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Most influential books under 100 pages
To qualify for this list each book/edition must have fewer than 100 pages, according to Goodreads data. My intention is for us to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them.
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Pedro Páramo
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4.06 avg rating — 94,417 ratings
score: 426,
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The Symposium
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4.09 avg rating — 86,996 ratings
score: 415,
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The Aspern Papers
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3.70 avg rating — 6,698 ratings
score: 405,
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Reflections on War and Death
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3.63 avg rating — 841 ratings
score: 391,
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| 105 |
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Madame de Treymes
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3.44 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
score: 386,
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| 106 |
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Medea
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3.95 avg rating — 85,073 ratings
score: 378,
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| 107 |
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M. Butterfly
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3.93 avg rating — 14,921 ratings
score: 377,
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| 108 |
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Gratitude
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4.18 avg rating — 23,683 ratings
score: 373,
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| 109 |
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The Hour of the Star
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4.11 avg rating — 50,155 ratings
score: 358,
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| 110 |
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The Giving Tree
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4.38 avg rating — 1,216,369 ratings
score: 320,
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| 111 |
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On Old Age and on Friendship
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3.95 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
score: 315,
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| 112 |
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The Girl With The Golden Eyes
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3.28 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
score: 298,
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| 112 |
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So Long a Letter
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3.99 avg rating — 11,796 ratings
score: 298,
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| 112 |
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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| 115 |
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Barbarian (Forgotten Legends of the Germanic Peoples Book 1)
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Tamuna Tsertsvadze (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 295,
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3 people voted
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| 116 |
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Moara cu Noroc
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3.20 avg rating — 14,491 ratings
score: 291,
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3 people voted
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| 117 |
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Young Goodman Brown
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3.65 avg rating — 16,082 ratings
score: 282,
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4 people voted
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| 118 |
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The Jungle Books
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4.01 avg rating — 88,789 ratings
score: 263,
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| 119 |
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
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4.09 avg rating — 28,715 ratings
score: 262,
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| 120 |
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On the Abolition of All Political Parties
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4.04 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
score: 260,
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| 121 |
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The Necrophiliac
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3.79 avg rating — 3,244 ratings
score: 258,
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| 122 |
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Diving Into the Wreck
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4.24 avg rating — 9,562 ratings
score: 253,
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| 123 |
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 171,777 ratings
score: 250,
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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4.20 avg rating — 30,802 ratings
score: 247,
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Love Story (Love Story, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 63,674 ratings
score: 244,
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| 126 |
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The Alienist
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4.10 avg rating — 19,098 ratings
score: 243,
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3 people voted
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| 127 |
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 221,656 ratings
score: 242,
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4 people voted
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| 128 |
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The Jungle Book
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3.90 avg rating — 131,232 ratings
score: 236,
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4 people voted
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| 129 |
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Nature
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3.79 avg rating — 6,354 ratings
score: 234,
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3 people voted
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| 130 |
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Just So Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 49,287 ratings
score: 217,
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| 131 |
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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3.85 avg rating — 84,564 ratings
score: 211,
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3 people voted
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| 132 |
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Batman: The Killing Joke
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 237,659 ratings
score: 210,
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3 people voted
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| 133 |
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Worstward Ho
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3.76 avg rating — 780 ratings
score: 202,
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3 people voted
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| 134 |
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LOVE OVER CAPPUCCINO
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Mansi Modi (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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| 134 |
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Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet
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Tamuna Tsertsvadze (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 200,
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| 136 |
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Searching for the Truth: Poems & Prose Inspired by Our Inner Worlds
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Maranda Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 198,
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| 137 |
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I Is God: The Journey Begins
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 197,
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| 138 |
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ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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Zaman Ali (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 195,
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| 139 |
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Adela
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3.34 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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| 140 |
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The Dunciad
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3.37 avg rating — 399 ratings
score: 189,
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3 people voted
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| 141 |
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O Banqueiro Anarquista
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3.76 avg rating — 9,599 ratings
score: 183,
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| 141 |
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Green Tea
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3.26 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
score: 183,
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| 143 |
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Джалапіта
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4.35 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 182,
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| 144 |
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Oroonoko
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3.01 avg rating — 16,486 ratings
score: 179,
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November
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3.79 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
score: 178,
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| 146 |
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Killing Floor
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4.33 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 177,
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| 146 |
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The Bacchae
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3.93 avg rating — 24,589 ratings
score: 177,
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| 148 |
