The following is a list of books that were rated highly by Readers Forum members whose reading interests closely match yours.
| Book Recommendations for Plato | ||||
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| Book Title | Author | Projected Rating | Number in Group | Average Rating |
| Tar Baby | Toni Morrison | 88 | 20 | 80 |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | 87 | 13 | 82 |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 87 | 237 | 83 |
| The Tao Of Pooh | 87 | 19 | 75 | |
| Pillars Of The Earth | ken follet | 87 | 26 | 83 |
| The Unbearable Lightness Of Being | Milan Kundera | 86 | 10 | 84 |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 86 | 17 | 86 |
| Winter's Tale | Mark Helprin | 86 | 12 | 82 |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 86 | 47 | 76 |
| Turtle Moon | Alice Hoffman | 86 | 20 | 78 |
| One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 86 | 52 | 81 |
| Song Of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 85 | 28 | 77 |
| Enders Game | Orson Scot Card | 85 | 35 | 79 |
| Pigs In Heaven | Babara Kingsolver | 84 | 14 | 76 |
| Snow Falling On Cedars | David Guterson | 84 | 104 | 79 |
| Wishes | Jude Devareux | 84 | 10 | 78 |
| The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood | 84 | 31 | 77 |
| Voyager | Diana Gabaldon | 84 | 21 | 77 |
| Hundred Secret Senses | Amy Tan | 84 | 27 | 82 |
| Name Of The Rose | eco | 84 | 22 | 73 |
| Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow | 84 | 15 | 78 |
| Slaughter House 5 | Kurt Vonnegut | 83 | 17 | 78 |
| Winnie-the-pooh | A. A. Milne | 83 | 19 | 85 |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 83 | 74 | 78 |
| The Fall Of The House Of Usher | Poe | 83 | 14 | 62 |
| Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil | John Berendt | 83 | 12 | 82 |
| The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 83 | 14 | 81 |
| Speaker For The Dead | Orson Scott Card | 83 | 15 | 79 |
| The Hundred Secret Senses | Amy Tan | 83 | 16 | 79 |
| The Once And Future King | T.H. White | 83 | 23 | 81 |
| War And Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 82 | 46 | 74 |
| A River Runs Through It & Other Stories | Norman Maclean | 82 | 19 | 79 |
| Schindler's List | thomas keneally | 82 | 54 | 80 |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 82 | 15 | 77 |
| Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingslover | 82 | 51 | 81 |
| A Wizard Of Earthsea | Ursula Le Guin | 82 | 10 | 73 |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 82 | 29 | 76 |
| Sybil | Schreiber, Flora Rheta | 82 | 27 | 81 |
| The Return Of The King | J.R.R. Tolkien | 82 | 78 | 78 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 82 | 22 | 71 |
| The Kitchen God's Wife | amy tan | 82 | 40 | 76 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | 82 | 90 | 79 | |
| Crossing To Safety | Wallace Stegner | 82 | 14 | 74 |
| Hamlet | william shakespeare | 81 | 108 | 79 |
| The Name Of The Rose | 81 | 62 | 77 | |
| Primal Fear | 81 | 13 | 84 | |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 81 | 41 | 80 |
| I, Robot | 81 | 17 | 71 | |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 81 | 27 | 74 |
| The Wheel Of Time | Robert Jordan | 81 | 14 | 78 |
| Sophie's Choice | 81 | 32 | 80 | |
| English Patient | ondaajte | 81 | 39 | 73 |
| The Bean Trees | Kingsolver | 81 | 29 | 80 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 81 | 28 | 80 |
| Prince Of Tides | Pat Conroy | 80 | 34 | 73 |
| Presumed Innocent | 80 | 41 | 75 | |
| Red Dragon | 80 | 19 | 74 | |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | ernest hemingway | 80 | 77 | 78 |
| The Picture Of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 80 | 70 | 73 |
| The Complete Works Of William Shakespear | 80 | 19 | 81 | |
| Angle Of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 80 | 23 | 79 |
| The Eight | katherine neville | 80 | 16 | 79 |
| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 80 | 25 | 75 |
| Catcher In The Rye | Salinger | 80 | 132 | 79 |
| Dragonfly In Amber | Diana Gabaldon | 80 | 11 | 83 |
| The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | 80 | 88 | 79 |
