Most influential books under 100 pages

To qualify for this list each book/edition must have fewer than 100 pages, according to Goodreads data. My intention is for us to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them.

If you are adding a book to the list that has multiple editions, please add an edition that has fewer than 100 pages. If you see a book that doesn't meet the requirements of this list please comment and I will remove it. Thanks!

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1	Animal Farm by George Orwell 3.99 avg rating — 3,972,255 ratings score: 34,355, and 348 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.33 avg rating — 2,155,083 ratings score: 22,719, and 232 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 3.84 avg rating — 343,837 ratings score: 13,495, and 138 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 3.66 avg rating — 169,670 ratings score: 12,850, and 131 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 3.87 avg rating — 1,095,242 ratings score: 12,003, and 124 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4.08 avg rating — 848,276 ratings score: 11,470, and 118 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Art of War by Sun Tzu 3.96 avg rating — 501,016 ratings score: 10,561, and 109 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.80 avg rating — 1,173,231 ratings score: 10,156, and 106 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.89 avg rating — 2,588,943 ratings score: 10,044, and 104 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 4.07 avg rating — 785,494 ratings score: 9,178, and 96 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.83 avg rating — 592,484 ratings score: 6,878, and 73 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Candide by Voltaire 3.76 avg rating — 280,401 ratings score: 6,722, and 71 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Call of the Wild by Jack London 3.90 avg rating — 436,810 ratings score: 6,691, and 71 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 4.30 avg rating — 160,584 ratings score: 6,366, and 67 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 519,175 ratings score: 6,153, and 65 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 3.89 avg rating — 526,335 ratings score: 6,144, and 66 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.18 avg rating — 169,393 ratings score: 6,070, and 64 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4.09 avg rating — 211,086 ratings score: 5,410, and 57 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 4.13 avg rating — 170,789 ratings score: 4,917, and 52 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Common Sense by Thomas Paine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36,734 ratings score: 4,530, and 48 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles 3.72 avg rating — 219,580 ratings score: 4,427, and 47 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.84 avg rating — 204,873 ratings score: 4,277, and 46 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) by Founding Fathers 4.51 avg rating — 26,953 ratings score: 4,238, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Pearl by John Steinbeck 3.54 avg rating — 242,437 ratings score: 3,645, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 3.76 avg rating — 148,009 ratings score: 3,430, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato 4.12 avg rating — 41,929 ratings score: 3,353, and 36 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Utopia by Thomas More 3.55 avg rating — 76,099 ratings score: 3,319, and 36 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 4.11 avg rating — 125,247 ratings score: 3,176, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare 4.25 avg rating — 105,928 ratings score: 3,126, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 3.94 avg rating — 17,371 ratings score: 3,058, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther 3.88 avg rating — 2,293 ratings score: 3,015, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 4.30 avg rating — 45,301 ratings score: 2,977, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 3.82 avg rating — 38,132 ratings score: 2,971, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous 3.74 avg rating — 106,467 ratings score: 2,860, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss 4.31 avg rating — 787,417 ratings score: 2,851, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Discourse on Method by René Descartes 3.72 avg rating — 22,767 ratings score: 2,704, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Fall by Albert Camus 4.04 avg rating — 110,529 ratings score: 2,702, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 3.44 avg rating — 128,846 ratings score: 2,515, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.69 avg rating — 134,593 ratings score: 2,497, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville 3.93 avg rating — 66,352 ratings score: 2,488, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Dead by James Joyce 3.99 avg rating — 21,679 ratings score: 2,355, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol 4.15 avg rating — 43,865 ratings score: 2,263, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 4.28 avg rating — 261,353 ratings score: 2,129, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3.39 avg rating — 159,008 ratings score: 2,119, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.40 avg rating — 298,236 ratings score: 2,034, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot 4.22 avg rating — 69,726 ratings score: 2,010, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 4.27 avg rating — 133,857 ratings score: 2,008, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 3.70 avg rating — 58,109 