Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
2,873	52	533	(4.17)	70

Add to your library

Members

all members

Recently added by: theaelizabet, hillamonster, soyyam, acoville, jimworm, sanddancer, SpacemanSpiff, Polyp, pjstietz, zeldita

Member tags

numbers | all tags

(6) 1960s(7) 20th century(16) American(17) banned(6) classic(70) classics(29) contemporary fiction(9) Daniel Keyes(10) disabilities(7) disability(16) fiction(399) Hugo nominee(7) hugo winner(7) intelligence(51) iq(10) Keyes(6) Literature(38) made into movie(7) mental illness(8) mental retardation(12) mice(8) middle school(6) movie(8) nebula winner(30) novel(54) own(21) owned(8) paperback(18) psychology(25) read(72) sad(6) school(6) sci-fi(51) science(16) science fiction(217) sf(68) sf masterworks(14) speculative fiction(10) tbr(10) to read(6) unread(21) wishlist(11) ya(10) young adult(14)

LibraryThing recommendations

Member recommendations:

angelofmusic_81 recommends I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

Contribute your own recommendation.

( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )

Common KnowledgeShare what you know.

view history

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Flowers for Algernon

Original publication date

1966

Important places

People/Characters

Charlie Gordon

Alice Kinnian

Awards and honors

Hugo Nominee (Novel, 1967)

Nebula (Novel, 1966)

Hugo award (1960)

Publisher's editors

Disambiguation notice

LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Book descriptions

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 1857989384, Paperback)

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:11 -0500)

(see all 6 descriptions)