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Books Featured on Readers' Review of the Diane Rehm Show

Description: These are all books that have been discussed in the Readers' Review series of the Diane Rehm show.

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

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1
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
41,258 members, 562 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 5

2
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
37,964 members, 548 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: sturlington, kara.shamy, Rtrace, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 5

3
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
29,740 members, 837 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: sturlington, kara.shamy, Rtrace, ahef1963, thecoroner

Score: 5

4
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
29,533 members, 533 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 5

5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
28,128 members, 730 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: sturlington, kara.shamy, dara85, Rtrace, ahef1963

Score: 5

6
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
25,078 members, 867 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: sturlington, kara.shamy, Rtrace, dara85, ahef1963

Score: 5

7
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
14,964 members, 453 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, sturlington, kara.shamy, ahef1963, thecoroner

Score: 5

8
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
11,037 members, 217 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, crookedcat, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 5

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
60,834 members, 1,092 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner

Score: 4

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
59,656 members, 1,185 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington, Rtrace

Score: 4

11
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
44,580 members, 734 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 4

12
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
28,392 members, 478 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 4

13
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
26,982 members, 297 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 4

14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
26,476 members, 366 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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Score: 4

15
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
17,944 members, 1,270 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 4

16
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
16,983 members, 308 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 4

17
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
14,934 members, 342 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963, thecoroner

Score: 4

18
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
13,287 members, 244 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 4

19
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
10,986 members, 241 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 4

20
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
294 members, 3 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 4

21
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
37,363 members, 581 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 3

22
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
37,314 members, 1,195 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

23
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
36,560 members, 898 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 3

24
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
34,944 members, 540 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 3

25
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
34,184 members, 1,571 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 3

26
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
31,802 members, 599 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

27
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
23,787 members, 1,383 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

28
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
20,130 members, 307 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

29
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
17,742 members, 220 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

31
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
15,039 members, 337 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, kara.shamy, thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3

32
The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
14,272 members, 309 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 3

33
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
13,931 members, 384 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 3

34
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
11,396 members, 259 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

35
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
10,465 members, 407 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

36
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,017 members, 157 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

37
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
9,747 members, 619 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: dara85, kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 3

38
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
9,042 members, 100 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

39
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
8,749 members, 166 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 3

40
Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
8,696 members, 326 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

41
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
7,271 members, 163 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner

Score: 3

42
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
5,328 members, 282 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 3

43
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
3,448 members, 53 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 3

44
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
2,491 members, 32 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

47
1984
by George Orwell
61,757 members, 986 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

48
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
43,757 members, 1,150 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: dara85, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

49
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
34,334 members, 1,155 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

50
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
27,303 members, 351 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

51
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
24,529 members, 489 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington

Score: 2

52
Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
24,110 members, 1,093 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

53
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22,095 members, 321 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

54
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
17,177 members, 170 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 2

55
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
15,227 members, 1,090 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

56
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
11,807 members, 247 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

57
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
10,674 members, 244 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington

Score: 2

58
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
10,328 members, 135 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 2

59
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
7,630 members, 188 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 2

60
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
7,623 members, 171 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

61
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
7,437 members, 142 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

62
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
7,183 members, 351 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 2

63
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
6,570 members, 296 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 2

64
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
5,538 members, 139 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 2

65
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
5,238 members, 342 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

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Score: 2

66
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
4,910 members, 159 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 2

67
The Sea
by John Banville
4,436 members, 142 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

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Score: 2

68
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
4,117 members, 393 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington

Score: 2

69
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4,085 members, 197 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

70
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
3,270 members, 247 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

71
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
2,837 members, 205 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

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Score: 2

72
Euphoria
by Lily King
1,569 members, 110 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 2

73
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
0 members, 0 reviews

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Score: 2

74
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
26,999 members, 357 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

75
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
18,665 members, 298 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

76
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
17,351 members, 189 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

77
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
15,815 members, 289 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

78
Tuesdays with Morrie : An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
by Mitch Albom
15,670 members, 296 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

79
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
12,400 members, 355 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

80
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
8,289 members, 190 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

81
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
7,787 members, 368 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

82
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
7,630 members, 161 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

83
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,384 members, 104 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

84
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
7,352 members, 517 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

85
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
6,978 members, 97 reviews
3.14 stars (3.14 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

86
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
6,775 members, 117 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

87
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
6,149 members, 59 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

88
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
6,137 members, 137 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

89
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
5,792 members, 198 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

90
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
5,728 members, 105 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 1

91
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
4,930 members, 398 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 1

92
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
4,924 members, 102 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

93
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
4,580 members, 132 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

94
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,062 members, 134 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

95
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,000 members, 87 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

96
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
3,158 members, 53 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

97
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
3,053 members, 63 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

98
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
2,735 members, 85 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

99
In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien
2,265 members, 66 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

100
The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
1,414 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

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