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Description: A listing of books which appear in the book Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark

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by Gustave Flaubert

29,893 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Connie Willis

8,783 members

400 reviews

4.1

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I Capture the Castle

10,141 members

323 reviews

4.1

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

10,381 members

504 reviews

4.1

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5

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,433 members

243 reviews

4

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by Kurt Vonnegut

24,946 members

349 reviews

4.1

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7

23,185 members

344 reviews

3.8

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8

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,877 members

1,014 reviews

3.8

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9

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

12,949 members

311 reviews

4.2

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10

The Last of the Wine

by Mary Renault

1,844 members

30 reviews

4.1

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11

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,708 members

135 reviews

4

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12

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

7,246 members

226 reviews

3.9

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13

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

9,277 members

174 reviews

4.2

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14

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,321 members

392 reviews

4.2

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15

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

2,384 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mellowout124, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,070 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mellowout124, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,988 members

63 reviews

3.9

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18

by Joseph Heller

44,451 members

579 reviews

4.1

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19

by Edward Gorey

2,950 members

41 reviews

½ 4.4

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by Orson Scott Card

45,667 members

1,124 reviews

½ 4.3

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21

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

6,260 members

140 reviews

4.2

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22

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,571 members

232 reviews

4

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23

The Man Who Was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton

7,904 members

192 reviews

3.8

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24

Carry On, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,911 members

83 reviews

4.1

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25

6,156 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

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Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,994 members

156 reviews

3.9

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27

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

9,047 members

159 reviews

½ 4.3

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28

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

9,796 members

246 reviews

3.9

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A Death in the Family

3,363 members

68 reviews

3.9

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30

The Stranger Beside Me

3,421 members

87 reviews

3.9

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Chilly Scenes of Winter

380 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

2,144 members

85 reviews

3.9

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

6,453 members

163 reviews

4

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by Scott Spencer

580 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1,128 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

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Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage

by Stephanie Coontz

955 members

19 reviews

3.9

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The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five

by Doris Lessing

788 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2,158 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Liar's Club: A Memoir

4,377 members

90 reviews

3.8

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The Naked Civil Servant

by Quentin Crisp

930 members

15 reviews

3.9

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by Joe Brainard

442 members

10 reviews

4.1

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The Gastronomical Me

by M. F. K. Fisher

686 members

19 reviews

4.2

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43

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard Feynman

11,008 members

200 reviews

4.2

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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,058 members

48 reviews

4.2

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An African in Greenland

by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

660 members

31 reviews

3.9

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Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth

by Norman Lewis

648 members

23 reviews

4

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by Isak Dinesen

5,822 members

111 reviews

3.9

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48

Swimming to Cambodia

by Spalding Rockwell Gray

503 members

10 reviews

4.1

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1,311 members

24 reviews

4

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Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,616 members

124 reviews

4

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by Evan S. Connell

1,210 members

43 reviews

4.1

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by Katherine Dunn

6,664 members

169 reviews

4

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My Father and Myself

by J. R. Ackerley

521 members

10 reviews

3.9

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Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,604 members

138 reviews

4

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by Willa Cather

7,201 members

181 reviews

3.9

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by Barbara Gowdy

212 members

8 reviews

3.8

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The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,595 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,250 members

782 reviews

4.2

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by George Saunders

2,700 members

66 reviews

4

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60

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

by Alexandre Dumas

3,463 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

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A Little History of the World

by Ernst Hans Gombrich

4,115 members

64 reviews

4

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A Short History of Byzantium

by John Julius Norwich

1,455 members

27 reviews

3.9

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63

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

3,939 members

105 reviews

4

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The Game of Kings

by Dorothy Dunnett

2,902 members

89 reviews

½ 4.3

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65

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild

5,604 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915

by Thomas J. Schlereth

403 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,134 members

441 reviews

4.1

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Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

by Simon Garfield

324 members

5 reviews

4.1

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69

Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream

430 members

5 reviews

4.1

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70

The Conscience of a Conservative

by Barry Goldwater

883 members

14 reviews

3.8

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71

What a Carve Up!

by Jonathan Coe

2,508 members

59 reviews

3.9

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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

by Kurt Vonnegut

6,937 members

62 reviews

3.9

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The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

6,010 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

5,166 members

55 reviews

3.8

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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

by Shelby Steele

590 members

7 reviews

4.2

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by Thomas Pynchon

4,685 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

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77

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,480 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

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78

My Life and Hard Times

by James Thurber

1,255 members

22 reviews

4.1

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79

Diary of a Provincial Lady

by E. M. Delafield

1,278 members

43 reviews

4.1

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80

Thus Was Adonis Murdered

by Sarah Caudwell

1,243 members

49 reviews

4

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81

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

by Florence King

588 members

20 reviews

4

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82

Pictures from an Institution

by Randall Jarrell

525 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

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83

by Stanisław Lem

2,963 members

48 reviews

4.1

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84

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,779 members

213 reviews

4

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85

by James M. Cain

1,390 members

49 reviews

3.8

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86

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

1,461 members

22 reviews

3.9

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Ragged Dick: Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

by Horatio Alger Jr.

519 members

8 reviews

3.2

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88

What Makes Sammy Run?

by Budd Schulberg

663 members

12 reviews

3.8

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89

I Served the King of England

by Bohumil Hrabal

1,584 members

32 reviews

4

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90

Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World

by Paul S. Collins

563 members

20 reviews

3.9

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Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

8,757 members

152 reviews

4

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92

The Periodic Table

4,508 members

74 reviews

4.2

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93

Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money

by James Buchan

187 members

4 reviews

4

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What Every Person Should Know About War

by Chris Hedges

256 members

7 reviews

3.8

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Soldiers of Salamis

by Javier Cercas

1,610 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

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Going After Cacciato

2,463 members

36 reviews

3.9

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The Guns of August

by Barbara Tuchman

7,606 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

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The Missing of the Somme

337 members

8 reviews

3.8

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The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,970 members

72 reviews

4

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Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma

444 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

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