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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.

Rank Title Author Added

1

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,116 members

423 reviews

4.1

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by James Hilton

3,963 members

100 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

3,548 members

71 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The High Window

by Raymond Chandler

2,820 members

52 reviews

4

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Month in the Country

2,301 members

118 reviews

4.2

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Fire and Hemlock

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,132 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Muriel Spark

1,729 members

64 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,527 members

69 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MadmaHord, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

5,777 members

333 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

10

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,398 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

11

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr.

3,015 members

34 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

12

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

2,863 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

13

by Nella Larsen

2,697 members

102 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

14

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,589 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

15

by Virginia Woolf

2,345 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MadmaHord

16

The Information

2,173 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

17

by Georgette Heyer

2,161 members

95 reviews

4.1

Member: MadmaHord

18

by Shirley Hazzard

1,937 members

41 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

19

by Hilary Mantel

1,804 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

20

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

1,697 members

67 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

21

Good Morning, Midnight

1,448 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

22

A Sport and a Pastime

by James Salter

1,326 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

23

by Vladimir Nabokov

1,264 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

24

The Horse's Mouth

1,210 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

25

by J. G. Ballard

1,192 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

26

Adventures in the Screen Trade

by William Goldman

1,045 members

15 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

27

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

976 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

28

Desperate Characters

944 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

29

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

915 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

30

To Serve Them All My Days

by R. F. Delderfield

875 members

20 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

31

835 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

32

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

by James Baldwin

797 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: MadmaHord

33

by Nancy Mitford

753 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

34

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

by Edmund Gosse

717 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: MadmaHord

35

The Slaves of Solitude

by Patrick Hamilton

708 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: MadmaHord

36

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

by Robert Aickman

659 members

11 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

37

The Animal Family

by Randall Jarrell

630 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MadmaHord

38

by Anita Brookner

626 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

39

The Vet's Daughter

by Barbara Comyns

583 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

40

Absolute Beginners

by Colin MacInnes

563 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MadmaHord

41

The Weather in the Streets

by Rosamond Lehmann

560 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

42

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

by B. S. Johnson

483 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

43

A Long Way from Verona

390 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

334 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

45

by Patrick Modiano

289 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

46

by Denton Welch

228 members

7 reviews

4

Member: MadmaHord

47

by Stevie Smith

220 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: MadmaHord

48

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

by Charles Sprawson

173 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: MadmaHord

49

Dr. Fegg's Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge

158 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MadmaHord

50

138 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: MadmaHord

51

A State of Denmark

by Derek Raymond

101 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: MadmaHord

52

by Brigid Brophy

100 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MadmaHord

53

All the Devils Are Here

by David Seabrook

98 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

54

Darkness Falls from the Air

by Nigel Balchin

86 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: MadmaHord

55

The Reginald Perrin Omnibus

82 members

1 review

3.9

Member: MadmaHord

56

Letters From a Fainthearted Feminist (Picador Books)

by Jill Tweedie

60 members

1 review

½ 2.7

Member: MadmaHord

57

Jesus' Son: Stories

by Denis Johnson

2,811 members

79 reviews

4.1

58

Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

2,406 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

59

584 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

60

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

by Sebastian Faulks

390 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

61

The Soul of Kindness

by Elizabeth Taylor

389 members

14 reviews

4

62

269 members

6 reviews

3.8

63

239 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

64

by Alexander Baron

77 members

1 review

4.1

65

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls

1 member

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Started: MadmaHord
February 2018
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