150 Great Reads

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The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle , 151 Books

In 1988, readers of the Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle (a newspaper) submitted 150 "great reads" for people to read.

Who voted:
Unknown users wrote it. The exact amount is not given, but i am going to assume it's 30(30x5 books == 150)

This list was originally published in 1988 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2264 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 1985 American English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
546 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
1113 Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor 1955 American English
657 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
8783 Ann Veronica H. G. Wells 1909 British English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
11215 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
8859 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
460 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
254 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
120 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 American English
7676 The Bear William Faulkner 1942 American English
652 Black Boy Richard Wright 1945 American English
51 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
732 The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk 1951 American English
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
109 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
6237 Claudius The God Robert Graves 1935 British English
154 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 British English
3043 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
1103 The Chill Ross Macdonald 1964 American English
8243 Christine Stephen King 1983 American English
2148 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
1035 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
11574 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
194 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
9266 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
672 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 British English
10337 Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen 1975 American English
67 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
13272 The Final Reflection John M. Ford 1984 American English
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
439 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943 American English
2055 Ghost Story Peter Straub 1979 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
299 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
8483 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
255 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
2921 The Great Shark Hunt Hunter S. Thompson 1979 American English
13465 The Great Thoughts George Seldes 1985 American English
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
1584 The Guns of August Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1962 American English
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
2209 Hawaii James A. Michener 1959 American English
117 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
752 Henderson The Rain King Saul Bellow 1959 American English
8652 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
8392 Illusions Richard Bach 1977 American English
101 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
2343 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
9780 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
28 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
1241 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
297 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
2167 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
692 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
12704 Living, Loving And Learning Leo Buscaglia 1982 American English
631 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
3245 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy 1983 American English
21 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
563 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 American English
12111 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
30 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
12465 The Mind's I Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett 1981 American English
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
10180 Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness Lawrence Durrell 1974 British English
854 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
10480 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
3003 The Octopus Frank Norris 1901 American English
295 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
42 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
287 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
153 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
11390 The Onion Field Joseph Wambaugh 1973 American English
9501 Oranges John McPhee 1967 American English
413 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 1937 Danish Danish
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
11781 Passages Gail Sheehy 1976 American English
1049 The Phenomenon Of Man Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955 French French
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
12111 The Powers That Be David Halberstam 1979 American English
12 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
11294 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
472 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
1873 The Proud Tower Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1966 American English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
536 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1929 American English
738 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
8902 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean 1976 American English
1293 Salem's Lot Stephen King 1975 American English