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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

24,683 members

365 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Connie Willis

7,563 members

355 reviews

4.1

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3

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,019 members

117 reviews

4

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4

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,761 members

184 reviews

3.9

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5

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

7,944 members

154 reviews

4.1

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6

by Joseph Heller

37,925 members

500 reviews

4.1

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7

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,532 members

218 reviews

4

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by Orson Scott Card

38,840 members

1,018 reviews

½ 4.3

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9

19,333 members

290 reviews

3.8

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10

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,192 members

277 reviews

4.1

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11

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,277 members

400 reviews

4.1

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12

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

5,019 members

121 reviews

4.2

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13

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,221 members

187 reviews

4

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14

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

21,453 members

909 reviews

3.8

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15

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

6,617 members

162 reviews

3.8

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16

I Capture the Castle

8,785 members

284 reviews

4.1

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17

Carry On, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,339 members

67 reviews

4.1

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18

5,646 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

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19

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,060 members

129 reviews

3.9

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20

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,246 members

125 reviews

½ 4.3

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21

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

8,374 members

208 reviews

3.9

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22

A Death in the Family

2,900 members

63 reviews

3.9

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23

The Stranger Beside Me

2,572 members

60 reviews

3.9

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24

Chilly Scenes of Winter

340 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

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25

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,779 members

64 reviews

3.9

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26

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,101 members

141 reviews

4.1

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by Scott Spencer

465 members

17 reviews

½ 3.4

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28

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

905 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

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

by Stephanie Coontz

794 members

17 reviews

3.9

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30

The Last of the Wine

by Mary Renault

1,590 members

23 reviews

4.1

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The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five

by Doris Lessing

688 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

1,862 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Liars' Club: A Memoir

3,811 members

77 reviews

3.8

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The Naked Civil Servant

by Quentin Crisp

797 members

11 reviews

4

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by Joe Brainard

313 members

6 reviews

4.2

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36

The Gastronomical Me

by M. F. K. Fisher

581 members

17 reviews

4.1

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

by Richard Feynman

9,357 members

165 reviews

4.2

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38

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,429 members

42 reviews

4.2

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An African in Greenland

by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

532 members

25 reviews

3.9

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Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth

by Norman Lewis

499 members

17 reviews

4

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by Karen Blixen

4,930 members

98 reviews

3.9

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42

Swimming to Cambodia

by Spalding Gray

458 members

9 reviews

4.2

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1,175 members

23 reviews

4

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44

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

7,481 members

349 reviews

4.2

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45

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

4,976 members

116 reviews

4

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by Evan S. Connell

1,009 members

35 reviews

4.1

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by Katherine Dunn

5,854 members

156 reviews

4

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48

My Father and Myself

by J. R. Ackerley

440 members

7 reviews

3.8

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49

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,121 members

117 reviews

4

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by Willa Cather

5,902 members

159 reviews

3.9

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by Barbara Gowdy

201 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead

1,363 members

41 reviews

3.8

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,052 members

650 reviews

4.2

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by George Saunders

2,262 members

52 reviews

4

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55

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

by Alexandre Dumas

2,820 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

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56

A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

3,199 members

58 reviews

4

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A Short History of Byzantium

by John Julius Norwich

1,232 members

25 reviews

3.9

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58

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

2,893 members

82 reviews

4

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59

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,734 members

112 reviews

4.2

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60

The Game of Kings

by Dorothy Dunnett

2,602 members

83 reviews

½ 4.3

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61

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

by Adam Hochschild

4,364 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

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62

Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915

by Thomas J. Schlereth

347 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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63

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

17,650 members

381 reviews

4.1

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64

Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

by Simon Garfield

289 members

4 reviews

4.2

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65

Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream

383 members

5 reviews

4.1

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66

The Conscience of a Conservative

by Barry Goldwater

728 members

11 reviews

3.8

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67

What a Carve Up!

by Jonathan Coe

2,247 members

50 reviews

3.9

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68

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

by Kurt Vonnegut

6,000 members

49 reviews

3.9

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69

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,114 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

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70

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

4,265 members

44 reviews

3.8

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71

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

by Shelby Steele

506 members

6 reviews

4.1

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by Thomas Pynchon

3,925 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

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73

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

9,888 members

249 reviews

4.1

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74

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,068 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

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75

My Life and Hard Times

by James Thurber

1,123 members

20 reviews

4.1

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76

Diary of a Provincial Lady

by E.M. Delafield

1,052 members

35 reviews

4.1

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77

Thus Was Adonis Murdered

by Sarah Caudwell

1,004 members

34 reviews

4

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78

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

by Florence King

548 members

18 reviews

4

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79

Pictures from an Institution

by Randall Jarrell

442 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

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80

The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

by Stanisław Lem

2,469 members

37 reviews

4.1

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81

by Edward Gorey

2,643 members

36 reviews

½ 4.4

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82

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,440 members

60 reviews

3.9

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83

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,177 members

192 reviews

4

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84

by James M. Cain

1,154 members

41 reviews

3.8

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85

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

1,281 members

20 reviews

3.9

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86

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

by Horatio Alger Jr.

427 members

8 reviews

3.2

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87

What Makes Sammy Run?

by Budd Schulberg

552 members

10 reviews

3.8

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88

I Served the King of England

by Bohumil Hrabal

1,323 members

28 reviews

4

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89

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

by Paul S. Collins

500 members

17 reviews

3.9

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90

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

7,392 members

122 reviews

4

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91

The Periodic Table

3,773 members

66 reviews

4.2

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92

by James Buchan

171 members

4 reviews

4

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93

What Every Person Should Know About War

by Chris Hedges

215 members

6 reviews

3.8

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94

Soldiers of Salamis

by Javier Cercas

1,280 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

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95

Going After Cacciato

2,139 members

33 reviews

3.9

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96

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,121 members

113 reviews

½ 4.3

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97

The Missing of the Somme

280 members

8 reviews

3.9

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98

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,330 members

56 reviews

4

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99

Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma

376 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

8,296 members

182 reviews

½ 4.3

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