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

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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,967 members

1,104 reviews

3.9

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,497 members

1,047 reviews

3.8

12 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,187 members

741 reviews

3.9

11 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

by Albert Camus

33,677 members

481 reviews

3.9

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,508 members

414 reviews

3.8

10 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

32,486 members

458 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, cej1027, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,323 members

154 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

8

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,201 members

296 reviews

4

8 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707, CharlesTheB

9

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

77,268 members

1,223 reviews

4.2

10 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

10

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,396 members

536 reviews

4.1

9 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

11

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

11,836 members

130 reviews

3.8

8 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

12

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,460 members

221 reviews

4

7 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy, Laura1124

13

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

17,945 members

328 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, steller0707, CharlesTheB

14

by Edith Wharton

9,116 members

204 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, steller0707

15

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,603 members

248 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, CharlesTheB

16

22,872 members

328 reviews

4

7 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, mermind, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif

17

Collected Poems

3,820 members

25 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

18

by Ralph Ellison

15,379 members

199 reviews

4

6 Members: tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

19

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,296 members

237 reviews

4

6 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

14,822 members

359 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,468 members

660 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, Bretzky1, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

22

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,704 members

118 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Marguerite Duras

4,866 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

24

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,304 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

25

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

11,887 members

250 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

26

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,498 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Truman Capote

22,426 members

442 reviews

4.1

6 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

28

by Virginia Woolf

19,405 members

310 reviews

3.9

6 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

29

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,253 members

239 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124, steller0707

30

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

9,978 members

160 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

31

by E. M. Forster

8,438 members

125 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,154 members

120 reviews

4.1

4 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by William Faulkner

14,081 members

209 reviews

3.9

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

34

18,704 members

217 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,001 members

107 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,330 members

239 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

37

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,278 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, CharlesTheB

38

Portnoy's Complaint

7,130 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

39

by Albert Camus

17,532 members

230 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, NinieB, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

40

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,334 members

187 reviews

4

4 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, Bretzky1, ahef1963

41

18,974 members

226 reviews

4

5 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

42

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,285 members

233 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

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by Joseph Conrad

8,606 members

112 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Bretzky1, jeffza, Laura1124, CharlesTheB

44

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

726 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: amanda4242, kara.shamy, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

21,939 members

319 reviews

3.8

4 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963, Laura1124, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,400 members

287 reviews

4.1

4 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,098 members

39 reviews

3.9

3 Members: amanda4242, mermind, CharlesTheB

48

by Evelyn Waugh

3,630 members

80 reviews

3.8

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Laura1124

49

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,246 members

119 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, steller0707

50

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,159 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: Cecrow, ahef1963, Laura1124, Sisif

51

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

1,170 members

14 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, jeffza, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

52

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,495 members

87 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, amanda4242, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

10,536 members

161 reviews

3.8

4 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif

54

by Willa Cather

12,981 members

279 reviews

3.9

4 Members: NinieB, Laura1124, Sisif, steller0707

55

The Magic Mountain

9,086 members

165 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jeffza, Sisif, CharlesTheB

56

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,371 members

119 reviews

3.9

4 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

57

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

832 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Cecrow, Laura1124, Sisif, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,597 members

100 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, Laura1124

59

by Cormac McCarthy

10,668 members

255 reviews

4.2

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, Sisif

60

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

244 members

4

3 Members: hipdeep, mermind, ahef1963

61

by Joseph Conrad

2,342 members

34 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, jeffza, CharlesTheB

62

The Periodic Table

3,806 members

66 reviews

4.2

2 Members: mermind, jeffza

63

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,330 members

35 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, NinieB

64

by George Bernard Shaw

6,397 members

76 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, ahef1963

65

Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950

1,615 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, kara.shamy

66

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,269 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Flannery O'Connor

3,650 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: kara.shamy, Sisif, steller0707

68

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

1,861 members

51 reviews

4.1

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

69

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,279 members

13 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,148 members

105 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Cecrow, amanda4242, tomdoniphon

71

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

3,522 members

54 reviews

4.2

3 Members: amanda4242, tomdoniphon, Sisif

72

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,298 members

192 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, kara.shamy, NinieB

73

The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

2,485 members

39 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, Laura1124

74

by Graham Greene

4,967 members

111 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, Laura1124

75

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952

by Dylan Thomas

2,609 members

19 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, Sisif

76

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,060 members

119 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon, ahef1963

77

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

26,621 members

390 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

78

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,570 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, CharlesTheB

79

by Margaret Atwood

4,172 members

106 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, jeffza, steller0707

80

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

4,863 members

84 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, Laura1124, steller0707

81

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,732 members

133 reviews

3.9

3 Members: tomdoniphon, NinieB, Laura1124

82

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,209 members

145 reviews

4.1

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, steller0707

83

by D. H. Lawrence

6,709 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

84

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,472 members

80 reviews

3.8

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

85

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

21,554 members

262 reviews

4

3 Members: tomdoniphon, Laura1124, Sisif

86

3,218 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: tomdoniphon, ahef1963, Sisif

87

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,732 members

42 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: jeffza, Sisif

88

Myra Breckinridge

925 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,403 members

42 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Eugène Ionesco

1,314 members

17 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, tomdoniphon

91

by Robert Graves

652 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: tomdoniphon, mermind

92

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

10,755 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,779 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

94

by August Wilson

1,662 members

16 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

95

by John Crowe Ransom

107 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: hipdeep, mermind

96

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

4,336 members

62 reviews

4

2 Members: tomdoniphon, Sisif

97

by John Cheever

694 members

15 reviews

3.8

2 Members: mermind, Laura1124

98

The Counterfeiters

1,323 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: tomdoniphon, jeffza

99

by Sinclair Lewis

4,843 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, Laura1124

100

by Theodore Dreiser

3,856 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

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