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

Type: Preset list created by jeffza

Members: 15 participating members (show all)

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1
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,588 members, 1,002 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: NinieB (1), Laura1124 (1), steller0707 (1), kara.shamy (1), ahef1963 (1), Cecrow (2), jeffza (2), cej1027 (3), Bretzky1 (11), amanda4242 (36), ManWithAnAgenda (60)

Score: 35.03

2
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,165 members, 980 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: NinieB (2), Laura1124 (2), steller0707 (3), cej1027 (5), Sisif (6), amanda4242 (6), ahef1963 (11), Bretzky1 (13), Cecrow (23), kara.shamy (42), ManWithAnAgenda (61)

Score: 26.69

3
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,099 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Sisif (1), cej1027 (2), kara.shamy (2), ahef1963 (3), Bretzky1 (8), Cecrow (11), jeffza (13), amanda4242 (15), ManWithAnAgenda (59)

Score: 23.92

4
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,350 members, 410 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), ManWithAnAgenda (58)

Score: 23.37

5
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,979 members, 372 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), steller0707 (2), kara.shamy (4), ahef1963 (5), Bretzky1 (9), Cecrow (15), amanda4242 (16), jeffza (23), ManWithAnAgenda (57)

Score: 22.49

6
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,886 members, 267 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (2), CharlesTheB (3), NinieB (4), steller0707 (4), Laura1124 (5), Sisif (9), kara.shamy (12), Bretzky1 (16)

Score: 21.19

7
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,158 members, 141 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (1), Laura1124 (3), Sisif (4), hipdeep (4), ahef1963 (8), jeffza (9), amanda4242 (13), ManWithAnAgenda (56)

Score: 20.95

8
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,407 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (1), Sisif (2), ahef1963 (4), kara.shamy (5), Laura1124 (6), amanda4242 (7), ManWithAnAgenda (55)

Score: 19.35

9
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,775 members, 1,117 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (5), Laura1124 (7), Bretzky1 (7), Sisif (8), ahef1963 (12), amanda4242 (19), Cecrow (22), hipdeep (34), ManWithAnAgenda (54)

Score: 19.02

10
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
27,878 members, 500 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4), Sisif (5), steller0707 (6), kara.shamy (7), Laura1124 (8), Cecrow (9), amanda4242 (14), ManWithAnAgenda (53)

Score: 18.76

11
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
10,715 members, 117 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (4), NinieB (5), Cecrow (5), kara.shamy (8), ahef1963 (10), Laura1124 (12), jeffza (21), ManWithAnAgenda (52)

Score: 18.31

12
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,840 members, 189 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 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
15,825 members, 294 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
8,310 members, 183 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: NinieB (6), steller0707 (9), Bretzky1 (12), Laura1124 (14), kara.shamy (16), amanda4242 (18), ahef1963 (20)

Score: 14.92

15
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,479 members, 238 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (6), steller0707 (8), Laura1124 (11), Sisif (11), Cecrow (14), jeffza (20), ManWithAnAgenda (51)

Score: 14.78

16
Collected Poems
by W. B. Yeats
3,423 members, 23 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), CharlesTheB (2), ahef1963 (6), jeffza (7), ManWithAnAgenda (50)

Score: 13.88

17
Ulysses
by James Joyce
20,441 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: Sisif (7), ahef1963 (7), kara.shamy (10), Laura1124 (13), mermind (16), Bretzky1 (21)

Score: 13.14

18
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,411 members, 211 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), steller0707 (14), Bretzky1 (17), Laura1124 (18), ahef1963 (21), Cecrow (29)

Score: 12.94

19
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,194 members, 108 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), Sisif (10), kara.shamy (13), Bretzky1 (14), Laura1124 (17), ManWithAnAgenda (49)

Score: 12.22

20
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
13,746 members, 172 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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

Score: 11.83

21
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,415 members, 291 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (10), Sisif (13), Laura1124 (15), amanda4242 (33), ahef1963 (39), ManWithAnAgenda (48)

