Hidden Classics

Description
Great books that don't get the attention they deserve
1
766 members
43 reviews
3.8
3 Members
inge87, thorold, merrystar
Explanations
thorold: Thirkell was very popular in her day, but now gets overlooked. Great comic writing, especially the dialogues, but stone-age political opinions.
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299 members
6 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: A marvellous book that in Georgia is considered the most precious jewel in national literature. It gets no attention to speak of in Anglophone world, though, and possibly none in any countries other than Caucasian ones.
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20,344 members
428 reviews
4.2
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
lewbs : hidden classic??
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3,106 members
71 reviews
4.1
5
358 members
8 reviews
3.9
6
1,981 members
29 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
thorold: It did get a BBC dramatisation, but it still seems to be unfairly neglected
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978 members
37 reviews
3.9
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5,438 members
138 reviews
4
9
1,793 members
42 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
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1,030 members
42 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86,merrystar
Explanations
thorold: You already know about this if you're from Yorkshire or a Virago fan, but everyone should read it
merrystar : I was disappointed by this one, and did not enjoy it.
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1,925 members
28 reviews
4.1
Member
gbelik
12
1,060 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow
13
711 members
31 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: I arbitrarily went by the book having to be over 50 years old and has less than 1,000 members cataloging. I thumbed down everything over 5,000.
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73 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
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69 members
3 reviews
5
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54 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Member
eromsted
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2,253 members
54 reviews
4
Member
gbelik
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1,859 members
24 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
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206 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: Even counting the revised edition, still well under 1,000 members cataloging.
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181 members
4.2
Member
eromsted
21
172 members
12 reviews
4
Member
merrystar
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97 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: It gets the attention it deserves in Croatia, where's it's assigned reading in school, but it doesn't get much at all here. I don't know whether it's 'great', but it's bloody good.
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7,157 members
181 reviews
3.9
24
5,341 members
142 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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1,024 members
21 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
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823 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
kbroenkow
27
555 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Quirkily subversive novel by a suburban secretary who also happened to be a great poet
28
493 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
merrystar
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396 members
9 reviews
3.8
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353 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
eromsted
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4,397 members
157 reviews
3.8
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1,415 members
41 reviews
4
Member
lewbs
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1,207 members
29 reviews
4
Member
lewbs
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1,204 members
18 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
lewbs
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912 members
26 reviews
4.1
Member
lewbs
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851 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
lewbs
37
799 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow
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760 members
11 reviews
4
Member
lewbs
39
620 members
16 reviews
4.1
Member
lewbs
40
535 members
16 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Couperus is unfairly neglected outside Holland
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530 members
22 reviews
4
42
360 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
eromsted
43
997 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
eromsted
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486 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Great comic novel that gets overlooked because it's a European pretending to be a Persian
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81 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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957 members
35 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
kbroenkow
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942 members
16 reviews
4
48
542 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Andersch gets a bit overshadowed by the other German writers of that generation, but this is a great little book.
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534 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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495 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
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225 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
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1,665 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Great coming-of-age novel, included because I had never heard of it until I started learning Spanish
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555 members
13 reviews
3.9
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198 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kbroenkow
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5,966 members
110 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: maybe not all that neglected, but a brilliant anti-novel
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1,434 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kbroenkow
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895 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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809 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
kbroenkow
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214 members
1 review
3.8
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1,326 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Cary's best novel, one of the classic literary accounts of visual art. But not much known outside Britain.
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364 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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557 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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126 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Great mid-century British roman-fleuve, unfairly overshadowed by Anthony Powell
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1,002 members
18 reviews
3.8
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66 members
3 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: hard-hitting antiwar satire from 1920s Vienna
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935 members
25 reviews
3.9
67
10,241 members
503 reviews
4.1
68
6,388 members
240 reviews
4
69
15,197 members
310 reviews
3.9
2 Members
kbroenkow, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
lewbs : hidden classic??
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6,881 members
174 reviews
4
71
8,819 members
426 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow,thorold ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
thorold : It might have been unfairly neglected until a couple of years ago, but nowadays it's more in the "overhyped" category
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5,151 members
143 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963,thorold ,merrystar
Explanations
thorold : A great book, but surely not a neglected one
73
15,929 members
334 reviews
4
Member
kbroenkow,merrystar ,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
lewbs : hidden classic??