Great Books: No Novels Need Apply

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Exotic Neurotic
Exotic Neurotic 3.71 avg rating β€” 2,290 ratings
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The Lagoon and Other Stories
The Lagoon and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14)
In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14) 4.01 avg rating β€” 5,266 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks - the Literature of Passion)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks - the Literature of Passion) 4.27 avg rating β€” 7,385 ratings
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Stories
Stories 4.06 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Rubaiyat
Rubaiyat 4.17 avg rating β€” 22,748 ratings
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 4.29 avg rating β€” 21,541 ratings
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A Guide to Mindful Eating
A Guide to Mindful Eating 4.64 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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How To Live on 24 Hours a Day AND The Power of Concentration: A Productivity and Success Volume
How To Live on 24 Hours a Day AND The Power of Concentration: A Productivity and Success Volume really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles 3.98 avg rating β€” 13,386 ratings
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Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
by: Anonymous
3.94 avg rating β€” 5,367 ratings
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene 3.58 avg rating β€” 17,147 ratings
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Fountains in the Sand
Fountains in the Sand 3.49 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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Not Paul, But Jesus
Not Paul, But Jesus 3.67 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Niets is ons onbeduidend
Niets is ons onbeduidend 3.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,331,340 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating β€” 524,947 ratings
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The Gospel of Lazarus
The Gospel of Lazarus 4.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales 3.89 avg rating β€” 26,324 ratings
218.
The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali 4.38 avg rating β€” 12,547 ratings
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The Power of Concentration
The Power of Concentration 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,778 ratings
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The Upanishads
The Upanishads
by: Anonymous
4.25 avg rating β€” 17,331 ratings
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Changing Planes
Changing Planes 3.86 avg rating β€” 7,025 ratings
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Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected 4.17 avg rating β€” 10,810 ratings
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Sonnets to a Young Man
Sonnets to a Young Man 4.19 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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The Tent
The Tent 3.68 avg rating β€” 7,221 ratings
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Selected Poems and Fragments
Selected Poems and Fragments 4.32 avg rating β€” 877 ratings
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The Dalai Lama's Little Book Of Wisdom
The Dalai Lama's Little Book Of Wisdom 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,025 ratings
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Walden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: And The Thoreau Essay, Walking
Walden, And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: And The Thoreau Essay, Walking 3.89 avg rating β€” 136 ratings
224.
Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden 3.96 avg rating β€” 6,452 ratings
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Four Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle, #7)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle, #7) 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,745 ratings
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Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1)
Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
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Collected Poems and Letters from America with Photographs and a new Introduction
Collected Poems and Letters from America with Photographs and a new Introduction it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Dancing Girls and Other Stories 3.59 avg rating β€” 5,278 ratings
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The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating β€” 5,373 ratings
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My Life and Work: Autobiography of Henry Ford
My Life and Work: Autobiography of Henry Ford 4.18 avg rating β€” 5,346 ratings
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The I Ching or Book of Changes
The I Ching or Book of Changes
by: Anonymous
4.19 avg rating β€” 20,537 ratings
232.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.92 avg rating β€” 3,431,060 ratings
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Young Warriors: Stories of Strength
Young Warriors: Stories of Strength 3.92 avg rating β€” 3,923 ratings
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Jackalope Wives and Other Stories
Jackalope Wives and Other Stories 4.48 avg rating β€” 2,134 ratings
241.
The Journal Of Sir Walter Scott (Canongate Classics S)
The Journal Of Sir Walter Scott (Canongate Classics S) 4.06 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems 3.99 avg rating β€” 463 ratings
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A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses 4.08 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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The Moons of Jupiter
The Moons of Jupiter 3.90 avg rating β€” 5,186 ratings
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Hidden Treasures Or Why Some Succeed While Others Fail (Illustrated) And Updated With Practical Success Tools
Hidden Treasures Or Why Some Succeed While Others Fail (Illustrated) And Updated With Practical Success Tools 3.37 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 3.94 avg rating β€” 44,703 ratings
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The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
by: Unknown
3.80 avg rating β€” 1,392 ratings
241.