Score: 11.18

22
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,554 members, 221 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 11.11

23
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
12,923 members, 316 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), kara.shamy (9), ManWithAnAgenda (10), Cecrow (13), jeffza (16)

Score: 11.04

24
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
8,891 members, 147 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), steller0707 (21), hipdeep (29), Sisif (40), amanda4242 (45)

Score: 10.73

25
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
4,345 members, 137 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (7), amanda4242 (11), steller0707 (12), Sisif (14), ManWithAnAgenda (30)

Score: 10.58

26
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,549 members, 183 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (8), kara.shamy (14), ahef1963 (15), ManWithAnAgenda (20), Laura1124 (22)

Score: 10.22

27
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38,498 members, 578 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: NinieB (8), Sisif (16), Bretzky1 (20), Laura1124 (23), Cecrow (24)

Score: 9.9

28
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,179 members, 101 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (6), amanda4242 (20), ahef1963 (22), Cecrow (28), ManWithAnAgenda (29)

Score: 9.76

29
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
7,312 members, 101 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: NinieB (9), ManWithAnAgenda (17), Cecrow (18), ahef1963 (23), amanda4242 (37)

Score: 9.67

30
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,201 members, 221 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6), kara.shamy (17), Laura1124 (27), Cecrow (27), ahef1963 (36)

Score: 9.67

31
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5,644 members, 60 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: CharlesTheB (11), ManWithAnAgenda (16), hipdeep (20), amanda4242 (26), ahef1963 (35)

Score: 9.5

32
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,103 members, 179 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 9.37

33
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
19,178 members, 210 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Score: 9.23

34
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
7,774 members, 99 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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

Score: 9.05

35
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
7,745 members, 115 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (4), jeffza (6), ManWithAnAgenda (14), amanda4242 (42)

Score: 9.02

36
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
20,118 members, 403 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12), steller0707 (22), Laura1124 (28), Sisif (31), ahef1963 (44)

Score: 8.98

37
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,540 members, 106 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: mermind (1), ManWithAnAgenda (4), Sisif (15)

Score: 8.86

38
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
689 members, 29 reviews
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), Sisif (18), amanda4242 (21), kara.shamy (22)

Score: 8.7

39
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
20,012 members, 287 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (4), ManWithAnAgenda (13), ahef1963 (28), Laura1124 (30)

Score: 8.38

40
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
10,852 members, 228 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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

Score: 8.24

41
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
1,924 members, 36 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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

Score: 8.2

42
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,769 members, 196 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: Cecrow (10), kara.shamy (15), ahef1963 (17), ManWithAnAgenda (36)

Score: 7.89

43
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,405 members, 203 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: jeffza (12), steller0707 (17), Sisif (21), ManWithAnAgenda (23)

Score: 7.81

44
The Plague
by Albert Camus
15,702 members, 200 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: NinieB (12), ManWithAnAgenda (18), Sisif (23), jeffza (27)

Score: 7.67

45
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
9,130 members, 102 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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

Score: 7.53

46
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,443 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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

Score: 7.48

47
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
by Seamus Heaney
1,042 members, 9 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (17), jeffza (18), kara.shamy (20), ManWithAnAgenda (37)

Score: 7.43

48
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
6,694 members, 80 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (11), amanda4242 (25), ManWithAnAgenda (26), ahef1963 (34)

Score: 7.41

49
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
12,777 members, 186 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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

Score: 7.4

50
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
11,754 members, 255 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 7.34

51
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,107 members, 137 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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

Score: 7.33

52
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,586 members, 139 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

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

Score: 7.15

53
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield
643 members, 9 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: Sisif (28), ManWithAnAgenda (32), Cecrow (33), Laura1124 (35)

Score: 6.73

54
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
19,629 members, 252 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (3), ManWithAnAgenda (19), ahef1963 (27)

