Wellread40

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 5,278 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

A Bend in the River

A Bend in the River
ByV.S. Naipaul

1979 • 41 Readers • 326 pages 4

A Defense of Poesie

A Defense of Poesie
ByPhilip Sidney

1595 • 1 Reader • 112 pages

All the King's Men

All the King's Men
ByRobert Penn Warren

1946 • 137 Readers • 669 pages 4.1

American Pastoral

American Pastoral
ByPhilip Roth

1997 • 190 Readers • 434 pages 3.8

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1595 • 568 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

An Enemy of the People

1882 • 11 Readers • 99 pages 3.2

Angels in America

Angels in America
ByTony Kushner

1992 • 86 Readers • 18 pages 4.4

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
ByLeo Tolstoy

1877 • 11 Readers • 828 pages 3.9

Antigone

Antigone
BySophocles,Don Taylor(Translator)

-441 • 210 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

198 • 412 Readers • 490 pages 3.6

Aristophanes I: Clouds/Wasps/Birds

Aristophanes I: Clouds/Wasps/Birds
ByAristophanes,Peter Meineck(Translator)

-414 • 1 Reader • 486 pages 3

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own
ByVirginia Woolf

1929 • 80 Readers 4.5

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire
ByTennessee Williams

1947 • 280 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

As You Like It

As You Like It
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1599 • 120 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Atonement

Atonement
ByIan McEwan

2001 • 584 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1792 • 91 Readers • 363 pages 3.9

Awakening Osiris

Awakening Osiris
ByNormandi Ellis

1988 • 1 Reader • 232 pages

Beowulf

Beowulf
BySeamus Heaney(Translator),Unknown

1999 • 394 Readers • 213 pages 3.4

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

1885 • 381 Readers • 131 pages 3.5

Blindness

Blindness
ByJosé Saramago

1995 • 1 Reader • 488 pages 4

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited
ByEvelyn Waugh

1930 • 284 Readers • 351 pages 3.9

Candide

Candide
ByVoltaire

1738 • 504 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

Cane

Cane
ByJean Toomer,George Hutchinson

1923 • 24 Readers • 160 pages 3.8

Catch-22

Catch-22
ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,493 Readers • 466 pages 4

Chretien de Troyes: Yvain

1986 • 1 Reader • 101 pages

Civilization and Its Discontents

Civilization and Its Discontents
BySigmund Freud,James Strachey(Translator)

62 Readers 3.9

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

19 • 1,879 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
ByArthur Miller

1940 • 422 Readers • 144 pages 3.6

Dialogues and essays

Dialogues and essays
BySeneca the Younger

2008 • 1 Reader

Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime

Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime
ByWilliam Smith,Dionysius Longinus

1 • 1 Reader

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

1637 • 54 Readers • 136 pages 3.7

Disgrace

Disgrace
ByJ.M. Coetzee

1999 • 152 Readers • 220 pages 3.8

Dracula

Dracula
ByBram Stoker

1897 • 1,974 Readers • 410 pages 3.8

Ennead IV

Ennead IV
ByPlotinus,A. H. Armstrong(Translator)

19 • 9 Readers • 441 pages

Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin
ByAlexander Pushkin

1825 • 151 Readers • 408 pages 4

Fables

Fables
ByJean de La Fontaine,Craig Hill(Translator)

1668 • 13 Readers • 468 pages 4.2

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil
ByJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

1808 • 334 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

Fences

Fences
ByAugust Wilson

1986 • 36 Readers • 101 pages 4.3

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
ByMary Shelley

181 • 2,378 Readers • 353 pages 3.8

Freedom

Freedom
ByJonathan Franzen

2010 • 159 Readers • 562 pages 3.9

Germinal

Germinal
ByÉmile Zola,Stanley Hochman(Translator),+1 more

105 Readers 4

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh
ByAnonymous,Stephen Mitchell

-2100 • 4 Readers 4

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 898 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
ByJonathan Swift

198 • 408 Readers • 462 pages 3.5

Hadji Murád

Hadji Murád
ByLeo Tolstoy

1912 • 25 Readers • 153 pages 3.8

Hamlet

Hamlet
ByWilliam Shakespeare,Millôr Fernandes(Translator)

1600 • 1,126 Readers • 508 pages 4

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection
ByHans Christian Andersen,L.W. Kingsland(Translator)

