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End of Your Life Book Club

Description: Books mentioned or discussed in The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

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Rank Title Author Added

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

28,138 members

487 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Holy Bible: King James Version

by KJV (Bible Version)

497 members

18 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

3

by William Shakespeare

17,386 members

131 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by J. R. R. Tolkien

97,148 members

1,204 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,051 members

347 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Louisa May Alcott

27,290 members

409 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

7

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,266 members

96 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

15,456 members

149 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

9

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,838 members

579 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

27,239 members

1,455 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, ahef1963

11

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

53,722 members

1,306 reviews

4.2

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,924 members

1,749 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Peter Shaffer

2,185 members

21 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Chronicles of Narnia

36,818 members

313 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Murder in the Cathedral

3,204 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

16

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,997 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

17

The Story of Ferdinand

9,605 members

172 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

18

The Pillars of the Earth

27,747 members

759 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

19

by E. M. Forster

8,940 members

136 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,934 members

243 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

21

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

50,857 members

744 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

22

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

30,897 members

898 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

23

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,540 members

319 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

24

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,539 members

117 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,949 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,622 members

147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

27

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

10,112 members

318 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom

28

28,264 members

580 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,517 members

137 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

30

Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

by W. Somerset Maugham

295 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

31

On Chesil Beach

8,539 members

368 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

32

by Rohinton Mistry

9,315 members

256 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

33

The Railway Children

6,140 members

79 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

34

by Marilynne Robinson

11,038 members

365 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

35

by Marilynne Robinson

3,893 members

149 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

36

by George Bernard Shaw

2,350 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

37

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

12,081 members

653 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

38

The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

14,331 members

401 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

39

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

3,038 members

84 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

40

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Earle Stegner

4,353 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

41

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

51,297 members

461 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

42

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,294 members

264 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

43

by Marilynne Robinson

6,501 members

215 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

44

by Dante Alighieri

7,410 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two

1,382 members

6 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

46

Nancy Drew Complete Series Set, Books 1-64

by Carolyn Keene

200 members

4 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Geraldine Brooks

6,805 members

279 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

48

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,211 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

4,000 members

87 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

Death in Venice

5,450 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

6,263 members

116 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Volpone, or The Fox

932 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

53

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

10,093 members

503 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

8,157 members

214 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

55

by Günter Grass

7,721 members

94 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

56

The Caine Mutiny

3,368 members

60 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

57

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy

3,474 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

58

3,517 members

83 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gypsysmom

59

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,911 members

448 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

60

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

9,693 members

214 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

61

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask

by David R. Reuben

494 members

7 reviews

3.1

Member: gypsysmom

62

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

602 members

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

63

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

10,146 members

622 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

64

The Year of Magical Thinking

10,415 members

292 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

65

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

7,332 members

313 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

66

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,375 members

201 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

67

The Blackwater Lightship

by Colm Tóibín

1,484 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

68

In the Night Kitchen

by Maurice Sendak

2,909 members

118 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

The Story of the Night

by Colm Tóibín

743 members

20 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

70

Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog!

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,835 members

293 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

71

The Book of Common Prayer [1979]

by Episcopal Church

2,486 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

72

The Great Santini

2,051 members

39 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

73

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,649 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

74

by Josephine Tey

1,935 members

79 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

75

Collected Poems

1,519 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

76

by Harold Pinter

526 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

77

A Prayer for Owen Meany

18,294 members

330 reviews

4.2

78

The Magic Mountain

9,849 members

177 reviews

4.2

79

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

9,688 members

85 reviews

3.8

80

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri

5,657 members

200 reviews

4.1

81

by Colm Tóibín

5,502 members

302 reviews

½ 3.7

82

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,472 members

124 reviews

4

83

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

5,295 members

247 reviews

½ 3.7

84

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

4,587 members

67 reviews

4

85

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

4,224 members

44 reviews

4

86

The Winds of War

3,381 members

56 reviews

4.2

87

by Colm Tóibín

3,158 members

90 reviews

3.9

88

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

3,042 members

110 reviews

3.8

89

by J. R. Moehringer

2,841 members

103 reviews

3.8

90

by Natsume Soseki

2,790 members

65 reviews

4

91

Billy Budd, Sailor

by Herman Melville

2,710 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

92

Too Much Happiness

2,309 members

98 reviews

3.8

93

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

2,236 members

41 reviews

3.8

94

Full Catastrophe Living

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

2,128 members

18 reviews

4.1

95

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

1,866 members

40 reviews

4.1

96

Appointment in Samarra

1,844 members

44 reviews

3.8

97

The Guns of Navarone

by Alistair MacLean

1,810 members

41 reviews

3.9

98

1,753 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

99

Where Eagles Dare

by Alistair MacLean

1,675 members

44 reviews

3.8

100

by Henrik Ibsen

1,607 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

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