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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

15,946 members

223 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: avatiakh, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Fables of Aesop

4,270 members

58 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf Poet

29,248 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,048 members

48 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

5

The Invisible Man

12,729 members

290 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Da Vinci Code

75,970 members

1,366 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

21,057 members

518 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,367 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

9

by Virginia Woolf

23,269 members

376 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

29,036 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

44,109 members

570 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

94,254 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Sense and Sensibility

44,086 members

577 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

What is Literature?

by Jean-Paul Sartre

956 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

16

Northanger Abbey

24,984 members

463 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Short Stories of Saki

1,600 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Herman Melville

41,723 members

619 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,709 members

576 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

20

A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

4,123 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

21

The Portrait of a Lady

12,156 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,279 members

635 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

7,083 members

111 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,216 members

594 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

25

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Martin Heidegger

1,296 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

26

27,450 members

377 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

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1,815 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

2,082 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

32

by Clive Barker

4,630 members

57 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

33

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,392 members

429 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

34

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,496 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

35

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,159 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

36

25,674 members

403 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

37

33,252 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

1,930 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

39

Pride and Prejudice

94,040 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Magic Faraway Tree

1,929 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

41

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,572 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

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

11,819 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

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47,571 members

446 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

45

A Treatise of Human Nature

3,262 members

16 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

46

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

3,383 members

57 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

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by Oliver Sacks

1,758 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

48

by Martin Heidegger

5,114 members

39 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

49

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

4,373 members

50 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: avatiakh

50

Report to Greco

by Níkos Kazantzákis

727 members

17 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

51

The Republic of Plato

25,583 members

163 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

52

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,479 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

53

Of Grammatology

by Jacques Derrida

2,241 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

54

On Christian Teaching

by Saint Augustine

2,076 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]

1,133 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

59

952 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

60

What is Philosophy?

by Martin Heidegger

194 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

61

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

2,141 members

85 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

62

The Golden Bowl

3,064 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

63

Psychology: The Briefer Course

by William James

383 members

4 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

64

Summa Theologiae

by Thomas Aquinas

1,541 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

65

The Ambassadors

4,426 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

66

L' invenzione retorica

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

23 members

3

Member: avatiakh

67

13,992 members

540 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

216 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

71

Art as Experience

1,207 members

8 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

72

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

9,238 members

576 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

73

by Eric Van Lustbader

1,026 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

74

What Maisie Knew

2,321 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

75

1,513 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

76

by Charlotte Wood

70 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

77

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

5,627 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

78

The Last Temptation of Christ

by Níkos Kazantzákis

3,404 members

48 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

79

by Blaise Pascal

5,808 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

80

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,273 members

15 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

81

Adventures of Ideas

by Alfred North Whitehead

701 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

82

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,952 members

69 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

83

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

41,043 members

307 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

84

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

by Martha Nussbaum

555 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

85

by Simone de Beauvoir

5,107 members

37 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

86

by Shirley Hazzard

2,106 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

87

Titan: The Red King

by Michael A. Martin

417 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

88

by Deborah Levy

1,030 members

58 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

89

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

by Iris Murdoch

596 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

90

The Dark Light Years

by Brian W. Aldiss

546 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

91

World as Will & Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer

264 members

1 review

3.8

Member: avatiakh

92

The Gay Science

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,596 members

27 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

15,557 members

121 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

95

Maps and Legends

by Michael Chabon

1,755 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

96

7,742 members

185 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

97

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

848 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

98

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

by Edith Wharton

457 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

99

Philosophy in the Garden

56 members

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

100

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,574 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

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