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 80 | 15 | 72 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 80 | 11 | 59 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 80 | 113 | 77 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 80 | 41 | 78 |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 80 | 67 | 76 |
| Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck | 79 | 143 | 76 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 79 | 72 | 74 |
| Romeo And Juliet | william shakespeare | 79 | 48 | 72 |
| Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 79 | 135 | 76 |
| A Knight In Shing Armour | Jude Devareux | 79 | 13 | 78 |
| Terms Of Endearment | 79 | 19 | 76 | |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 79 | 55 | 75 |
| The Godfather | 79 | 21 | 76 | |
| Flowers For Algernon | 79 | 86 | 76 | |
| A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man | James Joyce | 79 | 11 | 75 |
| Sense And Sensibility | Jane Austen | 79 | 93 | 76 |
| The Oedipus Trilogy | Sophocles | 79 | 15 | 68 |
| Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 79 | 32 | 79 |
| All The Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 79 | 27 | 76 |
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 79 | 11 | 64 |
| The Hobbitt | J.R. Tolkien | 79 | 16 | 75 |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 78 | 26 | 77 |
| Coming Home | Rosamunde Pilcher | 78 | 12 | 73 |
| The Return Of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 78 | 21 | 75 |
| A Confederacy Of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 78 | 42 | 77 |
| Unbearable Lightness Of Being | kundera | 78 | 17 | 78 |
| Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | 78 | 31 | 81 |
| I Robot | Isaac Asimov | 78 | 43 | 76 |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potak | 78 | 14 | 80 |
| The Fellowship Of The Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | 78 | 98 | 75 |
| Crime And Punishment | dostoyevski | 78 | 27 | 80 |
| She's Coming Undone | 78 | 20 | 82 | |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 78 | 23 | 78 |
| Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | 78 | 10 | 78 |
| Lord Of The Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 78 | 125 | 75 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 78 | 196 | 77 |
| Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | Douglas Adams | 78 | 29 | 72 |
| Rising Sun | michael crichton | 78 | 12 | 74 |
| Bastard Out Of Carolina | 78 | 14 | 83 | |
| Howard's End | 77 | 53 | 79 | |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 77 | 20 | 77 |
| Like Water For Chocolate | Laura Esquival | 77 | 85 | 79 |
| The Tailsman | stephen king/peter straub | 77 | 13 | 72 |
| Anthem | 77 | 12 | 70 | |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 77 | 17 | 75 |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 77 | 23 | 73 |
| The White Dragon | Anne Macaffrey | 77 | 25 | 79 |
| A Is For Alibi | Sue Grafton | 77 | 31 | 74 |
| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | 77 | 13 | 69 |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 77 | 10 | 76 |
| Sometimes A Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 77 | 13 | 72 |
| Another Roadside Attraction | Tom Robbins | 77 | 16 | 75 |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 77 | 52 | 74 |
| The House At Pooh Corner | Milne | 77 | 71 | 79 |
| Silence Of The Lambs | 77 | 37 | 75 | |
| Murder At The Vicarage | Agatha Christie | 77 | 29 | 78 |
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | 77 | 29 | 75 |
| A Year In Provence | Peter Mayle | 77 | 30 | 71 |
| Still Life With Woodpecker | Robins | 76 | 13 | 77 |
| The Pelican Brief | john grisham | 76 | 41 | 69 |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 76 | 42 | 71 |
| On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | 76 | 12 | 77 |
| The Count Of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 76 | 31 | 74 |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 76 | 31 | 77 |
| All Quiet On The Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 76 | 14 | 65 |
| The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 76 | 76 | 74 |
