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Amanda's Guaranteed Books

Type: Preset list created by freilert

Description: A list my sister made of books that I should read which started my library.

Members: 4 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
23,722 members, 453 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1), ahef1963 (3), freilert (25), cej1027

Score: 11.5

2
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
12,010 members, 238 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), freilert (6), cej1027

Score: 9.23

3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
21,027 members, 269 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), freilert (12), cej1027

Score: 8.19

4
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
19,936 members, 402 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2), freilert (11), ahef1963 (12)

Score: 7.71

5
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
6,263 members, 108 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), freilert (38), cej1027

Score: 7.11

6
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
45,753 members, 639 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), freilert (43), cej1027

Score: 6.91

7
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
36,013 members, 658 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), freilert (61), cej1027

Score: 6.66

8
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
13,908 members, 270 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: freilert (1), ahef1963 (7)

Score: 6.46

9
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,106 members, 86 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: dara85 (3), ahef1963 (38), freilert (86)

Score: 5.96

10
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,086 members, 140 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: freilert (2), ahef1963 (8)

Score: 5.74

11
Night
by Elie Wiesel
22,410 members, 513 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: dara85 (4), ahef1963 (44), freilert (106)

Score: 5.63

12
A Clockwork Orange [novel]
by Anthony Burgess
22,212 members, 346 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: freilert (7), ahef1963 (9)

Score: 4.77

13
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
10,784 members, 228 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: freilert (9), ahef1963 (10)

Score: 4.56

14
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,175 members, 412 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: freilert (10), ahef1963 (11)

Score: 4.45

15
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
3,535 members, 51 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: dara85 (7), freilert (19)

Score: 4.38

16
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
1,869 members, 29 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: freilert (40), cej1027

Score: 4.27

17
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
18,385 members, 147 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), freilert (13)

Score: 4.21

18
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton
1,831 members, 42 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: dara85 (6), freilert (42)

Score: 4.13

19
Chéri
by Colette
519 members, 16 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), freilert (15)

Score: 4.1

20
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
19,967 members, 328 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), freilert (16)

Score: 4.03

21
The Promise
by Chaim Potok
1,970 members, 24 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: dara85 (5), freilert (85)

Score: 3.99

22
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
9,690 members, 174 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: freilert (92), cej1027

Score: 3.97

23
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,151 members, 404 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: freilert (96), cej1027

Score: 3.95

24
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10,136 members, 91 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), freilert (18)

Score: 3.94

25
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,746 members, 188 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), freilert (20)

Score: 3.86

26
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,139 members, 1,003 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), freilert (21)

Score: 3.81

27
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
22,258 members, 333 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), freilert (22)

Score: 3.76

28
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
23,520 members, 690 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), freilert (23)

Score: 3.72

29
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
9,556 members, 184 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), freilert (24)

Score: 3.68

30
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
2,567 members, 68 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: dara85 (8), freilert (110)

Score: 3.61

31
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
41,549 members, 659 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), freilert (29)

Score: 3.57

32
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
5,069 members, 153 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), freilert (41)

Score: 3.41

33
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
14,043 members, 176 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), freilert (44)

Score: 3.36

34
The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson
2,823 members, 73 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25), freilert (46)

Score: 3.33

35
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
5,841 members, 333 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), freilert (47)

Score: 3.3

36
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
18,416 members, 182 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), freilert (49)

Score: 3.27

37
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,646 members, 197 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), freilert (50)

Score: 3.24

38
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,519 members, 49 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29), freilert (51)

Score: 3.22

39
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,050 members, 142 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), freilert (53)

Score: 3.19

40
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
11,078 members, 174 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31), freilert (57)

Score: 3.15

41
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
11,666 members, 180 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32), freilert (59)

Score: 3.13

42
The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
3,036 members, 124 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33), freilert (67)

Score: 3.07

43
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,343 members, 212 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), freilert (68)

Score: 3.05

44
The Book of Imaginary Beings
by Jorge Luis Borges
2,353 members, 23 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: freilert (3)

Score: 3.04

45
The Misanthrope
by Molière
1,308 members, 15 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), freilert (73)

Score: 3.01

46
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,554 members, 742 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), freilert (80)

Score: 2.97

47
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
23,823 members, 426 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37), freilert (83)

Score: 2.95

48
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,151 members, 978 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), freilert (93)

Score: 2.89

49
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
8,475 members, 167 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), freilert (97)

