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Description: works referenced and discussed by Damon Young in his The Art of Reading

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,575 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: avatiakh, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Complete Fables

3,629 members

50 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Beowulf Poet

25,557 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,632 members

44 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

5

The Invisible Man

10,984 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Da Vinci Code

70,516 members

1,312 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

19,244 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,095 members

29 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

9

by Virginia Woolf

20,793 members

332 reviews

3.9

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,370 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

38,263 members

506 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

349 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

13

by George Orwell

82,465 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Sense and Sensibility

38,386 members

530 reviews

4.1

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

What is Literature?

by Jean-Paul Sartre

835 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

16

Northanger Abbey

21,790 members

420 reviews

3.8

3 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Short Stories of Saki

1,454 members

26 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Herman Melville

35,660 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,449 members

496 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

20

A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

3,812 members

54 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

21

The Portrait of a Lady

10,800 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,846 members

565 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

by Frank Miller

6,445 members

105 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,766 members

575 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

25

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Martin Heidegger

1,164 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

26

24,235 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

27

The Art of Reading

124 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

28

The Mystical Theology

by Pseudo Denys l' Aéropagite

16 members

1 review

½ 2.7

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

29

The Europeans: A Sketch

1,632 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

30

The Pleasure of Reading

by Antonia Fraser

189 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, meghan-ellice

31

Riders of the Purple Sage

1,809 members

62 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

32

by Clive Barker

4,211 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

33

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,862 members

415 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

34

by Jean-Paul Sartre

10,005 members

83 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

35

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,160 members

282 reviews

4.1

2 Members: avatiakh, ahef1963

36

22,658 members

360 reviews

3.8

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

37

28,882 members

535 reviews

4.2

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

by Richard Burton

1,802 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

39

Pride and Prejudice

81,206 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Magic Faraway Tree

1,632 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

41

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,152 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

42

Therese the Philosopher

by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer/Diderot? d'Argens

87 members

3 reviews

2.9

Member: avatiakh

43

Nicomachean Ethics

10,195 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

44

40,250 members

387 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

45

A Treatise of Human Nature

2,877 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

46

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

by George Orwell

2,965 members

57 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

47

by Oliver Sacks

1,568 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

48

by Martin Heidegger

1,136 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

49

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: avatiakh

50

Report to Greco

by Nikos Kazantzakis

552 members

9 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

51

22,064 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

52

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,075 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

53

Of Grammatology

by Jacques Derrida

2,026 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

54

On Christian Teaching

by St. Augustine

1,905 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

55

The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory and Paradise

by Dante Alighieri

55 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

56

Nick Carter, detective: fiction's most celebrated detective; six astonishing adventures

17 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

57

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,738 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

58

Theaetetus [Greek and translation]

991 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

59

805 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

60

What is Philosophy?

by Martin Heidegger

173 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

61

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,954 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

62

The Golden Bowl

2,768 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

63

Psychology: The Briefer Course

by William James

347 members

2 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

64

Summa Theologiae

by Thomas Aquinas

1,415 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

65

The Ambassadors

3,993 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

66

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

21 members

3

Member: avatiakh

67

11,834 members

509 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

68

The Aspern Papers

883 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

69

All the books of my life

by Sheila Kaye-Smith

17 members

4

Member: avatiakh

70

Hegel: Philosophy of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

194 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

71

Art as Experience

1,065 members

7 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

72

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

8,347 members

541 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

73

by Eric Van Lustbader

943 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

74

What Maisie Knew

2,129 members

42 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

75

1,435 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

76

by Charlotte Wood

60 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

77

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,970 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

78

The Last Temptation of Christ

by Nikos Kazantzakis

3,119 members

44 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

79

by Blaise Pascal

4,908 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

80

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

by Friedrich Nietzsche

1,979 members

14 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

81

Adventures of Ideas

by Alfred North Whitehead

638 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

82

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,928 members

59 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

83

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

35,153 members

273 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

84

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

by Martha Nussbaum

485 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: avatiakh

85

The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]

by Simone de Beauvoir

4,552 members

32 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

86

by Shirley Hazzard

1,952 members

42 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: avatiakh

87

Titan: The Red King

by Michael A. Martin

369 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

88

by Deborah Levy

904 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: avatiakh

89

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

by Iris Murdoch

540 members

1 review

4

Member: avatiakh

90

The Dark Light Years

by Brian W. Aldiss

480 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: avatiakh

91

The World As Will and Idea: Abridged in One Volume (Everyman's Library (Paper))

by Arthur Schopenhauer

245 members

1 review

3.8

Member: avatiakh

92

The Gay Science

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,273 members

24 reviews

4.2

Member: avatiakh

93

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume One

by Arthur Schopenhauer

134 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: avatiakh

94

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,445 members

108 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

95

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

by Michael Chabon

1,666 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: avatiakh

96

7,056 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

97

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

793 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: avatiakh

98

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

by Edith Wharton

408 members

8 reviews

4

Member: avatiakh

99

Philosophy in the Garden

42 members

4

Member: avatiakh

100

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,329 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: avatiakh

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