| An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce | 76 | 14 | 74 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 76 | 138 | 76 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R.Tolkien | 76 | 140 | 73 |
| Remains Of The Day | Ishiguro | 76 | 12 | 80 |
| The World According To Garp | John Irving | 76 | 80 | 74 |
| The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich | William L. Shirer | 76 | 19 | 74 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 76 | 52 | 76 |
| A Time To Kill | John Grisham | 76 | 57 | 74 |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn rand | 75 | 23 | 66 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | 75 | 35 | 75 |
| Julius Ceasar | william shakespeare | 75 | 13 | 67 |
| East Of Eden | John steinbeck | 75 | 50 | 76 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 75 | 41 | 81 |
| Anne Of Avonlea | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 75 | 16 | 79 |
| The Dark Tower | Stephen King | 75 | 10 | 69 |
| The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | 75 | 14 | 70 |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | 75 | 17 | 67 |
| So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish | Douglas Adams | 75 | 15 | 74 |
| A Prayer For Owen Meany | John Irving | 75 | 49 | 77 |
| The Bible | 75 | 35 | 67 | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 75 | 22 | 66 |
| Red Badge Of Courage | Stephen Crane | 75 | 41 | 66 |
| A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 75 | 77 | 75 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 74 | 86 | 73 |
| Smila's Sense Of Snow | Peter Hoeg | 74 | 51 | 72 |
| Silent Night | Mary Higgins Clark | 74 | 16 | 78 |
| The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 74 | 31 | 77 |
| Ladder Of Years | Anne Tyler | 74 | 37 | 76 |
| Rebecca | 74 | 24 | 81 | |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 74 | 11 | 70 |
| B Is For Burglar | Sue Grafton | 74 | 25 | 77 |
| I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS | MAYA ANGELOU | 74 | 67 | 76 |
| The Mists Of Avalon | 74 | 23 | 70 | |
| The Lost World | Michael Crichton | 74 | 10 | 69 |
| Helter Skelter | Vincent Bugliosi | 74 | 30 | 73 |
| These Happy Golden Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 74 | 20 | 73 |
| The Clan Of The Cave Bear | Jean Auel | 74 | 36 | 73 |
| Cold Sassy Tree | 74 | 11 | 79 | |
| Love In The Time Of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia-Marquez | 74 | 12 | 72 |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 74 | 18 | 79 |
| Shogun | James Clavell | 73 | 27 | 72 |
| The Far Side Gallery 5 | Gary Larson | 73 | 33 | 76 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 73 | 41 | 70 |
| The Iliad | Homer | 73 | 34 | 70 |
| The Client | John Grisham | 73 | 52 | 71 |
| Mutiny On The Bounty | C. Nordhoff & J. N. Hall | 73 | 11 | 72 |
| The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | 73 | 22 | 70 |
| The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry | 73 | 10 | 77 |
| Stones From A River | Ursula Heige | 73 | 14 | 81 |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | 73 | 19 | 72 |
| Misery | Stephen King | 73 | 31 | 69 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 73 | 34 | 76 |
| Polar Star | Martin Cruz Smith | 72 | 15 | 74 |
| Age Of Innocence | Wharton, Edith | 72 | 43 | 72 |
| Lost World | 72 | 28 | 72 | |
| The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 72 | 28 | 81 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 72 | 85 | 73 |
| The Old Man And The Sea | 72 | 17 | 63 | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 72 | 26 | 72 |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | 72 | 17 | 79 |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather | 72 | 18 | 70 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | 72 | 21 | 65 |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea | Jules Verne | 72 | 30 | 71 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 72 | 32 | 72 |
| The Chamber | 72 | 34 | 69 | |
| A Tale Of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 72 | 78 | 71 |
| Life, The Universe And Everything | Douglas Adams | 72 | 18 | 72 |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 72 | 115 | 73 |