Score: 2.87

50
Candide
by Voltaire
17,497 members, 268 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41), freilert (100)

Score: 2.85

51
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,110 members, 602 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), freilert (101)

Score: 2.83

52
The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd
823 members, 19 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: freilert (4)

Score: 2.83

53
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
19,505 members, 252 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), freilert (102)

Score: 2.82

54
The Code of the Woosters
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,258 members, 55 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45), freilert (107)

Score: 2.79

55
Carry On, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,061 members, 65 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46), freilert (108)

Score: 2.78

56
Red Sky at Morning
by Richard Bradford
528 members, 17 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: freilert (5)

Score: 2.68

57
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
9,924 members, 102 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: freilert (8)

Score: 2.38

58
The Spice-Box of Earth
by Leonard Cohen
247 members, 7 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: freilert (14)

Score: 2.07

59
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
7,727 members, 99 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: freilert (17)

Score: 1.97

60
J R
by William Gaddis
1,117 members, 16 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: freilert (26)

Score: 1.77

61
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
737 members, 11 reviews
3.3 stars (3.3 stars)

Lists: freilert (27)

Score: 1.76

62
Kaddish
by Allen Ginsberg
8 members, 0 reviews

Lists: freilert (28)

Score: 1.74

63
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,685 members, 83 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: freilert (30)

Score: 1.71

64
Dog Years
by Günter Grass
1,011 members, 8 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: freilert (31)

Score: 1.7

65
Local Anaesthetic
by Günter Grass
488 members, 5 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: freilert (32)

Score: 1.68

66
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
7,831 members, 243 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: freilert (33)

Score: 1.67

67
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
9,457 members, 166 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: freilert (34)

Score: 1.66

68
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,820 members, 117 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: freilert (35)

Score: 1.65

69
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
35,042 members, 467 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: freilert (36)

Score: 1.63

70
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller
2,144 members, 22 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: freilert (37)

Score: 1.62

71
The Child Buyer
by John Hersey
261 members, 5 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: freilert (39)

Score: 1.6

72
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
10,662 members, 139 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: freilert (45)

Score: 1.54

73
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
6,515 members, 198 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: freilert (48)

Score: 1.52

74
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,275 members, 198 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: freilert (52)

Score: 1.49

75
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
24,191 members, 336 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: freilert (54)

Score: 1.48

76
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
6,558 members, 66 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: freilert (55)

Score: 1.47

77
Primary Colors
by Joe Klein
2,389 members, 39 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: freilert (56)

Score: 1.46

78
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
5,485 members, 56 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: freilert (58)

Score: 1.45

79
The Truce
by Primo Levi
1,070 members, 24 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: freilert (60)

Score: 1.44

80
The Confession
by Artur London
48 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: freilert (62)

Score: 1.43

81
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
2,508 members, 44 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: freilert (63)

Score: 1.42

83
The Complete Marquis de Sade, Vol. 1
by Marquis de Sade
65 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: freilert (65)

Score: 1.41

84
Up at the Villa
by W. Somerset Maugham
718 members, 27 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: freilert (66)

Score: 1.4

85
Quiet Days in Clichy
by Henry Miller
678 members, 10 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: freilert (69)

Score: 1.39

86
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
7,661 members, 109 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: freilert (70)

Score: 1.38

87
Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller
3,185 members, 34 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: freilert (71)

Score: 1.38

88
Tartuffe
by Molière
2,358 members, 26 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: freilert (72)

Score: 1.37

89
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
by Desmond Morris
2,540 members, 41 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: freilert (74)

Score: 1.36

90
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
2,523 members, 44 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: freilert (75)

Score: 1.36

91
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
27,741 members, 498 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: freilert (76)

Score: 1.36

92
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by R. K. Narayan
972 members, 4 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: freilert (77)

Score: 1.35

93
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
3,041 members, 32 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: freilert (78)

Score: 1.35

94
Envy
by Yuri Olesha
551 members, 5 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: freilert (79)

Score: 1.34

95
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
4,122 members, 84 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: freilert (81)

Score: 1.33

96
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
16,488 members, 247 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: freilert (82)

Score: 1.33

98
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
3,806 members, 74 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: freilert (87)

Score: 1.31

99
The Gift of Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
1,192 members, 23 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: freilert (88)

Score: 1.31

100
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
9,208 members, 188 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: freilert (89)

Score: 1.3

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