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0 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winnin... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Historical'] | 4.27 | 5,691,311 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird |
1 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason ... HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD! | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics'] | 4.47 | 9,278,135 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72193.Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher_s_Stone |
2 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the o... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook'] | 4.28 | 3,944,155 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice |
3 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their ho... | ['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical', 'Holocaust'] | 4.18 | 3,488,438 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl |
4 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Politics', 'School', 'Literature'] | 3.98 | 3,575,172 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm |
5 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil a... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'France', 'Philosophy', 'Young Adult'] | 4.32 | 1,924,063 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157993.The_Little_Prince |
6 | 1984 | George Orwell | The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no ne... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Politics'] | 4.19 | 4,201,429 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61439040-1984 |
7 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13: 9780743273565)The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beau... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels'] | 3.93 | 4,839,642 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby |
8 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'School', 'Novels', 'Coming Of Age'] | 3.81 | 3,315,881 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye |
9 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from ... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy'] | 4.52 | 644,766 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings |
10 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's H... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'War', 'World War II'] | 4.39 | 2,364,659 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief |
11 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But th... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Historical'] | 4.14 | 1,975,582 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre |
12 | The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) | C.S. Lewis | Librarian note: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here: 2005.Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lew... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade'] | 4.27 | 617,006 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia |
13 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'School', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Read For School'] | 3.69 | 2,738,919 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies |
14 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almo... | ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School'] | 3.74 | 2,469,086 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18135.Romeo_and_Juliet |
15 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) | J.K. Rowling | Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leav... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook'] | 4.62 | 3,468,276 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136251.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows |
16 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Historical', 'Literature'] | 4.33 | 2,954,721 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77203.The_Kite_Runner |
17 | The Giver (The Giver, #1) | Lois Lowry | At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life. | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'School'] | 4.12 | 2,285,401 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver |
18 | The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy."So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But ... | ['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy'] | 4.38 | 1,067,524 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370493.The_Giving_Tree |
19 | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals'] | 4.19 | 1,724,889 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24178.Charlotte_s_Web |
20 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romanti... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Literature'] | 4.14 | 2,085,559 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1934.Little_Women |
21 | The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) | Suzanne Collins | Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing ... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure'] | 4.33 | 7,963,002 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052-the-hunger-games |
22 | The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) | J.R.R. Tolkien | In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant cr... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy'] | 4.28 | 3,662,325 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit |
23 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.”
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Read For School', 'Novels'] | 3.88 | 2,396,235 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890.Of_Mice_and_Men |
24 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, t... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'School', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 3.97 | 2,215,889 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451 |
25 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss | “Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Humor'] | 4.3 | 735,514 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23772.Green_Eggs_and_Ham |
26 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook'] | 4.58 | 3,808,160 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5.Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban |
27 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.This best-selling Norton Critical Ed... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century'] | 3.88 | 1,684,275 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights |
28 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see."When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures ... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'Adventure'] | 4.06 | 536,708 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24213.Alice_s_Adventures_in_Wonderland_Through_the_Looking_Glass |
29 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent Fr... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 4.12 | 1,370,605 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray |
30 | Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) | Elie Wiesel | Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Holocaust', 'Biography', 'School'] | 4.36 | 1,170,381 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night |
31 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea. | ['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'War', 'Literature'] | 4.3 | 1,179,002 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_with_the_Wind |
32 | The Holy Bible: King James Version | Anonymous | An Award or Presentation Bible in the King James Version: ideal as a gift or to keep The full text of the Popular size King James or Authorized Version Bible, in a straightforward black imitation leather hardback binding. | ['Religion', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Christianity'] | 4.43 | 272,793 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1923820.The_Holy_Bible |
33 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) | J.K. Rowling | It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful - there are unexpected dang... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook'] | 4.56 | 3,397,378 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6.Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire |
34 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) | Douglas Adams | Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic pair be... | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy'] | 4.23 | 1,739,532 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386162.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy |
35 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendar... | ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Literature', 'Theatre'] | 4.02 | 890,747 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420.Hamlet |
36 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) | J.K. Rowling | It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the Headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord V... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook'] | 4.58 | 3,048,651 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince |
37 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom. | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'School'] | 3.83 | 1,237,071 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn |
38 | Tolkien On Fairy-stories | J.R.R. Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien's
On Fairy-stories
is his most-studied and most-quoted essay, an exemplary personal statement of his own views on the role of imagination in literature, and an intellectual tour de force vital for understanding Tolkien's achievement in writing
The Lord of the Rings
.Contained within is an introduction... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Literary Criticism', 'Writing'] | 4.32 | 3,744 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362112.Tolkien_On_Fairy_stories |
39 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, an... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'France', 'Historical', 'Novels'] | 4.2 | 769,757 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables |
40 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusia... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help'] | 3.9 | 2,792,673 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144590-the-alchemist |
41 | Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited | Aldous Huxley | The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. Th... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Fantasy'] | 4.16 | 159,408 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5479.Brave_New_World_Brave_New_World_Revisited |
42 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse wi... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Russian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels'] | 4.26 | 820,645 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment |
43 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary'] | 4.47 | 2,600,987 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help |
44 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy'] | 4.15 | 1,097,941 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2998.The_Secret_Garden |
45 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidd... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Japan', 'Adult'] | 4.14 | 1,929,777 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929.Memoirs_of_a_Geisha |
46 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) | C.S. Lewis | Narnia… the land beyond the wardrobe door, a secret place frozen in eternal winter, a magical country waiting to be set free.Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia.... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure'] | 4.23 | 2,620,424 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100915.The_Lion_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe |
47 | The Odyssey | Homer | Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's jou... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Literature'] | 3.8 | 1,017,517 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1381.The_Odyssey |
48 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction'] | 4.07 | 779,092 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5326.A_Christmas_Carol |
49 | The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, #1) | Dr. Seuss | Have a ball with Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat in this classic picture book...but don't forget to clean up your mess! Then he said That is that.And then he was goneWith a tip of his hat.A dreary day turns into a wild romp when this beloved story introduces readers to the Cat in the Hat and his troublemaking friends,... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Humor'] | 4.18 | 515,170 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233093.The_Cat_in_the_Hat |
50 | The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") ... | ['Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age'] | 4.12 | 1,220,608 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231804.The_Outsiders |
51 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction'] | 4.11 | 911,512 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude |
52 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—d... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'School', 'American'] | 4 | 864,334 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114322-the-grapes-of-wrath |
53 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolati... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'War', 'Classics'] | 4.42 | 1,428,213 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128029.A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns |
54 | Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) | L.M. Montgomery | This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and his stern s... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook'] | 4.3 | 918,700 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8127.Anne_of_Green_Gables |
55 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. You'll meet a boy who turns into a ... | ['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Picture Books'] | 4.32 | 1,336,522 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30119.Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends |
56 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men resp... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'France', 'Historical'] | 4.29 | 867,955 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7126.The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo |
57 | Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is... | ['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'War'] | 4.31 | 1,309,236 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375802.Ender_s_Game |
58 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king. | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult'] | 4.24 | 963,323 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19543.Where_the_Wild_Things_Are |
59 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Feminism', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'African American'] | 4.26 | 633,920 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52892857-the-color-purple |
60 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty og... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'School'] | 3.86 | 911,758 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1953.A_Tale_of_Two_Cities |
61 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Missis... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'Childrens'] | 3.92 | 892,115 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24583.The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer |
62 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tige... | ['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels'] | 3.93 | 1,552,035 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4214.Life_of_Pi |
63 | The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) | Margaret Atwood | Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Fantasy', 'Adult'] | 4.13 | 1,891,991 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale |
64 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMu... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Mental Health', 'School'] | 4.2 | 705,198 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest |
65 | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster. This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy', 'School'] | 3.85 | 1,470,152 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35031085-frankenstein |