ratings score: 1,989, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 4.21 avg rating — 214,862 ratings score: 1,953, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Poetics by Aristotle 3.83 avg rating — 26,165 ratings score: 1,899, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Anthem by Ayn Rand 3.61 avg rating — 157,596 ratings score: 1,848, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 3.68 avg rating — 23,444 ratings score: 1,842, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost 4.27 avg rating — 39,287 ratings score: 1,780, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America by Founding Fathers (editor) 4.44 avg rating — 25,977 ratings score: 1,766, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	On Dreams by Sigmund Freud 3.55 avg rating — 2,109 ratings score: 1,744, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 392,405 ratings score: 1,741, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 3.89 avg rating — 20,414 ratings score: 1,659, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45,375 ratings score: 1,612, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	In Praise of Folly by Erasmus 3.84 avg rating — 18,347 ratings score: 1,554, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 4.17 avg rating — 21,648 ratings score: 1,517, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.37 avg rating — 43,321 ratings score: 1,412, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot 4.37 avg rating — 18,424 ratings score: 1,347, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling 3.69 avg rating — 12,739 ratings score: 1,312, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll 4.15 avg rating — 5,681 ratings score: 1,282, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft 3.96 avg rating — 63,234 ratings score: 1,267, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 4.24 avg rating — 102,437 ratings score: 1,144, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 3.94 avg rating — 55,454 ratings score: 1,139, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,258 ratings score: 1,096, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 3.92 avg rating — 13,482 ratings score: 1,021, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 4.16 avg rating — 85,316 ratings score: 973, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura 3.85 avg rating — 15,275 ratings score: 960, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas 3.75 avg rating — 9,927 ratings score: 892, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Daisy Miller by Henry James 3.37 avg rating — 34,940 ratings score: 882, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 3.17 avg rating — 18,186 ratings score: 876, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Law by Frédéric Bastiat 4.35 avg rating — 13,048 ratings score: 869, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 3.80 avg rating — 41,071 ratings score: 853, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters by Christina Rossetti 4.08 avg rating — 14,989 ratings score: 829, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Theory of People: Master Behaviors, Business, Economics, Emotions and Mind in One Simple Way (Understanding the World Book 1) by Jakub Lasak (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 211 ratings score: 796, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Walking by Henry David Thoreau 3.76 avg rating — 9,667 ratings score: 795, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The Handbook by Epictetus 4.24 avg rating — 27,294 ratings score: 771, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll 4.03 avg rating — 6,511 ratings score: 750, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.79 avg rating — 17,084 ratings score: 742, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Horla by Guy de Maupassant 3.86 avg rating — 9,231 ratings score: 645, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 4.03 avg rating — 24,650 ratings score: 644, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4.12 avg rating — 12,457 ratings score: 643, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco 4.30 avg rating — 260,669 ratings score: 633, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Wit by Margaret Edson 4.14 avg rating — 16,685 ratings score: 627, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Racconti Sghimbesci by Roberta Angeloni (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 600, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Willows by Algernon Blackwood 4.07 avg rating — 13,715 ratings score: 585, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler 3.76 avg rating — 17,377 ratings score: 566, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace 4.48 avg rating — 33,757 ratings score: 559, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 4.02 avg rating — 25,210 ratings score: 554, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad 3.62 avg rating — 5,477 ratings score: 550, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami 3.55 avg rating — 62,721 ratings score: 549, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Aspern Papers by Henry James 3.71 avg rating — 6,141 ratings score: 505, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.05 avg rating — 170,998 ratings score: 502, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller 3.98 avg rating — 1,079 ratings score: 474, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton 3.45 avg rating — 1,131 ratings score: 470, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 4.11 avg rating — 17,672 ratings score: 445, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.69 avg rating — 152 ratings score: 430, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Thom (new)

