115 books
—
12 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Doris Lessing Books
Showing 1-50 of 64
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,349 ratings — published 1962
The Fifth Child (Vintage International)
by (shelved 26 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.65 — 26,160 ratings — published 1988
The Grass is Singing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,792 ratings — published 1950
Martha Quest (Children of Violence, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,743 ratings — published 1952
The Diaries of Jane Somers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,332 ratings — published 1983
A Proper Marriage (Children of Violence, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,289 ratings — published 1954
The Good Terrorist (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,782 ratings — published 1985
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Canopus in Argos, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,870 ratings — published 1979
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,474 ratings — published 1971
The Summer Before the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,005 ratings — published 1973
Ben, In the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.31 — 2,356 ratings — published 2000
The Memoirs of a Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,706 ratings — published 1974
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.06 — 875 ratings — published 1994
Love, Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,445 ratings — published 1995
A Ripple from the Storm (Children of Violence, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.90 — 704 ratings — published 1958
The Four-Gated City (Children of Violence, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.16 — 904 ratings — published 1969
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Canopus in Argos, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,421 ratings — published 1980
The Sweetest Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,704 ratings — published 2001
Landlocked (Children of Violence, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.98 — 660 ratings — published 1969
The Grandmothers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.50 — 4,001 ratings — published 2003
The Cleft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 2.94 — 3,780 ratings — published 2007
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.03 — 420 ratings — published 1997
Particularly Cats (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,183 ratings — published 1967
Stories (Vintage International)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.10 — 334 ratings — published 1978
Mara and Dann (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,939 ratings — published 1999
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.64 — 330 ratings — published 1960
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,207 ratings — published
The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.97 — 838 ratings — published 1980
Alfred and Emily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,440 ratings — published 2008
On Cats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,832 ratings — published 1967
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 451 ratings — published 1992
African Stories (A Touchstone Book)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.91 — 771 ratings — published 1965
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (Mara and Dann #2)
by (shelved 5 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.54 — 498 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.87 — 831 ratings — published 1982
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.93 — 472 ratings — published 1983
The Real Thing: Emotionally Complex Literary Short Stories of Contemporary London Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.57 — 602 ratings — published 1991
Going Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.75 — 163 ratings — published 1957
The Black Madonna (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.63 — 183 ratings — published 1966
A Man and Two Women: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.76 — 282 ratings — published 1963
The Habit of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.52 — 557 ratings — published 1957
Winter in July (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.39 — 157 ratings — published 1964
إن العجوز استطاعت (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.26 — 258 ratings — published 1984
A Small Personal Voice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.04 — 82 ratings — published 1974
El viento se llevará nuestras palabras (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.66 — 155 ratings — published 1987
The Sun Between Their Feet (Collected African Stories, Vol. 2)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.78 — 89 ratings — published 1989
Time Bites: Views and Reviews – Wise and Witty Essays on Literature, Politics, and the Human Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.86 — 186 ratings — published 2004
The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.48 — 137 ratings — published 1979
Spies I Have Known and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1995
Till rum nitton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.97 — 260 ratings — published
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as doris-lessing)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,067 ratings — published 2004
“What is a hero without love for mankind?”
―
―
“We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation, and we both held our heart in our hands, all pink and palpitating and ready for pleasure and pain, and we were about to throw these hearts in each other's faces like snowballs, or cricket balls (How's that?) or, more accurately, like great bleeding wounds: "Take my wound". Because the last thing one ever thinks at such moments is that he (or she) will say: Take my wound, please remove the spear from my side. No, not at all; one simply expects to get rid of one's one.”
― A Man and Two Women: Stories
― A Man and Two Women: Stories