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How I Learned to Drive
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3.93 avg rating — 9,322 ratings
score: 175,
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Little Labors
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3.96 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
score: 172,
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The Scarlet Ibis
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3.85 avg rating — 8,097 ratings
score: 166,
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Skellig (Skellig, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 30,387 ratings
score: 166,
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2 people voted
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| 152 |
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On Christian Liberty
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4.04 avg rating — 2,931 ratings
score: 162,
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| 152 |
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Masters Mashups:: From Shakespeare to Stephen King (Masters Mashups Series)
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Melissa G. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 162,
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| 152 |
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The Signalman: A Ghost Story for Christmas
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3.66 avg rating — 7,470 ratings
score: 162,
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3 people voted
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The Ship of Fools
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3.86 avg rating — 378 ratings
score: 160,
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,886 ratings
score: 156,
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| 157 |
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Native Guard: Poems
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4.20 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
score: 155,
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| 158 |
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
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3.46 avg rating — 6,754 ratings
score: 150,
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| 159 |
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Return to My Native Land
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4.09 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
score: 144,
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The Death Notebooks
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4.06 avg rating — 519 ratings
score: 143,
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Parnassus On Wheels
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4.04 avg rating — 11,015 ratings
score: 143,
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| 162 |
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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3.99 avg rating — 31,110 ratings
score: 141,
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| 163 |
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Mario and the Magician
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3.36 avg rating — 6,891 ratings
score: 138,
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Holy the Firm
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4.20 avg rating — 5,368 ratings
score: 134,
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Jung: An Introduction Into the World of Carl Jung: The Shadow, The Archetypes and the Symbols
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3.64 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Book of Dog: Poems
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3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows: Poems
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4.07 avg rating — 531 ratings
score: 127,
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The Headless Horseman: A Retelling of Washington Irving's "the Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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4.29 avg rating — 34,510 ratings
score: 114,
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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score: 111,
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Milarepa
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3.21 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
score: 110,
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| 171 |
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 108,693 ratings
score: 110,
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| 173 |
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In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A tale of Savannah
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Albert Davenport (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 100,
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| 173 |
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All I Know
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Ashly Lorenzana (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Within a Man's Heart
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Tom Winton (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 100,
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| 173 |
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Be God To Yourself
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Jean-Yves Crozier (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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| 173 |
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Last Visit Home
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ante Tractatum Φιλοσοφικές Σημειώσεις
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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4.32 avg rating — 7,414 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
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4.61 avg rating — 8,395 ratings
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The Enigmatic Expanse - Existence
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Sreedhar P. Iyer (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Post-Parkland: Are We Missing the Mark?
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The Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh
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4.57 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Waking the Muse: A Collection of Poems
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Melanie Simms (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cititorul din pestera
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3.70 avg rating — 3,270 ratings
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The power of stating InshaAllah from the heart: The secret of saying " In God's will " on a constant basis
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Questions Answered: An Introduction to QAnon and the Great Awakening
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4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Pledge of Allegiance & Swastika Secrets
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
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Hidemi Woods (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4)
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4.25 avg rating — 8,516 ratings
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The Legend of the Guardian Bell: Motorcycle Folklore
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Hollie Bell-Schinzing (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Thousandfold: Starting a Movement from Zero
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Ms Ice Sandwich
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3.77 avg rating — 14,773 ratings
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| 173 |
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Climate Conundrum - The Agendas and Forces at Play
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Balvinder Ruby (Goodreads Author)
4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Old Cranberry Ladies Garden Club: The Ghost and The Key
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Bill Cusano (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Life Revisited: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Purpose of Existence
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4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Change It
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Dee Knight (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Home Rule: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel (The Tribal Wars Book 3)
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Stella Atrium (Goodreads Author)
4.69 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 209,305 ratings
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Black Belt
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Faye McCray (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Jan 02, 2013 01:02PM
The Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet is exactly 100 pages long.
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I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them. I've interpreted influence to mean influencing political ideas e.g. the Communist Manifesto or Animal Farm, or influencing the development of artistic ideas e.g. TS Eliot influenced poetry and Gogol influenced absurdism in literature.
Reese wrote: "Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition of RIP VAN WIN..."This is bothering me as well. I suspect by and large what matters for purposes of this list is the length of the treatise/story/text or, for that matter, play as such, minus introduction and commentary. (As in, it's the text itself and not its modern-day appendage which is so tremendously influential.) I do think we should try to include editions that have less than 100 pages, though; at least initially, even if they may later on get merged into some more lavishly garnished and, hence, longer once duplicates start to be added down the road.
Lisa wrote: "I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them."Yes, that's my assumption, too.
Lisa wrote: "I assume we are meant to vote on the widespread influence of the books, not whether we liked them." That's right.
Themis-Athena wrote: "Reese wrote: "Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition ..."My intention is for the list to have only editions which are under 100 pages according to Goodreads data. I expect in most cases that this will be the 'bare-bones' edition which contains the original text and little else.
Thanks.
Also, does anyone know how I can remove The Republic? (over 400 pages)
nauru wrote: "My intention is for the list to have only editions which are under 100 pages according to Goodreads data. I expect in most cases that this will be the 'bare-bones' edition which contains the original text and little else.Thanks.
Also, does anyone know how I can remove The Republic? (over 400 pages)"
Only Goodreads librarians can remove books. Let us know which books you want deleted, and there are typically several librarians who will be happy to help out.
