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The Well-Educated Mind Reading Challenge

Type: Preset list created by GRLopez

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

Members: 5 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,643 members, 489 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (1), ahef1963 (1), hipdeep (2), merrystar (10), GRLopez (15)

Score: 15.65

2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63,858 members, 1,054 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (2), ahef1963 (5), merrystar (7), hipdeep (14), GRLopez (19)

Score: 12.48

3
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,012 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), steller0707 (3), GRLopez (4), ahef1963 (22)

Score: 11.72

4
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
29,233 members, 266 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (4), ahef1963 (9), hipdeep (9), merrystar (12), GRLopez (98)

Score: 10.87

5
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
72,681 members, 1,174 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (5), ahef1963 (10), merrystar (13), GRLopez (24), hipdeep (33)

Score: 10.51

6
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,224 members, 837 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (6), GRLopez (6), merrystar (8), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 9.3

7
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
7,320 members, 82 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), hipdeep (4), merrystar (11), GRLopez (115)

Score: 9.08

8
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,451 members, 345 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (7), GRLopez (7), merrystar (9), ahef1963 (25)

Score: 9.02

9
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
8,536 members, 110 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), hipdeep (7), steller0707 (8), GRLopez (51)

Score: 8.89

10
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
9,942 members, 165 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (2), GRLopez (104)

Score: 8.62

11
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
26,930 members, 400 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (1), hipdeep (5), merrystar (30)

Score: 8.38

12
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,156 members, 272 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), steller0707 (9), GRLopez (31), ahef1963 (33)

Score: 8.35

13
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,122 members, 339 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (10), GRLopez (17), merrystar (19), ahef1963 (28)

Score: 7.87

14
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,944 members, 452 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (11), merrystar (18), GRLopez (23), ahef1963 (30)

Score: 7.67

15
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
1,024 members, 11 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (3), merrystar (6), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 7.57

16
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
11,717 members, 150 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), hipdeep (13), merrystar (14), GRLopez (113)

Score: 7.51

17
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,365 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (12), merrystar (20), GRLopez (28), ahef1963 (31)

Score: 7.48

18
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,302 members, 306 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (13), GRLopez (20), ahef1963 (29), merrystar (31)

Score: 7.42

19
Murder in the Cathedral
by T. S. Eliot
2,732 members, 28 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), hipdeep (3), GRLopez (107)

Score: 7.32

20
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
7,037 members, 80 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (15), ahef1963 (15), hipdeep (21), GRLopez (111)

Score: 7.17

21
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
5,833 members, 64 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: merrystar (16), ahef1963 (16), hipdeep (27), GRLopez (90)

Score: 7.05

22
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
17,566 members, 166 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: merrystar (17), ahef1963 (21), hipdeep (29), GRLopez (97)

Score: 6.84

23
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
4,848 members, 78 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (14), merrystar (22), ahef1963 (38), GRLopez (103)

Score: 6.78

24
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,655 members, 28 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), hipdeep (25), GRLopez (56)

Score: 6.62

25
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
9,625 members, 109 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), steller0707 (15), GRLopez (29)

Score: 6.31

26
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
2,429 members, 41 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), hipdeep (11), GRLopez (48)

Score: 6.18

27
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
4,536 members, 66 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), hipdeep (8), GRLopez (95)

Score: 6.04

28
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,647 members, 349 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (10), steller0707 (16), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 6.02

29
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
3,181 members, 33 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), hipdeep (12), GRLopez (109)

Score: 5.58

30
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
16,576 members, 154 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (2), ahef1963 (12)

Score: 5.51

31
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,466 members, 184 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16), GRLopez (25), merrystar (29)

Score: 5.51

32
The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton
4,146 members, 52 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (17), hipdeep (23), GRLopez (49)

Score: 5.31

33
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
4,237 members, 68 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), hipdeep (19), GRLopez (85)

Score: 5.3

34
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
by C. S. Lewis
5,986 members, 50 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (21), ahef1963 (34), GRLopez (50)

Score: 5.03

35
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
8,812 members, 186 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), GRLopez (18)

Score: 4.98

36
The School for Scandal
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
941 members, 15 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), hipdeep (26), GRLopez (102)

Score: 4.97

37
Everyman
by Anonymous
159 members, 5 reviews
3.14 stars (3.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), hipdeep (28), GRLopez (94)

Score: 4.92

38
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
by William Shakespeare
5,512 members, 79 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), hipdeep (32), GRLopez (96)

Score: 4.88

39
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
834 members, 13 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (23), ahef1963 (40), GRLopez (110)

Score: 4.65

40
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,295 members, 610 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), GRLopez (27)

Score: 4.58

41
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
21,017 members, 204 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (5), ahef1963 (23)

Score: 4.5

42
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
34,306 members, 591 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (12), steller0707 (18)

