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Doris Lessing Books
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The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,212 ratings — published 1962
The Fifth Child (Vintage International)
by (shelved 26 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.65 — 25,881 ratings — published 1988
The Grass is Singing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,615 ratings — published 1950
Martha Quest (Children of Violence, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,729 ratings — published 1952
The Diaries of Jane Somers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,315 ratings — published 1983
A Proper Marriage (Children of Violence, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,279 ratings — published 1954
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Canopus in Argos, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,861 ratings — published 1979
The Good Terrorist (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,733 ratings — published 1985
Ben, In the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.31 — 2,342 ratings — published 2000
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,462 ratings — published 1971
The Memoirs of a Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,683 ratings — published 1974
The Summer Before the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,980 ratings — published 1973
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.06 — 872 ratings — published 1994
Love, Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,440 ratings — published 1995
A Ripple from the Storm (Children of Violence, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.91 — 699 ratings — published 1958
The Four-Gated City (Children of Violence, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.16 — 903 ratings — published 1969
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Canopus in Argos, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,416 ratings — published 1980
Landlocked (Children of Violence, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.98 — 658 ratings — published 1969
The Grandmothers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,976 ratings — published 2003
The Sweetest Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,696 ratings — published 2001
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.03 — 419 ratings — published 1997
Particularly Cats (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,169 ratings — published 1967
The Cleft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 2.94 — 3,766 ratings — published 2007
Stories (Vintage International)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.11 — 333 ratings — published 1978
Mara and Dann (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,935 ratings — published 1999
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.64 — 329 ratings — published 1960
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,169 ratings — published
The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.97 — 836 ratings — published 1980
On Cats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,826 ratings — published 1967
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 449 ratings — published 1992
African Stories (A Touchstone Book)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.91 — 768 ratings — published 1965
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (Mara and Dann #2)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.54 — 496 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.87 — 828 ratings — published 1982
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.93 — 470 ratings — published 1983
Alfred and Emily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,429 ratings — published 2008
The Real Thing: Emotionally Complex Literary Short Stories of Contemporary London Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.57 — 595 ratings — published 1991
Going Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.75 — 161 ratings — published 1957
The Black Madonna (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.62 — 181 ratings — published 1966
A Man and Two Women: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.76 — 280 ratings — published 1963
The Habit of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.53 — 555 ratings — published 1957
Winter in July (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.39 — 155 ratings — published 1964
إن العجوز استطاعت (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.26 — 258 ratings — published 1984
A Small Personal Voice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.04 — 80 ratings — published 1974
El viento se llevará nuestras palabras (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.67 — 154 ratings — published 1987
The Sun Between Their Feet (Collected African Stories, Vol. 2)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 89 ratings — published 1989
Time Bites: Views and Reviews – Wise and Witty Essays on Literature, Politics, and the Human Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.86 — 186 ratings — published 2004
The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.49 — 136 ratings — published 1979
Spies I Have Known and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1995
Till rum nitton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.97 — 255 ratings — published
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,035 ratings — published 2004
“We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.”
― Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
― Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“The way to understand something is to watch what is happening. The results are the explanation.”
― Shikasta
― Shikasta