Priority Reading List

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
  • Horace McCoy
21 read
#3
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Thérèse Desqueyroux
  • François Mauriac
11 read
#4
Niki: The Story of a Dog
Niki: The Story of a Dog
  • Tibor Déry
  • Edward Hyams (Translator)
00 reads
#5
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright
  • Kenneth Cook
4.255 reads
#6
The Country Girls
The Country Girls
  • Edna O'Brien
4.087 reads
#7
Cover 4

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

A Way of Life, Like Any Other
  • Darcy O'Brien
02 reads
#8
Chocky
Chocky
  • John Wyndham
3.5837 reads
#9
Nausea
Nausea
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Lloyd Alexander (Translator)
3.63116 reads
#10
Pan
Pan
  • Knut Hamsun
4.511 reads
#11
The True Deceiver
The True Deceiver
  • Tove Jansson
  • Thomas Teal (Translator)
3.8810 reads
#12
Cover 6

I Should Have Stayed Home

I Should Have Stayed Home
  • Horace McCoy
00 reads
#13
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth
  • Walter Tevis
3.9447 reads
#14
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place
  • Dorothy B. Hughes
  • Paula Rabinowitz
4.1919 reads
#15
Tarry Flynn
Tarry Flynn
  • Patrick Kavanagh
02 reads
#16
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos
  • John Wyndham
3.9859 reads
#17
Fat City
Fat City
  • Leonard Gardner
3.449 reads
#18
Like Life
Like Life
  • Lorrie Moore
53 reads
#19
Horseman, Pass By
Horseman, Pass By
  • Larry McMurtry
4.176 reads
#20
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place
  • Gloria Naylor
3.8818 reads
#21
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
  • H. G. Wells
3.51369 reads
#22
Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn
  • Dorothy Baker
52 reads
#23
The Awakening
The Awakening
  • Kate Chopin
3.59173 reads
#24
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
  • James Baldwin
4.3895 reads
#25
The End of the Road
The End of the Road
  • John Barth
3.55 reads
#26
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
  • John O'Brien
4.255 reads
#27
The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids
  • John Wyndham
3.71107 reads
#28
The third policeman
The third policeman
  • Flann O'Brien
3.7447 reads
#29
The Shrinking Man
The Shrinking Man
  • Richard Matheson
3.6112 reads
#30
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey
  • J. D. Salinger
3.87240 reads
#31
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : And Six Other Stories
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : And Six Other Stories
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.838 reads
#32
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
  • Larry McMurtry
4.253 reads
#33
The Brotherhood of the Grape
The Brotherhood of the Grape
  • John Fante
33 reads
#34
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle
  • Kurt Vonnegut
4.09803 reads
#35
On Photography
On Photography
  • Susan Sontag
4.0649 reads
#36
A Room With a View
A Room With a View
  • E.M. Forster
3.65137 reads
#37
Fools of Fortune
Fools of Fortune
  • William Trevor
4.54 reads
#38
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Tennessee Williams
3.9759 reads
#39
No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street
  • James Baldwin
4.336 reads
#40
Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior
  • Mary Gaitskill
4.0916 reads
#41
Prater Violet
Prater Violet
  • Christopher Isherwood
43 reads
#42
Cover 3

Negrophobia

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
  • Darius James
00 reads
#43
Cover 2

Baby Doll and Other Plays

Baby Doll and Other Plays
  • Tennessee Williams
00 reads
#44
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
  • Audre Lorde
4.5269 reads
#45
Black no more
Black no more
  • George S. Schuyler
3.298 reads
#46
After Rain
After Rain
  • William Trevor
4.335 reads
#47
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier
  • George Orwell
3.844 reads
#48
The Spectator Bird
The Spectator Bird
  • Wallace Stegner
49 reads
#49
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Julie Sondra Decker
48 reads
#50
The Music of Chance
The Music of Chance
  • Paul Auster
3.7619 reads
#51
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • Willa Cather
4.1732 reads
#52
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Joan Didion
4.03260 reads
#53
The Old Man and Me
The Old Man and Me
  • Elaine Dundy
00 reads
#54
The Natural
The Natural
  • Bernard Malamud
3.3611 reads
#55
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
  • George Orwell
4.15118 reads
#56
The Day Of The Triffids
The Day Of The Triffids
  • John Wyndham
3.81228 reads
#57
The Fight
The Fight
  • Norman Mailer
3.56 reads
#58
The Face of Another
The Face of Another
  • Kōbō Abe
3.3810 reads
#59
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Zora Neale Hurston
3.92333 reads
#60
The Story of Lucy Gault
The Story of Lucy Gault
  • William Trevor
3.510 reads
#61
The Outward Room
The Outward Room
  • Millen Brand
00 reads
#62
The Woman in the Dunes
The Woman in the Dunes
  • Kōbō Abe
  • E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
3.6156 reads
#63
Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name
  • James Baldwin
4.6710 reads
#64
Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
  • Tennessee Williams
00 reads
#65
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Henry Farrell
49 reads
#66
Going to meet the man
Going to meet the man
  • James Baldwin
4.3215 reads
#67
Requiem for a Wren
Requiem for a Wren
  • Nevil Shute
42 reads
#68
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays
  • Tennessee Williams
3.837 reads
#69
The Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit
  • Walter Tevis
4.09173 reads
#70
Wise Blood
Wise Blood
  • Flannery O'Connor
3.7663 reads
#71
The Hustler
The Hustler
  • Walter Tevis
49 reads
#72
According to Mark
According to Mark
  • Penelope Lively
00 reads
#73
The other
The other
  • Thomas Tryon
3.9315 reads
#74
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
4.17440 reads
#75
The Dud Avocado
The Dud Avocado
  • Elaine Dundy
3.6717 reads
#76
This Love Is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez
This Love Is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez
  • Robert Andrew Powell
41 read
#77
Cover 8

The Long-Winded Lady

The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
  • Maeve Brennan
00 reads
#78
Lost in the City
Lost in the City
  • Edward P. Jones
22 reads
#79
Ragtime
Ragtime
  • E.L. Doctorow
3.958 reads
#80
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  • Sloan Wilson
3.335 reads
#81
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air
  • George Orwell
3.8121 reads
#82
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show
  • Larry McMurtry
3.9328 reads
#83
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
  • Kathleen Rooney
3.7518 reads
#84
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
  • James M. Cain
3.211 reads
#85
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
3.811,015 reads
#86
The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions
  • Paul Auster
3.6231 reads
#87
Henry and June
Henry and June
  • Anaïs Nin
3.6715 reads
#88
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
  • Anna North
3.6710 reads
#89
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
  • Dwight Macdonald
01 read
#90
Birds of America
Birds of America
  • Lorrie Moore
4.2222 reads
#91
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent
  • John Steinbeck
3.857 reads
#92
Laughter in the Dark
Laughter in the Dark
  • Vladimir Nabokov
3.6419 reads
#93
Eve's Hollywood
Eve's Hollywood
  • Eve Babitz
3.8514 reads
#94
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Anne Tyler
3.7436 reads
#95
Fighting for Life
Fighting for Life
  • S. Josephine Baker
00 reads
#96
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays
  • Tennessee Williams
00 reads
#97
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground
  • Richard Wright
4.48 reads
#98
I Am Not Myself These Days
I Am Not Myself These Days
  • Josh Kilmer-Purcell
3.758 reads
#99
Machines Like Me
Machines Like Me
  • Ian McEwan
3.1744 reads
#100
Hard Rain Falling
Hard Rain Falling
  • Don Carpenter
4.132 reads
#101
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues
  • Leslie Feinberg
4.6544 reads