Here's a handy list of all the books reviewed by 70 Proof since we started pouring shots in April of 2002. Seeing them together, divided up by rating, kind of puts everything in perspective and gives you, our valued readers, a better idea of what we value in literature.
Remember, books are rated on a scale of one to four shots, with four being a work of true genius. Unless, of course, you're John Cheever or Lawrence Durrell, then we don't even waste a drop.
FOUR SHOTS
"Poor White" by Sherwood Anderson
"Molloy" by Samuel Beckett
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
"Seven Men" by Max Beerbohm
"Zuleika Dobson" by Max Beerbohm
"In the Midst of Life" by Ambrose Bierce
"The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen
"The Fall" by Albert Camus
"The Plague" by Albert Camus
"A Lost Lady" by Willa Cather
"Lucy Gayheart" by Willa Cather
"The Man Who Was Thursday" by G.K. Chesterton
"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
"The Double" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The House of the Dead" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Sign of Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Basil and Josephine Stories" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Sufferings of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Diary of a Madman and Other Stories" by Nikolai Gogol
"The Inspector General" by Nikolai Gogol
"I, Claudius" by Robert Graves
"The Thin Man" by Dashiell Hammett
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
"Knulp" by Hermann Hesse
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
"Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse
"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis
"The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham
"The Middle-Class Gentleman" by Moliere
"Under the Net" by Iris Murdoch
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
"A Spy in the House of Love" by Anais Nin
"The Gold Bug and Other Stories" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
"William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe
"Naseau" by Jean-Paul Sartre
"The Wall and Other Stories" by Jean-Paul Sartre
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Suicide Club and Other Stories" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy
"Rabbit, Run" by John Updike
"Miss Lonelyhearts" by Nathanael West
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Native Son" by Richard Wright
THREE SHOTS
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
"Another Country" by James Baldwin
"Father Goriot" by Honore de Balzac
"Mercier and Camier" by Samuel Beckett
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain
"The Professor's House" by Willa Cather
"The Ball and the Cross" by G. K. Chesterton
"The Innocence of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton
"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" by Stephen Crane
"The Ginger Man" by J. P. Donleavy
"Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Jennie Gerhardt" by Theodore Dreiser
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories" by Ernest Hemingway
"Gertrude" by Hermann Hesse
"Ignorance" by Milan Kundera
"Of Love and Other Demons" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Amphitryon" by Moliere
"Tartuffe" by Moliere
"The Unicorn" by Iris Murdoch
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"At Lady Molly's" by Anthony Powell
"Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
"The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh
"A Cool Million" by Nathanael West
"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton
TWO SHOTS
"The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler
"Exile and the Kingdom" by Albert Camus
"The Club of Queer Trades" by G. K. Chesterton
"Manalive" by G. K. Chesterton
"The Man Who Knew to Much" by G. K. Chesterton
"Tales of the Long Bow" by G. K. Chesterton
"The Wisdom of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton
"Save Me the Waltz" by Zelda Fitzgerald
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
"A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes
"Chrome Yellow" by Aldous Huxley
"Amerika" by Franz Kafka
"The Castle" by Franz Kafka
"Lose with a Smile" by Ring Lardner
"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller
"Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov
"The Four-Chambered Heart" by Anais Nin
"The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck
"Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington
"Monsieur Beaucaire" by Booth Tarkington
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
ONE SHOT
"Ragtime" by E. L. Doctorow
"Intruder in the Dust" by William Faulkner
"A Family Party" by John O'Hara
"The Bores" by Moliere
"The Dream Life of Balso Snell" by Nathanael West
"The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty
NO SHOTS
"Falconer" by John Cheever
"Balthazar" by Lawrence Durrell
updated 10.25.04
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