Alberto Manguel's Favourite Books Part II

1.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,246 ratings
2.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,514 ratings
2.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,685 ratings
4.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,426 ratings
5.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,185 ratings
6.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,059 ratings
7.
The Dwarf
The Dwarf 3.69 avg rating — 7,661 ratings
8.
Solaris
Solaris 3.99 avg rating — 124,286 ratings
9.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,141 ratings
10.
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table 4.14 avg rating — 18,742 ratings
11.
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas 4.26 avg rating — 36,384 ratings
12.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,784 ratings
13.
Embers
Embers 3.99 avg rating — 41,054 ratings
14.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,850 ratings
15.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
16.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,114 ratings
17.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,399 ratings
18.
Phedre
Phedre 3.69 avg rating — 23,845 ratings
19.
Kim
Kim 3.70 avg rating — 39,386 ratings
20.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience 3.77 avg rating — 30,954 ratings
21.
The Leopard
The Leopard 4.01 avg rating — 44,213 ratings
22.
The Word for World Is Forest
The Word for World Is Forest 4.06 avg rating — 40,127 ratings
23.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,189 ratings
24.
A Book of Nonsense
A Book of Nonsense 3.60 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
25.
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell 3.72 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
26.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes 4.20 avg rating — 10,231 ratings
27.
The Progress of Love
The Progress of Love 4.09 avg rating — 3,778 ratings
28.
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea 3.89 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
29.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,593 ratings
30.
The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
30.
Cakes and Ale
Cakes and Ale 3.78 avg rating — 7,778 ratings
32.
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain 3.92 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
33.
The Sea of Fertility
The Sea of Fertility 4.45 avg rating — 617 ratings
34.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,558 ratings
35.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,886 ratings
36.
Barney's Version
Barney's Version 4.17 avg rating — 13,341 ratings
37.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 4.26 avg rating — 2,403 ratings
38.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,765 ratings
39.
The Satyricon
The Satyricon
by: Petronius
3.78 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
40.
Timaeus and Critias
Timaeus and Critias
by: Plato
3.84 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
41.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Letters of the Younger Pliny 3.92 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
42.
Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch's Lives
by: Plutarch
4.16 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
43.
The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
44.
Cold Heaven
Cold Heaven 3.56 avg rating — 345 ratings
45.
Venice
Venice 4.03 avg rating — 1,838 ratings
45.
History of the Conquest of Mexico/History of the Conquest of Peru
History of the Conquest of Mexico/History of the Conquest of Peru 4.04 avg rating — 90 ratings
47.
Mr Weston's Good Wine
Mr Weston's Good Wine 3.55 avg rating — 302 ratings
48.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,695 ratings
48.
Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: A Bilingual Edition
Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: A Bilingual Edition 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
50.
Oeuvres De Louize Labe
Oeuvres De Louize Labe liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
50.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,578 ratings
52.
More Than Human
More Than Human 3.94 avg rating — 19,215 ratings
53.
Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis
Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis 4.09 avg rating — 564 ratings
53.
The Green Child
The Green Child 3.70 avg rating — 632 ratings
55.
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
56.
Sostiene Pereira
Sostiene Pereira 4.19 avg rating — 34,111 ratings
57.
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works 4.40 avg rating — 9,351 ratings
58.
Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams 4.23 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
58.
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 13,637 ratings
60.
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
by: Saki
4.18 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
61.
An Imaginary Life
An Imaginary Life 3.87 avg rating — 2,598 ratings
62.
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy 4.03 avg rating — 6,505 ratings
63.
Enduring Love
Enduring Love 3.65 avg rating — 46,946 ratings
64.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,612 ratings
65.
The Women's History of the World
The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,178 ratings
66.
Engineer of Human Souls
Engineer of Human Souls 4.15 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
67.
Ajax
Ajax
by: Sophocles
3.92 avg rating — 6,782 ratings
68.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,463 ratings
69.
In the Dutch Mountains
In the Dutch Mountains 3.50 avg rating — 542 ratings
70.
Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose
Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose
by: Novalis
4.22 avg rating — 91 ratings
70.
Memento Mori
Memento Mori 3.61 avg rating — 7,114 ratings
72.
Diwan al gazal: Love poems (Arab translation series)
Diwan al gazal: Love poems (Arab translation series) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
73.
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross 4.48 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
74.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,503 ratings
75.
Selected poems, 1960-1980
Selected poems, 1960-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
75.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 3.92 avg rating — 138,897 ratings
77.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by: Amos Oz
4.23 avg rating — 12,546 ratings
77.
The Trial of Socrates
The Trial of Socrates 3.98 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
79.
The Messiah of Stockholm
The Messiah of Stockholm 3.53 avg rating — 733 ratings
80.
Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950
Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 4.31 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
81.
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade 3.87 avg rating — 775 ratings
82.
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels 3.62 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
83.
The Dominion of the Dead
The Dominion of the Dead 4.18 avg rating — 194 ratings
83.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,396 ratings
85.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,845 ratings
86.
The Nephew
The Nephew 3.88 avg rating — 165 ratings
86.
The Master
The Master 3.84 avg rating — 11,580 ratings
88.
Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson
Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
89.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
90.
A Judgement in Stone
A Judgement in Stone 3.89 avg rating — 7,913 ratings
91.
Hadrian the Seventh
Hadrian the Seventh 3.46 avg rating — 568 ratings
92.
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
93.
Imaginary Lives
Imaginary Lives 3.98 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
94.
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation 4.15 avg rating — 619 ratings
95.
The Invention of Love
The Invention of Love 3.99 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
96.
Katalin Street
Katalin Street 4.13 avg rating — 3,756 ratings
97.
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Poems of Dylan Thomas 4.27 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
98.
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems 4.28 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
99.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.46 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
100.
The Christmas Oratorio
The Christmas Oratorio 3.72 avg rating — 1,318 ratings