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The Well-Educated Mind Reading Challenge

Description: Books on TWEM (by Susan Wise Bauer)reading list: novels, biographies/memoirs, histories, plays, and poetry.
Based on tag: twem, twem novels, twem biographies, twem histories, twem plays, twem poetries

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,465 members

585 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,025 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Pride and Prejudice

94,196 members

1,511 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

by Albert Camus

40,904 members

581 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, Voglerr

5

by Charlotte Brontë

68,072 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

by William Shakespeare

37,390 members

336 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

14,264 members

314 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,850 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,372 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

10

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,364 members

203 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,824 members

104 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,103 members

196 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Virginia Woolf

23,302 members

376 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

14

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,642 members

189 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,237 members

114 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

7,607 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,400 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

by Henrik Ibsen

6,193 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11,416 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,902 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

by Thornton Wilder

5,899 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,903 members

532 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Ralph Ellison

18,432 members

231 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

25

The Portrait of a Lady

12,172 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Gustave Flaubert

29,854 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707

27

Murder in the Cathedral

3,521 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

28

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein

5,262 members

80 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,303 members

284 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, steller0707

30

The Road from Coorain

by Jill Ker Conway

1,902 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

31

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,330 members

783 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, NinieB

32

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,753 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, NinieB

33

by Christopher Marlowe

5,673 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

34

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,071 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

35

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,596 members

137 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, steller0707

36

by Charles Dickens

28,477 members

273 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

37

12,416 members

182 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

38

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,933 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

39

22,887 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

40

The Republic of Plato

25,582 members

163 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

41

44,115 members

700 reviews

4.1

2 Members: NinieB, steller0707

42

The Pilgrim's Progress

20,379 members

197 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

5,310 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, steller0707

44

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,276 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,173 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

46

198 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

47

by William Shakespeare

7,038 members

99 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

48

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

7,900 members

63 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

49

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,298 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

50

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,603 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,063 members

135 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Peter Shaffer

2,356 members

23 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,692 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

13,705 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,599 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Herman Melville

41,795 members

620 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

A Man for All Seasons

3,562 members

35 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

58

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,660 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

59

by Richard Wright

8,759 members

112 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

60

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

5,047 members

88 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

61

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

522 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

62

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,460 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: steller0707

63

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

by Richard Rodriguez

993 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: hipdeep

64

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,764 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

65

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,783 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

66

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,965 members

70 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

67

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,785 members

576 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

68

Medea [in Translation]

3,427 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

69

History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,656 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

70

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition]

3,322 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

71

5,890 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

72

The Longest Day

by Cornelius Ryan

2,747 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

73

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

662 members

13 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

74

969 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

75

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,682 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

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Started: GRLopez
November 2020
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