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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
48,502 members, 694 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 5

2
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,055 members, 621 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 5

3
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
37,020 members, 1,060 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 5

4
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
36,523 members, 644 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 5

5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
34,200 members, 878 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 5

6
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
31,140 members, 962 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 5

7
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,160 members, 550 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 5

8
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
12,588 members, 250 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 5

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,032 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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Score: 4

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
69,857 members, 1,347 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 4

11
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,224 members, 837 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 4

12
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,294 members, 572 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 4

13
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,467 members, 345 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

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Score: 4

14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,771 members, 425 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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Score: 4

15
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
21,987 members, 1,381 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 4

16
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,281 members, 379 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 4

17
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
18,903 members, 419 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 4

18
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,792 members, 297 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 4

19
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,157 members, 272 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 4

21
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
72,719 members, 1,175 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 3

22
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
44,146 members, 696 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Score: 3

23
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
41,320 members, 1,281 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 3

24
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
40,496 members, 966 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 3

25
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,250 members, 644 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 3

26
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
39,088 members, 689 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 3

27
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
39,064 members, 1,677 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 3

28
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
27,439 members, 1,450 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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Score: 3

29
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,656 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 3

30
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
20,460 members, 266 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 3

31
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,148 members, 395 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3

33
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
16,784 members, 481 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 3

34
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
15,701 members, 329 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 3

35
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
14,562 members, 767 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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Score: 3

36
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
14,003 members, 341 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 3

37
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
13,324 members, 266 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 3

38
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
12,076 members, 458 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 3

39
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,730 members, 181 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

40
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,759 members, 106 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

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Score: 3

41
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
10,128 members, 203 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 3

42
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,094 members, 355 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 3

43
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,337 members, 175 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 3

44
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
8,325 members, 201 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 3

45
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
7,698 members, 370 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 3

46
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,803 members, 153 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

47
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,006 members, 66 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 3

48
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
2,894 members, 38 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 3

50
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
48,352 members, 1,238 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

51
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
37,252 members, 1,228 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 2

52
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,957 members, 453 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

53
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
29,900 members, 557 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2

54
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
26,923 members, 1,142 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 2

55
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25,507 members, 375 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

56
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
25,036 members, 505 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Score: 2

57
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
20,916 members, 232 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Score: 2

58
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
17,557 members, 1,183 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 2

59
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
15,874 members, 293 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2

60
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
12,425 members, 262 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington

Score: 2

61
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
12,398 members, 161 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 2

62
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
9,088 members, 223 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 2

63
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
8,718 members, 197 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

64
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,456 members, 168 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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Score: 2

65
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,221 members, 395 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2

66
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
7,815 members, 409 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

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Score: 2

67
Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
7,438 members, 330 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 2

68
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
7,314 members, 150 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 2

69
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,446 members, 275 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 2

70
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
5,765 members, 188 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 2

71
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
5,340 members, 436 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2

72
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
5,158 members, 335 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 2

73
The Sea
by John Banville
5,020 members, 155 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

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Score: 2

74
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
3,249 members, 220 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

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Score: 2

75
Euphoria
by Lily King
2,218 members, 139 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 2

76
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,513 members, 421 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

77
Las cenizas de Angela
by Frank McCourt
20,513 members, 325 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

78
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,169 members, 221 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

79
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
18,351 members, 341 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

80
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
18,039 members, 328 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

81
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
14,696 members, 404 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

82
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
11,615 members, 206 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

83
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
9,627 members, 227 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 1

84
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
9,079 members, 586 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 1

85
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
8,946 members, 400 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

86
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,278 members, 124 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1

87
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,879 members, 132 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 1

88
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
7,407 members, 110 reviews
3.15 stars (3.15 stars)

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Score: 1

89
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
7,322 members, 167 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 1

90
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
7,090 members, 70 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

91
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
6,648 members, 118 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1

92
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
6,432 members, 220 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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Score: 1

93
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
5,835 members, 426 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 1

94
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,426 members, 114 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1

95
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
5,233 members, 151 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 1

96
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,283 members, 95 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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Score: 1

97
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
3,482 members, 109 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

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Score: 1

98
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
3,439 members, 56 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

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Score: 1

99
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
3,415 members, 75 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 1

100
In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien
2,549 members, 70 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1

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