Score: 6.71

55
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
4,177 members, 94 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 6.68

56
The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
by W. B. Yeats
223 members, 0 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

Score: 6.34

57
Victory
by Joseph Conrad
2,097 members, 26 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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

Score: 6.04

58
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
3,429 members, 64 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: jeffza (1), mermind (17)

Score: 5.97

59
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
3,058 members, 32 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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

Score: 5.96

60
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
5,699 members, 67 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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

Score: 5.86

61
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
3,320 members, 73 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (1), Laura1124 (31)

Score: 5.7

62
The Complete Poems and Plays
by T. S. Eliot
2,360 members, 12 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

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

Score: 5.6

63
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
3,255 members, 98 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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

Score: 5.51

64
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
1,131 members, 12 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), ManWithAnAgenda (34), kara.shamy (37)

Score: 5.43

65
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,527 members, 142 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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

Score: 5.26

66
The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
2,367 members, 38 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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

Score: 5.19

67
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
4,601 members, 100 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 5.16

68
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
by Dylan Thomas
2,363 members, 18 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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

Score: 5.1

69
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24,348 members, 360 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 4.98

70
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,246 members, 31 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: mermind (4), CharlesTheB (12)

Score: 4.98

71
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
6,654 members, 106 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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

Score: 4.92

72
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
4,480 members, 75 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 4.88

73
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,225 members, 39 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: jeffza (5), Sisif (20)

Score: 4.57

74
Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal
837 members, 21 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), amanda4242 (32)

Score: 4.36

75
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
2,290 members, 38 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9), NinieB (19)

Score: 4.23

76
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
5,665 members, 94 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (11), NinieB (18)

Score: 4.14

77
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
9,529 members, 169 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (15), jeffza (15)

Score: 4.07

78
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,595 members, 40 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), kara.shamy (35)

Score: 4.02

79
Fences
by August Wilson
1,405 members, 14 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (14), ManWithAnAgenda (21)

Score: 3.94

80
Selected Poems
by John Crowe Ransom
99 members, 0 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: mermind (12), hipdeep (27)

Score: 3.9

81
Bullet Park
by John Cheever
645 members, 15 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: mermind (8), Laura1124 (56)

Score: 3.84

82
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
8,487 members, 183 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 3.78

83
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
4,429 members, 81 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (10), Laura1124 (55)

Score: 3.72

84
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
3,557 members, 51 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 3.58

85
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
1,027 members, 11 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22), ahef1963 (29)

Score: 3.57

86
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,268 members, 94 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: amanda4242 (22), Cecrow (31)

Score: 3.54

87
Bruno's Dream
by Iris Murdoch
474 members, 8 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: Sisif (25), jeffza (28)

Score: 3.53

88
Ironweed
by William J. Kennedy
2,182 members, 43 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: NinieB (15), ahef1963 (53)

Score: 3.52

89
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,293 members, 39 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (15), Laura1124 (54)

Score: 3.51

90
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
3,055 members, 44 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Sisif (26), amanda4242 (30)

Score: 3.48

91
The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty
444 members, 13 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: mermind (21), amanda4242 (38)

Score: 3.48

92
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,880 members, 121 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: NinieB (16), Laura1124 (57)

Score: 3.46

93
Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
834 members, 12 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 3.45

94
Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
1,712 members, 18 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: Sisif (27), amanda4242 (31)

Score: 3.45

95
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
10,565 members, 94 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (22), amanda4242 (39)

Score: 3.45

96
The Short Stories of Saki
by Saki
1,284 members, 19 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (27), hipdeep (33)

Score: 3.42

97
The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'Neill
1,184 members, 8 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18), Laura1124 (53)

Score: 3.42

98
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
9,363 members, 233 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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

Score: 3.42

99
Point Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley
2,277 members, 21 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: mermind (19), Laura1124 (52)

Score: 3.41

100
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
2,991 members, 56 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (25), ahef1963 (40)

Score: 3.38

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