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Backlisted Podcast

Description: Books that have been discussed on the literary podcast Backlisted, presented by Unbound's John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author, The Year Of Reading Dangerously). https://unbound.com/backlisted "Giving new life to old books" Some books are featured in the main part of the episodes, and some are discussed up front in the "what are you reading" section or elsewhere in the podcast.
Members: 3 participating members
MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

Rank Title Author Added

1

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,318 members

404 reviews

4.1

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by James Hilton

3,765 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,400 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The High Window

by Raymond Chandler

2,694 members

46 reviews

4

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Month in the Country

2,120 members

114 reviews

4.2

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Fire and Hemlock

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,060 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Muriel Spark

1,668 members

66 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,375 members

63 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

5,240 members

308 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

10

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,184 members

81 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

11

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr.

2,881 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

12

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

2,726 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

13

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,485 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

14

by Nella Larsen

2,408 members

91 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

15

by Virginia Woolf

2,254 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MadmaHord

16

by Georgette Heyer

2,087 members

92 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

17

The Information

2,086 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

18

by Shirley Hazzard

1,872 members

39 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

19

by Hilary Mantel

1,723 members

57 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

20

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

1,604 members

64 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

21

Good Morning, Midnight

1,334 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

22

A Sport and a Pastime

by James Salter

1,264 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

23

by Vladimir Nabokov

1,216 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

24

The Horse's Mouth

1,166 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

25

by J. G. Ballard

1,149 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

26

Adventures in the Screen Trade

by William Goldman

993 members

16 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

27

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

919 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

28

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

889 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

29

Desperate Characters

868 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

30

To Serve Them All My Days

by R. F. Delderfield

856 members

20 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

31

807 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

32

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

by James Baldwin

731 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

33

by Nancy Mitford

721 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

34

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

by Edmund Gosse

683 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: MadmaHord

35

The Slaves of Solitude

by Patrick Hamilton

667 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: MadmaHord

36

The Animal Family

by Randall Jarrell

606 members

15 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

37

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

by Robert Aickman

587 members

7 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

38

by Anita Brookner

586 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

39

The Vet's Daughter

by Barbara Comyns

556 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

40

The Weather in the Streets

by Rosamond Lehmann

544 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

41

Absolute Beginners

by Colin MacInnes

537 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

42

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

by B. S. Johnson

463 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

43

A Long Way from Verona

368 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

44

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

by Crystal Zevon

322 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

45

by Patrick Modiano

266 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

46

by Denton Welch

217 members

7 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

47

by Stevie Smith

213 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: MadmaHord

48

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

by Charles Sprawson

164 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

49

Dr. Fegg's Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge

154 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

50

131 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: MadmaHord

51

A State of Denmark

by Derek Raymond

98 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

52

by Brigid Brophy

94 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

53

All the Devils Are Here

by David Seabrook

89 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

54

Darkness Falls from the Air

by Nigel Balchin

80 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: MadmaHord

55

The Reginald Perrin Omnibus

77 members

1 review

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

56

Letters From a Fainthearted Feminist (Picador Books)

by Jill Tweedie

59 members

1 review

½ 2.7

Member: MadmaHord

57

Jesus' Son: Stories

by Denis Johnson

2,702 members

76 reviews

4.1

58

Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

2,320 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

59

535 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

60

The Soul of Kindness

by Elizabeth Taylor

376 members

14 reviews

4

61

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

by Sebastian Faulks

375 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

62

257 members

6 reviews

3.8

63

213 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

64

by Alexander Baron

72 members

1 review

4.1

65

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls

1 member

About This List

Started: MadmaHord
February 2018
Type: Unnumbered

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