Score: 4.09

43
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,931 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (11), ahef1963 (27)

Score: 3.95

44
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
9,742 members, 117 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (16), steller0707 (19)

Score: 3.92

45
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,013 members, 87 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (15), GRLopez (22)

Score: 3.88

46
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,181 members, 212 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: steller0707 (20), GRLopez (21)

Score: 3.76

47
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet A. Jacobs
3,700 members, 73 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (17), GRLopez (42)

Score: 3.54

48
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
381 members, 4 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18), GRLopez (43)

Score: 3.5

49
The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine
19,606 members, 149 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: merrystar (24), GRLopez (32)

Score: 3.49

50
A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
2,711 members, 29 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (10), GRLopez (114)

Score: 3.47

51
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,952 members, 145 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (30), ahef1963 (32)

Score: 3.39

52
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez
by Richard Rodriguez
859 members, 14 reviews
3.41 stars (3.41 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22), GRLopez (55)

Score: 3.32

53
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
20,904 members, 232 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (20), GRLopez (64)

Score: 3.31

54
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
6,948 members, 52 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: merrystar (25), GRLopez (59)

Score: 3.23

55
The Republic
by Plato
19,315 members, 123 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: merrystar (26), GRLopez (60)

Score: 3.21

56
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
2,898 members, 39 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: merrystar (28), GRLopez (70)

Score: 3.12

57
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
1,786 members, 25 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (24), GRLopez (105)

Score: 3.06

58
Medea [in Translation]
by Euripides
2,545 members, 39 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: merrystar (27), GRLopez (91)

Score: 3.05

59
The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
by Cornelius Ryan
2,152 members, 43 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (34), GRLopez (81)

Score: 2.99

60
Poetics
by Aristotle
4,523 members, 43 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (31), GRLopez (93)

Score: 2.98

61
Tartuffe
by Molière
2,517 members, 31 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (30), GRLopez (99)

Score: 2.98

62
The Birds
by Aristófanes
495 members, 9 reviews
3.21 stars (3.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), GRLopez (92)

Score: 2.94

63
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
683 members, 16 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), GRLopez (89)

Score: 2.94

64
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
1,421 members, 20 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37), GRLopez (101)

Score: 2.88

65
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
4,404 members, 61 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), GRLopez (108)

Score: 2.84

66
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,754 members, 106 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41), GRLopez (112)

Score: 2.81

67
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
31,020 members, 487 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (8)

Score: 2.38

68
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
14,743 members, 174 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (9)

Score: 2.31

69
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
7,247 members, 87 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (13)

Score: 2.11

70
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
10,153 members, 119 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (14)

Score: 2.07

71
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
2,388 members, 39 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (26)

Score: 1.77

72
The Book of Margery Kempe
by Margery Kempe
1,205 members, 12 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (33)

Score: 1.67

73
The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
4,201 members, 44 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (34)

Score: 1.66

74
The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
by Teresa of Ávila
1,534 members, 18 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (35)

Score: 1.65

75
Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes
3,193 members, 17 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (36)

Score: 1.63

76
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
by John Bunyan
1,308 members, 5 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (37)

Score: 1.62

78
The Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2,831 members, 26 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (39)

Score: 1.6

79
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
6,439 members, 98 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (40)

Score: 1.59

80
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
12,393 members, 160 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (41)

Score: 1.58

81
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
3,467 members, 35 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (44)

Score: 1.55

82
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
by Friedrich Nietzsche
1,798 members, 19 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (45)

Score: 1.54

83
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
3,570 members, 67 reviews
2.77 stars (2.77 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (46)

Score: 1.54

84
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
3,279 members, 40 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (47)

Score: 1.53

85
Journal of a Solitude
by May Sarton
989 members, 16 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (52)

Score: 1.49

87
Born Again
by Charles W. Colson
1,545 members, 11 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (54)

Score: 1.48

88
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
by Elie Wiesel
746 members, 8 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (57)

Score: 1.46

89
The Histories
by Herodotus
8,888 members, 77 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (58)

Score: 1.45

90
Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch
2,154 members, 24 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (61)

Score: 1.43

91
City of God
by Saint Augustine
5,419 members, 33 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (62)

Score: 1.43

92
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
by Bede
2,914 members, 20 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (63)

Score: 1.42

93
Utopia
by Thomas More
10,464 members, 103 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (65)

Score: 1.41

94
The Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke
2,774 members, 24 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (66)

Score: 1.4

95
The History of England (Volume V)
by David Hume
84 members, 3 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (67)

Score: 1.4

96
On the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4,837 members, 43 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (68)

Score: 1.39

97
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
4,470 members, 52 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (69)

Score: 1.39

98
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
3,504 members, 27 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (71)

Score: 1.38

99
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,041 members, 28 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (72)

Score: 1.37

100
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
13,174 members, 119 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: GRLopez (73)

Score: 1.37

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