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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
46,111 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 5

2
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,386 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 5

3
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
34,849 members, 1,008 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 5

4
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,211 members, 614 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 5

5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
32,236 members, 841 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 5

6
Charlotte's Web
by E B White
28,968 members, 941 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 5

7
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
17,077 members, 519 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 5

8
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
12,082 members, 239 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 5

9
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
66,325 members, 1,303 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 4

10
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
63,806 members, 1,206 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

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Score: 4

11
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,574 members, 798 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 4

12
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
32,305 members, 543 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 4

13
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30,195 members, 318 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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Score: 4

14
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,355 members, 410 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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Score: 4

15
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
20,631 members, 1,351 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 4

16
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
19,221 members, 360 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 4

17
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
17,544 members, 391 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 4

18
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,010 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 4

19
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,747 members, 264 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 4

20
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
317 members, 3 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 4

21
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,785 members, 1,117 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 3

22
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
41,890 members, 659 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 3

23
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
40,039 members, 1,258 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 3

24
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
39,151 members, 942 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 3

25
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,328 members, 603 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 3

26
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
37,492 members, 1,648 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 3

27
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
36,334 members, 658 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 3

28
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
26,136 members, 1,423 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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Score: 3

29
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,500 members, 338 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 3

30
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
19,633 members, 252 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 3

31
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,984 members, 372 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3

33
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
15,732 members, 459 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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Score: 3

34
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
15,177 members, 324 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, sturlington

Score: 3

35
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
13,130 members, 306 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 3

36
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
12,777 members, 721 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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Score: 3

37
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
11,537 members, 449 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 3

38
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,107 members, 179 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 3

39
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,182 members, 101 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

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Score: 3

40
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
9,789 members, 351 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 3

41
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
9,618 members, 186 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 3

42
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
8,003 members, 198 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 3

43
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
6,888 members, 336 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 3

44
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
3,807 members, 59 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 3

45
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
2,759 members, 39 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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Score: 3

48
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
46,227 members, 1,192 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

49
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
36,368 members, 1,205 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 2

50
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,416 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

51
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
27,934 members, 531 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Rtrace, sturlington

Score: 2

52
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
25,863 members, 1,132 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 2

53
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24,352 members, 361 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: crookedcat, thecoroner, ahef1963

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

54
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
19,518 members, 215 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 2

55
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
16,834 members, 1,155 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 2

56
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
14,099 members, 273 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2

57
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
11,759 members, 255 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 2

58
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
11,697 members, 149 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 2

59
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
8,584 members, 211 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 2

60
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
8,313 members, 183 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2

61
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,125 members, 154 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

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Score: 2

62
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
7,814 members, 381 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2

63
Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
7,160 members, 323 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 2

64
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
6,910 members, 390 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

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Score: 2

65
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss
6,574 members, 146 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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Score: 2

66
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5,607 members, 247 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 2

67
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
5,466 members, 183 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 2

68
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
5,000 members, 428 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2

69
The Sea
by John Banville
4,804 members, 151 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

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Score: 2

70
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
4,494 members, 310 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 2

71
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
3,101 members, 216 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

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Score: 2

72
Euphoria
by Lily King
2,013 members, 133 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 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
30,598 members, 399 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 1

75
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
19,878 members, 315 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

76
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
19,182 members, 210 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

77
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
17,530 members, 319 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

78
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
17,411 members, 322 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

79
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
13,851 members, 389 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1

80
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
9,185 members, 215 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 1

81
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
8,529 members, 389 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 1

82
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
8,472 members, 568 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 1

83
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,054 members, 169 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 1

84
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,974 members, 116 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1

85
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,449 members, 130 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 1

86
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
7,235 members, 106 reviews
3.15 stars (3.15 stars)

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Score: 1

87
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
6,894 members, 157 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1

88
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
6,749 members, 65 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1

89
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
6,294 members, 110 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1

90
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
6,215 members, 213 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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Score: 1

91
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
5,520 members, 419 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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Score: 1

92
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,237 members, 110 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1

93
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
5,010 members, 143 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 1

94
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,543 members, 144 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1

95
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,166 members, 92 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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Score: 1

96
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
3,350 members, 55 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

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Score: 1

97
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
3,288 members, 70 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 1

98
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
3,197 members, 107 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

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Score: 1

99
In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien
2,446 members, 69 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 1

100
The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
1,491 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: sturlington

Score: 1

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