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Didactic Fiction

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1

by George Orwell

60,388 members

892 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

2

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,791 members

638 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

3

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,791 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

4

The Name of the Rose

19,608 members

315 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,288 members

248 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

6

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,917 members

528 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

7

by Charles Dickens

10,621 members

134 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

8

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,513 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

9

22,060 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

10

Les Misérables

26,426 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

11

The House at Pooh Corner

8,532 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

12

by George Eliot

17,825 members

331 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

13

by Charles Dickens

13,731 members

249 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

14

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,712 members

76 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

15

by George Eliot

11,410 members

152 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

16

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,629 members

265 reviews

4

Member: roby72

17

by George Eliot

4,239 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

18

by Hermann Hesse

27,966 members

381 reviews

4

Member: roby72

19

by Jostein Gaarder

18,797 members

289 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

20

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

17,110 members

190 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

21

The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

2,553 members

39 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

22

by Louisa May Alcott

26,662 members

402 reviews

4

Member: roby72

23

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,588 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

24

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

12,104 members

140 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

25

Heart: A School-Boy's Journal

by Edmondo De Amicis

935 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

26

7,457 members

193 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

27

by Robertson Davies

3,232 members

88 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

28

The Black Prince

by Iris Murdoch

1,504 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

29

Bleak House [Norton Critical Edition]

by Charles Dickens

307 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
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