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Generation Joshua

Description: Just a personal list of books to read for 2014 based mostly on books that are easily accessible to me in various categories. It's my attempt at bringing a little discipline to my reading.
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1

The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast

15,927 members

149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

73,336 members

1,394 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963

3

by Ray Bradbury

49,860 members

933 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963

4

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

30,667 members

315 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963

5

Out of the Silent Planet

10,232 members

159 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

6

8,281 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

7

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

18,440 members

171 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, ahef1963

8

24,120 members

218 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

9

The Horse and His Boy

23,234 members

217 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

10

That Hideous Strength

7,720 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

11

The Magician's Nephew

26,777 members

334 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

12

3,063 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

13

The Hiding Place

by Corrie Ten Boom

9,111 members

132 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

14

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

41,949 members

722 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

15

by Charlotte Brontë

55,096 members

876 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

16

The Last Battle

21,292 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

17

by William Shakespeare

5,569 members

52 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

18

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

23,135 members

235 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

19

by J. R. R. Tolkien

87,501 members

1,146 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

20

Murder in the Cathedral

2,886 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

21

by William Shakespeare

11,503 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

22

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

21,766 members

319 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

23

Hamburger Lesehefte : Sophokles : Antigone

5,106 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

24

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

6,626 members

162 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

25

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

28,632 members

469 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

26

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,172 members

361 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

27

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

31,308 members

411 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

28

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,020 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

29

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,091 members

1,091 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

30

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

8,428 members

55 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

31

Mere Christianity

24,288 members

208 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027

32

Confessions of a Sinner

by St. Augustine

366 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: cej1027

33

The Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis

9,365 members

77 reviews

4.1

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34

by Dante Alighieri

22,285 members

203 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

35

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,163 members

181 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

36

The Cost of Discipleship

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

7,982 members

46 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

37

by Niccolò Machiavelli

21,997 members

239 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

38

by John Steinbeck

12,239 members

192 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cej1027

39

Pride and Prejudice

74,787 members

1,304 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

40

by George Orwell

55,862 members

833 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

41

by Orson Scott Card

38,883 members

1,019 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

42

by Mary Shelley

38,860 members

667 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

43

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

34,325 members

433 reviews

3.9

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44

by Charles Dickens

22,324 members

218 reviews

3.8

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45

The Great Divorce

10,919 members

114 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

46

Northanger Abbey

20,120 members

405 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

47

The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog

by James W. Sire

2,712 members

18 reviews

4.1

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48

Around the World in Eighty Days

15,514 members

250 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

49

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,235 members

187 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

50

by Wilkie Collins

10,175 members

244 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

51

The Last Days of Socrates

5,328 members

23 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,073 members

176 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

53

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,105 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

54

Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Donoghue

829 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

55

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

690 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

56

by Frank Herbert

38,363 members

623 reviews

½ 4.3

57

36,612 members

361 reviews

4

58

Les Misérables

24,342 members

321 reviews

½ 4.3

59

21,275 members

230 reviews

3.8

60

21,257 members

187 reviews

3.9

61

20,420 members

132 reviews

3.9

62

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

15,692 members

185 reviews

3.8

63

The Communist Manifesto

13,878 members

134 reviews

½ 3.4

64

by Walter Scott

12,052 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

65

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,499 members

212 reviews

3.8

66

11,032 members

109 reviews

½ 3.5

67

Nicomachean Ethics

9,387 members

53 reviews

3.9

68

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche

9,256 members

72 reviews

3.8

69

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

9,198 members

60 reviews

4.1

70

by Joseph Conrad

8,545 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

71

by Dante Alighieri

6,794 members

49 reviews

4.1

72

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

6,751 members

103 reviews

3.8

73

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

6,658 members

51 reviews

3.9

74

by G. K. Chesterton

6,088 members

41 reviews

4.2

75

The Abolition of Man

5,976 members

60 reviews

4

76

by Dante Alighieri

5,681 members

41 reviews

4

77

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,528 members

138 reviews

4

78

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Brother Lawrence

5,395 members

56 reviews

4

79

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,349 members

30 reviews

4.2

80

5,337 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

81

The Song of Roland

5,058 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

82

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

4,806 members

16 reviews

4.2

83

The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

by William J. Bennett

4,617 members

19 reviews

3.9

84

by Blaise Pascal

4,525 members

33 reviews

3.8

85

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

4,105 members

27 reviews

3.9

86

The Knowledge of the Holy

4,065 members

23 reviews

½ 4.4

87

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

3,780 members

95 reviews

½ 4.3

88

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

by Francis A. Schaeffer

3,179 members

18 reviews

4.1

89

The Weight of Glory

2,963 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

90

The Second Treatise of Government

2,945 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

91

Through Gates of Splendor

by Elisabeth Elliot

2,816 members

15 reviews

4.2

92

by Brother Andrew

2,805 members

32 reviews

4.2

93

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

2,739 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

94

The Road to Serfdom

2,636 members

32 reviews

4.2

95

Reflections on the Revolution in France

by Edmund Burke

2,610 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

96

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

2,470 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

97

by John Stuart Mill

2,461 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

98

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

2,309 members

20 reviews

4

99

Plutarch's Lives

2,279 members

29 reviews

4.1

100

by George MacDonald

2,157 members

27 reviews

3.8

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Started: cej1027
July 2014
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