William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare — 20 titles in the rankings, first published between 1594 and 1734. They average 7.6, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note Romeo and Juliet is the most-read play here and, likely because so many read it at school, the lowest-rated. The best-rated are Much Ado About Nothing — a good first comedy — and Hamlet, followed by Macbeth and King Lear. Macbeth is the shortest of the tragedies and a quick way in.
- Ranked titles
- 20 books
- Average score
- 7.6
- Total ratings
- 10.6K
- First published
- 1594–1734
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Books by William Shakespeare
- Much Ado About Nothing369 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Hamlet1.7K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Macbeth1.5K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - King Lear420 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Richard III112 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Henry IV, Part 178 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Comedy of Errors93 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - A Midsummer Night's Dream864 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - As You Like It158 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Othello643 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Merchant of Venice348 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Coriolanus51 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Henry V120 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Twelfth Night50 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Tempest439 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Measure for Measure80 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Julius Caesar451 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Titus Andronicus81 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Taming of the Shrew276 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Romeo and Juliet2.7K ratings
7.17.1 / 10
Other books by William Shakespeare
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1593Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)
- 1595Richard II
- 1596Edward III
- 1598Love's Labour's Lost
- 1598Henry IV, Part 2
- 1602The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 1602Thomas Lord Cromwell
- 1608A Yorkshire Tragedy
- 1609Troilus and Cressida
- 1609Sonnets
- 1609Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- 1619The famous victories of Henry the Fifth, the earliest known quarto, 1598
- 1623Cymbeline
- 1623Antony and Cleopatra
- 1623Plays (36)
- 1623The Winter's Tale
- 1623King John
- 1623Henry VI, Part 1
- 1632The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 1663Plays (43)
- 1670King Henry VIII
- 1670The Tempest or The Enchanted Island
- 1730Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
- 1734All's Well That Ends Well
- 1734Timon of Athens
- 1750Romeo and Juliet, 1750
- 1768Plays (37)
- 1771Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
- 1789Burya
- 1790The tragedy of Macbeth
- 1790King Henry V
- 1794Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]
- 1795William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
- 1800A study of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- 1838Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
- 1847The Comedies (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Comedy of Errors / Love's Labour's Lost / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale)
- 1850Macbeth - The Graphic Novel
- 1864Œuvres complètes de Shakespeare
- 1892The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
- 1905Works (46)
- 1918Henry IV
- 2004The Portable Shakespeare
- 2010The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
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