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Best Domestic Fiction

Description: Fiction generally set in the home, about everyday life.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Pride and Prejudice

80,619 members

1,369 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cpg, thecoroner, ahef1963

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,459 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cpg, ahef1963

3

22,487 members

357 reviews

3.8

2 Members: DeboraNunes, thecoroner

4

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,577 members

270 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

5

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,430 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: DeboraNunes, ahef1963

6

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,574 members

265 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

7

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,142 members

631 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

8

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,719 members

243 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

9

by Pearl S. Buck

13,839 members

265 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

10

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

51,973 members

704 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

11

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,720 members

336 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

12

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,221 members

218 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

13

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,709 members

119 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

14

26,485 members

627 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

15

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,482 members

384 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

16

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,476 members

1,271 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

17

by Toni Morrison

22,829 members

406 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

18

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,489 members

330 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

19

by Rohinton Mistry

9,163 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: KimarieBee

20

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,527 members

442 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

21

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,773 members

222 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

22

by Louisa May Alcott

26,440 members

399 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

23

24,074 members

378 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

24

The Joy Luck Club

17,592 members

199 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

25

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

5,674 members

109 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

26

by Honoré de Balzac

5,975 members

109 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

27

by Michael Cunningham

12,710 members

232 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

28

by Kate Atkinson

7,920 members

348 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

29

by Virginia Woolf

20,629 members

330 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

30

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,275 members

226 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

31

A Thousand Acres

6,167 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

by Edith Wharton

9,498 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

33

Washington Square

4,403 members

88 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

34

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,147 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

35

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,460 members

182 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

36

Sense and Sensibility

38,103 members

526 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

37

6,600 members

93 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

38

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

20,904 members

686 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

39

The Adventures of Augie March

3,853 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

40

The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property; In Chancery; To Let)

by John Galsworthy

917 members

14 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

41

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

17,334 members

480 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

42

American Pastoral

8,068 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

43

What a Carve Up!

by Jonathan Coe

2,335 members

54 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

44

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

1,202 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

45

by Richard Russo

8,777 members

182 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

46

2,101 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

47

A Painted House

by John Grisham

9,317 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

48

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani

2,064 members

55 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

49

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,441 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

The Mill on the Po

by Riccardo Bacchelli

81 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

51

by Jonathan Franzen

9,541 members

409 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

52

The Secret Scripture

by Sebastian Barry

2,855 members

153 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

53

The Little World of the Past

by Antonio Fogazzaro

287 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

54

The Way the Crow Flies

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2,249 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

55

The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington

1,634 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

56

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,790 members

129 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

57

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

1,955 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

58

by Charles Dickens

10,565 members

133 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

59

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

35,879 members

939 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

60

by Natalia Ginzburg

1,258 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

61

by J. M. Coetzee

10,868 members

274 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

62

by Geraldine Brooks

6,692 members

277 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

63

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

5,411 members

99 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

64

by Charles Dickens

13,698 members

248 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

65

19,698 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

66

Northanger Abbey

21,632 members

419 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

67

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,915 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

68

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,667 members

113 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

69

The Portrait of a Lady

10,819 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

70

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6,204 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

71

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,451 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

72

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,257 members

554 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

73

by Federico De Roberto

417 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

74

28,695 members

532 reviews

4.2

75

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

26,244 members

501 reviews

4.2

76

by Gustave Flaubert

26,219 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

77

by John Steinbeck

23,399 members

423 reviews

½ 4.4

78

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,585 members

340 reviews

3.8

79

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,897 members

300 reviews

4

80

9,185 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

81

by Margaret Atwood

9,111 members

163 reviews

3.9

82

by E. M. Forster

8,774 members

131 reviews

4

83

by Marilynne Robinson

6,364 members

213 reviews

3.9

84

by Katherine Dunn

6,144 members

162 reviews

4

85

by Francine Prose

1,001 members

31 reviews

½ 3.3

86

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

900 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

87

The Shadow Year

by Jeffrey Ford

356 members

34 reviews

3.9

88

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories

by Fred Chappell

170 members

3 reviews

4

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February 2014
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