My Favourite Books
- Descripción
- The title explains itself.
1
- 3 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda, Tosta
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Now that I'm a parent, I'm inclined to root for the witches.
2
por Nathanael West
750 miembros
31 reseñas
½ 3.4
Puntuacion 6.25
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:04 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Hell is other people's problems and Shrike is Satan.
3
por Kenneth Grahame
22,976 miembros
324 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 5.92
Añadido 2021-10-12, 07:57 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Hey, Pink Floyd. Mr. Graham wants his chapter title back. Animals do the darndest things.
4
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Death or slavery? I'm not crying, you're crying.
5
por Joseph Conrad
6,424 miembros
101 reseñas
½ 3.6
Puntuacion 4.64
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:23 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Do not mess with The Professor. He will mess you up.
6
15,500 miembros
362 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 4.22
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:57 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I know my enemies names, yet have zero power over them. Lies!
7
por Carson McCullers
10,514 miembros
237 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 4.09
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:50 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Cheer up sad sacks.
8
por Mark Twain
42,046 miembros
512 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4.05
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:03 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Go to hell, or be nice to a black guy? Typical kid conundrum.
9
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Guy sticks his thumb out for kicks. Sometimes the coolest guys you know end up the saddest.
10
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
11
5,823 miembros
121 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 3.91
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:46 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: A town full of grotesques. Destination capital of the U.S.A.
12
por Kurt Vonnegut
21,905 miembros
293 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.9
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:10 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; man got to sit and wonder 'I really should list my favourite books'.
13
por Douglas Adams
38,214 miembros
712 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 3.89
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:45 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Check your self-help at the door. 42. Yeah, you know it.
14
por Kurt Vonnegut
43,175 miembros
690 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.84
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:15 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: What young man wouldn't want to be trapped in a human breeding zoo? So it goes and goes and goes.
15
por John Steinbeck
33,478 miembros
460 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.79
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:22 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Poor old Ma Joad. It really is like Nelson Muntz' diorama.
16
20,985 miembros
463 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 3.78
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:24 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: 'Lucky dogs' and a stomach condition are a dangerous mix. Let's all yell at imbeciles!
17
12,082 miembros
106 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 3.77
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:33 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Watch your back, Jack.
18
por Lewis Carroll
26,166 miembros
471 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 3.74
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:36 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Public announcement for parents: Don't let your children near rabbit holes. They're dangerous. Fun too!
19
2,351 miembros
33 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.72
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:26 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Maybe he was listening to too much PIL. Johnny Lydon dooms all.
20
por Margaret Atwood
41,354 miembros
1,116 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.67
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:22 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: A religious dystopia? No, surely not.
21
por Truman Capote
23,173 miembros
458 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 3.66
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:53 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Why'd you make me care for Perry, Truman? Why?
22
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: 'If only Winston Smith went full Rambo at the end. Now that would sell some books' - Orwell's former editor, 1948.
23
por George Orwell
58,506 miembros
856 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 3.65
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:48 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Do something you spineless horse. You're bigger than everyone. Just start kicking.
24
por Mark Twain
31,953 miembros
320 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 3.65
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:07 AM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Paint your own damn fence, kid! Is Injun Joe a post-colonial hero? Maybe hero is a strong word.
25
por Jack London
19,430 miembros
315 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 3.63
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:06 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: You do your thing, Buck. You go get that wild.
26
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Iago - The best snake since Adam and Eve were rocking the nudist colony.
27
por Evelyn Waugh
12,294 miembros
263 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 3.6
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:49 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: The best Catholic propaganda there is.
28
por John Steinbeck
38,110 miembros
646 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 3.58
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:29 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: A brotherhood. An unbreakable friendship. Oh crap, what?
29
13,614 miembros
283 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 3.55
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:27 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: That poor rat. Wait, was the rat made up too?
30
por Oscar Wilde
10,555 miembros
177 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 3.53
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:50 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: What a lying pack of lying liars.
