Books Included in Professor Jim Flynn's "The Torchlight List"

1.
The Slave
The Slave 4.22 avg rating — 4,018 ratings
2.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,309 ratings
3.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,422 ratings
4.
A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy 4.13 avg rating — 40,910 ratings
5.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,324 ratings
6.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 4.09 avg rating — 41,140 ratings
7.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,331 ratings
8.
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,640 ratings
9.
Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 61,121 ratings
9.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,593 ratings
11.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,270 ratings
12.
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 96,279 ratings
13.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,114 ratings
14.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,240 ratings
15.
Politics and the Nation: England 1450 - 1660
Politics and the Nation: England 1450 - 1660 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
16.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 3.79 avg rating — 37,707 ratings
16.
Church and People: England, 1450 1660
Church and People: England, 1450 1660 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
18.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain 3.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
19.
Spark of Life
Spark of Life 4.53 avg rating — 6,465 ratings
19.
England and Its Rulers: 1066-1307
England and Its Rulers: 1066-1307 3.69 avg rating — 89 ratings
21.
End as a Man
End as a Man 3.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
21.
Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918
Politics without Democracy: England 1815-1918 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
23.
The Story of Language
The Story of Language 3.70 avg rating — 53 ratings
23.
Crown And Nobility: England 1272-1461
Crown And Nobility: England 1272-1461 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
25.
The Greek World
The Greek World 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
26.
The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B 4.12 avg rating — 512 ratings
26.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating — 253,091 ratings
28.
Makers of Mathematics
Makers of Mathematics 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
28.
Fame Is The Spur
Fame Is The Spur 4.22 avg rating — 233 ratings
30.
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe 4.25 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
30.
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade 4.18 avg rating — 563 ratings
32.
The Life of Isaac Newton
The Life of Isaac Newton 3.84 avg rating — 193 ratings
32.
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
34.
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London 3.71 avg rating — 209 ratings
34.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,598 ratings
36.
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World 3.98 avg rating — 814 ratings
36.
The Acquisitive Society
The Acquisitive Society 4.11 avg rating — 105 ratings
38.
In Search of the Big Bang
In Search of the Big Bang 3.96 avg rating — 273 ratings
38.
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier 3.91 avg rating — 27,349 ratings
40.
The Universe: A Biography
The Universe: A Biography 3.88 avg rating — 387 ratings
40.
Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall 3.83 avg rating — 15,502 ratings
42.
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation 4.10 avg rating — 8,264 ratings
42.
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim 3.75 avg rating — 31,468 ratings
44.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin 3.92 avg rating — 72 ratings
44.
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 8,988 ratings
46.
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach 3.62 avg rating — 99,816 ratings
47.
The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition (The Terry Lectures Series)
The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition (The Terry Lectures Series) 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
47.
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley 4.21 avg rating — 18,451 ratings
49.
Evolution in Action
Evolution in Action 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
50.
How We Got Here: From Bows and Arrows to the Space Age
How We Got Here: From Bows and Arrows to the Space Age 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
50.
The Masters (Strangers and Brothers, #5)
The Masters (Strangers and Brothers, #5)
by: C.P. Snow
4.02 avg rating — 701 ratings
52.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: How Our Animal Heritage Affects the Way We Live 4.08 avg rating — 28,333 ratings
52.
The Light and the Dark (Strangers and Brothers, #4)
The Light and the Dark (Strangers and Brothers, #4)
by: C.P. Snow
4.07 avg rating — 263 ratings
54.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
54.
A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1)
A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 4,809 ratings
56.
The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
56.
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth 4.10 avg rating — 73,821 ratings
58.
The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian 3.42 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
58.
Kim
Kim 3.70 avg rating — 39,386 ratings
60.
The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,478 ratings
60.
The Somme
The Somme 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
62.
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons
by: Tom Wolfe
3.45 avg rating — 28,229 ratings
62.
Birdsong
Birdsong 4.11 avg rating — 82,676 ratings
64.
Lincoln
Lincoln 4.25 avg rating — 9,731 ratings
64.
Bertrand Russell : The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921
Bertrand Russell : The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921
by: Ray Monk
4.16 avg rating — 152 ratings
66.
Bruce Catton's Civil War: 3 Volumes in 1: Mr Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton's Civil War: 3 Volumes in 1: Mr Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, A Stillness at Appomattox 4.48 avg rating — 461 ratings
67.
The Coming Fury: The Centennial History of the Civil War
The Coming Fury: The Centennial History of the Civil War 4.34 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
67.
Unpopular Essays
Unpopular Essays 4.10 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
69.
Sunrise to Sunset
Sunrise to Sunset liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
69.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel 3.71 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
71.
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs 4.37 avg rating — 304 ratings
71.
Point Counter Point
Point Counter Point 3.87 avg rating — 12,092 ratings
73.
Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating — 45,693 ratings
73.
Antic Hay
Antic Hay 3.41 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
75.
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate 3.82 avg rating — 7,700 ratings
75.
Island
Island 3.85 avg rating — 34,947 ratings
77.
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money 4.12 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
77.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
79.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,578 ratings
79.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,039 ratings
81.
The Black Obelisk
The Black Obelisk 4.38 avg rating — 15,295 ratings
82.
Three Comrades
Three Comrades 4.48 avg rating — 37,965 ratings
83.
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March 3.84 avg rating — 18,692 ratings
83.
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A Time to Love and a Time to Die 4.44 avg rating — 14,727 ratings
85.
A Man in Full
A Man in Full
by: Tom Wolfe
3.89 avg rating — 20,216 ratings
85.
The Loyal Subject
The Loyal Subject 3.53 avg rating — 4,871 ratings
87.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice 3.69 avg rating — 65,709 ratings
88.
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,162 ratings
89.
I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)
I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 10,048 ratings
89.
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Defying Hitler: A Memoir 4.34 avg rating — 5,357 ratings
91.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 86,073 ratings
91.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris & Goodbye to Berlin
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris & Goodbye to Berlin 4.04 avg rating — 12,571 ratings
93.
Operation Shylock: A Confession
Operation Shylock: A Confession 3.77 avg rating — 4,964 ratings
93.
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Mr Norris Changes Trains 3.75 avg rating — 5,652 ratings
95.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop 3.97 avg rating — 41,766 ratings
95.
If This Is a Man • The Truce
If This Is a Man • The Truce 4.54 avg rating — 21,711 ratings
97.
Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 36,325 ratings
97.
Every Man Dies Alone
Every Man Dies Alone 4.27 avg rating — 35,338 ratings
99.
Les Miserables
Les Miserables 4.21 avg rating — 830,220 ratings
100.
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road 3.71 avg rating — 15,712 ratings
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