 356
The Witch of Edmonton Thomas Dekker 3.35 — 273 ratings 354
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon 3.16 — 1,525 ratings 353
A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 3.52 — 61 ratings 334
Cinna Pierre Corneille 3.42 — 299 ratings 326
The Revenger's Tragedy Thomas Middleton 3.67 — 2,048 ratings 325
Sejanus Ben Jonson 3.27 — 86 ratings 319
The Alchemist Ben Jonson 3.59 — 2,256 ratings 315
El caballero de Olmedo Lope de Vega 3.53 — 748 ratings 289
Fables complètes Jean de La Fontaine 4.02 — 9,644 ratings 289
Le Paradis perdu John Milton 3.79 — 101,575 ratings 286
Bérénice Jean Racine 3.76 — 823 ratings 277
Le Médecin Malgré Lui Molière 3.79 — 2,999 ratings 274
Britannicus Jean Racine 3.64 — 1,310 ratings 261
The Roaring Girl Thomas Dekker 3.44 — 593 ratings 257
L'Astrée Honoré d'Urfé 3.76 — 21 ratings 249
Histoire comique de Francion Charles Sorel 3.42 — 26 ratings 240
Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson 3.21 — 62 ratings 220
The Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz del Castillo 4.08 — 1,745 ratings 193
Urne Burial Thomas Browne 4.10 — 185 ratings 187
The City of the Sun Tommaso Campanella 3.24 — 897 ratings 186
Religio Medici Thomas Browne 4.06 — 257 ratings 185
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Truths Thomas Browne 4.44 — 25 ratings 182
The Garden of Cyrus Thomas Browne 4.21 — 14 ratings 180
16th Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 3.73 — 1,607,737 ratings 15,253
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 3.94 — 346,492 ratings 12,577
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli 3.77 — 171,182 ratings 10,338
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare 4.06 — 180,962 ratings 7,622
Utopia Thomas More 3.49 — 41,761 ratings 6,809
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 3.65 — 130,502 ratings 6,802
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 3.78 — 123,236 ratings 6,76
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 3.82 — 130,667 ratings 5,186
Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe 3.79 — 43,141 ratings 5,016
Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais 3.71 — 10,884 ratings 3,979
Henry V William Shakespeare 3.86 — 31,335 ratings 3,347
The Complete Essays Michel de Montaigne 4.23 — 10,872 ratings 3,247
As You Like It William Shakespeare 3.83 — 59,625 ratings 3,21
Richard III William Shakespeare 3.92 — 33,137 ratings 2,751
The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 3.55 — 13,404 ratings 2,745
Praise of Folly Erasmus 3.87 — 8,217 ratings 2,241
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2) William Shakespeare 3.80 — 17,966 ratings 2,037
Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto 3.98 — 2,166 ratings 1,678
Richard II William Shakespeare 3.75 — 13,433 ratings 1,626
The Lusiads Luís de Camões 3.99 — 5,337 ratings 1,559
Monkey: The Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 4.06 — 4,770 ratings 1,528
La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous 3.49 — 11,948 ratings 1,469
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses Martin Luther 3.83 — 1,215 ratings 1,36
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres Nicolaus Copernicus 4.09 — 598 ratings 1,315
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Bartolomé de las Casas 3.71 — 1,666 ratings 1,22
King Henry VI, Part 2 William Shakespeare 3.66 — 2,929 ratings 1,169
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare 3.73 — 18,051 ratings 1,085
Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3) William Shakespeare 3.79 — 11,408 ratings 1,062
The Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari 3.78 — 17,555 ratings 1,017
Tamburlaine Christopher Marlowe 3.66 — 1,733 ratings 981
The Essays Francis Bacon 3.80 — 2,942 ratings 959
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself Teresa of Ávila 4.12 — 1,281 ratings 912
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare 3.71 — 17,580 ratings 896
