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Harold Bloom Books
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,567 ratings — published 1994
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.16 — 208,260 ratings — published 1985
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,806 ratings — published 2000
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,675 ratings — published 1998
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.72 — 183,616 ratings — published 1930
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 981 ratings — published 2002
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.69 — 94,425 ratings — published 1966
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.56 — 606,046 ratings — published 1851
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 957,693 ratings — published 1815
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,037,772 ratings — published 1866
The Charterhouse of Parma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,633 ratings — published 1839
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.91 — 299,164 ratings — published 1615
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.71 — 366,636 ratings — published 1877
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 861,419 ratings — published 1861
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,724 ratings — published 1973
The American Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 479 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 199,543 ratings — published 1952
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 912,586 ratings — published 1878
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,335 ratings — published 1881
The Return of the Native (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,033 ratings — published 1878
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.85 — 178,902 ratings — published 1667
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.13 — 57,334 ratings — published 1924
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.02 — 112,796 ratings — published 1853
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 81,742 ratings — published 1830
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,357 ratings — published 1850
Our Mutual Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.09 — 31,015 ratings — published 1865
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,026,428 ratings — published 1601
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 373,876 ratings — published 1814
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,306 ratings — published 1997
Sabbath's Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,051 ratings — published 1995
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.15 — 124,795 ratings — published 1977
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,785 ratings — published 1913
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 107 ratings — published 1987
Nostromo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,686 ratings — published 1904
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.97 — 104,137 ratings — published 1905
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,674,237 ratings — published 1813
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,480 ratings — published 1857
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 925,483 ratings — published 1955
Howards End (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.96 — 93,815 ratings — published 1910
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,773,749 ratings — published 1925
Jude the Obscure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.83 — 75,109 ratings — published 1895
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.15 — 757,876 ratings — published 1817
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,973,671 ratings — published 1847
Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,913 ratings — published 1852
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.84 — 298,997 ratings — published 1891
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.99 — 217 ratings — published 2015
The Woodlanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,623 ratings — published 1887
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,326 ratings — published 1886
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.97 — 163,752 ratings — published 1874
A Defence of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,187 ratings — published 1595
“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”
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“Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.”
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