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Amanda's Guaranteed Books

Description: A list my sister made of books that I should read which started my library.
Members: 5 participating members
freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, cej1027, dara85

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Diary of a Young Girl

26,742 members

500 reviews

4.1

5 Members: dara85, freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

23,845 members

293 reviews

4.1

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Truman Capote

22,419 members

442 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Pearl S. Buck

13,196 members

255 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963

5

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

51,165 members

740 reviews

3.9

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

42,594 members

729 reviews

4.1

4 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,322 members

154 reviews

3.9

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

25,845 members

555 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: dara85, freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,298 members

126 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ahef1963

10

by J. M. Barrie

17,383 members

302 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

11

by Albert Camus

33,660 members

481 reviews

3.9

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

20,772 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

6,435 members

93 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, freilert, ahef1963

14

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,352 members

367 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11,874 members

94 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

32,475 members

458 reviews

4.1

3 Members: freilert, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,935 members

1,103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,396 members

287 reviews

4.1

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,394 members

536 reviews

4.1

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,113 members

666 reviews

4.1

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

19,558 members

292 reviews

3.8

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

3,347 members

86 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,318 members

404 reviews

4.1

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

18,696 members

217 reviews

3.9

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,300 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

12,968 members

207 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Metamorphosis

11,447 members

189 reviews

3.9

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,222 members

184 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by John Steinbeck

9,403 members

182 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,292 members

237 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Sylvia Plath

26,532 members

476 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,478 members

1,047 reviews

3.8

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by George Orwell

56,432 members

839 reviews

4

3 Members: freilert, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

18,970 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

24,749 members

375 reviews

4

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

36

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

11,884 members

250 reviews

4.1

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

37

The Turn of the Screw

7,600 members

238 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

10,747 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Theodore Dreiser

3,854 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, freilert

40

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,758 members

270 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ManWithAnAgenda

41

1,908 members

36 reviews

4.1

2 Members: freilert, cej1027

42

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,140 members

47 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, freilert

43

592 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

44

2,145 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, freilert

45

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

10,916 members

196 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, cej1027

46

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,454 members

221 reviews

4

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

47

by Gustave Flaubert

24,922 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

48

Pillars of the Earth

26,027 members

732 reviews

4.2

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

49

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,634 members

211 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

50

2,874 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, freilert

51

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

46,914 members

718 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

52

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,797 members

187 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

53

The World According to Garp

14,917 members

190 reviews

4.1

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

54

5,043 members

54 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

55

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,315 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

56

The Book of Imaginary Beings

by Jorge Luis Borges

2,576 members

29 reviews

4

Member: freilert

57

The Misanthrope

1,500 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

58

The Blue Afternoon

by William Boyd

877 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

59

The Code of the Woosters

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,672 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

60

Carry On, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,377 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: freilert, ahef1963

61

Red Sky at Morning

by Richard Bradford

592 members

20 reviews

4

Member: freilert

62

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

3,987 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

63

The Spice-Box of Earth

by Leonard Cohen

273 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: freilert

64

by Joseph Conrad

8,603 members

112 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

65

by William Gaddis

1,293 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: freilert

66

The Beggar's Opera

818 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: freilert

67

by Allen Ginsberg

8 members

Member: freilert

68

by Günter Grass

7,326 members

90 reviews

4

Member: freilert

69

by Günter Grass

1,120 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: freilert

70

Local Anaesthetic

by Günter Grass

530 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: freilert

71

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,731 members

133 reviews

3.9

Member: freilert

72

by Joseph Heller

38,267 members

503 reviews

4.1

Member: freilert

73

Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

2,319 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: freilert

74

The Child Buyer

284 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

75

The Cider House Rules

11,411 members

151 reviews

4.1

Member: freilert

76

by Jack Kerouac

26,863 members

369 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

77

The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

7,080 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: freilert

78

2,571 members

40 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: freilert

79

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

5,925 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: freilert

80

The Reawakening

1,214 members

27 reviews

4.2

Member: freilert

81

by Artur London

52 members

1 review

4.2

Member: freilert

82

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,774 members

49 reviews

4

Member: freilert

83

Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider

1,029 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: freilert

84

The Complete Marquis de Sade, Vol. 1

by Marquis de Sade

71 members

3.9

Member: freilert

85

Up at the Villa

by W. Somerset Maugham

797 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

86

Quiet Days in Clichy

by Henry Miller

763 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

87

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

8,469 members

125 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

88

Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

3,510 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

89

2,726 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

90

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

by Desmond Morris

2,800 members

47 reviews

3.8

Member: freilert

91

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov

2,755 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: freilert

92

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

by R. K. Narayan

1,136 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: freilert

93

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,329 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: freilert

94

625 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: freilert

95

by Walker Percy

4,522 members

94 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

96

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

18,041 members

271 reviews

3.8

Member: freilert

97

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath

1,397 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: freilert

98

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,217 members

76 reviews

4.2

Member: freilert

99

The Gift of Asher Lev

1,316 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: freilert

100

10,139 members

206 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: freilert

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About This List

Started: freilert
September 2016
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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