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

Type: Preset list created by jeffza

Members: 14 participating members (show all)

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1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
58,078 members, 956 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB (1), Laura1124 (1), steller0707 (1), kara.shamy (1), ahef1963 (1), Cecrow (2), jeffza (2), cej1027 (3), Bretzky1 (10), amanda4242 (36)

Score: 33.65

2
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
59,437 members, 948 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: NinieB (2), Laura1124 (2), steller0707 (3), cej1027 (5), Sisif (6), amanda4242 (6), ahef1963 (11), Bretzky1 (12), Cecrow (23), kara.shamy (42)

Score: 25.3

3
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
44,114 members, 607 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Sisif (1), cej1027 (2), kara.shamy (2), ahef1963 (3), Bretzky1 (7), Cecrow (11), jeffza (13), amanda4242 (15)

Score: 22.56

4
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
28,173 members, 382 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (1), NinieB (3), Sisif (3), Laura1124 (4), cej1027 (4), kara.shamy (6), Cecrow (17), amanda4242 (34)

Score: 21.92

5
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,479 members, 258 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (2), CharlesTheB (3), NinieB (4), steller0707 (4), Laura1124 (5), Sisif (9), kara.shamy (12), Bretzky1 (15)

Score: 21.23

6
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,160 members, 353 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), steller0707 (2), kara.shamy (4), ahef1963 (5), Bretzky1 (8), Cecrow (15), amanda4242 (16), jeffza (23)

Score: 21.1

7
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
10,701 members, 135 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (1), Laura1124 (3), Sisif (4), hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (8), jeffza (9), amanda4242 (13)

Score: 19.49

8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
29,102 members, 389 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (1), Sisif (2), ahef1963 (4), kara.shamy (5), Laura1124 (6), amanda4242 (7)

Score: 17.88

9
1984
by George Orwell
65,925 members, 1,061 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (5), Bretzky1 (6), Laura1124 (7), Sisif (8), ahef1963 (12), amanda4242 (19), Cecrow (22), hipdeep (34)

Score: 17.64

10
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
26,930 members, 473 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4), Sisif (5), steller0707 (6), kara.shamy (7), Laura1124 (8), Cecrow (9), amanda4242 (14)

Score: 17.27

11
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
10,287 members, 115 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (4), NinieB (5), Cecrow (5), kara.shamy (8), ahef1963 (10), Laura1124 (12), jeffza (21)

Score: 16.82

12
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,216 members, 176 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), kara.shamy (3), Cecrow (3), amanda4242 (5), jeffza (8), Laura1124 (9)

Score: 16.81

13
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
15,032 members, 273 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), CharlesTheB (5), steller0707 (7), Laura1124 (10), kara.shamy (11), ahef1963 (14), amanda4242 (29)

Score: 16.74

14
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
8,031 members, 178 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: NinieB (6), steller0707 (9), Bretzky1 (11), Laura1124 (14), kara.shamy (16), amanda4242 (18), ahef1963 (20)

Score: 14.96

15
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
14,775 members, 223 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (6), steller0707 (8), Laura1124 (11), Sisif (11), Cecrow (14), jeffza (20)

Score: 13.29

16
Ulysses
by James Joyce
15,643 members, 272 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: Sisif (7), ahef1963 (7), kara.shamy (10), Laura1124 (13), mermind (16), Bretzky1 (20)

Score: 13.17

17
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
3,493 members, 23 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), CharlesTheB (2), ahef1963 (6), jeffza (7)

Score: 12.38

18
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
13,074 members, 162 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (2), NinieB (7), Sisif (12), kara.shamy (18), Laura1124 (19)

Score: 11.83

19
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
15,946 members, 218 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (6), jeffza (10), steller0707 (11), ahef1963 (13), Laura1124 (16)

Score: 11.11

20
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,006 members, 105 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), Sisif (10), kara.shamy (13), Bretzky1 (13), Laura1124 (17)

Score: 10.74

21
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37,189 members, 557 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: NinieB (8), Sisif (16), Bretzky1 (19), Laura1124 (23), Cecrow (24)

Score: 9.93

22
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
16,645 members, 291 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (10), Sisif (13), Laura1124 (15), amanda4242 (33), ahef1963 (39)

Score: 9.66

23
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,074 members, 205 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (14), Bretzky1 (16), Laura1124 (18), ahef1963 (21), Cecrow (29)

