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End of Your Life Book Club

Description: Books mentioned or discussed in The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

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Rank Title Author Added

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,399 members

482 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Holy Bible: King James Version

by KJV (Bible Version)

535 members

20 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

3

by William Shakespeare

17,059 members

132 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by J. R. R. Tolkien

95,224 members

1,194 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

9,953 members

346 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Louisa May Alcott

26,700 members

402 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

7

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,101 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

15,173 members

147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

9

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,769 members

576 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,331 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

11

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

53,048 members

1,300 reviews

4.2

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,408 members

1,752 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Peter Shaffer

2,157 members

21 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Chronicles of Narnia

36,123 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder in the Cathedral

3,122 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

16

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,850 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

17

The Story of Ferdinand

9,182 members

171 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

18

The Pillars of the Earth

27,417 members

755 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

19

by E. M. Forster

8,827 members

134 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,770 members

242 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

21

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,977 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

22

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

30,472 members

899 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

23

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,406 members

323 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

24

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,286 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,239 members

454 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,504 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

27

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

9,959 members

317 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom

28

27,855 members

576 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,471 members

137 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

30

Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

by W. Somerset Maugham

292 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

31

On Chesil Beach

8,482 members

371 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

32

by Rohinton Mistry

9,203 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

33

The Railway Children

5,947 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

by Marilynne Robinson

10,875 members

364 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

35

by Marilynne Robinson

3,823 members

150 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

36

by George Bernard Shaw

2,313 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

37

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

11,917 members

656 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

38

The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

14,227 members

401 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

39

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

3,007 members

83 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

40

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Earle Stegner

4,288 members

144 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

41

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

50,658 members

452 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

42

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,141 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

43

by Dante Alighieri

7,295 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two

1,365 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

45

Nancy Drew Complete Series Set, Books 1-64

by Carolyn Keene

200 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Geraldine Brooks

6,718 members

278 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

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The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,185 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,908 members

84 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Death in Venice

5,377 members

105 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

6,166 members

115 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

Volpone, or The Fox

920 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

52

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

10,027 members

499 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

7,878 members

213 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

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by Günter Grass

7,625 members

93 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

55

The Caine Mutiny

3,320 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

56

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy

3,399 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

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3,486 members

82 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gypsysmom

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,577 members

444 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

59

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

9,553 members

211 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask

by David R. Reuben

486 members

7 reviews

3.1

Member: gypsysmom

61

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

589 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

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Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,974 members

623 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

63

The Year of Magical Thinking

10,332 members

292 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

64

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

7,235 members

313 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

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by Marilynne Robinson

6,404 members

214 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

66

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,254 members

199 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

67

The Blackwater Lightship

by Colm Tóibín

1,464 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

68

In the Night Kitchen

by Maurice Sendak

2,862 members

118 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

The Story of the Night

by Colm Tóibín

734 members

20 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,732 members

290 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

71

The Book of Common Prayer [1953]

by Episcopal Church

2,465 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

72

The Great Santini

2,012 members

39 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

73

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,592 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

74

by Josephine Tey

1,907 members

77 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

75

Collected Poems

1,512 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

76

by Harold Pinter

517 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

77

A Prayer for Owen Meany

18,144 members

333 reviews

4.2

78

The Magic Mountain

9,682 members

176 reviews

4.2

79

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

9,410 members

84 reviews

3.8

80

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri

5,605 members

200 reviews

4.1

81

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,357 members

124 reviews

4

82

by Colm Tóibín

5,330 members

296 reviews

½ 3.7

83

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

5,241 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

84

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

4,551 members

66 reviews

4

85

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

4,142 members

44 reviews

4

86

The Winds of War

3,344 members

56 reviews

4.2

87

by Colm Tóibín

3,122 members

90 reviews

3.9

88

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

2,991 members

111 reviews

3.8

89

by J. R. Moehringer

2,818 members

102 reviews

3.8

90

by Natsume Soseki

2,735 members

66 reviews

4

91

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,647 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

92

Too Much Happiness

2,273 members

97 reviews

3.8

93

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

2,182 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

94

Full Catastrophe Living

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

2,100 members

18 reviews

4.1

95

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

1,836 members

38 reviews

4.1

96

Appointment in Samarra

1,812 members

45 reviews

3.8

97

The Guns of Navarone

by Alistair MacLean

1,798 members

41 reviews

3.9

98

1,738 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

99

Where Eagles Dare

by Alistair MacLean

1,660 members

44 reviews

3.8

100

by Henrik Ibsen

1,583 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

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