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols John Calvin 4.15 — 6,922 ratings 840
Edward II Christopher Marlowe 3.67 — 3,266 ratings 804
Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare 3.53 — 7,825 ratings 780
King Henry VI, Part 3 William Shakespeare 3.76 — 2,699 ratings 775
The Heptameron Marguerite de Navarre 3.67 — 692 ratings 754
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 3.82 — 664 ratings 737
Foxe's Book of Martyrs John Foxe 4.24 — 12,971 ratings 674
Mandragola Niccolò Machiavelli 3.55 — 1,938 ratings 655
Interior Castle Teresa of Ávila 4.19 — 3,733 ratings 635
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 3.60 — 2,558 ratings 626
The Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare 3.39 — 8,095 ratings 567
The Poems of St John of the Cross San Juan de la Cruz 4.20 — 313 ratings 563
Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings Philip Sidney 3.66 — 272 ratings 541
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men Moderata Fonte 4.04 — 73 ratings 495
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe 3.51 — 269 ratings 479
The Book of the Courtier Baldassare Castiglione 3.61 — 1,755 ratings 474
The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 3.97 — 1,960 ratings 474
Die Luther-Bibel von 1534: Kolorierte Faksimileausgabe, 2 Bde. u. Begleitband Stephan Füssel 4.20 — 5 ratings 398
Auto da barca do Inferno Gil Vicente 3.63 — 5,890 ratings 389
The Discourses Niccolò Machiavelli 4.02 — 5,915 ratings 385
Mariken van Nieumeghen: Een mirakelspel Unknown 2.85 — 429 ratings 384
Henry VI, Part 1 William Shakespeare 3.59 — 3,405 ratings 337
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 3.53 — 3,584 ratings 329
King Edward III William Shakespeare 3.23 — 313 ratings 324
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur 3.92 — 283 ratings 295
Commentary on Galatians Martin Luther 4.27 — 718 ratings 285
The First Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI and the Ordinal of 1549, with the Order of the Communion, 1548, Repr. and Ed. by H.B. Walton Henry Baskerville Walton 3.80 — 5 ratings 276
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 3.63 — 1,390 ratings 267
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 3.55 — 6,786 ratings 242
Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance Moderata Fonte 4.67 — 3 ratings 193
Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross San Juan de la Cruz 4.21 — 6,802 ratings 193
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross San Juan de la Cruz 4.48 — 957 ratings 193
Leonardo's Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci 3.97 — 26,274 ratings 182
Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England John Lyly 3.15 — 131 ratings 177
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Philip Sidney 3.62 — 479 ratings 176
Planine Petar Zorani_ 2.66 — 96 ratings 176
King John William Shakespeare 3.30 — 2,608 ratings 175
The Archidoxes of Magic Paracelsus 4.11 — 38 ratings 175
The Spiritual Exercises Ignatius of Loyola 4.20 — 1,846 ratings 169
Colloquies Erasmus really liked it 4.00 — 19 ratings 164
The Art of War Niccolò Machiavelli 4.03 — 5,369 ratings 163
Zes dagen : gesprekken over het hoerenbestaan Pietro Aretino 3.54 — 135 ratings 100
Venus and Adonis William Shakespeare 3.68 — 1,352 ratings 100
The Bondage of the Will Martin Luther 4.17 — 5,322 ratings 99
On Christian Liberty Martin Luther 3.90 — 1,322 ratings 98
Small Catechism, with Explanation Martin Luther 4.28 — 859 ratings 98
Laments Jan Kochanowski 3.40 — 472 ratings 98
Aminta Torquato Tasso 3.64 — 96 ratings 96
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Ignatius of Loyola 3.72 — 439 ratings 96
Candelaio Giordano Bruno 3.94 — 18 ratings 94
Hero and Leander Christopher Marlowe 3.74 — 627 ratings 94
The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise Christopher Marlowe 3.04 — 126 ratings 94
