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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
43,844 members, 597 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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

Score: 5

2
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
40,281 members, 568 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 5

3
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
32,642 members, 937 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Score: 5

4
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
32,157 members, 588 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 5

5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
30,457 members, 792 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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

Score: 5

6
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
26,995 members, 913 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 5

7
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
16,047 members, 496 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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

Score: 5

8
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
11,610 members, 230 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, crookedcat, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 5

9
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
64,451 members, 1,153 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner

Score: 4

10
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
63,356 members, 1,239 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington, Rtrace

Score: 4

11
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
47,323 members, 762 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner

Score: 4

12
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
30,497 members, 519 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 4

13
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28,741 members, 309 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 4

14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
28,009 members, 381 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, Rtrace, sturlington

Score: 4

15
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
19,471 members, 1,319 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 4

16
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
18,157 members, 344 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 4

17
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
16,349 members, 366 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963, thecoroner

Score: 4

18
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,186 members, 266 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 4

19
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,398 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 4

20
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
302 members, 3 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 4

21
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
39,791 members, 623 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 3

22
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
38,802 members, 1,229 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

23
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
37,861 members, 921 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 3

24
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
36,822 members, 569 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

25
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
35,995 members, 1,612 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
34,216 members, 621 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

27
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
25,200 members, 1,403 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

28
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
21,373 members, 318 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

29
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
18,858 members, 241 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

30
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,068 members, 352 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, kara.shamy, thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3

32
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
14,877 members, 431 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

33
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
14,802 members, 318 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 3

34
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
12,378 members, 288 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

35
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
11,382 members, 681 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: dara85, kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 3

36
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
11,156 members, 426 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

37
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,606 members, 172 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

38
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
9,645 members, 99 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

39
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
9,284 members, 339 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

40
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
8,570 members, 162 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

Score: 3

41
The Plot against America
by Philip Roth
7,670 members, 185 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington, thecoroner

Score: 3

42
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
6,165 members, 309 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

43
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
3,653 members, 57 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington, ahef1963

Score: 3

44
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
2,642 members, 36 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 3

47
1984
by George Orwell
65,558 members, 1,053 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

48
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
45,146 members, 1,172 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: dara85, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

49
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
35,451 members, 1,181 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

50
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
28,963 members, 385 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

51
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
26,469 members, 517 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington

Score: 2

52
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
24,979 members, 1,115 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

53
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23,318 members, 344 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

54
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
18,332 members, 192 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
16,110 members, 1,120 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

56
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
13,156 members, 263 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

57
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
11,312 members, 251 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington

Score: 2

58
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
11,086 members, 143 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 2

59
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
8,208 members, 198 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

60
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
7,973 members, 178 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

61
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
7,846 members, 151 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

62
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
7,596 members, 372 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

63
Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
6,948 members, 319 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 2

64
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
6,269 members, 366 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

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Score: 2

65
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
6,058 members, 142 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

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Score: 2

66
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
5,240 members, 170 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 2

67
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4,848 members, 222 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 2

68
The Sea
by John Banville
4,642 members, 145 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

69
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
4,535 members, 408 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: dara85, sturlington

Score: 2

70
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
3,914 members, 288 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

71
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
3,008 members, 214 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, sturlington

Score: 2

72
Euphoria
by Lily King
1,843 members, 123 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

Lists: ahef1963, sturlington

Score: 2

74
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
28,951 members, 374 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

75
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
19,381 members, 306 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, kara.shamy

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

76
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
18,267 members, 199 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

77
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
16,776 members, 312 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

78
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
16,728 members, 303 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

79
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
13,239 members, 372 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

80
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
8,761 members, 209 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

81
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
8,172 members, 381 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

82
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
7,981 members, 551 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

83
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
7,927 members, 165 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

84
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,738 members, 113 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

85
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
7,112 members, 100 reviews
3.15 stars (3.15 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

86
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,095 members, 123 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

87
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
6,568 members, 152 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

88
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
6,503 members, 61 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

89
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
6,044 members, 106 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

90
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
6,020 members, 208 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

91
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
5,278 members, 409 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

92
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,124 members, 106 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

93
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
4,856 members, 135 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

94
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,405 members, 140 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

95
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,099 members, 93 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
3,258 members, 55 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

97
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
3,186 members, 65 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

98
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
3,006 members, 96 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

99
In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien
2,360 members, 67 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

100
The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
1,459 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

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