Ben's votes on the list To Read in 2013

Listopia > Ben's votes on the list To Read in 2013 (54 Books)

1	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild 4.19 avg rating — 68,978 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
2	The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.09 avg rating — 172,308 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
3	Letters of Marcel Proust by Marcel Proust 4.09 avg rating — 170 ratings Ben added it to unfinished See Review	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
4	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 3.75 avg rating — 24,461 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
5	Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason K. Stearns 4.18 avg rating — 5,605 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
6	The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa 4.39 avg rating — 37,631 ratings Ben rated it 5 stars See Review	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
7	Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier 4.09 avg rating — 794 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
8	Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber 4.21 avg rating — 26,842 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
9	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 4.20 avg rating — 35,650 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
10	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1) by Salman Rushdie 3.98 avg rating — 37,836 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
11	The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation by Ovid 4.10 avg rating — 78,270 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
12	The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair by Martin Meredith 4.20 avg rating — 7,447 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
13	Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz 4.08 avg rating — 31,524 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
14	Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill 3.87 avg rating — 4,999 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
15	Threat Assessment by James T. Turner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
16	The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60,230 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
17	The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus 4.01 avg rating — 55,621 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
18	Conflict 101: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Problems So Everyone Can Get Back to Work by Susan H. Shearouse 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings Ben added it to unfinished See Review	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
19	How to Read a Poem by Burton Raffel 3.77 avg rating — 103 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
20	Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier 3.72 avg rating — 283 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
21	Borrow: The American Way of Debt by Louis Hyman 3.87 avg rating — 205 ratings Ben added it to maybe See Review	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
22	The Famished Road by Ben Okri 3.73 avg rating — 13,592 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
23	Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country by Mordecai Richler 3.55 avg rating — 296 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
24	The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie 3.94 avg rating — 14,708 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
25	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 34,706 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
26	Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret 3.97 avg rating — 1,168 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
27	Richard II by William Shakespeare 3.78 avg rating — 27,902 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
28	King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare 3.80 avg rating — 33,309 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
29	Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare 3.77 avg rating — 21,256 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
30	Henry V by William Shakespeare 3.85 avg rating — 53,178 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
31	They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers by Roméo Dallaire 4.03 avg rating — 1,345 ratings Ben added it to to-read See Review	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
32	Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 9,704 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
33	Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 3.84 avg rating — 36,949 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
34	Candide by Voltaire 3.76 avg rating — 301,430 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
35	I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves 4.24 avg rating — 73,124 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
36	We: Library Edition by Yevgeny Zamyatin 3.88 avg rating — 112,429 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
37	Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 60,283 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
38	Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 3.73 avg rating — 23,003 ratings Ben added it to unfinished See Review	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
39	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.05 avg rating — 44,131 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
40	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 558,310 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
41	What Is the What by Dave Eggers 4.15 avg rating — 87,287 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
42	Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 3.85 avg rating — 66,888 ratings Ben added it to audio-option See Review	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
43	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 374,695 ratings Ben added it to audio-option See Review	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
44	Burmese Days by George Orwell 3.87 avg rating — 32,391 ratings Ben added it to audio-option See Review	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
45	Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,572 ratings Ben added it to audio-option See Review	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
46	The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.31 avg rating — 62,988 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
47	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,048,345 ratings Ben rated it 3 stars See Review	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
48	In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien 3.76 avg rating — 24,289 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
49	The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies 4.02 avg rating — 6,054 ratings Ben rated it 5 stars See Review	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
50	The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies 4.12 avg rating — 3,485 ratings Ben rated it 2 stars See Review	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
51	What's Bred in the Bone: The Cornish Trilogy, Book 2 by Robertson Davies 4.27 avg rating — 6,493 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
52	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.80 avg rating — 873,692 ratings Ben rated it 4 stars See Review	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
53	Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor 4.22 avg rating — 22,103 ratings Ben added it to audio-option See Review	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
54	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.21 avg rating — 843,550 ratings Ben added it to unfinished See Review	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