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Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf

Description: Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf from here: https://milled.com/blackwell-books/blackwells-five-foot-bookshelf-nVus-gGFOb-vCXCZ Chosen in 2020

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1

by Toni Morrison

23,852 members

416 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,444 members

165 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,724 members

33 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by George Orwell

85,410 members

1,307 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Mary Shelley

44,901 members

731 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

44,507 members

1,183 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman

37,376 members

755 reviews

4.1

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

22,482 members

560 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Virginia Woolf

21,636 members

337 reviews

3.9

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

21,515 members

441 reviews

3.8

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

21,357 members

467 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by George Eliot

18,521 members

337 reviews

4.2

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

14,702 members

117 reviews

4

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

7,235 members

259 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

1,867 members

53 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,148 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Herman Melville

37,204 members

558 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Vladimir Nabokov

32,767 members

578 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

32,057 members

517 reviews

3.8

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

20

25,091 members

348 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

21

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

18,403 members

278 reviews

3.9

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

22

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

15,481 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

23

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

15,202 members

748 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

24

by Hilary Mantel

14,150 members

662 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

25

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

11,313 members

276 reviews

4.1

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

26

6,732 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

27

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

5,588 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

28

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

5,426 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

4,939 members

133 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

30

by Djuna Barnes

3,259 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez

2,681 members

87 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

32

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,191 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

33

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

2,140 members

52 reviews

4.2

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ahef1963

34

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

1,759 members

69 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

35

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

1,668 members

36 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, zweiundzwei

36

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

337 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: zweiundzwei, ManWithAnAgenda

37

55,286 members

467 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

38

40,097 members

643 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

39

by William Faulkner

15,469 members

221 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

40

by Marcel Proust

11,635 members

184 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

41

by Rachel Carson

6,892 members

103 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

42

by Edward W. Said

6,061 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

43

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,798 members

153 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

44

5,260 members

58 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

45

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

4,585 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

46

by Roland Barthes

4,481 members

33 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

47

by Sylvia Plath

4,332 members

55 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

48

The Periodic Table

4,158 members

73 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

49

4,134 members

362 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: zweiundzwei

50

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

3,854 members

38 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

51

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,416 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

52

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

by E. F. Schumacher

2,899 members

43 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

53

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu

2,585 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

54

by W. G. Sebald

2,582 members

46 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

55

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

2,284 members

19 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: zweiundzwei

56

2,203 members

107 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

57

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,162 members

29 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

58

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

2,051 members

60 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

59

2,029 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

60

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,877 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

61

1,846 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

62

by Maggie Nelson

1,827 members

80 reviews

4

Member: zweiundzwei

63

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

1,549 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

64

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,245 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

65

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,229 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: zweiundzwei

66

Gravity and Grace

903 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

67

Playing and Reality

by D. W. Winnicott

538 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: zweiundzwei

68

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

by Philippa Perry

477 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zweiundzwei

69

The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today

by Nikesh Shukla

421 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: zweiundzwei

70

by Kathleen Jamie

347 members

15 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

71

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

247 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: zweiundzwei

72

by Alice Oswald

128 members

1 review

4

Member: zweiundzwei

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