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Art of Reading

Type: Preset list created by avatiakh

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

Members: 2 participating members (show all)

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1
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
11,535 members, 187 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), avatiakh (5)

Score: 6.68

2
The Art of Reading
by Damon Young
92 members, 3 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (1)

Score: 4

3
The Complete Fables
by Aesop
5,977 members, 77 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 3.36

4
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Richard Burton
1,612 members, 21 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 3.04

5
The Magic Faraway Tree
by Enid Blyton
1,308 members, 16 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 2.83

6
The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
307 members, 3 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

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Score: 2.56

7
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,299 members, 42 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 2.46

8
The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2,832 members, 26 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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Score: 2.38

9
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,873 members, 28 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 2.31

10
What is Literature?
by Jean-Paul Sartre
759 members, 6 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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Score: 2.25

11
Therese the Philosopher
by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer/Diderot? d'Argens
75 members, 2 reviews
2.8 stars (2.8 stars)

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Score: 2.2

12
Nicomachean ethics
by Aristoteles
8,877 members, 50 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 2.15

13
The Iliad
by Homer
34,526 members, 347 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 2.11

14
A Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume
2,578 members, 14 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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Score: 2.07

15
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
by George Orwell
2,678 members, 55 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 2.03

16
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
5,845 members, 104 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 2

17
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,964 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 1.97

18
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
1,368 members, 60 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (18)

Score: 1.94

19
A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
3,530 members, 49 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.92

20
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
29,017 members, 521 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.89

21
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
21,624 members, 308 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.87

22
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
3,835 members, 32 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (22)

Score: 1.85

23
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,486 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

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Score: 1.83

24
Report to Greco
by Nikos Kazantzakis
489 members, 7 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 1.81

25
The Republic
by Plato
19,330 members, 123 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (25)

Score: 1.79

26
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
by Friedrich Nietzsche
1,798 members, 19 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

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Score: 1.77

27
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
1,838 members, 5 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 1.76

28
On Christian Doctrine
by St. Augustine
1,612 members, 11 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.74

29
The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory and Paradise
by Dante Alighieri
49 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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Score: 1.72

30
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
9,633 members, 227 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Score: 1.71

32
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,589 members, 13 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 1.68

33
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,619 members, 313 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (33)

Score: 1.67

34
Theaetetus
by Plato
868 members, 7 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.66

35
Aristotle's Physics : A guided study
by Aristotle
758 members, 8 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 1.65

36
An Introduction to Metaphysics
by Martin Heidegger
1,029 members, 2 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 1.63

37
What is Philosophy?
by Martin Heidegger
151 members, 1 review
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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Score: 1.62

38
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
5,368 members, 546 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (38)

Score: 1.61

39
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
1,684 members, 61 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.6

40
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
2,496 members, 24 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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Score: 1.59

41
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,159 members, 119 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.58

42
Psychology: The Briefer Course
by William James
304 members, 1 review
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.57

43
Summa Theologiae
by Thomas Aquinas
1,122 members, 10 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 1.56

44
The Ambassadors
by Henry James
3,575 members, 39 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 1.55

45
De Inventione
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
18 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

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Score: 1.54

46
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,049 members, 488 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.54

47
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
65,453 members, 1,261 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Score: 1.53

48
Inferno
by Dan Brown
9,694 members, 474 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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Score: 1.52

49
The Aspern Papers
by Henry James
791 members, 25 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 1.51

50
The Europeans: A Sketch
by Henry James
1,484 members, 16 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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Score: 1.5

51
All the books of my life
by Sheila Kaye-Smith
18 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.5

52
Hegel: Philosophy of Mind
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
181 members, 3 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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Score: 1.49

53
Art as Experience
by John Dewey
935 members, 5 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.48

54
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
7,563 members, 508 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 1.48

55
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
17,567 members, 471 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Score: 1.47

56
The Ninja
by Eric Van Lustbader
845 members, 9 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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Score: 1.46

57
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,875 members, 477 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
1,579 members, 52 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

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Score: 1.45

59
The Mystical Theology
by Pseudo Denys l' Aéropagite
14 members, 1 review
2.67 stars (2.67 stars)

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Score: 1.44

60
Weaveworld
by Clive Barker
3,844 members, 50 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1.44

61
What Maisie Knew
by Henry James
1,938 members, 37 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

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Score: 1.43

62
Still Life
by A. S. Byatt
1,344 members, 12 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 1.43

63
Animal people
by Charlotte Wood
55 members, 4 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

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Score: 1.42

64
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Paul Sartre
4,417 members, 15 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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Score: 1.41

65
The Last Temptation of Christ
by Nikos Kazantzakis
2,859 members, 39 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 1.41

66
Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
4,301 members, 29 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 1.4

67
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
by Friedrich Nietzsche
1,730 members, 13 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 1.4

68
Adventures of Ideas
by Alfred North Whitehead
587 members, 3 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 1.39

69
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
6,952 members, 52 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 1.39

70
The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkien
30,266 members, 236 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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Score: 1.38

72
The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]
by Simone de Beauvoir
4,154 members, 28 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 1.37

73
The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
1,794 members, 37 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

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Score: 1.37

74
Titan: The Red King
by Michael A. Martin
326 members, 7 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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Score: 1.36

75
Swimming Home
by Deborah Levy
779 members, 47 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

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Score: 1.36

76
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)
by Iris Murdoch
472 members, 1 review
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 1.36

77
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,321 members, 306 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.35

78
The Dark Light Years
by Brian W. Aldiss
426 members, 10 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

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Score: 1.35

79
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,181 members, 391 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 1.34

81
The Gay Science
by Friedrich Nietzsche
2,899 members, 21 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 1.33

82
Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume One
by Arthur Schopenhauer
134 members, 2 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 1.33

83
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
11,873 members, 91 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 1.33

84
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,463 members, 464 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (84)

Score: 1.32

85
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
21,611 members, 291 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

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Score: 1.32

86
The Pleasure of Reading
by Antonia Fraser
177 members, 7 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 1.31

87
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by Michael Chabon
1,565 members, 31 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 1.31

88
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
17,793 members, 389 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.31

89
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
6,540 members, 156 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1.3

90
Other Colors: Essays and a Story
by Orhan Pamuk
731 members, 10 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 1.3

91
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
by Edith Wharton
373 members, 6 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Score: 1.3

92
Philosophy in the Garden
by Damon Young
29 members, 0 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.29

93
The Words
by Jean-Paul Sartre
2,121 members, 16 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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Score: 1.29

94
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,008 members, 72 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1.29

95
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
by Herbert Marcuse
193 members, 2 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

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Score: 1.28

96
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,645 members, 231 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 1.28

97
Electric Light
by Seamus Heaney
425 members, 6 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 1.28

98
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-Georg Gadamer
122 members, 0 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (98)

Score: 1.27

99
The Democracy of Objects
by Levi R. Bryant
51 members, 0 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: avatiakh (99)

Score: 1.27

100
On Reading
by Marcel Proust
302 members, 7 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

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Score: 1.27

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