The Melancholy of Mechagirl
The Melancholy of Mechagirl 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,080 ratings
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Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems 3.80 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Wilderness Tips
Wilderness Tips 3.82 avg rating β€” 9,604 ratings
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God's Promises For You: Divine Promises and Affirmations For Your Success, All-round Prosperity and Total Well-being
God's Promises For You: Divine Promises and Affirmations For Your Success, All-round Prosperity and Total Well-being 3.50 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape 3.46 avg rating β€” 3,283 ratings
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Homosexuality and Civilization
Homosexuality and Civilization 4.18 avg rating β€” 389 ratings
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Moral Disorder and Other Stories 3.64 avg rating β€” 12,525 ratings
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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness 4.17 avg rating β€” 123,042 ratings
252.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating β€” 9,669 ratings
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Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A.
Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. 3.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah 4.15 avg rating β€” 65,957 ratings
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The Bread We Eat in Dreams
The Bread We Eat in Dreams 4.08 avg rating β€” 862 ratings
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Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating β€” 75,870 ratings
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Good Bones
Good Bones 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,884 ratings
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Essential teachings: His holiness the Dalai Lama
Essential teachings: His holiness the Dalai Lama 4.08 avg rating β€” 144 ratings
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The Pursuit of God
The Pursuit of God 4.39 avg rating β€” 84,256 ratings
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Spirits Abroad
Spirits Abroad
by: Zen Cho
4.17 avg rating β€” 1,964 ratings
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds 4.23 avg rating β€” 7,700 ratings
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The Door
The Door 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,907 ratings
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Hymns and Fragments
Hymns and Fragments 4.40 avg rating β€” 226 ratings
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The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings, Prayers, and Sayings of St. Thérèse
The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings, Prayers, and Sayings of St. Thérèse 4.43 avg rating — 19,754 ratings
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,357 ratings
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Cabbages and Kings
Cabbages and Kings
by: O. Henry
3.93 avg rating β€” 1,488 ratings
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The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating β€” 452,230 ratings
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The Good Woman of Setzuan
The Good Woman of Setzuan 3.66 avg rating β€” 13,021 ratings
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Bluebeard's Egg
Bluebeard's Egg 3.74 avg rating β€” 7,694 ratings
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The World's Wife
The World's Wife 4.11 avg rating β€” 10,607 ratings
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The Open Window and Other Short Stories
The Open Window and Other Short Stories
by: Saki
3.95 avg rating β€” 2,033 ratings
276.
The Book of the City of Ladies
The Book of the City of Ladies 3.80 avg rating β€” 4,258 ratings
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New Zealand Stories
New Zealand Stories 3.79 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
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Poems of Schiller
Poems of Schiller 4.03 avg rating β€” 410 ratings
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Why I Live at the P.O.
Why I Live at the P.O. 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,055 ratings
276.
What Men Live By
What Men Live By 3.98 avg rating β€” 20,873 ratings
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The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men 4.02 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating β€” 9,326 ratings
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating β€” 5,271 ratings
281.
The Four Million
The Four Million
by: O. Henry
4.04 avg rating β€” 876 ratings
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life 4.54 avg rating β€” 23,135 ratings
285.
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,767 ratings
287.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters 4.06 avg rating β€” 7,607 ratings
288.
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,467 ratings
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9)
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9) 4.33 avg rating β€” 6,032 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4.06 avg rating β€” 72,640 ratings
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Endgame
Endgame 3.79 avg rating β€” 23,764 ratings
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,587 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating β€” 90,007 ratings
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Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others 4.07 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems
Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems 4.02 avg rating β€” 396 ratings
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The Essays
The Essays 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,475 ratings
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Juno And the Paycock
Juno And the Paycock 3.61 avg rating β€” 1,565 ratings
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Purgatory: Manuscript Materials Including the Author's Final Text
Purgatory: Manuscript Materials Including the Author's Final Text 3.58 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating β€” 36,330 ratings
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Born Free
Born Free 4.16 avg rating β€” 33,673 ratings
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