Score: 9.6

24
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,672 members, 174 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (3), ahef1963 (9), amanda4242 (10), Cecrow (26)

Score: 9.37

25
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
18,363 members, 200 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (16), Laura1124 (20), ahef1963 (24), Cecrow (25), amanda4242 (28)

Score: 9.23

26
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
7,429 members, 93 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (5), CharlesTheB (9), jeffza (11), Laura1124 (21)

Score: 9.05

27
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
4,126 members, 132 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (7), amanda4242 (11), steller0707 (12), Sisif (14)

Score: 8.87

28
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
12,124 members, 296 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), kara.shamy (9), Cecrow (13), jeffza (16)

Score: 8.79

29
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
17,911 members, 177 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (8), kara.shamy (14), ahef1963 (15), Laura1124 (22)

Score: 8.33

30
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
10,429 members, 218 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (12), steller0707 (13), jeffza (14), ahef1963 (19)

Score: 8.24

31
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
1,870 members, 35 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: mermind (2), CharlesTheB (7), amanda4242 (8)

Score: 8.2

32
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
9,696 members, 99 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (6), amanda4242 (20), ahef1963 (22), Cecrow (28)

Score: 8.03

33
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
7,025 members, 100 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: NinieB (9), Cecrow (18), ahef1963 (23), amanda4242 (37)

Score: 7.7

34
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
8,721 members, 96 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (15), jeffza (19), kara.shamy (21), hipdeep (30)

Score: 7.53

35
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5,428 members, 55 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (11), hipdeep (20), amanda4242 (26), ahef1963 (35)

Score: 7.5

36
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,162 members, 87 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: Sisif (17), Cecrow (19), Laura1124 (24), ahef1963 (25)

Score: 7.48

37
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
12,204 members, 173 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (18), Sisif (22), amanda4242 (23), Laura1124 (25)

Score: 7.4

38
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
11,337 members, 252 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: NinieB (10), steller0707 (24), Laura1124 (34), Sisif (37)

Score: 7.34

39
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
7,650 members, 119 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: jeffza (3), CharlesTheB (8), Sisif (19)

Score: 7.33

40
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,364 members, 132 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (20), amanda4242 (24), Laura1124 (26), ahef1963 (32)

Score: 7.15

41
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,789 members, 216 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (17), Laura1124 (27), Cecrow (27), ahef1963 (36)

Score: 7.11

42
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
7,489 members, 110 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (4), jeffza (6), amanda4242 (42)

Score: 6.96

43
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
19,308 members, 390 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (22), Laura1124 (28), Sisif (31), ahef1963 (44)

Score: 6.83

44
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,057 members, 92 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), kara.shamy (19), Laura1124 (29)

Score: 6.68

45
The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
by W. B. Yeats
216 members, 0 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (18), mermind (18)

Score: 6.34

46
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
19,283 members, 284 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (4), ahef1963 (28), Laura1124 (30)

Score: 6.28

47
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,106 members, 183 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (10), kara.shamy (15), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 6.25

48
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
1,998 members, 23 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (10), Cecrow (16), jeffza (25)

Score: 6.04

49
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,260 members, 97 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: mermind (1), Sisif (15)

Score: 6.03

50
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
16,737 members, 189 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: jeffza (12), steller0707 (17), Sisif (21)

Score: 5.99

51
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
3,281 members, 59 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: jeffza (1), mermind (17)

Score: 5.97

52
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
2,939 members, 31 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: NinieB (11), hipdeep (13), kara.shamy (34)

Score: 5.96

53
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
5,440 members, 66 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), amanda4242 (17), Cecrow (20)

Score: 5.86

54
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
by Seamus Heaney
1,003 members, 7 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (17), jeffza (18), kara.shamy (20)

Score: 5.8

55
The Plague
by Albert Camus
14,924 members, 186 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: NinieB (12), Sisif (23), jeffza (27)

Score: 5.73

56
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
3,215 members, 66 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (1), Laura1124 (31)

Score: 5.7

57
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
637 members, 28 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: Sisif (18), amanda4242 (21), kara.shamy (22)

Score: 5.66

58
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
6,431 members, 76 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (11), amanda4242 (25), ahef1963 (34)

Score: 5.64

59
The Complete Poems and Plays
by T. S. Eliot
2,254 members, 12 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16), kara.shamy (23), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 5.6