31
por Edward Albee
4,587 miembros
69 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 3.52
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:25 PM
- 2 Members
- DigUnlocked, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: You think your parents are embarrassing. Mine made me up.
32
por Kurt Vonnegut
15,990 miembros
163 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 3.36
Añadido 2021-10-12, 07:47 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: We're all just products people. There's a hand drawn picture of a butthole.
33
por Michael Ondaatje
11,400 miembros
171 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 2.83
Añadido 2021-10-12, 07:50 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Burned dude really likes Kipling. This be some lyrical prose.
34
12,988 miembros
240 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 2.68
Añadido 2021-10-12, 07:52 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Is tennis an addiction? Who hasn't watched a movie and wet their pants?
35
por Cormac McCarthy
11,204 miembros
267 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 2.46
Añadido 2021-10-12, 07:59 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: The Judge haunts my dreams. No foolin'.
36
43,597 miembros
673 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 2.38
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:00 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: That's some family tree you got there. COVID-19, pfft. Insomnia plagues are the real deal.
37
27,258 miembros
400 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 2.2
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:08 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Would you sleep with your childhood crush seventy years later?
38
por William Golding
48,545 miembros
736 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 2.11
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:12 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Dem kids be crazy! Ralph and Jack, fighting for class captain.
39
2,142 miembros
40 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 2.03
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:20 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Sally Bowles is a literary dream girl. Written by a gay man. Go figure.
40
por Salman Rushdie
13,625 miembros
241 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.94
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:35 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: My generation got super powers and all I got was a big nose.
41
por Anthony Burgess
25,459 miembros
380 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.89
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:39 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: We just called it, 'Wrecking shit up'. Didn't partake in the olé in/out, in/out though. Yeah, nah. Wasn't the same.
42
por Patrick McCabe
1,536 miembros
33 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.87
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:43 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Mrs. Nugent was a bit of a Karen. Probably, didn't deserve it though.
43
por Roald Dahl
7,514 miembros
79 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.85
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:44 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Stealing is okay in certain situations. Pretty gutsy Mr. Dahl.
44
por Richard Flanagan
3,013 miembros
144 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.76
Añadido 2021-10-12, 08:55 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Why'd you have to do that to Darky Gardiner?
45
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: It's a symphony you say? Of characters? In a book? Oh, yes, splendid.
46
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I hate Milo. I hate him so much.
47
por Raymond Carver
541 miembros
5 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.7
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:07 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Why write more, when you can write right.
48
por Rudyard Kipling
10,782 miembros
148 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.68
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:08 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Raised by wolves. That Tiger's a jerk.
49
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: No one cares about baseball, America. The world heard nothing. 'We're all gonna diiiieeee!'
50
14,099 miembros
190 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.66
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:14 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: So many drugs. So many drugs.
51
por Paul Bowles
4,231 miembros
78 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.65
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:15 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I can think of at least one thing wrong with that title. Have you been to the desert? Oh, irony. I guess.
52
por Italo Calvino
1,990 miembros
25 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.63
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:18 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: What a loveable scamp my father is. Makes Roberto Benigni look like a pile of puke.
53
por Thomas Pynchon
10,791 miembros
192 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 1.62
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:20 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: A conspiracy involving the postal service. They, like, predicted the future, man.
54
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Oh, Molly Bloom. You get my motor running.
55
por William Faulkner
14,459 miembros
213 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.59
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:38 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: We're going on a road trip, kids. Grab your mom and her coffin.
56
por Ernest Hemingway
29,911 miembros
494 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.57
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:43 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, fishing!
57
por Ralph Ellison
15,913 miembros
203 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.52
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:51 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Understand, that I'm not literally invisible. I've taken no fancy potion. You just refuse to see me. Over here, dude. Yoo-hoo. I'm right here - First draft.
58
por E. B. White
35,058 miembros
1,012 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 1.51
Añadido 2021-10-12, 09:55 PM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Some Pig! Should probably stop saying that when I eat bacon.