Thanks for the clarification on page numbers; will bear that in mind. Minor caveat, though, that if duplicate editions of the same book are inadvertently added and subsequently combined (to remove the erroneous duplicate), the GR system will automatically merge all editions into the most popular one (regardless whether that one had already been added to the list), which in this particular instance will, in many cases, probably be an edition that has more than 100 pages, due to the addition of introductions, commentary etc.
Themis-Athena wrote: "Reese wrote: "Some of the publications listed are longer than 100 pages. I can't find an edition of THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY that has 100 or fewer pages. THE REPUBLIC ??? I added an edition ..."How long is the text alone in your edition of Consolation ? (I can't find mine at the moment)
Reese wrote: "T,I might be able to find my copy if we move out of our house. It could be in the attic with "critters" or in one of the stacked boxes of books in the garage.
My comment in message 2 was based ..."
Taking off my vote now, BTW, et cum spiritu tuo, 2013
Pretty cool list. Noticed a few classics that I'd yet to have read listed here
I've removed The Republic and also Winnie the Pooh as the editions on the list were both over 100 pages.
The Call of the Wild is less than 100 pages long? Well that's funny because I could BARELY get through the first two chapters .__.
Talyn wrote: "The Call of the Wild is less than 100 pages long?"96 pages, in the edition listed.
Just deleted a bunch of books from the list. Please read and follow instructions before adding a book. Thanks.
This list contains 4 women. Thats disgusting. I was hoping for something good to read from this list, but men dicking all over the 18th and 19th century makes me want to cry.
ooops - I just went through adding what was on the list that I had encountered and noticed that not all of these qualify for the list parametres **gasp**Many are well over 100 pages.
☯Bettie☯ wrote: "ooops - I just went through adding what was on the list that I had encountered and noticed that not all of these qualify for the list parametres **gasp**Many are well over 100 pages."
Which ones?
This is one of my favorite lists! I'm dedicating a lot of my reading time this year to working through the gaps I have at the top of this list.
Maddie wrote: ""The Communist Manifesto" is listed as 304 pages."Indeed it is.
Unfortunately, Goodreads has a habit of changing the edition of books on the list to the most popular edition without consulting the list manager, or even providing an option to revert to the originally selected edition. When this list was started, the most popular edition was the 68 page one, and that one was displayed. But now the 304 page edition is the most popular so that one shows up on the list instead. At the moment there's nothing I can do about it.
If enough people write to Goodreads admin maybe this glitch will eventually be fixed.
Laura wrote: "This list contains 4 women. Thats disgusting. I was hoping for something good to read from this list, but men dicking all over the 18th and 19th century makes me want to cry."Hear, hear.
Yeah, this list is messed up. Since the last note about women more must have been added, which is great. However, the #1 title, Animal Farm with 190 votes, is 122 pages. Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is also over. 3 classics listed--A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case....Jekyll/Hyde, and Jack London's Call of the Wild--are all well over 100 except when grossly edited down, which is exactly what Dover does. At this rate we might as well toss in a bunch of crib notes and pretend they're the genuine article, right?At first I thought maybe some culling could save it, but it's so riddled with errors that it would be easier to toss it and start a new list.
See Sean's comment above to Maddie re: editions.
Valerie wrote: "See Sean's comment above to Maddie re: editions."I saw it. I just don't agree. There may be nothing I can do about it, but I think that's wrong.
Why are there books with foreign languages included?
Ishtar wrote: "Why are there books with foreign languages included?"First of all, GR tends to change a title to the most popular one (so it is no use really voting for a certain edition) and if the book was originally written in a 'foreign' language, it may be the most popular one. Second, why shouldn't there be books in foreign languages, translations from/into English available or not? "Most influential" is in the eye of the beholder, after all; there are a few titles/authors on this list I've never heard of.
Booklovinglady wrote: "Ishtar wrote: "Why are there books with foreign languages included?"First of all, GR tends to change a title to the most popular one (so it is no use really voting for a certain edition) and if t..."
True that. GR is available internationally, and usually if people complain it's about the dominance of the English language. But that was going to happen, since this site was originally the avocation of a Californian (before he sold it to Amazon).
13 out of 100 on the first page are books written by women. Hmm.
Genevieve wrote: "Love Story by Erich Segal is longer than 100"I must say I don't know who added it but there is a Slovak edition (Príbeh našej lásky) which is less than 100 pages (and of course you know that GR changes books to the most popular edition). My own edition of Siddhartha for instance is more than 100 pages but the edition mentioned here (Siddhartha) is substantially less...
My edition of The Prince (De heerser) is also far more than 100 pages, yet the edition mentioned here isn't.
To stick to English books: The edition mentioned here of Of Mice and Men is slightly over 100 pages but there is a Kindle edition (Of Mice and Men) which is far below 100... And so on and so forth :-)
Really cool how half of the books here are over 100 pages
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