Core Curriculum

May 17, 2024
66 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Rating
#2	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.08
#3	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.49
#4	The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.62
#5	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9
#6	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.97
#7	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.1
#8	1984 George Orwell	4.2
#9	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.11
#10	For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.83
#11	David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.93
#12	The Jungle Upton Sinclair Morris Dickstein	3.57
#13	Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill	3.96
#14	The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill	4
#15	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76
#16	תת-עולם Don DeLillo	3.67
#17	American Pastoral Philip Roth	3.72
#19	A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul	4
#20	The Recognitions William Gaddis	4.5
#21	Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.1
#22	Nostromo Joseph Conrad	3
#23	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	4.02
#24	Europe Central William T. Vollmann	4
#25	All About H. Hatterr G.V. Desani	0
#26	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21
#27	The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.14
#28	Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	3.89
#29	Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche	3.82
#30	Ordinary People Judith Guest	3.58
#31	Four Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth William Shakespeare	3.33
#32	Three Tragedies Three Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet/Hamlet/Macbeth William Shakespeare	0
#33	Romances William Shakespeare	0
#34	The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare	4.33
#35	Plays (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Julius Caesar) William Shakespeare	0
#36	King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII William Shakespeare	0
#37	All the President's Men Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward	3.57
#38	JR William Gaddis	4.5
#39	Sophocles' Three Theban Plays Sophocles' Three Theban Plays Sophocles Jamey Hecht (translator)	0
#40	The adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens	3.66
#41	The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.79
#42	A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	3.62
#43	The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.67
#44	Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	3.87
#45	Paradise Lost John Milton	3.66
#46	Prometheus Bound Aeschylus E.H. Plumptre (Translator)	4.12
#47	1985 Anthony Burgess	3
#48	A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement Anthony Powell	4
#49	Assassins Stephen Sondheim John Weidman	0
#50	The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.84
#51	The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe	3.83
#52	Lysistrata Aristophanes Sarah Ruden (Translator)	3.6
#53	Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens	3.58
#54	Rimbaud Complete Arthur Rimbaud	0
#55	The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky Paddy Chayefsky	0
#56	The defense Vladimir Nabokov Владимир Набоков Michael Scammell (Translator)	3.67
#57	Eye of the Needle A Novel Ken Follett	4
#58	Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.56
#59	Song of Myself Walt Whitman	3.96
#60	Henry IV, Part 1 et al. David Bevington	3.93
#61	The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.89
#62	Aeschyli Eumenides	3
#63	Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe M.D.C. Drout	5
#64	Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	4.62
#65	Trump and a Post-Truth World Ken Wilber	5
#66	Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry	5
#67	Learned Optimism Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Martin E.P. Seligman	5
#68	The War of Art Steven Pressfield	3.83

Position	Details	Rating
#2	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.08
#3	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.49
#4	The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.62
#5	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9
#6	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.97
#7	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.1
#8	1984 George Orwell	4.2
#9	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.11
#10	For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.83
#11	David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.93
#12	The Jungle Upton Sinclair Morris Dickstein	3.57
#13	Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill	3.96
#14	The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill	4
#15	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76
#16	תת-עולם Don DeLillo	3.67
#17	American Pastoral Philip Roth	3.72
#19	A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul	4
#20	The Recognitions William Gaddis	4.5
#21	Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.1
#22	Nostromo Joseph Conrad	3
#23	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner	4.02
#24	Europe Central William T. Vollmann	4
#25	All About H. Hatterr G.V. Desani	0
#26	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21
#27	The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.14
#28	Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	3.89
#29	Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche	3.82
#30	Ordinary People Judith Guest	3.58
#31	Four Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth William Shakespeare	3.33
#32	Three Tragedies Three Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet/Hamlet/Macbeth William Shakespeare	0
#33	Romances William Shakespeare	0
#34	The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare	4.33
#35	Plays (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Julius Caesar) William Shakespeare	0
#36	King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII William Shakespeare	0
#37	All the President's Men Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward	3.57
#38	JR William Gaddis	4.5
#39	Sophocles' Three Theban Plays Sophocles' Three Theban Plays Sophocles Jamey Hecht (translator)	0
#40	The adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens	3.66
#41	The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.79
#42	A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	3.62
#43	The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.67
#44	Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	3.87
#45	Paradise Lost John Milton	3.66
#46	Prometheus Bound Aeschylus E.H. Plumptre (Translator)	4.12
#47	1985 Anthony Burgess	3
#48	A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement Anthony Powell	4
#49	Assassins Stephen Sondheim John Weidman	0
#50	The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.84
#51	The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe	3.83
#52	Lysistrata Aristophanes Sarah Ruden (Translator)	3.6
#53	Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens	3.58
#54	Rimbaud Complete Arthur Rimbaud	0
#55	The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky Paddy Chayefsky	0
#56	The defense Vladimir Nabokov Владимир Набоков Michael Scammell (Translator)	3.67
#57	Eye of the Needle A Novel Ken Follett	4
#58	Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.56
#59	Song of Myself Walt Whitman	3.96
#60	Henry IV, Part 1 et al. David Bevington	3.93
#61	The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.89
#62	Aeschyli Eumenides	3
#63	Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe M.D.C. Drout	5
#64	Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	4.62
#65	Trump and a Post-Truth World Ken Wilber	5
#66	Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry	5
#67	Learned Optimism Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Martin E.P. Seligman	5
#68	The War of Art Steven Pressfield	3.83

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