Three Books of Occult Philosophy Cornelius Agrippa 4.11 — 1,120 ratings 82
Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy Cornelius Agrippa 4.13 — 111 ratings 81
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex Cornelius Agrippa 3.84 — 25 ratings 80
The Way of Perfection Teresa of Ávila 4.32 — 1,674 ratings 79
Astronomia Magna: Oder Die Ganze Philosophia Sagax Der Grossen Und Kleinen Welt Paracelsus really liked it 4.00 — 1 rating 77
Myles Coverdale Bible (Student's Edition) First Gospel Publications really liked it 4.00 — 2 ratings 75
The Complete Writings of Menno Simons J.C. Wenger 4.50 — 4 ratings 74
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy Niccolò Machiavelli 3.90 — 263 ratings 72
15th Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table Thomas Malory 3.92 — 28,922 ratings 6,794
The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis 4.19 — 14,233 ratings 2,091
The Mabinogion Unknown 3.96 — 4,988 ratings 1,688
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays Anonymous 3.30 — 632 ratings 1,381
The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan 3.74 — 1,701 ratings 992
Poems of François Villon François Villon 4.16 — 1,118 ratings 598
The Book of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 3.25 — 2,429 ratings 590
The Treasure of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan 3.53 — 330 ratings 586
Everyman Anonymous 3.19 — 1,352 ratings 394
Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs) Christine de Pizan 3.70 — 10 ratings 287
Dives And Pauper Anonymous 2.67 — 3 ratings 280
Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo 3.90 — 139 ratings 200
Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering William Caxton 3.17 — 6 ratings 196
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry Christine de Pizan 3.53 — 395 ratings 195
Blind Harry's Wallace Blind Harry 3.63 — 38 ratings 192
Het boek van Dede Korkoet Anonymous 3.78 — 243 ratings 192
Wittenwiler's Ring and Colkelbie Sow: Two Comic-Didactic Works From the 15Th Century Heinrich Wittenwiler really liked it 4.00 — 4 ratings 100
La Celestina Fernando de Rojas 3.38 — 7,993 ratings 100
The History of Reynard the Fox Edward Arber 4.06 — 17 ratings 99
Caxton’s Book of Curtesye (E-Book) William Caxton 3.60 — 5 ratings 97
14th The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 3.48 — 154,808 ratings 13,642
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 4.06 — 86,102 ratings 12,539
Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) Dante Alighieri 3.98 — 104,252 ratings 7,239
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Unknown 3.68 — 41,329 ratings 6,606
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 3.86 — 25,413 ratings 6,293
Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3) Dante Alighieri 3.94 — 11,970 ratings 2,433
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Joseph Bédier 3.69 — 8,009 ratings 2,336
Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2) Dante Alighieri 4.01 — 16,884 ratings 2,135
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 3.78 — 4,945 ratings 1,258
Canzoniere: Selected Poems Francesco Petrarca 3.90 — 718 ratings 969
The Divan Hafez 4.63 — 6,201 ratings 677
The Travels of Ibn Battutah Ibn Battuta 3.88 — 1,144 ratings 588
Piers Plowman William Langland 3.39 — 2,225 ratings 577
Libro de Buen Amor Juan Ruiz (Arcipreste de Hita) 3.55 — 1,374 ratings 491
The Tale of the Heike Anonymous 3.96 — 808 ratings 491
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki Anonymous 4.07 — 607 ratings 487
Revelations of Divine Love Julian of Norwich 3.97 — 3,482 ratings 479
Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko Yoshida Kenk_ 3.89 — 628 ratings 395
Outlaws of the Marsh (Vol. 1-4) Shi Nai'an 4.11 — 1,147 ratings 383
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience Unknown 4.06 — 5,490 ratings 379
A Treatise On God As First Principle John Duns Scotus 4.15 — 13 ratings 299
Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes Luo Guanzhong 4.38 — 2,665 ratings 293
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics Francesco Petrarca 4.12 — 177 ratings 282
Confessio Amantis John Gower 3.60 — 109 ratings 276
____ ________ ___ 4 _____ __ _________ ________ ______ 3.43 — 14 ratings 100
The Spirit of Noh: A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden Zeami 4.14 — 56 ratings 100
The Saga of Grettir the Strong Anonymous 3.90 — 564 ratings 100
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi Francis of Assisi 4.10 — 912 ratings 99
Trionfi, Rime Estravaganti, Codice Degli Abbozzi Francesco Petrarca 4.75 — 4 ratings 90
Vie de Saint Louis Jean de Joinville 3.73 — 37 ratings 87
13th The Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson 4.16 — 7,537 ratings 3,481
The Nibelungenlied Unknown 3.87 — 4,711 ratings 2,875
The Travels Marco Polo 3.56 — 3,589 ratings 2,587
Summa Theologica, 5 Vols Thomas Aquinas 4.08 — 2,689 ratings 2,286
Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach 3.82 — 2,425 ratings 1,581
Teachings of Rumi the Masnavi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'d-Din Muhammad I Rumi Jalaluddin Rumi 4.13 — 278 ratings 1,481
The Essential Rumi Jalaluddin Rumi 4.44 — 27,673 ratings 1,386
Vita Nuova Dante Alighieri 3.86 — 3,539 ratings 1,38
Egil's Saga Anonymous 4.09 — 1,653 ratings 1,274
Njal's Saga Anonymous 3.98 — 2,979 ratings 982
The Saga of the Volsungs Anonymous 4.02 — 3,900 ratings 872
______ ____ Saadi 4.48 — 1,863 ratings 787
The Romance of the Rose Guillaume de Lorris 3.66 — 1,762 ratings 779
Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas Gottfried von Straßburg 3.82 — 1,310 ratings 593
Laxdæla Saga Anonymous 3.97 — 768 ratings 567
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Tan Books 3.96 — 49 ratings 491
Classics of World Spirituality: Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz Jalaluddin Rumi 4.55 — 1,840 ratings 477
Canticle of the Sun (Calligrapher's Notebooks) Francis of Assisi 4.09 — 45 ratings 392
The Masnavi: Book Two Jalaluddin Rumi 4.56 — 141 ratings 386
Van den vos Reynaerde Willem die Madocke maecte 3.19 — 1,177 ratings 299
Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople Geoffrey de Villehardouin 3.85 — 91 ratings 291
Reynard the Fox Unknown 3.45 — 264 ratings 289
The Knight in the Panther's Skin Shota Rustaveli 4.63 — 1,038 ratings 199
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings Snorri Sturluson 4.16 — 918 ratings 196
La Suite Du Roman de Merlin Unknown really liked it 4.00 — 3 ratings 189
The Danish History Saxo Grammaticus 3.72 — 53 ratings 184
The Southern Passion Anonymous 4.50 — 2 ratings 175
Saga di Hrafnkell Anonymous 3.77 — 13 ratings 100
Tristan Band 1 Gottfried von Straßburg 3.90 — 71 ratings 99
Eyrbyggja Saga Unknown 3.97 — 263 ratings 99
La Queste Del Saint Graalroman Du Xii Ie Siècle Albert Pauphilet really liked it 4.00 — 12 ratings 98
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald Unknown 3.04 — 25 ratings 98
12th The History of the Kings of Britain Geoffrey of Monmouth 3.73 — 4,523 ratings 2,177
Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail Chrétien de Troyes 3.71 — 1,278 ratings 2,087
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart Chrétien de Troyes 3.69 — 1,361 ratings 1,787
The Lais of Marie de France Marie de France 3.85 — 4,921 ratings 1,771
The Guide for the Perplexed Maimonides 4.11 — 793 ratings 1,388
Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion Chrétien de Troyes 3.72 — 1,752 ratings 1,382
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing Hildegard of Bingen 4.28 — 113 ratings 1,378
La Chanson de Roland Unknown 3.54 — 10,969 ratings 1,285
Arthurian Romances Chrétien de Troyes 3.97 — 6,330 ratings 1,074
The Alexiad Anna Comnena 3.95 — 595 ratings 985
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse Héloïse d'Argenteuil 3.74 — 3,305 ratings 876
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