59
por Kurt Vonnegut
6,172 miembros
52 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.49
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:12 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Father of many. God bless him.
60
por Philip Roth
7,254 miembros
149 reseñas
½ 3.6
Puntuacion 1.48
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:15 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Where were you when I was fifteen, Phillip. Could have solved a lot of issues.
61
por Anthony Burgess
1,764 miembros
36 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 1.46
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:30 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Children of Onan rejoice.
62
por Ivan Turgenev
8,546 miembros
126 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.45
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:34 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Watch those Nihilists. They're crafty. Oh, wait, he's dead.
63
por Evelyn Waugh
4,310 miembros
91 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.44
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:36 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Catholic loses everything. Taken in by kind hermit.
64
por D. H. Lawrence
4,068 miembros
47 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 1.44
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:38 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Three generations stuck in the same place. You go Ursula, you go girl.
65
83 miembros
2 reseñas
3.1
Puntuacion 1.43
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:44 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Oh, don't do that to yourself brother.
66
por Robert Graves
9,004 miembros
164 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 1.41
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:51 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I, Dean, proclaim this the pinnacle of historical fiction.
67
por Cormac McCarthy
33,627 miembros
1,388 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 1.4
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:54 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Father/Son camping trip. Delightful romp.
68
por David Malouf
117 miembros
2 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.39
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:55 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Childhood nostalgia. I wanna go back.
69
por Margaret Atwood
16,402 miembros
381 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.38
Añadido 2021-10-13, 12:59 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Novel within a novel. Poor Laura had it rough.
70
por Ken Kesey
23,735 miembros
295 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 1.38
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:04 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Don't believe the lies. Jack Nicholson is Irish and has red hair.
71
por Georges Perec
3,706 miembros
54 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 1.37
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:06 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Puzzles shouldn't be this complicated. Even in lockdown.
72
por Thornton Wilder
4,665 miembros
118 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.37
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:07 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Let's try and prove the existence of God by studying a tragic event. Burned for Heresy. Yikes.
73
por Lawrence Durrell
2,087 miembros
27 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 1.36
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:10 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: This is what happened. No this is what happened. Everyone's sleeping with everyone.
74
por Jack Kerouac
2,181 miembros
23 reseñas
½ 3.5
Puntuacion 1.36
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:13 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Jazzy love. Jazzy jazzy love.
75
por John Keegan
3,135 miembros
41 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 1.36
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:14 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: What is wrong with you people!
76
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Lecherous old man euthanizes old dogs.
77
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Incestuous kids. No wonder he ran to Honey Barbara.
78
por Roald Dahl
19,143 miembros
355 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.34
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:19 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Couldn't you have landed it in a third-world country, James?
79
por Nick Hornby
4,614 miembros
56 reseñas
½ 3.6
Puntuacion 1.34
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:20 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: You think Arsenal are frustrating? Try being a Parramatta supporter.
80
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Get off the road, you young punks!
81
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: It's always the robots that ruin the working man. But does anyone stop to ask the robots how they feel?
82
por Dave Eggers
13,264 miembros
208 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 1.33
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:24 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Two parents? Months apart? Yeah, I'll give you the heartbreak.
83
por Erik Larson
21,590 miembros
687 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.32
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:27 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: We're going to the world's fair. What could go wrong?
84
por George Saunders
5,577 miembros
318 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 1.32
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:28 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I ain't afraid of you whiny ghosts.
85
por Ted Morgan
381 miembros
3 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 1.31
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:30 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: The ole' William Tell party trick. The king of party tricks.
86
por A. B. Facey
923 miembros
22 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 1.31
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:31 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: Someone get that man a dictionary. It's in the F's.
87
por Rachel Carson
6,332 miembros
97 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 1.31
Añadido 2021-10-13, 01:32 AM
- Member
- DigUnlocked
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: The insects will inherit the earth and there's nothing we can do about it.
88
- Member
- DigUnlocked,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- DigUnlocked: I want to play a game. I'm intelligent so I'm calling it a masque.