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Books Every Adult Should Read in Their Lifetime
Preferably before they "have shuffled off this mortal coil"
(Mostly "Great Books" I keep putting off)
(Mostly "Great Books" I keep putting off)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,739,626 ratings
score: 479,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,277,045 ratings
score: 398,
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4 people voted
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,976,700 ratings
score: 383,
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,324,118 ratings
score: 382,
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 977,731 ratings
score: 376,
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,027,414 ratings
score: 373,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 612,265 ratings
score: 372,
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,408,915 ratings
score: 291,
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3 people voted
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Lonesome Dove
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4.57 avg rating — 227,003 ratings
score: 271,
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3 people voted
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 772,143 ratings
score: 270,
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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4.44 avg rating — 311,127 ratings
score: 196,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,000,754 ratings
score: 192,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 715,427 ratings
score: 192,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,632 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,982,388 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,521 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,290,993 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,428,244 ratings
score: 186,
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 509,387 ratings
score: 182,
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2 people voted
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,009 ratings
score: 180,
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2 people voted
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,284 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 901,220 ratings
score: 174,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,534 ratings
score: 174,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,808,284 ratings
score: 174,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,750,447 ratings
score: 174,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,773,331 ratings
score: 170,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,375,888 ratings
score: 167,
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2 people voted
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 464,104 ratings
score: 164,
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 421,857 ratings
score: 160,
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2 people voted
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,278,783 ratings
score: 159,
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 999,414 ratings
score: 157,
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.07 avg rating — 171,498 ratings
score: 152,
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,735,350 ratings
score: 100,
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 333,707 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Phantom of the Opera
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3.96 avg rating — 269,879 ratings
score: 99,
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,248,237 ratings
score: 98,
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The House on the Strand
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3.83 avg rating — 14,385 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Prophet
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4.23 avg rating — 323,323 ratings
score: 96,
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Generals Die in Bed
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3.82 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,338,467 ratings
score: 95,
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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4.12 avg rating — 297,627 ratings
score: 94,
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Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 69,547 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 926,454 ratings
score: 90,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,479 ratings
score: 89,
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,790,065 ratings
score: 89,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,039,749 ratings
score: 88,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,363 ratings
score: 87,
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Dead Souls
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3.98 avg rating — 94,072 ratings
score: 86,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 293,556 ratings
score: 85,
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,458 ratings
score: 83,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,290,993 ratings
score: 83,
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 254,884 ratings
score: 82,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,105,207 ratings
score: 79,
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,554,966 ratings
score: 77,
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 454,978 ratings
score: 74,
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
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4.44 avg rating — 27,064 ratings
score: 70,
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 705,284 ratings
score: 69,
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The Scapegoat
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score: 68,
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Jamaica Inn
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3.90 avg rating — 57,893 ratings
score: 67,
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Frenchman's Creek
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3.99 avg rating — 23,406 ratings
score: 66,
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The Parasites
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3.72 avg rating — 2,739 ratings
score: 65,
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Hungry Hill
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3.73 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
score: 64,
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The Birds
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3.90 avg rating — 6,344 ratings
score: 63,
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