60
Wise Blood: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor
3,097 members, 90 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (19), Sisif (24), kara.shamy (25)

Score: 5.51

61
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,182 members, 129 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: NinieB (13), Sisif (39), Laura1124 (44)

Score: 5.26

62
The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
2,311 members, 37 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (24), ahef1963 (30), Laura1124 (33)

Score: 5.19

63
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
8,412 members, 137 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (21), hipdeep (29), Sisif (40)

Score: 5.18

64
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
4,436 members, 95 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: jeffza (24), Laura1124 (32), ahef1963 (33)

Score: 5.16

65
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
by Dylan Thomas
2,267 members, 18 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (24), Sisif (30), ahef1963 (41)

Score: 5.1

66
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield
625 members, 8 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Sisif (28), Cecrow (33), Laura1124 (35)

Score: 5.05

67
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23,449 members, 347 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (25), Laura1124 (36), ahef1963 (43)

Score: 4.98

68
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,087 members, 29 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: mermind (4), CharlesTheB (12)

Score: 4.98

69
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
6,371 members, 93 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (26), Laura1124 (37), ahef1963 (47)

Score: 4.92

70
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
4,286 members, 72 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (27), Laura1124 (38), ahef1963 (49)

Score: 4.88

71
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
18,964 members, 244 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (3), ahef1963 (27)

Score: 4.79

72
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,068 members, 39 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: jeffza (5), Sisif (20)

Score: 4.57

73
Selected Poems
by John Crowe Ransom
91 members, 0 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: mermind (12), hipdeep (27)

Score: 3.9

74
Bullet Park
by John Cheever
634 members, 14 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: mermind (8), Laura1124 (56)

Score: 3.84

75
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
4,256 members, 80 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (9), Laura1124 (55)

Score: 3.78

76
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
8,163 members, 179 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: NinieB (14), kara.shamy (30)

Score: 3.78

77
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
1,073 members, 12 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), kara.shamy (37)

Score: 3.77

78
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
3,458 members, 49 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (23), kara.shamy (27)

Score: 3.58

79
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
990 members, 10 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22), ahef1963 (29)

Score: 3.57

80
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,206 members, 37 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (14), Laura1124 (54)

Score: 3.54

81
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
5,945 members, 87 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (22), Cecrow (31)

Score: 3.54

82
Bruno's Dream
by Iris Murdoch
453 members, 7 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: Sisif (25), jeffza (28)

Score: 3.53

83
Ironweed
by William J. Kennedy
2,115 members, 42 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: NinieB (15), ahef1963 (53)

Score: 3.52

84
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
2,842 members, 44 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: Sisif (26), amanda4242 (30)

Score: 3.48

85
The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty
438 members, 13 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: mermind (21), amanda4242 (38)

Score: 3.48

86
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,534 members, 115 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB (16), Laura1124 (57)

Score: 3.46

87
Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
780 members, 11 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: mermind (20), kara.shamy (43)

Score: 3.45

88
Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
1,633 members, 16 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: Sisif (27), amanda4242 (31)

Score: 3.45

89
The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'Neill
1,150 members, 8 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18), Laura1124 (53)

Score: 3.42

90
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
8,988 members, 224 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: Sisif (29), kara.shamy (31)

Score: 3.42

91
Point Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley
2,203 members, 19 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: mermind (19), Laura1124 (52)

Score: 3.41

92
Miramar
by Naguib Mahfouz
391 members, 10 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: mermind (22), Laura1124 (51)

Score: 3.34

93
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
3,798 members, 90 reviews
3.37 stars (3.37 stars)

Lists: jeffza (29), ahef1963 (38)

Score: 3.34

94
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht
1,404 members, 14 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (21), ahef1963 (57)

Score: 3.32

95
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
760 members, 11 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (33), ahef1963 (37)

Score: 3.29

96
Native Son
by Richard Wright
6,380 members, 75 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (29), Laura1124 (47)

Score: 3.25

97
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
3,399 members, 41 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (28), Sisif (49)

Score: 3.25

98
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
3,561 members, 98 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (28), ahef1963 (51)

Score: 3.24

99
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,137 members, 61 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Sisif (32), ahef1963 (45)

Score: 3.23

100
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5,185 members, 121 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (31), Laura1124 (48)

Score: 3.22

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