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Phi Beta Kappa reading list

Type: Preset list created by hipdeep

Description: Books chosen for the Phi Beta Kappa "summer reading lists" or "top books of the year."

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,323 members, 489 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (1), gypsysmom (1), hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (12), cej1027

Score: 16.19

2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
18,127 members, 285 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), gypsysmom (2), ahef1963 (4), cej1027

Score: 12.87

3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,009 members, 562 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), gypsysmom (4), ManWithAnAgenda (9), ahef1963 (13), hipdeep (23)

Score: 12.11

4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
14,828 members, 1,161 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), steller0707 (2), gypsysmom (3), hipdeep (36)

Score: 12.04

5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
12,688 members, 712 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (3), gypsysmom (5), ahef1963 (14), hipdeep (88), cej1027

Score: 11.76

6
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
17,530 members, 641 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (5), ahef1963 (5), hipdeep (124), cej1027

Score: 9.22

7
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
8,977 members, 684 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), steller0707 (4), gypsysmom (6)

Score: 8.75

8
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
6,901 members, 408 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7), ahef1963 (15), steller0707 (15), gypsysmom (22)

Score: 8.37

9
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
12,201 members, 721 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), ahef1963 (16), steller0707 (16), gypsysmom (24)

Score: 8.19

10
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
6,202 members, 329 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (6), hipdeep (6), gypsysmom (7)

Score: 7.57

11
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
6,519 members, 433 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), steller0707 (17), gypsysmom (25), hipdeep (33)

Score: 7.4

12
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
15,606 members, 504 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (8), gypsysmom (9), ahef1963 (10)

Score: 6.94

13
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
6,163 members, 298 reviews
4.44 stars (4.44 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), steller0707 (18), gypsysmom (26), hipdeep (97)

Score: 6.93

14
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,318 members, 272 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (6), steller0707 (7), hipdeep (21)

Score: 6.88

15
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
11,124 members, 240 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (9), gypsysmom (10), ahef1963 (11)

Score: 6.76

16
March: Book One
by John Lewis
2,303 members, 144 reviews
4.46 stars (4.46 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), cej1027 (5)

Score: 6.68

17
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
24,420 members, 471 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (10), ManWithAnAgenda (12), gypsysmom (12)

Score: 6.55

18
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
4,466 members, 302 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (7), ahef1963 (19), hipdeep (22)

Score: 6.22

19
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
5,054 members, 179 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), hipdeep (11)

Score: 6.2

20
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
4,791 members, 297 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (11), gypsysmom (13), hipdeep (41)

Score: 5.88

21
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
10,242 members, 123 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (12), gypsysmom (15), hipdeep (46)

Score: 5.72

22
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
6,531 members, 401 reviews
4.48 stars (4.48 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (8), ahef1963 (20), hipdeep (71)

Score: 5.65

23
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)
by Patrick Rothfuss
17,111 members, 709 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 5.6

24
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
5,890 members, 232 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), steller0707 (20), hipdeep (125)

Score: 5.47

25
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
14,271 members, 763 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (13), gypsysmom (19), hipdeep (61)

Score: 5.45

26
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
7,684 members, 406 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (14), gypsysmom (20), hipdeep (72)

Score: 5.33

28
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
1,889 members, 93 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (23), steller0707 (28), hipdeep (100)

Score: 4.83

29
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
1,577 members, 61 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), steller0707 (19)

Score: 4.74

30
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
19,525 members, 651 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (8), ahef1963 (9)

Score: 4.69

31
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
4,359 members, 100 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), hipdeep (17)

Score: 4.65

32
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
25,509 members, 979 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), hipdeep (121)

Score: 4.57

33
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,651 members, 28 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), hipdeep (30)

Score: 4.54

34
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,352 members, 184 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10), hipdeep (10)

Score: 4.5

35
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
575 members, 21 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3), hipdeep (136)

Score: 4.21

36
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
4,097 members, 114 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), steller0707 (29)

Score: 4.03

37
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,303 members, 66 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (11), steller0707 (23)

Score: 4.02

39
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
2,145 members, 129 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (11), hipdeep (27)

Score: 3.95

40
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
1,686 members, 73 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (9), hipdeep (53)

