Books enjoyed from The Torchlight List (112 books)

from the book "The Torchlight List: around the world in 200 books" by Jim Flynn (of the Flynn effect)

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101	Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago 3.93 avg rating — 25,533 ratings score: 32, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
102	The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda 4.42 avg rating — 6,583 ratings score: 30, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
103	Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez 4.03 avg rating — 12,602 ratings score: 28, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
104	Los años con Laura Díaz by Carlos Fuentes 3.80 avg rating — 1,513 ratings score: 25, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
105	My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 12,122 ratings score: 23, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
106	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.74 avg rating — 406,213 ratings score: 22, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
107	A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe 3.89 avg rating — 5,487 ratings score: 21, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
108	Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe 3.85 avg rating — 4,525 ratings score: 20, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
109	Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2) by Yukio Mishima 4.23 avg rating — 8,789 ratings score: 18, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
110	Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi 4.10 avg rating — 74,254 ratings score: 16, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
111	A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell 4.13 avg rating — 41,116 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
112	Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell 4.10 avg rating — 1,455 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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112 books · 23 voters · list created July 24th, 2012 by Fred (votes) .

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message 1: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jul 24, 2012 07:28AM

Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?

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message 2: by Fred (last edited Jul 24, 2012 02:05PM) (new)

Jul 24, 2012 02:05PM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?"
I had a look for you and found it here:
http://theprintaddict.wordpress.com/t...
It is worth reading the original book though, as it has a brief discussion on the reason for the books' inclusion, and comments on the books.

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message 3: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Jul 25, 2012 07:29AM) (new)

Jul 25, 2012 06:34AM

Thanks! I asked (in part) because this is the kind of GR list where you may well get some additions down the road that aren't actually on Mr. Flyn's original list -- so if there's an online reference to check against, that just makes it easier to help keeping this list in synch with the original that inspired its creation in the first place ...

ETA: In the online list, there's an entry entitled "Sentimental Journey by Gustave Flaubert." That's a conflation of two books -- is it Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey that's on the original list? (I'm betting on Flaubert but am of course willing to be proven wrong! :) )

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