Books in The Club Dumas

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The Odyssey

by Homer

62,718 members

523 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "So we aren't allowed to have Nausicaa on the beach...because people hate something about action in novels." - Borja

2

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

41,795 members

620 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: the base of the relationship between Corso and Le Ponte.

3

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,903 members

532 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: all that Corso owns is a Ibarra 4 volume edition Don Quixote and a Volkswagen. "And the car cost more than the book."

4

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,518 members

395 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Borja's least favourite Satan ("a bureaucrat with dirty fingernails")

5

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

33,611 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: suggested to Mackarova by Corso

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,870 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "The best book I've ever read!" - Mackarova

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

29,854 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "I read that book...that tart, Madam Bovary." - Mackarova, the lesbian bar keeper.

8

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

27,978 members

513 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: suggested to Mackarova by Corso

9

Ulysses

by James Joyce

27,473 members

377 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "the end of literature", from Varo Borja & Corso's first conversation.

10

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,502 members

223 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell

11

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,062 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: adaorhell

12

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

24,598 members

270 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Borjas' most highly favored serial.

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,872 members

514 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "Irene Adler" describes this as a book of her friends.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,486 members

275 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: The only other hero in as good shape as D'Artagnan and his friends. -Borjas. Also, where the Devil takes their name ("Irene Adler")

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Paradise Lost

by John Milton

16,736 members

131 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell

16

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo

16,406 members

207 reviews

3.9

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Dumas' friend.

17

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

12,954 members

206 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell

18

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

12,129 members

384 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Epigraph.

19

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

10,378 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: adaorhell

20

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

5,921 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: adaorhell

21

The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

4,974 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Corso asks about Boris Balkan's translation of this work.

22

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

3,571 members

130 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

23

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

3,011 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Corso describes La Ponte as Billy Budd. assuming it's the novel and not the Benjamin Britten opera of the same name.

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The Celestina

by Fernando de Rojas

2,500 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: adaorhell

25

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini

1,937 members

60 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Scaramouche is to Sabatini as The Count of Monte Christo is to Dumas. - Borjas

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Captain Blood

by Rafael Sabatini

1,897 members

61 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "He had the gift of laughter...and this was his only inheritence" - Borjas and Corso's opening conversation.

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The Lusiads

by Luís Vaz de Camões

1,880 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

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The Malleus Maleficarum

by Heinrich Institoris

1,880 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: adaorhell

29

Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Maturin

1,853 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell

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Queen Margot

by Alexandre Dumas

1,803 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: adaorhell

31

Faust

by Goethe

1,708 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: adaorhell

32

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1,023 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell

33

The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints

by Jacobus de Voragine

635 members

8 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell

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The Knight of Maison-Rouge

by Alexandre Dumas

635 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell

35

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

by Nicolaus Copernicus

514 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell

36

The Corpus Hermeticum

by Hermes Trismegistus

439 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: adaorhell

37

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz 1803-1865

by Hector Berlioz

423 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Dumas' friend.

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The Mysteries of Paris

by Eugène Sue

376 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Epigraph

39

The Devil in Love

by Jacques Cazotte

374 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: "Irene Adler".

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John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings

by John James Audubon

327 members

½ 4.5

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: La Ponte & Corso believe they will become filthy rich if they could find a complete set of his work.

41

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

by Alexandre Dumas

313 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

42

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

by Honoré de Balzac

301 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: Dumas' enemy.

43

Compendium Maleficarum

by Francesco Maria Guazzo

250 members

3.8

Member: adaorhell

44

De Re Metallica

by Georgius Agricola

246 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: adaorhell

45

The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

221 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell

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Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Clementinam

by Alberto Colunga

189 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: adaorhell

47

La Comtesse de Charny

by Alexandre Dumas

158 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: adaorhell

48

The Companions of Jehu

by Alexandre Dumas

135 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

49

Demoniality: Incubi and Succubi: A Book of Demonology

by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

96 members

½ 3.4

Member: adaorhell

50

Infernal Dictionary

by Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy

92 members

4 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: adaorhell

51

Demonolatry

by Nicolas Remy

83 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

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The Two Dianas

by Alexandre Dumas

78 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: adaorhell

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Vampire City

by Paul Féval

68 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: adaorhell

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Antonio Azorín

by Azorín

62 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: adaorhell
Explanations: adaorhell: La Ponte is described as constructing his language, manner of speaking and writing as exactly as Azorin, 'with a lot of full stops."

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