Book Reviews Classics

Classics

Chinua Achebe
	B	Things Fall Apart
Richard Adams
	A	Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott
	A	Little Women
	B	The Quiet Little Woman
Sherwood Anderson
	B	Winesburg, Ohio
Isaac Asimov
	A+	Foundation
Jane Austen
	C	Northanger Abbey
	B	Persuasion
	A	Pride and Prejudice
	A	Sense and Sensibility
J.M. Barrie
	A	Peter Pan
L. Frank Baum
	A+	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Edward Bellamy
	B	Looking Backward
Ray Bradbury
	A+	Farenheit 451
	A+	The Martian Chronicles
Pearl S. Buck
	A	The Good Earth
Lewis Carroll
	A+	Alice in Wonderland
	A	Through the Looking Glass
Willa Cather
	C	The Troll Garden
Raymond Chandler
	B	The Big Sleep
	B	Farewell My Lovely
Kate Chopin
	B	The Awakening
Agatha Christie
	A+	And Then There Were None
	A	The Murder At the Vicarage
	A+	Murder on the Orient Express
Wilkie Collins
	A	The Woman in White
James Fenimore Cooper
	B	The Deerslayer
	B	The Last of the Mohicans
Robertson Davies
	B	Tempest-Tost
Daniel Defoe
	C	Moll Flanders
Charles Dickens
	A	Barnaby Rudge
	A+	A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales
	A+	Oliver Twist
	A	A Tale of Two Cities
E.L. Doctorow
	A	Ragtime
Fyodor Dostoevsky
	F	Crime and Punishment
	C	The House of the Dead
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	A+	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Alexandre Dumas
	A+	Three Muskateers
Alexandre Dumas fils
	B	Camille
George Eliot
	D	Middlemarch
	C	The Mill on the Floss
	A	Silas Marner
Edna Ferber
	C	Giant
F. Scott Fitzgerald
	A	The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert
	B	Madame Bovary
E.M. Forster
	B	A Room With a View
Anne Frank
	A+	Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Benedict and Nancy Freedman
	B	Mrs. Mike
Elizabeth Gaskell
	A	Cranford
Thomas Hardy
	A	Far from the Madding Crowd
	A	Jude the Obscure
	A+	Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne
	C	House of the Seven Gables
	A	The Scarlet Letter
Robert A. Heinlein
	A	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
	C	Orphans of the Sky
	A+	The Puppet Masters
Aldous Huxley
	A	Brave New World
	B	Crome Yellow
Henry James
	A	Daisy Miller
	B	The Turn of the Screw
	B	The Portrait of a Lady


Franz Kafka
	B	The Castle
Jack Kerouac
	C	On the Road
John Knowles
	C	A Separate Peace
Harper Lee
	A+	To Kill a Mockingbird
C.S. Lewis
	A+	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
	A	The Screwtape Letters
Jack London
	B	The Call of the Wild
Heinrich Mann
	B	The Blue Angel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	B	Love in the Time of Cholera
Carson McCullers
	B	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
James Michener
	A	Hawaii
Margaret Mitchell
	A+	Gone With the Wind
Lucy Maud Montgomery
	C	Anne of Avonlea
	A+	Anne of Green Gables
Novalis
	C	Henry von Ofterdingen
Baroness Orczy
	A	The Scarlet Pimpernel
George Orwell
	A+	1984
Boris Pasternak
	C	Doctor Zhivago
Sylvia Plath
	A	The Bell Jar
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Ayn Rand
	B	Anthem
	A+	Atlas Shrugged
	A	The Fountainhead
Henry Roth
	C	Call It Sleep
Sir Walter Scott
	B	Ivanhoe
	B	Rob Roy
William Shakespeare
	A+	King Lear
Mary Shelly
	A	Frankenstein
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
	B	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Johanna Spyri
	B	Heidi
John Steinbeck
	A+	East of Eden
	A+	Of Mice and Men
	C	Tortilla Flat
Robert Louis Stevenson
	C	Kidnapped!
	B	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker
	B	Dracula
Jonathan Swift
	B	Gulliver's Travels
Josephine Tey
	C	Brat Farrar
	A	The Daughter of Time
J.R.R. Tolkien
	A+	The Hobbit
	A+	The Fellowship of the Ring
	B	The Two Towers
	A	The Return of the King
Anthony Trollope
	A+	Barchester Towers
	A+	The Warden
Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)
	A+	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	A+	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
John Updike
	C	Rabbit, Run
Jules Verne
	B	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voltaire
	B	Candide
Kurt Vonnegut
	B	Slaughterhouse Five
Alice Walker
	B	The Color Purple
H.G. Wells
	A	The Invisible Man
	A	The Island of Dr. Moreau
	D	The World Set Free
Edith Wharton
	B	The Age of Innocence
E.B. White
	C	Stuart Little
P.G. Wodehouse
	A	My Man Jeeves
Virginia Wolfe
	C	The Years
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