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100 | The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) | Dan Brown | ISBN 9780307277671 moved to this edition.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort throu... | ['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Adventure'] | 3.9 | 2,249,143 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code |
101 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Novels', '19th Century'] | 3.79 | 763,307 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623.Great_Expectations |
102 | The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) | Pearl S. Buck | This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own d... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Asia'] | 4 | 242,732 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1078.The_Good_Earth |
103 | The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom | Corrie ten Boom | At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch ho... | ['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Christian', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Holocaust'] | 4.45 | 305,679 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561909.The_Hiding_Place |
104 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship ... | ['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Gothic', 'Paranormal'] | 4.01 | 1,175,140 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula |
105 | A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) | Madeleine L'Engle | It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle ... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade'] | 3.99 | 1,153,335 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574273-a-wrinkle-in-time |
106 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.Insigh... | ['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age'] | 4.15 | 4,762,958 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11870085-the-fault-in-our-stars |
107 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | “The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything i... | ['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Humor'] | 4.33 | 872,324 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39988.Matilda |
108 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | standing on the fringes of life...offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to seewhat it looks like from the dance floor.This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWERThis is the story... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'LGBT'] | 4.22 | 1,658,912 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22628.The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower |
109 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, slee... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'School'] | 3.99 | 1,742,665 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World |
110 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister E... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook'] | 4.08 | 1,130,053 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility |
111 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman | What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that t... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure'] | 4.26 | 870,253 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21787.The_Princess_Bride |
112 | The Iliad | Homer | Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes i... | ['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction'] | 3.9 | 424,647 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1371.The_Iliad |
113 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamil... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction'] | 4.4 | 504,205 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.East_of_Eden |
114 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs...A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee County. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains—and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadne... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals'] | 4.1 | 388,554 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10365.Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows |
115 | The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings | Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including:-The Tell-Tale Heart-The Black Cat-The Cask of Amontillado-The Fall of the House of Usher-The Masque of the Red Death-The Facts in the Case o... | ['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Mystery', 'Literature'] | 4.19 | 236,686 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391729.The_Tell_Tale_Heart_and_Other_Writings |
116 | Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning i... | ['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Biography'] | 4.37 | 626,671 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning |
117 | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | "Unless someone like you... cares a whole awful lot... nothing is going to get better... It's not."Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty.His classic cautionary tale... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Environment'] | 4.34 | 329,447 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7784.The_Lorax |
118 | Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | Suzanne Collins | Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, G... | ['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure'] | 4.31 | 3,235,667 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148028-catching-fire |
119 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate th... | ['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder'] | 3.89 | 1,412,133 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618.The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night_Time |
120 | The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States | Founding Fathers | The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent ... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Reference', 'American History'] | 4.44 | 24,583 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285500.The_Declaration_of_Independence_The_Constitution_of_the_United_States |
121 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) | George R.R. Martin | alternate cover editions can be found here, here and hereLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure'] | 4.44 | 2,355,688 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones |
122 | Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) | Richard Adams | Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Adventure'] | 4.08 | 467,564 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down |
123 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'Mental Illness'] | 4.04 | 829,763 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514.The_Bell_Jar |
124 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) | Roald Dahl | Charlie Bucket's wonderful adventure begins when he finds one of Mr. Willy Wonka's precious Golden Tickets and wins a whole day inside the mysterious chocolate factory. Little does he know the surprises that are in store for him!(back cover) | ['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor'] | 4.15 | 803,616 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6310.Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory |
125 | The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer s... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Autobiography'] | 4.26 | 334,149 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture |
126 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter's shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her vital shadow?... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller'] | 4.24 | 583,293 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899948-rebecca |
127 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams Bianco | Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys—and people—become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with th... | ['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Young Adult'] | 4.29 | 250,487 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144974.The_Velveteen_Rabbit |
128 | Dune (Dune, #1) | Frank Herbert | Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth ki... | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Space Opera'] | 4.26 | 1,203,832 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune |
129 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that wil... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery'] | 4.28 | 1,212,224 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16299.And_Then_There_Were_None |
130 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely bea... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Politics', 'Architecture'] | 3.88 | 316,094 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2122.The_Fountainhead |
131 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading ... | ['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Crime', 'Thriller'] | 3.84 | 2,267,963 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12232938-the-lovely-bones |
