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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: 8 participating members
GRLopez, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, hipdeep, merrystar, steller0707, NinieB, Voglerr

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,976 members

510 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

2

Pride and Prejudice

78,321 members

1,344 reviews

½ 4.4

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

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

70,265 members

1,136 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

4

by Charlotte Brontë

57,370 members

901 reviews

4.2

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

5

by Albert Camus

34,637 members

489 reviews

3.9

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez, Voglerr

6

12,721 members

285 reviews

4

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

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,613 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

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

8

by William Shakespeare

31,858 members

285 reviews

4.2

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

9

by George Orwell

79,825 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

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

10

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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

11

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,198 members

173 reviews

4

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

12

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,854 members

90 reviews

4.2

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

13

by Virginia Woolf

20,060 members

323 reviews

3.9

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

14

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,545 members

176 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

15

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,761 members

432 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

16

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,055 members

372 reviews

½ 3.6

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

17

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,659 members

157 reviews

3.9

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

18

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,775 members

92 reviews

3.9

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

19

6,442 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

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

20

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,517 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707, GRLopez

21

by Henrik Ibsen

839 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

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

22

by Gustave Flaubert

25,698 members

381 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, GRLopez

23

The Portrait of a Lady

10,610 members

126 reviews

3.9

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

24

by Ralph Ellison

15,888 members

203 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

25

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,416 members

36 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

26

by Thornton Wilder

4,898 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

27

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,261 members

252 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, steller0707, GRLopez

28

All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward

4,568 members

71 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

29

Murder in the Cathedral

3,023 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

30

The Pilgrim's Progress

18,336 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

31

by Charles Dickens

23,444 members

229 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

32

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,500 members

197 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

33

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,546 members

673 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

34

The Road from Coorain

by Jill Ker Conway

1,757 members

32 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, GRLopez

35

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,543 members

121 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, steller0707, GRLopez

36

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,613 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

37

10,758 members

167 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

38

37,441 members

609 reviews

4.1

3 Members: NinieB, steller0707, GRLopez

39

by Christopher Marlowe

4,960 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

40

19,491 members

234 reviews

4

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

41

by Niccolò Machiavelli

22,991 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

42

21,344 members

138 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

43

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

4,527 members

53 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, steller0707, GRLopez

44

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,337 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

45

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

6,658 members

53 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, GRLopez

46

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,855 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

47

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,024 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

48

179 members

5 reviews

3.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

49

by William Shakespeare

6,005 members

86 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

50

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,057 members

17 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, GRLopez

51

by Herman Melville

34,475 members

525 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

52

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,467 members

187 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, GRLopez

53

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,988 members

116 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,694 members

46 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

55

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,914 members

478 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

56

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,843 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: steller0707, GRLopez

57

by Richard Wright

7,548 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

58

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

3,876 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

59

11,542 members

113 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

60

by Peter Shaffer

2,111 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

61

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

4,189 members

78 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

62

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

442 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

63

by Saint Augustine

21,727 members

150 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

64

A Man for All Seasons

3,009 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

65

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

by Richard Rodriguez

914 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

66

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,686 members

57 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

67

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,153 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

68

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,964 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

69

Medea [in Translation]

2,830 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

70

The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day

by Cornelius Ryan

2,368 members

46 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

71

4,941 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

72

2,826 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

73

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

566 members

12 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

74

750 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

75

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,499 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

76

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

7,797 members

91 reviews

3.9

Member: GRLopez

77

2,537 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

78

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by Teresa de Ávila

1,732 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

79

Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

3,467 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

80

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

1,444 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: GRLopez

81

The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover Books on Americana)

by Mary Rowlandson

47 members

1 review

3.8

Member: GRLopez

82

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,064 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

83

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,142 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

84

by Henry David Thoreau

13,753 members

180 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

85

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

4,095 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: GRLopez

86

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,000 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GRLopez

87

by Adolf Hitler

3,929 members

73 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: GRLopez

88

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

by Mahatma Gandhi

3,618 members

44 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

89

Journal of a Solitude

1,072 members

18 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

90

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

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

514 members

4.1

Member: GRLopez

91

by Charles W. Colson

1,752 members

11 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

92

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

830 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: GRLopez

93

9,690 members

83 reviews

4.1

Member: GRLopez

94

Plutarch's Lives

2,405 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: GRLopez

95

by Saint Augustine

6,017 members

33 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

96

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

3,328 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

97

The Second Treatise of Government

3,108 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

98

The History of England (Volume V)

92 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: GRLopez

99

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,268 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

100

by Thomas Paine

5,017 members

57 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

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