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Art of Reading

Description: works referenced and discussed by Damon Young in his The Art of Reading

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Winnie-the-Pooh

15,882 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: avatiakh, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Fables of Aesop

4,243 members

57 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf Poet

29,125 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,033 members

48 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

5

The Invisible Man

12,811 members

291 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Da Vinci Code

75,831 members

1,365 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

20,990 members

517 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,354 members

29 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

9

by Virginia Woolf

23,176 members

376 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,887 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

44,034 members

567 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Selected Works (Treasury of world masterpieces)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

378 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

13

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

93,878 members

1,446 reviews

4.2

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Sense and Sensibility

43,883 members

573 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

What is Literature?

by Jean-Paul Sartre

951 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

16

Northanger Abbey

24,867 members

460 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Short Stories of Saki

1,597 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Herman Melville

41,521 members

615 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,439 members

572 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

20

A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

4,125 members

60 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

21

The Portrait of a Lady

12,108 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,134 members

632 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

7,074 members

111 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,209 members

596 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

25

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Martin Heidegger

1,299 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

26

27,356 members

374 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

27

The Art of Reading

150 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

28

The Mystical Theology

by Pseudo Denys l' Aéropagite

16 members

1 review

½ 2.7

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

29

1,809 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

30

The Pleasure of Reading

by Antonia Fraser

205 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

31

Riders of the Purple Sage

2,084 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

32

by Clive Barker

4,608 members

57 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

33

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,343 members

428 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

34

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,448 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

35

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,031 members

324 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

36

25,530 members

402 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

37

33,311 members

576 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights [Modern Library]

by Richard Burton

1,925 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

39

Pride and Prejudice

93,437 members

1,506 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Magic Faraway Tree

1,910 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

41

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,567 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

42

Therese the Philosopher

by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer/Diderot? d'Argens

104 members

3 reviews

2.9

Member: avatiakh

43

The Nicomachean Ethics

11,784 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

44

47,293 members

445 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

45

A Treatise of Human Nature

3,252 members

16 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

46

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

3,363 members

57 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

47

by Oliver Sacks

1,753 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

48

by Martin Heidegger

5,086 members

39 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

49

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,350 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: avatiakh

50

Report to Greco

by Níkos Kazantzákis

728 members

17 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

51

The Republic of Plato

25,518 members

162 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

52

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,472 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

53

Of Grammatology

by Jacques Derrida

2,237 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

54

On Christian Teaching

by Saint Augustine

2,079 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

55

The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory and Paradise

by Dante Alighieri

69 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: avatiakh

56

Nick Carter, detective: fiction's most celebrated detective; six astonishing adventures

19 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

57

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,954 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

58

Theaetetus [Greek and translation]

1,130 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

59

946 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

60

What is Philosophy?

by Martin Heidegger

192 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

61

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

2,129 members

84 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

62

The Golden Bowl

3,049 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

63

Psychology: The Briefer Course

by William James

382 members

4 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

64

Summa Theologiae

by Thomas Aquinas

1,535 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

65

The Ambassadors

4,410 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

66

L' invenzione retorica

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

23 members

3

Member: avatiakh

67

13,948 members

539 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

68

The Aspern Papers

961 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

69

All the books of my life

by Sheila Kaye-Smith

20 members

1 review

3.8

Member: avatiakh

70

Hegel: Philosophy of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

217 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

71

Art as Experience

1,204 members

8 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

72

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

9,350 members

572 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

73

by Eric Van Lustbader

1,022 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

74

What Maisie Knew

2,312 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

75

1,510 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

76

by Charlotte Wood

69 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

77

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

5,598 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

78

The Last Temptation of Christ

by Níkos Kazantzákis

3,409 members

48 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

79

by Blaise Pascal

5,775 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

80

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,266 members

15 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

81

Adventures of Ideas

by Alfred North Whitehead

700 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

82

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,919 members

69 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

83

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

40,833 members

306 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

84

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

by Martha Nussbaum

553 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

85

by Simone de Beauvoir

5,092 members

37 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

86

by Shirley Hazzard

2,109 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

87

Titan: The Red King

by Michael A. Martin

415 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

88

by Deborah Levy

1,027 members

58 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

89

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

by Iris Murdoch

595 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

90

The Dark Light Years

by Brian W. Aldiss

548 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

91

World as Will & Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer

263 members

1 review

3.8

Member: avatiakh

92

The Gay Science

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,579 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: avatiakh

93

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume One

by Arthur Schopenhauer

147 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: avatiakh

94

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

15,476 members

121 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

95

Maps and Legends

by Michael Chabon

1,751 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

96

7,784 members

184 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

97

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

847 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

98

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

by Edith Wharton

458 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

99

Philosophy in the Garden

56 members

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

100

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,569 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

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