Hidden Classics

Description
Great books that don't get the attention they deserve
Members
13 participating members
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669 members
42 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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18,539 members
409 reviews
4.2
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
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lewbs : hidden classic??
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253 members
6 reviews
4
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1,704 members
27 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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848 members
33 reviews
3.8
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1,660 members
21 reviews
4.1
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gbelik
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933 members
32 reviews
½ 4.3
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kbroenkow
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748 members
31 reviews
½ 3.4
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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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250 members
5 reviews
3.9
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bluepiano
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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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73 members
3 reviews
4.1
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inge87
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61 members
2 reviews
5
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44 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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eromsted
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1,931 members
40 reviews
4
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gbelik
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1,635 members
21 reviews
½ 3.3
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aulsmith
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193 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: Even counting the revised edition, still well under 1,000 members cataloging.
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156 members
10 reviews
4
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merrystar
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147 members
½ 4.3
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eromsted
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79 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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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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6,201 members
164 reviews
3.9
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4,581 members
116 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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2,428 members
56 reviews
4.1
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909 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
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inge87
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685 members
24 reviews
3.9
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kbroenkow
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498 members
5 reviews
3.8
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thorold
Explanations
thorold: Quirkily subversive novel by a suburban secretary who also happened to be a great poet
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446 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
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merrystar
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335 members
9 reviews
3.8
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298 members
4 reviews
3.9
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eromsted
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3,905 members
146 reviews
3.8
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1,238 members
36 reviews
4
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lewbs
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1,081 members
26 reviews
4
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lewbs
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937 members
11 reviews
½ 4.5
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lewbs
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739 members
21 reviews
4
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lewbs
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739 members
12 reviews
3.9
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lewbs
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687 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
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kbroenkow
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604 members
8 reviews
4
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lewbs
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539 members
16 reviews
3.8
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thorold
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thorold: Couperus is unfairly neglected outside Holland
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519 members
14 reviews
4.1
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lewbs
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448 members
20 reviews
4
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313 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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eromsted
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4,661 members
121 reviews
4
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823 members
15 reviews
3.9
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eromsted
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425 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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thorold
Explanations
thorold: Great comic novel that gets overlooked because it's a European pretending to be a Persian
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73 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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842 members
31 reviews
½ 3.3
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kbroenkow
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641 members
11 reviews
3.9
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491 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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thorold
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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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475 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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434 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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eromsted
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1,359 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
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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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487 members
11 reviews
4
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186 members
6 reviews
3.8
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kbroenkow
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4,982 members
98 reviews
4.2
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thorold
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thorold: maybe not all that neglected, but a brilliant anti-novel
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1,269 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
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kbroenkow
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799 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
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1,564 members
39 reviews
4
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thorold
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702 members
12 reviews
4.2
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kbroenkow
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188 members
2 reviews
3.8
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1,181 members
19 reviews
3.9
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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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304 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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513 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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108 members
4 reviews
4
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thorold
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thorold: Great mid-century British roman-fleuve, unfairly overshadowed by Anthony Powell
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896 members
14 reviews
3.8
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49 members
3 reviews
3.8
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thorold
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thorold: hard-hitting antiwar satire from 1920s Vienna
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716 members
18 reviews
3.9
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7,761 members
414 reviews
4.1
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5,662 members
219 reviews
4
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910 members
40 reviews
4.1
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thorold,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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13,318 members
279 reviews
3.9
2 Members
kbroenkow, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
lewbs : hidden classic??
69
5,779 members
143 reviews
4
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6,396 members
338 reviews
½ 4.3
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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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4,456 members
128 reviews
3.8
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ahef1963,thorold ,merrystar
Explanations
thorold : A great book, but surely not a neglected one
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13,543 members
297 reviews
4
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kbroenkow,merrystar ,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
lewbs : hidden classic??