132 | Alice in Wonderland | Jane Carruth |
This is an adaptation. For the editions of the original book, see here
.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Literature'] | 4.03 | 385,939 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13023.Alice_in_Wonderland |
133 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the froze... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature'] | 3.9 | 405,791 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1852.The_Call_of_the_Wild |
134 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson | Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodi... | ['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary'] | 4.16 | 3,029,842 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo |
135 | The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins. | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy'] | 4.56 | 830,217 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838729.The_Return_of_the_King |
136 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing ... | ['Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Adult'] | 3.98 | 680,398 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431.The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven |
137 | Animal Farm / 1984 | George Orwell | This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brot... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Politics', 'Fantasy'] | 4.3 | 189,591 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5472.Animal_Farm_1984 |
138 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind | An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one subl... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime'] | 4.03 | 426,648 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343.Perfume |
139 | Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) | Frank McCourt | Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic."When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the or... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Ireland', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir'] | 4.14 | 608,545 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252577.Angela_s_Ashes |
140 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) | L. Frank Baum | Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again. Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets ... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade'] | 3.99 | 432,338 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236093.The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz |
141 | The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) | J.R.R. Tolkien | Begin your journey into Middle-earth.The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in t... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy'] | 4.47 | 890,506 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61215372-the-two-towers |
142 | Love You Forever | Robert Munsch | An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent feels for their child—forever."A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."So begins th... | ['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Love', 'Kids'] | 4.37 | 229,611 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310259.Love_You_Forever |
143 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fas... | ['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction'] | 4.04 | 520,790 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940121-bridge-to-terabithia |
144 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction'] | 4.24 | 311,240 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany |
145 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coas... | ['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Literature'] | 3.98 | 841,460 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road |
146 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century ser... | ['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Fantasy'] | 4.07 | 142,836 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy |
147 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to... | ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Drama', 'School', 'Romance'] | 3.95 | 514,842 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1622.A_Midsummer_Night_s_Dream |
148 | A Story of Yesterday | Sergio Cobo | A Story of Yesterday is a concise and straight punch to the jaw of life.Under a sky of different colors germinates a magical story of survival, where the result of each choice, enclosed in this particular tale, will snatch the whereabouts of each story forever. | ['Spanish Literature', 'Thriller', 'European Literature', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Fiction', 'Drama'] | 4.6 | 11,383 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58913358-a-story-of-yesterday |
149 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, an... | ['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Literature'] | 4.23 | 282,324 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet |
150 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bou... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook'] | 4.15 | 653,638 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2156.Persuasion |
151 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the em... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Italian Literature'] | 4.13 | 348,052 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119073.The_Name_of_the_Rose |
152 | The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1) | Alexandre Dumas | Alexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time— in a handsome hardcover volume.This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and crimina... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Literature', 'Historical'] | 4.09 | 311,038 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7190.The_Three_Musketeers |
153 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jaco... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary'] | 4.1 | 1,557,093 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43641.Water_for_Elephants |
154 | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) | Philip Pullman | Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible end... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Science Fiction'] | 4.01 | 1,465,955 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass |
155 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one. | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Holocaust', 'War'] | 4.15 | 748,052 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39999.The_Boy_in_the_Striped_Pajamas |
156 | The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) | Ken Follett | Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrig... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Medieval', 'Audiobook'] | 4.33 | 731,140 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth |
157 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | Dr. Seuss | "The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason."Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time.For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain,... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Christmas', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy'] | 4.37 | 393,244 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113946.How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas_ |
158 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.J... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help'] | 3.85 | 240,015 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull |
159 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle M... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels', 'Classic Literature'] | 3.88 | 370,322 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18254.Oliver_Twist |
160 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction'] | 4.08 | 1,248,114 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37435.The_Secret_Life_of_Bees |
161 | The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) | Nicholas Sparks | Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast begins the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no othe... | ['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Classics'] | 4.14 | 1,596,089 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33648131-the-notebook |
162 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferocious... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Fantasy', 'Russian Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature'] | 4.29 | 319,292 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita |
163 | Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution i... | ['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure'] | 4.07 | 2,945,668 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7260188-mockingjay |
