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Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf

Description: Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf from here: https://milled.com/blackwell-books/blackwells-five-foot-bookshelf-nVus-gGFOb-vCXCZ Chosen in 2020

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,584 members

33 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

82,453 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Mary Shelley

42,966 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,669 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,382 members

744 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

21,413 members

539 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,813 members

435 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,552 members

469 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by George Eliot

17,832 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

14,016 members

113 reviews

4

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

6,924 members

254 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

1,735 members

54 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Herman Melville

35,665 members

545 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,847 members

565 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,882 members

508 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

20

24,226 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

21

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,698 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

22

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,888 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

23

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,762 members

743 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

24

by Hilary Mantel

13,576 members

655 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

25

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

26

6,586 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

27

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,366 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

28

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

5,183 members

37 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

4,197 members

121 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

30

by Djuna Barnes

3,144 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez

2,357 members

79 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

32

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

2,091 members

51 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

33

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,042 members

70 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

34

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

1,628 members

62 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

35

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

1,527 members

36 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

36

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

320 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

37

53,487 members

477 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

38

by León Tolstói

38,685 members

632 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

39

by William Faulkner

14,851 members

218 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

40

by Marcel Proust

11,201 members

183 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

41

by Rachel Carson

6,604 members

98 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

42

by Edward W. Said

5,775 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

43

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,552 members

149 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

44

5,027 members

60 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

45

by Roland Barthes

4,329 members

32 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

46

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

4,294 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

47

by Sylvia Plath

4,153 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

48

The Periodic Table

4,042 members

70 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

49

4,019 members

358 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: zweiundzwei

50

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

3,629 members

36 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

51

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,245 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

52

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

by E. F. Schumacher

2,829 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

53

by W. G. Sebald

2,477 members

47 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

54

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu

2,373 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

55

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

2,102 members

19 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: zweiundzwei

56

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,095 members

29 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

57

2,057 members

105 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

58

1,966 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

59

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

1,917 members

58 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

60

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,809 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

61

1,698 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

62

by Maggie Nelson

1,674 members

79 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

63

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

1,464 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

64

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,137 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

65

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,135 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

66

Gravity and Grace

856 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

67

Playing and Reality

by D. W. Winnicott

518 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

68

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

by Philippa Perry

419 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

69

The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today

by Nikesh Shukla

398 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

70

by Kathleen Jamie

344 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

71

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

228 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

72

by Alice Oswald

126 members

1 review

4

Member: zweiundzwei

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July 2021
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