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Description: Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf from here: https://milled.com/blackwell-books/blackwells-five-foot-bookshelf-nVus-gGFOb-vCXCZ Chosen in 2020
Members: 4 participating members
zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, hipdeep

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1

by Toni Morrison

22,057 members

399 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,541 members

156 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,434 members

32 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

79,084 members

1,244 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,803 members

1,115 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Mary Shelley

40,794 members

695 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

by Philip Pullman

35,128 members

734 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

20,141 members

515 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,946 members

423 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Virginia Woolf

19,875 members

325 reviews

3.9

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

19,689 members

456 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by George Eliot

17,115 members

324 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

13,312 members

109 reviews

4

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

6,587 members

245 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

1,587 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,036 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Herman Melville

34,094 members

520 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,962 members

548 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,637 members

491 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

20

23,335 members

334 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

21

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,973 members

257 reviews

3.9

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

22

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,181 members

217 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

23

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,037 members

731 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

24

by Hilary Mantel

13,097 members

638 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

25

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,285 members

260 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

26

6,434 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

27

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,140 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

28

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

4,982 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

29

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

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

3,411 members

107 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

30

by Djuna Barnes

3,028 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

2,023 members

50 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

32

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez

2,012 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

33

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

1,883 members

65 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

34

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

1,501 members

58 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

1,357 members

31 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

36

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

309 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

37

50,806 members

444 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

38

37,165 members

608 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

39

by William Faulkner

14,371 members

212 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

40

by Marcel Proust

10,733 members

175 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

41

by Rachel Carson

6,249 members

98 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

42

by Edward W. Said

5,460 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

43

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,308 members

144 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

44

4,775 members

58 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

45

by Roland Barthes

4,152 members

31 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

46

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

3,992 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

47

by Sylvia Plath

3,969 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

48

The Periodic Table

3,884 members

68 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

49

3,866 members

352 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: zweiundzwei

50

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

3,349 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

51

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,070 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

52

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

by E. F. Schumacher

2,733 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

53

by W. G. Sebald

2,385 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

54

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

by Daron Acemoglu

2,215 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

55

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,010 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

56

1,932 members

102 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

57

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

1,930 members

18 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: zweiundzwei

58

1,878 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

59

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

1,846 members

56 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

60

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,735 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

61

1,608 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

62

by Maggie Nelson

1,524 members

71 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

63

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

1,335 members

72 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

64

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,047 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

65

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,038 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

66

Gravity and Grace

794 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

67

Playing and Reality

by D. W. Winnicott

494 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

68

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

by Nikesh Shukla

368 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

69

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

by Philippa Perry

350 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

70

by Kathleen Jamie

332 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

71

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

207 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

72

by Alice Oswald

126 members

1 review

4

Member: zweiundzwei

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July 2021
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