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Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf

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1

by Toni Morrison

26,552 members

447 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,618 members

189 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Waste Land and Other Poems

5,072 members

37 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,250 members

1,450 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Mary Shelley

51,191 members

811 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,375 members

1,236 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,127 members

792 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,494 members

614 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,841 members

514 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,339 members

460 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Virginia Woolf

23,269 members

376 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by George Eliot

20,776 members

368 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

16,712 members

130 reviews

4

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

8,304 members

283 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

2,238 members

61 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]

by Jonathan Swift

411 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Herman Melville

41,719 members

619 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,387 members

562 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

19

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,278 members

635 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

20

27,449 members

377 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

21

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,408 members

312 reviews

3.9

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

22

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,539 members

259 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

23

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

16,942 members

777 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

24

by Hilary Mantel

15,496 members

699 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

25

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

12,896 members

311 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

26

7,101 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

27

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

6,911 members

170 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

28

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

6,259 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

29

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

6,046 members

41 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez

3,639 members

112 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

31

by Djuna Barnes

3,577 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,550 members

72 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

33

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

2,317 members

54 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

34

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,153 members

79 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

35

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

2,094 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

36

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

370 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

37

62,547 members

521 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

38

44,064 members

698 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

39

by William Faulkner

16,858 members

238 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

40

by Marcel Proust

12,940 members

207 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

41

by Rachel Carson

7,722 members

119 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

42

by Edward W. Said

6,781 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

43

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

6,432 members

163 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

44

5,946 members

67 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

45

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

5,345 members

35 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

46

by Roland Barthes

4,883 members

38 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

47

by Sylvia Plath

4,701 members

61 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

48

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

4,556 members

45 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

49

The Periodic Table

4,506 members

74 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

50

4,500 members

373 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: zweiundzwei

51

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,828 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

52

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu

3,199 members

63 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

53

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

by E. F. Schumacher

3,138 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

54

by W. G. Sebald

2,798 members

54 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

55

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

2,764 members

24 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: zweiundzwei

56

2,524 members

116 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

57

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

2,371 members

66 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

58

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,367 members

30 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

59

2,348 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

60

2,212 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

61

by Maggie Nelson

2,129 members

90 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

62

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

2,034 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

63

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

1,828 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

64

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,598 members

29 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

65

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,523 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

66

Gravity and Grace

1,060 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

67

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

by Philippa Perry

658 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

68

Playing and Reality

by D. W. Winnicott

610 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

69

The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today

by Nikesh Shukla

467 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

70

by Kathleen Jamie

368 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

71

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

284 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

72

by Alice Oswald

136 members

1 review

4

Member: zweiundzwei

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July 2021
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