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Forgotten Classics
Classic books that are lesser known.
19th or less century. This does not mean adding lesser known books by authors who are well know such as Jane Austen.
19th or less century. This does not mean adding lesser known books by authors who are well know such as Jane Austen.
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Aurora Floyd
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3.75 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
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3.77 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
score: 639,
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Hester
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3.88 avg rating — 653 ratings
score: 553,
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East Lynne
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3.74 avg rating — 5,299 ratings
score: 533,
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Bungay Castle
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3.45 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 391,
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The Sylph
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3.64 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 389,
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The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story
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3.43 avg rating — 571 ratings
score: 291,
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3 people voted
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Carmilla
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3.87 avg rating — 172,180 ratings
score: 288,
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3 people voted
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Crossriggs
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3.79 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 280,
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3 people voted
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The three Miss Kings
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3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 271,
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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3.97 avg rating — 3,691 ratings
score: 269,
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Rubaiyat
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4.17 avg rating — 22,870 ratings
score: 268,
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De Heptamerone : of de vertellingen van de koningin van Navarre
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3.58 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
score: 265,
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The Female Quixote
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3.52 avg rating — 3,132 ratings
score: 256,
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3 people voted
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Georges
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3.80 avg rating — 751 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Works of Fanny Burney: Camilla, Cecilia, Evelina, The Wanderer and More (6 Books With Active Table of Contents)
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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The Two Dianas, Volume 1
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3.98 avg rating — 911 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Diary of a Provincial Lady
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3.90 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Collected Works of Maria Edgeworth
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 195,
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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
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3.73 avg rating — 335 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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He That Will Not When He May
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3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Green Mansions
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3.68 avg rating — 3,281 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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Belinda
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3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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An Australian Girl
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3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Robbery Under Arms
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3.84 avg rating — 421 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Uncle Silas
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3.74 avg rating — 7,037 ratings
score: 182,
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2 people voted
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The Beggar's Opera and other Eighteenth Century plays
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John Hampden (editor)
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 168,
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2 people voted
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Kirkham's Find
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 156,
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2 people voted
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Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill
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3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,654 ratings
score: 100,
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Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
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3.09 avg rating — 277 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Quintus Servinton : A Tale founded upon Incidents of Real Occurence
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2.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Journal of A Disappointed Man
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4.05 avg rating — 777 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Helbeck of Bannisdale
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3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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3.27 avg rating — 13,161 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Outlaw and Lawmaker
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 96,
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Clara Morison
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3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Adeline Mowbray
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3.29 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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The Rebel of the Family
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3.48 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Mr. Hogarth's Will
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 94,
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Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
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3.56 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 94,
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Manfrone; Or, the One-Handed Monk
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3.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 94,
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The Incredible Journey
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy
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2.62 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Zofloya
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3.60 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
score: 93,
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The Blood of the Vampire
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3.61 avg rating — 958 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Silent Sea (Colonial Texts Series)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The Old Manor House
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3.14 avg rating — 183 ratings
score: 91,
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Moths
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3.81 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 91,
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The Monk
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3.85 avg rating — 32,057 ratings
score: 91,
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Luke Mivers' Harvest
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 90,
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,326 ratings
score: 90,
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The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
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3.53 avg rating — 64 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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A Lantern in Her Hand
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4.19 avg rating — 7,050 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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A Marked Man: Some Episodes in His Life
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Clermont
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3.64 avg rating — 119 ratings
score: 88,
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A Woman's Friendship
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 87,
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Fidelis
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 86,
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The Miner's Right : A tale of the Australian Goldfields
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Turkish Embassy Letters
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3.47 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
score: 85,
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The Broad Arrow : Being The Story Of Maida Gwynnham, A 'Lifer' In Van Diemen's Land
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3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 83,
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Een dure eed
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2.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 82,
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
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3.70 avg rating — 514 ratings
score: 82,
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Dolly Dialogues
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3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 81,
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Roderick Random
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3.48 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
score: 80,
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Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale): With Notes and an Introductory Account of her Life and Writings (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (Volume 1)
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 80,
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Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works
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3.40 avg rating — 828 ratings
score: 79,
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The Essential Works of Andrew Lang
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2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 79,
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Geschrift eener bejaarde vrouw
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 78,
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The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
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3.45 avg rating — 65 ratings
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De historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart
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3.07 avg rating — 900 ratings
score: 77,
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A Child of the Jago
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3.69 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Eros ontwortelt mijn hart : gedichten en fragmenten
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4.17 avg rating — 11,104 ratings
score: 76,
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Het boek van Dede Korkoet
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3.91 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
score: 75,
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Het boek der koningen: de verhalen van Rostam
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4.52 avg rating — 5,563 ratings
score: 74,
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De Rozentuin
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4.50 avg rating — 3,404 ratings
score: 73,
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The School for Scandal and Other Plays
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3.64 avg rating — 397 ratings
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A week in the future : Catherine Helen Spence's 1888 forecast of life in 1988
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3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Gathered In
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Settlers and Convicts: or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ralph Rashleigh: A Chronicle of a Migrant Experience
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3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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My Secret Life
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3.42 avg rating — 689 ratings
score: 64,
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De bruid uit het theehuis : liefdesavonturen van Hsi Men en zijn zes vrouwen : naar een Chinese familiekroniek uit de twaalfde eeuw
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4.05 avg rating — 398 ratings
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De luchthartige mandarijn : liefdesavonturen van Hsi Men en zijn zes vrouwen : naar een Chinese familiekroniek uit de twaalfde eeuw (vol 2)
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Een monnik dartelt in de bloemenhof : liefdesavonturen van Hsi Men en zijn zes vrouwen, naar een Chinese familiekroniek uit de twaalfde eeuw (vol 3)
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4.19 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Mejonkvrouwe de Mauléon
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Het huis Lauernesse
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Zes dagen. Gesprekken over het hoerenbestaan
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3.59 avg rating — 101 ratings
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@ Miss MFunny, I thought about adding some of Fanny Burney's books (Camilla / Evelina or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World / Cecilia) but decided against it as I thought she might be a 'well-known' author.
I love this list :-)
@Booklovinglady,IMHO she *should* be well-known, but seems I don't see her mentioned very often...hopefully a little more exposure couldn't hurt! :)
There is another Listopia that might be of interest to voters of this list:
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. It is a bit more restricted because of the era and location, but it is still fun ;-)
I wouldn't exactly call Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (#31) a 'forgotten' classic... It has more than 10,000 ratings and translations of the book are available in a lot of countries.
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Not all that hard for me, even when I leave out lesser known books by well-known authors:-) Although to be fair, both 'forgotten' and 'well-known' all depends upon whom you ask, of course.