66 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses ... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'School'] | 4.19 | 614,176 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon |
67 | Oh, the Places You'll Go! | Dr. Seuss | For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss!In his inimitable, humorous verse and pictures, he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it presents) while encouraging us to find the success that lies... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult'] | 4.36 | 387,581 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191139.Oh_the_Places_You_ll_Go_ |
68 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Russia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature'] | 4.08 | 799,913 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina |
69 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help'] | 4.16 | 954,913 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie |
70 | Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh #1) | A.A. Milne | The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday. | ['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook'] | 4.35 | 313,861 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99107.Winnie_the_Pooh |
71 | The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) | J.R.R. Tolkien | One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy'] | 4.38 | 2,686,920 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61215351-the-fellowship-of-the-ring |
72 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for me... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 4.09 | 1,302,806 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five |
73 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 19... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'School', 'Adventure'] | 3.8 | 1,060,714 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2165.The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea |
74 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.Set in Italy during World War II, this ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 3.99 | 804,276 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22 |
75 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Literature', 'High School', 'Historical'] | 3.43 | 825,467 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296.The_Scarlet_Letter |
76 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody e... | ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School', 'Literature'] | 3.9 | 839,821 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8852.Macbeth |
77 | Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | About three things I was absolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love sto... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance'] | 3.64 | 6,158,643 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41865.Twilight |
78 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Russia', 'Romance', 'Russian Literature'] | 3.88 | 794,964 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7604.Lolita |
79 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Short Stories', 'School'] | 3.85 | 918,431 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis |
80 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly... | ['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult'] | 3.99 | 1,736,216 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619684-the-time-traveler-s-wife |
81 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individu... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Buddhism'] | 4.06 | 720,467 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha |
82 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'French Literature'] | 4.01 | 960,905 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger |
83 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one -- the little bunny s... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Kids', 'Animals'] | 4.3 | 358,773 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32929.Goodnight_Moon |
84 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) | J.K. Rowling | Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts,... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook'] | 4.43 | 3,597,747 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15881.Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets |
85 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie No... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical', 'New York'] | 4.29 | 442,856 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891.A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn |
86 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'War'] | 4.15 | 310,975 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace |
87 | The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into li... | ['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade'] | 4.35 | 150,166 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114345.The_Little_House_Collection |
88 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Horror', 'Novels'] | 4 | 681,585 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange |
89 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | One by one the boys begin to fall…In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disil... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'School'] | 4.05 | 427,431 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355697.All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front |
90 | The Stand | Stephen King | First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.For hu... | ['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia'] | 4.34 | 722,312 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149267.The_Stand |
91 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giant... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels'] | 3.89 | 254,292 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote |
92 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a compelling adventure story with richly drawn characters and has earned a place in both literary and American history. Stowe's religious beliefs show up in the novel... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'American', 'Novels'] | 3.9 | 219,238 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46787.Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin |
93 | القرآن الكريم | Anonymous | The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kur'an, and Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be the verbatim word of God (Arabic: الله, Allah). Th... | ['Religion', 'Islam', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Reference', 'Spirituality'] | 4.38 | 65,695 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646462._ |
94 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and ... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels'] | 3.69 | 380,464 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged |
95 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young n... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Russian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels'] | 4.36 | 304,800 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov |
96 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is ca... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature'] | 4.09 | 716,880 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7244.The_Poisonwood_Bible |
97 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) | Maya Angelou | Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of l... | ['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Poetry', 'Feminism'] | 4.28 | 501,912 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings |
98 | The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ | Joseph Smith Jr. | This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as... | ['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Lds', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Classics', 'History'] | 4.26 | 83,595 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323355.The_Book_of_Mormon |
99 | Moby-Dick or, the Whale | Herman Melville | "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman p... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American'] | 3.53 | 535,225 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_the_Whale |
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