Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: D. The Chaotic Age

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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,040 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
15 Members
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2
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,582 members
869 reviews
3.9
13 Members
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3
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,194 members
519 reviews
4.1
12 Members
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4
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,383 members
460 reviews
3.8
13 Members
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5
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,243 members
1,198 reviews
3.8
13 Members
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6
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
15,831 members
335 reviews
4
11 Members
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7
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,915 members
581 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,394 members
1,450 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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9
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,548 members
247 reviews
4
9 Members
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10
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,892 members
167 reviews
3.8
10 Members
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11
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
14,649 members
189 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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12
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,324 members
636 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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13
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,433 members
231 reviews
4
9 Members
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14
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
20,342 members
312 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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15
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,358 members
387 reviews
4
8 Members
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16
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50,334 members
783 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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17
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
6,555 members
136 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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18
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
4,019 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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20
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
6,099 members
167 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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21
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,671 members
241 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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22
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,481 members
377 reviews
4
7 Members
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23
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,148 members
281 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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24
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
8,032 members
160 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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25
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
23,557 members
252 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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26
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,305 members
376 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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27
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,304 members
284 reviews
4
6 Members
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28
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
14,279 members
139 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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29
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
12,418 members
203 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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30
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
9,674 members
144 reviews
4
6 Members
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31
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,983 members
272 reviews
4
6 Members
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32
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
18,941 members
456 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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33
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,887 members
238 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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34
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
15,249 members
310 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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35
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,544 members
232 reviews
4
5 Members
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36
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
10,168 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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37
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,906 members
518 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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38
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
21,669 members
264 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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39
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
8,609 members
147 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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40
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
712 members
31 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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41
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
2,420 members
42 reviews
4
4 Members
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42
Dubliners
by James Joyce
22,146 members
265 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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43
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
4,223 members
94 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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44
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,212 members
126 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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45
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,559 members
270 reviews
4
5 Members
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46
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,596 members
137 reviews
4
5 Members
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47
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
7,265 members
108 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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48
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
7,463 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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49
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
11,243 members
195 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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50
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,891 members
269 reviews
4
5 Members
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51
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
10,757 members
212 reviews
4
5 Members
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52
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,710 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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53
Native Son
by Richard Wright
8,760 members
112 reviews
4
5 Members
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54
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,141 members
43 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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55
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30,964 members
445 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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56
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
24,915 members
306 reviews
4
5 Members
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57
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,321 members
121 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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58
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
25,738 members
374 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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59
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,117 members
327 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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60
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
24,920 members
347 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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61
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
2,735 members
42 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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62
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
1,552 members
13 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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63
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
10,440 members
104 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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64
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
5,660 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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65
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
by Seamus Heaney
1,365 members
13 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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66
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,240 members
114 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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67
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,420 members
182 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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68
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,400 members
124 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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69
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
8,890 members
134 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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70
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
4,698 members
135 reviews
4
4 Members
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71
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
5,656 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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72
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield
1,014 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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73
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
5,565 members
91 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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74
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
7,647 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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75
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
11,516 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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76
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays
by W. B. Yeats
294 members
4
3 Members
hipdeep, mermind, ahef1963
77
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
4,503 members
74 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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78
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
3,904 members
43 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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79
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
7,714 members
95 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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80
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,079 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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81
Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950
by T. S. Eliot
1,905 members
13 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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82
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
4,220 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
hvg, Bretzky1, EGBERTINA
83
War with the Newts
by Karel Čapek
2,233 members
58 reviews
4.1
2 Members
tomdoniphon, mermind
84
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
5,841 members
21 reviews
4.2
3 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA, Nonconformisto
85
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
1,304 members
18 reviews
3.8
3 Members
Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto
86
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
3,795 members
69 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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87
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,299 members
23 reviews
4
3 Members
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88
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
4,379 members
70 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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89
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,873 members
47 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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90
The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
2,684 members
39 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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91
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,888 members
73 reviews
4
3 Members
hipdeep, hvg, Nonconformisto
92
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
12,761 members
124 reviews
4.1
3 Members
amanda4242, hvg, ManWithAnAgenda
93
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
by Dylan Thomas
3,158 members
23 reviews
4.2
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, Sisif
94
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
by E. E. Cummings
1,517 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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95
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
4,661 members
118 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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96
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
by Joseph Conrad
5,331 members
70 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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97
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,261 members
157 reviews
3.9
3 Members
tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124
98
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
9,019 members
157 reviews
4.2
3 Members
hvg, Laura1124, steller0707
99
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,703 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
tomdoniphon, hvg, Laura1124
100
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
5,017 members
101 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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