19 • 139 Readers • 388 pages 4.1

Hawthorne's Short Stories

Hawthorne's Short Stories
ByNathaniel Hawthorne

2 Readers

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
ByJoseph Conrad

1899 • 912 Readers • 132 pages 3.3

Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1
Byet al. David Bevington

1592 • 50 Readers • 148 pages 3.9

Henry IV, Part 2

Henry IV, Part 2
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1598 • 35 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

Herodotus

Herodotus
ByHerodotus

1981 • 123 Readers • 503 pages 4.2

Howards End

Howards End
ByE.M. Forster

1910 • 81 Readers • 352 pages 3.4

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood
ByTruman Capote

1959 • 811 Readers • 370 pages 4.1

Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities
ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1972 • 334 Readers • 182 pages 4.1

Invisible Man

Invisible Man
ByRalph Ellison

488 Readers 3.8

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,804 Readers • 580 pages 4

John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers

1990 • 28 Readers • 324 pages 3.8

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
ByJohn Stuart Mill,Daniel Kolak,+1 more

101 Readers 3.7

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1599 • 290 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

2006 • 132 Readers • 154 pages 4

King Lear

King Lear
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1605 • 326 Readers • 284 pages 3.8

Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo's Notebooks
ByLeonardo da Vinci

1519 • 23 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Letters from a Stoic

1969 • 8 Readers 3.5

Letters To A Young Poet

Letters To A Young Poet
ByRainer Maria Rilke

1929 • 305 Readers • 97 pages 4.4

Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla

100 • 55 Readers • 467 pages 3.7

Lolita

Lolita
ByVladimir Nabokov,Giulia Arborio Mella(Translator)

1954 • 1,454 Readers • 395 pages 3.9

Lord Byron: The Major Works

2000 • 9 Readers • 1,120 pages 4.8

Macbeth

Macbeth
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 968 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 543 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

Mason & Dixon

Mason & Dixon
ByThomas Pynchon

1997 • 117 Readers • 788 pages 4.3

Medea and Other Plays

Medea and Other Plays
ByEuripides,James Morwood(Translator)

-431 • 94 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

Meditations

Meditations
ByMarcus Aurelius,Martin Hammond(Translator)

-180 • 942 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

Middlemarch

Middlemarch
ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 432 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children
BySalman Rushdie

1981 • 412 Readers • 640 pages 4.1

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick
ByHerman Melville

1851 • 1,002 Readers • 24h 50m 3.6

Nature

Nature
ByLucrèce

-55 • 30 Readers • 595 pages 4

Nature and Selected Essays

Nature and Selected Essays
ByRalph Waldo Emerson

1836 • 22 Readers • 416 pages 4

Nausea

Nausea
ByJean-Paul Sartre,Lloyd Alexander(Translator)

1938 • 292 Readers • 196 pages 3.7

No Exit

No Exit
ByJean-Paul Sartre,Stuart Gilbert(Translator),+1 more

1947 • 172 Readers • 292 pages 3.9

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex
BySophocles,J.E. Thomas(Translator),+1 more

-429 • 218 Readers • 148 pages 3.6

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude
ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,632 Readers • 422 pages 4.1

On the Basis of Morality

On the Basis of Morality
ByArthur Schopenhauer

1840 • 1 Reader • 226 pages

On the Genealogy of Morals

On the Genealogy of Morals
ByFriedrich Nietzsche,Michael A. Scarpitti(Translator)

1887 • 133 Readers • 207 pages 3.8

Othello

Othello
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1603 • 467 Readers • 226 pages 3.8

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
ByJohn Milton

1667 • 484 Readers • 512 pages 3.6

Phèdre

Phèdre
ByJean Racine,Ted Hughes(Translator)

1676 • 30 Readers • 96 pages 3.5

Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
ByPlutarch,John Dryden(Translator)

100 • 14 Readers • 706 pages 4

Poems and Songs

Poems and Songs
ByRobert Burns

1906 • 5 Readers • 92 pages

Poems of Christina Rossetti

Poems of Christina Rossetti
ByChristina Rossetti

1986 • 5 Readers • 120 pages

Poetical Works of Shelley

Poetical Works of Shelley
ByPercy Bysshe Shelley

1839 • 9 Readers • 668 pages 4

Poetics

Poetics
ByAristotle,Anthony Kenny(Translator)

-335 • 90 Readers • 161 pages 3.8

Poetry and Prose

Poetry and Prose
ByWalt Whitman

1982 • 8 Readers • 1,380 pages 4.3

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
ByJane Austen

1811 • 2,549 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
ByGeorge Bernard Shaw

1912 • 164 Readers • 133 pages 3.6