164 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | A study in scarlet --The sign of four --Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the ... | ['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Short Stories', 'Detective', 'Literature'] | 4.5 | 193,917 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188572.The_Complete_Sherlock_Holmes |
165 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation th... | ['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'History', 'Thriller'] | 4.08 | 622,645 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168642.In_Cold_Blood |
166 | The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts | Arthur Miller | "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a sear... | ['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School'] | 3.6 | 386,469 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17250.The_Crucible |
167 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. A... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Novels'] | 3.43 | 486,361 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4900.Heart_of_Darkness |
168 | The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Books About Books', 'Historical', 'Spain'] | 4.29 | 589,768 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind |
169 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. I... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'Book Club', 'Feminism', 'Adult'] | 4.19 | 578,413 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4989.The_Red_Tent |
170 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husban... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 3.93 | 480,268 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera |
171 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and h... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Book Club', 'Adult'] | 4.3 | 1,119,680 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7445.The_Glass_Castle |
172 | The Gift of the Magi | O. Henry | O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure.In a shabby New York flat, Della sobs as she counts the few coins she has saved to buy a Christmas present for her husband, Jim. One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money she has in the world. A gift worthy of her d... | ['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Romance', 'Holiday', 'Literature'] | 4.1 | 92,114 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143534.The_Gift_of_the_Magi |
173 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflection... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Czech Literature', 'Romance'] | 4.11 | 428,049 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9717.The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being |
174 | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman w... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Spirituality'] | 3.61 | 1,679,022 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love |
175 | Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) | Anne Rice | This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Or... | ['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Classics', 'Gothic'] | 4.01 | 558,083 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43763.Interview_with_the_Vampire |
176 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'School', 'Medieval', 'Short Stories'] | 3.52 | 213,591 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2696.The_Canterbury_Tales |
177 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" & "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience. Kerouac's... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Travel', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Adventure'] | 3.62 | 392,511 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road |
178 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. The Art o... | ['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'War', 'Politics', 'Business'] | 3.97 | 444,197 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War |
179 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop | The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Mythology'] | 4.05 | 123,172 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21348.Aesop_s_Fables |
180 | The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. ... | ['Fiction', 'Christian', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Fantasy', 'Theology'] | 4.25 | 412,586 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8130077-the-screwtape-letters |
181 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men figh... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Adult'] | 4.19 | 562,202 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236124-fight-club |
182 | J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf ... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy'] | 4.61 | 127,381 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30.J_R_R_Tolkien_4_Book_Boxed_Set |
183 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes... | ['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy'] | 3.83 | 524,523 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51496.Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde |
184 | Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. | Jonathan Swift | A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature;... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Novels', '18th Century'] | 3.58 | 263,452 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7733.Gulliver_s_Travels |
185 | The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) | Mario Puzo | The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon.Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and hon... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Novels'] | 4.38 | 397,516 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22034.The_Godfather |
186 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', '18th Century'] | 3.68 | 291,140 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2932.Robinson_Crusoe |
187 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer John Updike-cele... | ['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Literature', 'Biography'] | 3.78 | 181,278 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16902.Walden |
188 | The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task. Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and insp... | ['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Philosophy', 'History'] | 4 | 110,730 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22463.The_Origin_of_Species |
189 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Race', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Novels'] | 3.91 | 179,610 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16981.Invisible_Man |
190 | Emma | Jane Austen | An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect. | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook'] | 4.04 | 823,278 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma |
191 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people. 2. If a Prince is... | ['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Literature', 'Political Science'] | 3.83 | 315,451 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862.The_Prince |
192 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her fa... | ['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Literature'] | 3.96 | 246,309 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World |
193 | The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm | Originally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and aimed to collec... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Literature'] | 4.28 | 153,282 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22917.The_Complete_Grimm_s_Fairy_Tales |
194 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Dystopia'] | 3.96 | 294,038 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17690.The_Trial |
195 | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | “I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imaginati... | ['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Literature'] | 3.9 | 492,030 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2493.The_Time_Machine |
196 | Watchmen (Watchmen, #1-12) | Alan Moore | This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller... | ['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book'] | 4.37 | 537,909 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen |
197 | Roots: The Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley | When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Ka... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Africa', 'Race'] | 4.44 | 157,178 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546018.Roots |
198 | Candide | Voltaire | Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimis... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'French Literature'] | 3.76 | 263,371 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide |
199 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories ... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'School'] | 3.93 | 405,076 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved |
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