Jan 02, 2013 01:02PM

The Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet is exactly 100 pages long.

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message 2: by Reese (new)

Jan 02, 2013 02:13PM

Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition of RIP VAN WINKLE because the first one included on the list is longer than 100 pages.

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message 3: by Lisa (new)

Jan 02, 2013 02:54PM

I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them. I've interpreted influence to mean influencing political ideas e.g. the Communist Manifesto or Animal Farm, or influencing the development of artistic ideas e.g. TS Eliot influenced poetry and Gogol influenced absurdism in literature.

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message 4: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jan 02, 2013 03:10PM

Reese wrote: "Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition of RIP VAN WIN..."

This is bothering me as well. I suspect by and large what matters for purposes of this list is the length of the treatise/story/text or, for that matter, play as such, minus introduction and commentary. (As in, it's the text itself and not its modern-day appendage which is so tremendously influential.) I do think we should try to include editions that have less than 100 pages, though; at least initially, even if they may later on get merged into some more lavishly garnished and, hence, longer once duplicates start to be added down the road.

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message 5: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jan 02, 2013 03:11PM

Lisa wrote: "I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them."

Yes, that's my assumption, too.

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message 6: by Sean (new)

Jan 02, 2013 04:32PM

Lisa wrote: "I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them." That's right.

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message 7: by Sean (last edited Jan 02, 2013 04:45PM) (new)

Jan 02, 2013 04:43PM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Reese wrote: "Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition ..."

My intention is for the list to have only editions which are under 100 pages according to Goodreads data. I expect in most cases that this will be the 'bare-bones' edition which contains the original text and little else.

Thanks.

Also, does anyone know how I can remove The Republic? (over 400 pages)

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message 8: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jan 02, 2013 05:00PM

nauru wrote: "My intention is for the list to have only editions which are under 100 pages according to Goodreads data. I expect in most cases that this will be the 'bare-bones' edition which contains the original text and little else.

Thanks.

Also, does anyone know how I can remove The Republic? (over 400 pages)"

Only Goodreads librarians can remove books. Let us know which books you want deleted, and there are typically several librarians who will be happy to help out.

Thanks for the clarification on page numbers; will bear that in mind. Minor caveat, though, that if duplicate editions of the same book are inadvertently added and subsequently combined (to remove the erroneous duplicate), the GR system will automatically merge all editions into the most popular one (regardless whether that one had already been added to the list), which in this particular instance will, in many cases, probably be an edition that has more than 100 pages, due to the addition of introductions, commentary etc.

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message 9: by Thom (new)

Jan 02, 2013 06:03PM

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message 10: by Reese (new)

Jan 02, 2013 08:14PM

T,

I might be able to find my copy if we move out of our house. It could be in the attic with "critters" or in one of the stacked boxes of books in the garage.

My comment in message 2 was based on the page info for the editions on GR's list. Dover can usually be counted on to produce the most compact edition of a work; according to this site, Dover's edition is 128 pages. Intercollegiate Studies Institute apparently published a 120-page edition.

I voted for it, checked to see if it exceeded the page limit, and then wound up removing it from my list because of the length.

BTW, I hope that 2013 is a good year for you and your loved ones.

Reese

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message 11: by Thom (new)

Jan 02, 2013 08:33PM

Reese wrote: "T,

I might be able to find my copy if we move out of our house. It could be in the attic with "critters" or in one of the stacked boxes of books in the garage.

My comment in message 2 was based ..."
Taking off my vote now, BTW, et cum spiritu tuo, 2013

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message 12: by Capsguy (new)

Jan 02, 2013 09:03PM

Pretty cool list. Noticed a few classics that I'd yet to have read listed here

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message 13: by Reese (new)

Jan 02, 2013 10:21PM

Oy, T, now I have to find my Latin dictionary. Kidding, of course.

(Aside) While recently visiting a new friend, I learned that her M.F.A. thesis is an explanation of the processes / techniques that she used to create each of thirteen visual representations of her interpretations of the sections of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." One of the paintings hangs in her living room, and my attention kept returning to the painting. You, of course, come to mind whenever I read or think about the poem.

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message 14: by Michael (new)

Jan 03, 2013 12:33AM

I've removed The Republic and also Winnie the Pooh as the editions on the list were both over 100 pages.

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message 15: by Sean (new)

Jan 03, 2013 07:37PM

Thanks.

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message 16: by Loveliest Evaris (new)

Apr 07, 2013 02:39PM

The Call of the Wild is less than 100 pages long? Well that's funny because I could BARELY get through the first two chapters .__.

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message 17: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Apr 07, 2013 03:32PM

Talyn wrote: "The Call of the Wild is less than 100 pages long?"

96 pages, in the edition listed.

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message 18: by Sean (new)

Aug 17, 2013 08:51AM

Just deleted a bunch of books from the list. Please read and follow instructions before adding a book. Thanks.

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message 19: by The Equalizer (new)

Sep 21, 2013 03:44AM

This list contains 4 women. Thats disgusting. I was hoping for something good to read from this list, but men dicking all over the 18th and 19th century makes me want to cry.

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message 20: by Bettie (new)

Dec 06, 2013 03:02PM

ooops - I just went through adding what was on the list that I had encountered and noticed that not all of these qualify for the list parametres **gasp**

Many are well over 100 pages.

