Carmen's votes on the list Pompous Books to Read in Public

Listopia > Carmen's votes on the list Pompous Books to Read in Public (77 Books)

1	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 140,992 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 4.25 avg rating — 104,896 ratings Carmen added it to did-not-finish See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 4.16 avg rating — 70,845 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 4.05 avg rating — 28,577 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 4.02 avg rating — 49,805 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 3.68 avg rating — 13,861 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 3.96 avg rating — 43,881 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.84 avg rating — 227,629 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.07 avg rating — 182,187 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Trial by Franz Kafka 3.93 avg rating — 416,062 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 200,427 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.65 avg rating — 167,536 ratings Carmen rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Faust, and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.02 avg rating — 1,496 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Das Kapital by Karl Marx 3.91 avg rating — 12,685 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Time Regained by Marcel Proust 4.51 avg rating — 8,646 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 3.91 avg rating — 76,178 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 287,250 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.70 avg rating — 161,762 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.02 avg rating — 118,975 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 3.97 avg rating — 20,984 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse 4.10 avg rating — 43,562 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3) by Marcel Proust 4.27 avg rating — 12,434 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 3.77 avg rating — 207,665 ratings Carmen added it to did-not-finish See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I by Edward Gibbon 4.17 avg rating — 3,554 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.07 avg rating — 11,449 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3.89 avg rating — 306,113 ratings Carmen rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4) by Marcel Proust 4.32 avg rating — 10,332 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust 4.39 avg rating — 18,693 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 210,587 ratings Carmen added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Road by Cormac McCarthy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,077,767 ratings Carmen rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Ethics by Baruch Spinoza 4.11 avg rating — 22,165 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens 3.96 avg rating — 114,364 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 3.97 avg rating — 5,395 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 3.89 avg rating — 35,967 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 3.93 avg rating — 145,462 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom 3.86 avg rating — 3,692 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust 4.38 avg rating — 3,464 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 3.85 avg rating — 202,507 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rüdiger Safranski 3.88 avg rating — 1,769 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume II by Edward Gibbon 4.24 avg rating — 1,288 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger 4.11 avg rating — 3,726 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 223,619 ratings Carmen rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 4.04 avg rating — 94,124 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 3.69 avg rating — 207,291 ratings Carmen added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10-12) by Anthony Powell 4.23 avg rating — 1,616 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 2,533,100 ratings Carmen rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III by Edward Gibbon 4.26 avg rating — 1,428 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Waves by Virginia Woolf 4.14 avg rating — 56,162 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 3.93 avg rating — 103,347 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 4.18 avg rating — 48,862 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 3.46 avg rating — 100,358 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvina 4.01 avg rating — 116,065 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson 3.92 avg rating — 7,610 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida 3.97 avg rating — 3,882 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,344 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 35,879 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin 3.84 avg rating — 11,670 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud 3.84 avg rating — 83,008 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava 4.13 avg rating — 3,264 ratings Carmen rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler 4.04 avg rating — 20,364 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley 3.90 avg rating — 77,468 ratings Carmen added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.16 avg rating — 252,852 ratings Carmen rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Judith Butler Reader by Judith Butler 3.96 avg rating — 134 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #7-9) by Anthony Powell 4.27 avg rating — 1,771 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche 3.81 avg rating — 20,795 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault 4.06 avg rating — 2,697 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4-6) by Anthony Powell 4.29 avg rating — 1,794 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3) by Anthony Powell 3.93 avg rating — 4,891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.87 avg rating — 971,837 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	2666 by Roberto Bolaño 4.22 avg rating — 51,545 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 3.69 avg rating — 101,116 ratings Carmen rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.21 avg rating — 9,488 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger 4.03 avg rating — 4,439 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 3.82 avg rating — 3,825 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Stranger by Albert Camus 4.03 avg rating — 1,496,847 ratings Carmen rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster 3.97 avg rating — 38,885 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre 3.99 avg rating — 35,770 ratings Carmen added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars