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Art of Reading

Description: works referenced and discussed by Damon Young in his The Art of Reading
Members: 4 participating members
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1

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,871 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: avatiakh, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Complete Fables

3,256 members

101 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf poet

24,458 members

330 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Invisible Man

10,525 members

245 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Da Vinci Code

68,848 members

1,291 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

18,840 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Virginia Woolf

19,866 members

324 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,844 members

313 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

36,550 members

495 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

323 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

11

by George Orwell

79,035 members

1,243 reviews

4.2

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Sense and Sensibility

36,784 members

506 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Northanger Abbey

20,868 members

405 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Short Stories of Saki

1,450 members

26 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Herman Melville

34,069 members

520 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,436 members

477 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

17

The Portrait of a Lady

10,574 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,935 members

548 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,227 members

105 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,620 members

564 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

21

23,326 members

334 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

22

The Art of Reading

114 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

23

The Europeans: A Sketch

1,577 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

24

Riders of the Purple Sage

1,715 members

61 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

25

by Clive Barker

4,063 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

26

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,467 members

409 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

27

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,640 members

79 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

28

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,955 members

259 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

29

21,761 members

352 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

30

27,639 members

522 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

by Richard Burton

1,735 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

32

Pride and Prejudice

77,556 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Magic Faraway Tree

1,543 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

34

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,521 members

43 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

35

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,040 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

36

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,007 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

37

What is Literature?

by Jean-Paul Sartre

804 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

38

Therese the Philosopher

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

83 members

3 reviews

2.9

Member: avatiakh

39

Nicomachean Ethics

9,724 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

40

38,074 members

372 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

41

A Treatise of Human Nature

2,777 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

42

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

2,868 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

43

by Oliver Sacks

1,490 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

44

A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

3,706 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

45

by Martin Heidegger

4,209 members

40 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

46

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,921 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: avatiakh

47

Report to Greco

by Nikos Kazantzakis

520 members

8 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

48

21,144 members

138 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

49

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

1,987 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

50

Of Grammatology

by Jacques Derrida

1,957 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

51

On Christian Teaching

by Saint Augustine

1,796 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

52

The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory and Paradise

by Dante Alighieri

53 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

53

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

18 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

54

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,694 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

55

Theaetetus [Greek and translation]

950 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

56

768 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

57

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Martin Heidegger

1,114 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

58

What is Philosophy?

by Martin Heidegger

165 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

59

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,843 members

67 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

60

The Golden Bowl

2,672 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

61

Psychology: The Briefer Course

by William James

331 members

1 review

4

Member: avatiakh

62

Summa Theologiae

by Thomas Aquinas

1,282 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

63

The Ambassadors

3,862 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

64

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

21 members

3

Member: avatiakh

65

11,063 members

493 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

66

The Aspern Papers

841 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

67

All the books of my life

by Sheila Kaye-Smith

17 members

4

Member: avatiakh

68

Hegel: Philosophy of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

196 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

69

Art as Experience

1,025 members

7 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

70

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

8,083 members

527 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

71

by Eric Van Lustbader

905 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

72

The Mystical Theology

by Pseudo Denys l' Aéropagite

16 members

2 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: avatiakh

73

What Maisie Knew

2,053 members

39 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

74

1,402 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

75

by Charlotte Wood

59 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

76

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,754 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

77

The Last Temptation of Christ

by Nikos Kazantzakis

3,013 members

44 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

78

by Blaise Pascal

4,680 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

79

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

by Friedrich Nietzsche

1,906 members

13 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

80

Adventures of Ideas

by Alfred North Whitehead

619 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

81

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,505 members

55 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

82

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

33,419 members

258 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

83

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

by Martha C. Nussbaum

461 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

84

The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]

by Simone de Beauvoir

4,451 members

31 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

85

by Shirley Hazzard

1,887 members

41 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

86

Titan: The Red King

by Michael A. Martin

357 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

87

by Deborah Levy

861 members

49 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

88

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

by Iris Murdoch

519 members

2 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

89

The Dark Light Years

by Brian W. Aldiss

460 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

90

The World As Will and Idea: Abridged in One Volume (Everyman's Library (Paper))

by Arthur Schopenhauer

235 members

1 review

3.8

Member: avatiakh

91

The Gay Science

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,161 members

24 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

92

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume One

by Arthur Schopenhauer

131 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: avatiakh

93

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

12,871 members

102 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

94

The Pleasure of Reading

by Antonia Fraser

186 members

7 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

95

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

by Michael Chabon

1,636 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

96

6,870 members

167 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

97

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

764 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

98

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

by Edith Wharton

400 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

99

Philosophy in the Garden

37 members

4

Member: avatiakh

100

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,259 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

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