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by Louisa May Alcott

26,393 members

398 reviews

4

7 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lp92

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,500 members

372 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lp92, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Edith Wharton

9,486 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963

4

by Henry David Thoreau

14,100 members

190 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, Bretzky1, lp92

5

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,210 members

1,137 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, trisarahdactyl, ahef1963

6

The Secret History

20,283 members

554 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Louisa May Alcott

4,559 members

56 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963

8

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,771 members

190 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,703 members

431 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Richard Russo

8,773 members

182 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,665 members

23 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

12

The Lace Reader

by Brunonia Barry

3,392 members

281 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

13

by Sylvia Plath

28,058 members

499 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,116 members

423 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Stephen King

9,981 members

123 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

16,270 members

295 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

17

The Stepford Wives

3,062 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

18

by Stephen King

21,890 members

409 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

14,109 members

229 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

10,965 members

148 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

21

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,694 members

201 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,682 members

559 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

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The Weight of Water

by Anita Shreve

3,194 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

24

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

by Jonathan Edwards

1,009 members

11 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

25

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

935 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The World According to Garp

15,284 members

195 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

27

by Shirley Jackson

753 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

by Stephen King

9,271 members

151 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

29

4,502 members

292 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

30

1,848 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

31

6,425 members

450 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

32

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,784 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

33

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,131 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

34

by Stephen King

14,569 members

289 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

35

1,772 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Thomas Tryon

1,359 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

3,758 members

129 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Michelle Gagnon

176 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

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by Anita Shreve

2,447 members

143 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

40

by Grace Metalious

1,678 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charlotte MacLeod

482 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

42

Death at an Early Age

by Jonathan Kozol

399 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

43

by Lisa Gardner

2,372 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

44

The Family Vault

by Charlotte MacLeod

533 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

45

Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal

by David France

68 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

46

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,621 members

114 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Lisa Gardner

2,297 members

85 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

48

by Thornton Wilder

5,074 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert

by John Barylick

87 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

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by Chris Bohjalian

5,710 members

122 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

51

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

by John Hodgman

633 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

by David E. Shi

147 members

3 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

53

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

8,554 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

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by Thomas Tryon

1,134 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Murder in Boston

39 members

3

Member: dara85

56

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

10,802 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

57

by Charlotte Vale Allen

76 members

3 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: dara85

58

by Carrie Brown

234 members

12 reviews

4

Member: dara85

59

Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors

by Joseph A. Citro

136 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Secrets of Eden

by Chris Bohjalian

1,106 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

61

The Late George Apley

by John P. Marquand

668 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

62

The Outer Cape: A Novel

by Patrick Dacey

58 members

16 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,401 members

958 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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4,206 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

65

Fair, Clear, and Terrible: The Story of Shiloh Maine

by Shirley Nelson

37 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

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by Richard Matheson

2,351 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda,

67

Where Are the Children?

by Mary Higgins Clark

2,285 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

68

Six Haunted Hairdos

by Gregory Maguire

65 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

69

Two Little Girls in Blue

by Mary Higgins Clark

2,924 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

70

The Curse of the Blue Figurine

by John Bellairs

765 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Gregory Maguire

44 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

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389 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Dog Who Came to Stay

129 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

74

The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

3,580 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

by Brock Clarke

1,592 members

90 reviews

3

Member: sturlington

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by Andrew Gross

915 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

77

Don't Look Twice

by Andrew Gross

512 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

78

Plain Bad Heroines

by Emily M. Danforth

1,100 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Prayers for the Dead

by Faye Kellerman

989 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

80

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary Rowlandson

488 members

12 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Journal of Madam Knight

by Sarah Kemble Knight

61 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Something Upstairs

by Avi

778 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

by John Bellairs

515 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

10,706 members

362 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

85

Losing Christina Collection

by Caroline B. Cooney

50 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Story So Far

9 members

1 review

4.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Shirley Jackson

792 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Witches of Eastwick

3,241 members

47 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

16,850 members

473 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith

90

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,767 members

123 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith

91

by Stephen King

10,591 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

8,931 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

93

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,478 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

9,819 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

11,601 members

262 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: trisarahdactyl, ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

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The Da Vinci Code

70,207 members

1,305 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, lp92, ,aulsmith ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

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by Stephen King

11,714 members

452 reviews

3.8

98

Cycle of the Werewolf

by Stephen King

3,217 members

73 reviews

½ 3.4

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by Jack Kerouac

27,925 members

385 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

100

2,878 members

62 reviews

½ 3.3

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