150 Great Reads

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About this list

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
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1645 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
803 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
12733 Space James A. Michener 1982 American English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
62 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
5027 Theophilus North Thornton Wilder 1973 American English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
10091 Time Enough For Love Robert A. Heinlein 1973 American English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
8798 Trails Plowed Under Charles Marion Russell 1927 American English
10507 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
63 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
1545 Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan 1964 Canadian English
8798 The Valley Of The Moon Jack London 1913 American English
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
108 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
227 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence 1920 British English
407 The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 American English
11599 World of Wonders Robertson Davies 1975 Canadian English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English