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message 21: by Sean (new)

Dec 06, 2013 04:18PM

☯Bettie☯ wrote: "ooops - I just went through adding what was on the list that I had encountered and noticed that not all of these qualify for the list parametres **gasp**

Many are well over 100 pages."

Which ones?

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message 22: by Alex190231 (new)

Feb 12, 2014 03:18AM

how you doing bro's
-PEWDIEPIE

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message 23: by Valerie (new)

Mar 27, 2014 08:13AM

This is one of my favorite lists! I'm dedicating a lot of my reading time this year to working through the gaps I have at the top of this list.

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message 24: by Sean (last edited Apr 21, 2014 08:08AM) (new)

Apr 21, 2014 08:06AM

Maddie wrote: ""The Communist Manifesto" is listed as 304 pages."

Indeed it is.

Unfortunately, Goodreads has a habit of changing the edition of books on the list to the most popular edition without consulting the list manager, or even providing an option to revert to the originally selected edition. When this list was started, the most popular edition was the 68 page one, and that one was displayed. But now the 304 page edition is the most popular so that one shows up on the list instead. At the moment there's nothing I can do about it.

If enough people write to Goodreads admin maybe this glitch will eventually be fixed.

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message 25: by Aubrey (new)

Aug 15, 2015 01:31PM

Laura wrote: "This list contains 4 women. Thats disgusting. I was hoping for something good to read from this list, but men dicking all over the 18th and 19th century makes me want to cry."

Hear, hear.

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message 26: by Donna (new)

Jul 18, 2017 08:20PM

Yeah, this list is messed up. Since the last note about women more must have been added, which is great. However, the #1 title, Animal Farm with 190 votes, is 122 pages. Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is also over. 3 classics listed--A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case....Jekyll/Hyde, and Jack London's Call of the Wild--are all well over 100 except when grossly edited down, which is exactly what Dover does. At this rate we might as well toss in a bunch of crib notes and pretend they're the genuine article, right?

At first I thought maybe some culling could save it, but it's so riddled with errors that it would be easier to toss it and start a new list.

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message 27: by Valerie (new)

Jul 19, 2017 01:03PM

See Sean's comment above to Maddie re: editions.

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message 28: by Donna (new)

Jul 19, 2017 03:13PM

Valerie wrote: "See Sean's comment above to Maddie re: editions."
I saw it. I just don't agree. There may be nothing I can do about it, but I think that's wrong.

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message 29: by Astra ☆ (new)

Jul 27, 2018 03:41PM

Why are there books with foreign languages included?

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message 30: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 27, 2018 09:21PM) (new)

Jul 27, 2018 09:11PM

Ishtar wrote: "Why are there books with foreign languages included?"

First of all, GR tends to change a title to the most popular one (so it is no use really voting for a certain edition) and if the book was originally written in a 'foreign' language, it may be the most popular one. Second, why shouldn't there be books in foreign languages, translations from/into English available or not? "Most influential" is in the eye of the beholder, after all; there are a few titles/authors on this list I've never heard of.

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message 31: by Donna (new)

Jul 27, 2018 09:39PM

Booklovinglady wrote: "Ishtar wrote: "Why are there books with foreign languages included?"

First of all, GR tends to change a title to the most popular one (so it is no use really voting for a certain edition) and if t..."

True that. GR is available internationally, and usually if people complain it's about the dominance of the English language. But that was going to happen, since this site was originally the avocation of a Californian (before he sold it to Amazon).

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message 32: by Hilsa (new)

Feb 11, 2020 08:57PM

13 out of 100 on the first page are books written by women. Hmm.

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message 33: by Genevieve (new)

Jul 01, 2020 08:06AM

Love Story by Erich Segal is longer than 100

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message 34: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 01, 2020 10:35PM) (new)

Jul 01, 2020 10:09PM

Genevieve wrote: "Love Story by Erich Segal is longer than 100"

I must say I don't know who added it but there is a Slovak edition (Príbeh našej lásky) which is less than 100 pages (and of course you know that GR changes books to the most popular edition). My own edition of Siddhartha for instance is more than 100 pages but the edition mentioned here (Siddhartha) is substantially less...
My edition of The Prince (De heerser) is also far more than 100 pages, yet the edition mentioned here isn't.

To stick to English books: The edition mentioned here of Of Mice and Men is slightly over 100 pages but there is a Kindle edition (Of Mice and Men) which is far below 100... And so on and so forth :-)

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message 35: by Olly (new)

Jul 28, 2021 01:09PM