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The Well-Educated Mind Reading Challenge

Description: Books on TWEM (by Susan Wise Bauer)reading list: novels, biographies/memoirs, histories, plays, and poetry.
Based on tag: twem, twem novels, twem biographies, twem histories, twem plays, twem poetries

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,273 members

520 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

2

Pride and Prejudice

81,213 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,606 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

4

by Charlotte Brontë

59,382 members

924 reviews

4.2

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

5

by Albert Camus

35,679 members

510 reviews

3.9

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez, Voglerr

6

13,017 members

289 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

7

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,800 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

6 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

8

by William Shakespeare

33,043 members

308 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

9

by George Orwell

82,452 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

10

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

11

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,945 members

178 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

12

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,047 members

90 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

13

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

14

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,818 members

178 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

15

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,677 members

453 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

16

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,723 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

17

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

18

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

19

6,639 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

20

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,837 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, steller0707, GRLopez

21

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

22

by Gustave Flaubert

26,355 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, steller0707, GRLopez

23

The Portrait of a Lady

10,800 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

24

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

25

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,501 members

38 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

26

by Thornton Wilder

5,117 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

27

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,606 members

260 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, steller0707, GRLopez

28

All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward

4,693 members

73 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

29

Murder in the Cathedral

3,120 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

30

The Pilgrim's Progress

17,638 members

173 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

31

by Charles Dickens

24,421 members

242 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

32

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,751 members

204 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

33

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,631 members

698 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, NinieB, GRLopez

34

The Road from Coorain

by Jill Ker Conway

1,801 members

33 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, GRLopez

35

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,912 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, steller0707, GRLopez

36

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

2,714 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

37

11,060 members

173 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, GRLopez

38

by León Tolstói

38,685 members

632 reviews

4.1

3 Members: NinieB, steller0707, GRLopez

39

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

40

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, GRLopez

41

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,778 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

42

22,064 members

142 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

43

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

4,678 members

60 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, steller0707, GRLopez

44

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,402 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

45

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

6,927 members

54 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, GRLopez

46

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,270 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

47

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,060 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

48

183 members

6 reviews

3.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

49

by William Shakespeare

6,264 members

88 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GRLopez

50

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,103 members

18 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, GRLopez

51

by Herman Melville

35,665 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

52

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,114 members

190 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NinieB, GRLopez

53

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

7,197 members

123 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

54

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,846 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

55

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,450 members

496 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

56

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,244 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: steller0707, GRLopez

57

by Richard Wright

7,777 members

102 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

58

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

3,985 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

59

11,935 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

60

by Peter Shaffer

2,156 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, GRLopez

61

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

4,351 members

78 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

62

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

466 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

63

by Saint Augustine

22,602 members

163 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

64

A Man for All Seasons

3,116 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

65

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

by Richard Rodriguez

930 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

66

The History of the Peloponnesian War

7,928 members

59 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

67

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

3,257 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

68

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

1,603 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

69

Medea [in Translation]

2,933 members

50 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, GRLopez

70

The Longest Day

by Cornelius Ryan

2,443 members

46 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

71

5,099 members

51 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

72

2,938 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, GRLopez

73

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

593 members

12 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

74

778 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

75

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,540 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, GRLopez

76

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

7,949 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: GRLopez

77

2,591 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: GRLopez

78

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by Teresa de Ávila

1,788 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

79

Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

3,554 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

80

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

1,516 members

5 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

81

The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover Books on Americana)

by Mary Rowlandson

49 members

1 review

3.8

Member: GRLopez

82

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,152 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

83

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

7,377 members

110 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

84

by Henry David Thoreau

14,211 members

193 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

85

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

4,306 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: GRLopez

86

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

by Friedrich Nietzsche

2,075 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GRLopez

87

by Adolf Hitler

4,149 members

78 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: GRLopez

88

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

by Mahatma Gandhi

3,734 members

44 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

89

Journal of a Solitude

1,117 members

19 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

90

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

577 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: GRLopez

91

by Charles W. Colson

1,807 members

11 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

92

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

859 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: GRLopez

93

10,128 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: GRLopez

94

Plutarch's Lives

2,462 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: GRLopez

95

by Saint Augustine

6,243 members

33 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

96

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

3,476 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: GRLopez

97

The Second Treatise of Government

3,242 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

98

The History of England (Volume V)

94 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: GRLopez

99

On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,435 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GRLopez

100

by Thomas Paine

5,200 members

59 reviews

4

Member: GRLopez

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November 2020
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