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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
Members: 4 participating members
ahef1963, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, hipdeep

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,789 members

474 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Holy Bible: King James Version

500 members

19 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

3

by William Shakespeare

16,330 members

128 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by J. R. R. Tolkien

90,788 members

1,160 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

9,723 members

340 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Louisa May Alcott

25,353 members

393 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

7

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,701 members

92 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

14,464 members

143 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

9

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,617 members

564 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,922 members

1,426 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

11

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

51,614 members

1,290 reviews

4.2

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

41,904 members

1,715 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Peter Shaffer

2,094 members

21 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Chronicles of Narnia

34,348 members

299 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder in the Cathedral

2,987 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

16

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,430 members

117 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

17

The Story of Ferdinand

8,581 members

169 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

18

Pillars of the Earth

26,433 members

743 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

19

by E. M. Forster

8,526 members

129 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Diary of a Young Girl

27,398 members

501 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

21

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,004 members

730 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

22

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

29,436 members

887 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

23

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,140 members

319 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

24

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,738 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

24,015 members

436 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,205 members

142 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

27

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

9,553 members

308 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom

28

26,530 members

565 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,368 members

134 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

30

Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

by W. Somerset Maugham

279 members

2 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

31

On Chesil Beach

8,304 members

362 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

32

by Rohinton Mistry

8,967 members

248 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

33

The Railway Children

5,576 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

by Marilynne Robinson

10,558 members

361 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

35

by Marilynne Robinson

3,639 members

145 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

36

by George Bernard Shaw

2,235 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

37

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

11,645 members

641 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

38

The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

13,797 members

396 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

39

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

2,934 members

82 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

40

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Earle Stegner

4,129 members

139 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

41

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

49,077 members

451 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

42

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

by Jhumpa Lahiri

11,817 members

260 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

43

by Dante Alighieri

7,024 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two

1,233 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

45

Nancy Drew Complete Series Set, Books 1-64

by Carolyn Keene

197 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Geraldine Brooks

6,548 members

271 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

47

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,124 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,680 members

82 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Death in Venice

5,196 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

5,895 members

107 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

Volpone, or The Fox

886 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: hipdeep

52

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

9,687 members

483 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

7,405 members

207 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

54

by Günter Grass

7,404 members

91 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

55

The Caine Mutiny

3,193 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

56

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy

3,243 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

57

3,386 members

80 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gypsysmom

58

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,770 members

438 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

59

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

9,252 members

210 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

60

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

by David R. Reuben

476 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: gypsysmom

61

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

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

540 members

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

62

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,625 members

610 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

63

The Year of Magical Thinking

10,142 members

284 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

64

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

6,991 members

309 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

65

by Marilynne Robinson

6,155 members

200 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

66

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,947 members

193 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

67

The Blackwater Lightship

by Colm Tóibín

1,405 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

68

In the Night Kitchen

by Maurice Sendak

2,742 members

117 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

The Story of the Night

by Colm Tóibín

712 members

20 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

70

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

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,457 members

285 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

71

The Book of Common Prayer [1953]

by Episcopal Church

2,406 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

72

The Great Santini

1,966 members

39 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

73

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,455 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

74

by Josephine Tey

1,842 members

74 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

75

Collected Poems

1,488 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

76

by Harold Pinter

500 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

77

A Prayer for Owen Meany

17,862 members

325 reviews

4.2

78

The Magic Mountain

9,266 members

165 reviews

4.2

79

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

8,800 members

79 reviews

3.8

80

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri

5,412 members

199 reviews

4.1

81

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,139 members

121 reviews

4

82

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

5,097 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

83

by Colm Tóibín

5,047 members

287 reviews

½ 3.7

84

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

4,447 members

67 reviews

4

85

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

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

3,959 members

43 reviews

4

86

The Winds of War

3,216 members

54 reviews

4.2

87

by Colm Tóibín

3,041 members

91 reviews

3.9

88

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

2,789 members

100 reviews

3.8

89

by J. R. Moehringer

2,740 members

95 reviews

3.8

90

by Natsume Soseki

2,566 members

62 reviews

4

91

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,537 members

49 reviews

½ 3.3

92

Too Much Happiness

2,178 members

91 reviews

3.8

93

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2,061 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

94

Full Catastrophe Living

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

2,010 members

17 reviews

4.1

95

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

1,756 members

38 reviews

4.1

96

Appointment in Samarra

1,738 members

42 reviews

3.8

97

The Guns of Navarone

by Alistair MacLean

1,726 members

40 reviews

3.8

98

1,691 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

99

Where Eagles Dare

by Alistair MacLean

1,603 members

41 reviews

3.8

100

by Henrik Ibsen

1,516 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: gypsysmom
March 2019
Type: Numbered, Adding restricted

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