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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

49,259 members

595 reviews

3.9

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

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,668 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

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

3

Pride and Prejudice

93,692 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

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

4

by Albert Camus

40,670 members

575 reviews

3.9

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

5

by Charlotte Brontë

67,768 members

1,016 reviews

4.2

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

6

by William Shakespeare

37,221 members

336 reviews

4.2

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

7

14,212 members

312 reviews

4

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

8

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,662 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

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

9

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

93,986 members

1,449 reviews

4.2

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

10

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,284 members

205 reviews

4

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

11

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,811 members

103 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,056 members

195 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Virginia Woolf

23,199 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

14,663 members

189 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,239 members

112 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

7,572 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,281 members

432 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

by Henrik Ibsen

6,186 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11,364 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707

21

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,883 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB

22

by Thornton Wilder

5,874 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,737 members

531 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Ralph Ellison

18,368 members

230 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB

25

The Portrait of a Lady

12,116 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Gustave Flaubert

29,721 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707

27

Murder in the Cathedral

3,509 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

28

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein

5,246 members

80 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,218 members

283 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, steller0707

30

The Road from Coorain

by Jill Ker Conway

1,896 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

31

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,585 members

779 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, NinieB

32

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,725 members

213 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, NinieB

33

by Christopher Marlowe

5,655 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

34

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,058 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

35

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,532 members

137 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, steller0707

36

by Charles Dickens

28,331 members

272 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

37

12,360 members

182 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

38

by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,799 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

39

22,840 members

267 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

40

The Republic of Plato

25,480 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

41

43,931 members

695 reviews

4.1

2 Members: NinieB, steller0707

42

The Pilgrim's Progress

20,361 members

197 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

5,292 members

63 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, steller0707

44

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,238 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

7,105 members

100 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

48

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

7,920 members

63 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

49

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,288 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

50

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,600 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,027 members

135 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Peter Shaffer

2,353 members

23 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,673 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

13,655 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,559 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Herman Melville

41,591 members

619 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

A Man for All Seasons

3,559 members

35 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

58

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19,542 members

208 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

59

by Richard Wright

8,743 members

112 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

60

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

5,032 members

87 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

61

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

523 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

62

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,414 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: steller0707

63

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

by Richard Rodriguez

990 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: hipdeep

64

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,757 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

65

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,776 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

66

The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,931 members

69 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

67

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,493 members

573 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

68

Medea [in Translation]

3,403 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

69

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

by Edward Gibbon

3,638 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

70

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition]

3,312 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

71

5,869 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

72

The Longest Day

by Cornelius Ryan

2,743 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

73

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

662 members

13 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

74

966 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

75

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,681 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

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Started: GRLopez
November 2020
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