How I Rate A Book

The scale that I use to rate my books has been revised steadily through the years. I have finally settled on the following scale, which was adapted from the fantastic website http://www.iblist.com/ Please feel free to take me to task over any of my ratings/reviews. I relish the discussion!

10, Best Books I Have Ever Read

9, Perfect

8, Near Perfect

7, Great

6, Good

5, Average

4, Alright

3, Not Good

2, Didn't Like

1, Really Bad

10

(10) 1984, George Orwell

(10) Animal Farm, George Orwell

(10) Moby-Dick or The Whale, Herman Melville

9

(9) I, Claudius, Robert Graves

(9) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

(9) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

(9) Lord of the Flies, William Golding

(9) The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

(9) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

(9) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

(9) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

(9) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

(9) Foundation, Isaac Asimov

(9) Dune, Frank Herbert

(9) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein

(9) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

(9) Earth Abides, George R. Stewart

(9) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

8

(8) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

(8) I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

(8) The Stand, Stephen King

(8) Ringworld, Larry Niven

(8) The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli

(8) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

(8) Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

(8) Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

(8) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

(8) Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

(8) The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

(8) American Gods, Neil Gaiman

7

(7) Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov

(7) Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov

(7) Claudius the God, Robert Graves

(7) Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

(7) Hyperion, Dan Simmons

(7) Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov

(7) The Lord of the Rings, Book One: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

(7) The Lord of the Rings, Book Two: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

(7) The Lord of the Rings, Book Three: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

(7) Legends of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

(7) Legends of Dune: The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

(7) Legends of Dune: The Battle of Corrin, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

(7) Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

6

(6) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

(6) The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

(6) The Wheel of Time Book One: The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan

(6) Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke

(6) Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

(6) Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clark

(6) The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5

(5) Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

4

(4) Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis

3

(3) Catch-22, Joseph Heller

(3) All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

(3) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

2

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