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SHOULD Read Books!

Type: Preset list created by jordantaylor

Description: Notable books that I have not yet read, but should.

Members: 9 participating members (show all)

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2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
34,910 members, 662 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 5

3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,009 members, 562 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, gravir, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 5

5
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
14,434 members, 428 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ricalyr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 5

6
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,394 members, 170 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: aspirit, kara.shamy, gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 5

7
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
51,869 members, 837 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

8
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
36,940 members, 1,073 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

9
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,584 members, 475 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: aspirit, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

10
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
31,242 members, 864 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 4

11
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
24,915 members, 445 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 4

12
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
21,052 members, 414 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

13
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
19,995 members, 332 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

14
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
19,667 members, 429 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 4

15
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,027 members, 548 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

16
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
17,928 members, 422 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, gravir, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

17
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
17,397 members, 310 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

18
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
16,647 members, 480 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

19
The Plague
by Albert Camus
16,474 members, 220 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 4

20
Room
by Emma Donoghue
12,749 members, 941 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 4

21
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
12,201 members, 721 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 4

22
Blindness
by José Saramago
11,729 members, 367 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: gravir, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 4

23
11/22/63
by Stephen King
11,371 members, 698 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 4

24
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
9,880 members, 240 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, kara.shamy, gravir, jordantaylor

Score: 4

25
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
9,220 members, 257 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: gravir, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 4

26
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
7,282 members, 164 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 4

27
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
4,748 members, 100 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 4

28
Adam Bede
by George Eliot
3,921 members, 64 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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Score: 4

29
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,657 members, 442 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

30
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
33,263 members, 913 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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Score: 3

31
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
27,525 members, 859 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: dara85, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

32
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
27,254 members, 1,448 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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Score: 3

33
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
25,390 members, 478 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 3

34
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,136 members, 379 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

35
The Shining
by Stephen King
20,062 members, 414 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

36
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,042 members, 388 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

37
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
18,691 members, 441 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 3

38
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,061 members, 210 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: gravir, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

39
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
17,872 members, 690 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ahef1963, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

Score: 3

40
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
16,058 members, 721 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

41
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
16,002 members, 875 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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Score: 3

42
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,703 members, 299 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

43
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
15,626 members, 329 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: gravir, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

44
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,508 members, 209 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

45
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
15,297 members, 364 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

46
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
14,836 members, 288 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

47
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
14,375 members, 328 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, gravir, jordantaylor

Score: 3

48
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
14,271 members, 763 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: jordantaylor, dara85, kara.shamy

Score: 3

49
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
12,688 members, 712 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ahef1963

Score: 3

50
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
12,297 members, 227 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

51
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
12,234 members, 863 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963

Score: 3

52
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
12,080 members, 320 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

53
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
11,972 members, 459 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

54
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,636 members, 171 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 3

55
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,276 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 3

56
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,191 members, 125 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

57
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
10,670 members, 104 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

58
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
9,980 members, 144 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 3

59
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
8,464 members, 109 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 3

60
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
8,427 members, 284 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

61
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
8,267 members, 257 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, jordantaylor

Score: 3

62
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
8,036 members, 564 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

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Score: 3

63
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
7,817 members, 133 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

64
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
7,778 members, 455 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: dara85, kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 3

65
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
6,906 members, 254 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 3

66
Circe
by Madeline Miller
6,792 members, 351 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: aspirit, kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 3

67
Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
6,792 members, 171 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 3

68
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
6,773 members, 386 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: aspirit, kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 3

69
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
6,585 members, 223 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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Score: 3

70
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
6,457 members, 191 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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Score: 3

71
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
6,307 members, 311 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

Score: 3

72
Over Sea, Under Stone
by Susan Cooper
5,947 members, 128 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 3

73
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
5,150 members, 88 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: gravir, ahef1963, jordantaylor

Score: 3

74
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
4,887 members, 320 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

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Score: 3

75
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
4,749 members, 53 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 3

76
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
4,571 members, 139 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, gravir, jordantaylor

Score: 3

77
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,149 members, 230 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ricalyr, kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 3

78
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
4,089 members, 178 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 3

79
The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
3,304 members, 190 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

Score: 3

80
Crash
by J. G. Ballard
3,234 members, 72 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

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Score: 3

82
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
37,158 members, 1,228 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 2

83
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
25,603 members, 607 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 2

84
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,047 members, 393 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 2

85
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,496 members, 348 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 2

86
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
22,224 members, 498 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 2

87
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,457 members, 314 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 2

88
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
21,156 members, 413 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 2

89
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
20,580 members, 301 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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Score: 2

90
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,016 members, 218 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 2

91
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
17,529 members, 641 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 2

92
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
17,505 members, 1,175 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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Score: 2

93
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
17,115 members, 257 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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Score: 2

94
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
16,426 members, 349 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 2

95
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
16,305 members, 235 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: gravir, jordantaylor

Score: 2

96
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,176 members, 240 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda, jordantaylor

Score: 2

97
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
15,606 members, 504 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2

98
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
14,828 members, 1,161 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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Score: 2

99
The Martian
by Andy Weir
14,405 members, 1,115 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 2

100
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
14,352 members, 184 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy, jordantaylor

Score: 2

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Started by: jordantaylor (December 2020)

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