Score: 3.79

41
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
303 members, 9 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (21), hipdeep (26)

Score: 3.64

42
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
4,299 members, 272 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (14), hipdeep (45)

Score: 3.61

43
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,022 members, 23 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (16), hipdeep (48)

Score: 3.52

44
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2,995 members, 130 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (22), hipdeep (37)

Score: 3.47

45
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
2,518 members, 181 reviews
4.44 stars (4.44 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), hipdeep (43)

Score: 3.43

46
Circe
by Madeline Miller
6,793 members, 351 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (24), hipdeep (87)

Score: 3.12

48
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
4,212 members, 238 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), hipdeep (119)

Score: 3.06

49
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
12,517 members, 220 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3)

Score: 3.04

50
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
3,300 members, 174 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23), hipdeep (122)

Score: 3.03

51
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
20,570 members, 373 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (27), hipdeep (98)

Score: 3.03

52
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
3,095 members, 171 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24), hipdeep (133)

Score: 2.99

53
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
1,719 members, 119 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (30), hipdeep (103)

Score: 2.97

54
There There
by Tommy Orange
3,019 members, 154 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (26), hipdeep (143)

Score: 2.93

55
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
1,945 members, 97 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (31), hipdeep (144)

Score: 2.85

56
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
67 members, 4 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5)

Score: 2.68

57
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
2,394 members, 185 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6)

Score: 2.56

58
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
3,074 members, 66 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7)

Score: 2.46

59
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
1,405 members, 26 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8)

Score: 2.38

60
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
147 members, 2 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12)

Score: 2.15

61
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
584 members, 26 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (13)

Score: 2.11

62
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
9,255 members, 199 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (14)

Score: 2.07

63
Black Panther HC Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
55 members, 2 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (15)

Score: 2.03

64
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
953 members, 10 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16)

Score: 2

65
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,332 members, 77 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (17)

Score: 1.97

67
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove
106 members, 3 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18)

Score: 1.94

68
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
900 members, 50 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (19)

Score: 1.92

69
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
349 members, 12 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (20)

Score: 1.89

70
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,359 members, 164 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (21)

Score: 1.87

71
Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler
2,400 members, 74 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (24)

Score: 1.81

72
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
8,897 members, 314 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

Score: 1.79

73
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
7,782 members, 455 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: gypsysmom (27)

Score: 1.76

75
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
4,437 members, 61 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (29)

Score: 1.72

76
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
155 members, 4 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (31)

Score: 1.7

78
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,040 members, 605 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (34)

Score: 1.66

79
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
1,780 members, 70 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (35)

Score: 1.65

80
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
5,884 members, 321 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), hipdeep (145)

Thumbs down: ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 1.61

83
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,109 members, 163 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (40)

Score: 1.59

84
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by Thomas L. Dyja
198 members, 5 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (42)

Score: 1.57

85
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
by David McCullough
467 members, 16 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (44)

Score: 1.55

86
Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
2,852 members, 99 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (47)

Score: 1.53

87
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by Charles Wheelan
709 members, 20 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (49)

Score: 1.51

88
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
by Virginia Heffernan
101 members, 5 reviews
3.13 stars (3.13 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (50)

Score: 1.5

90
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
2,575 members, 118 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (52)

Score: 1.49

91
Modern Romance: An Investigation
by Aziz Ansari
1,801 members, 109 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (54)

Score: 1.48

92
The Incarnations
by Susan Barker
482 members, 23 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (55)

Score: 1.47

93
Washington: A Life
by Ron Chernow
2,509 members, 72 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (56)

Score: 1.46

94
A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
by Tom Brokaw
172 members, 9 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (57)

Score: 1.46

96
The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
by Scott Samuelson
46 members, 1 review
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (59)

Score: 1.44

97
The Library: A World History
by James W. P. Campbell
509 members, 7 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (60)

Score: 1.44

98
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by William Finnegan
720 members, 35 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (62)

Score: 1.43

99
James Merrill: Life and Art
by Langdon Hammer
58 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (63)

Score: 1.42

100
Get in Trouble: Stories
by Kelly Link
958 members, 72 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (64)

Score: 1.41

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Started by: hipdeep (September 2017)

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