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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,370 members
1,432 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 9
13 Members
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4
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
7,736 members
654 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 7
11 Members
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5
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
23,734 members
984 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 10
12 Members
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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
2,044 members
145 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 11
10 Members
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7
The Girl with All the Gifts
by M. R. Carey
5,306 members
399 reviews
4
Global Rank 17
10 Members
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8
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
26,830 members
1,549 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 12
11 Members
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9
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
4,389 members
153 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 15
10 Members
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10
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
3,683 members
244 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 22
8 Members
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11
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
5,064 members
320 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 13
9 Members
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12
The Cuckoo's Calling
by Robert Galbraith
9,819 members
580 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 19
9 Members
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13
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
43,149 members
1,747 reviews
4
Global Rank 21
10 Members
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14
The Casual Vacancy
by J. K. Rowling
10,489 members
575 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 29
7 Members
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15
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
5,134 members
259 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 31
8 Members
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16
The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
2,946 members
182 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 37
7 Members
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17
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
9,750 members
463 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 45
5 Members
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18
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,853 members
799 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 46
6 Members
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19
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
2,200 members
134 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 57
7 Members
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20
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
7,454 members
326 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 66
6 Members
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21
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays
by Rebecca Solnit
605 members
20 reviews
4
Global Rank 70
6 Members
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22
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
16,332 members
475 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 71
5 Members
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23
The Last Dickens
by Matthew Pearl
1,335 members
61 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 54
5 Members
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24
Room
by Emma Donoghue
14,307 members
977 reviews
4
Global Rank 78
5 Members
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25
Slade House
by David Mitchell
3,259 members
253 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 81
6 Members
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26
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
9,869 members
441 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 64
6 Members
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27
Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
9,689 members
537 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 84
5 Members
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28
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
1,869 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 99
4 Members
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29
The Good Girl
by Mary Kubica
2,563 members
186 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 75
6 Members
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30
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
3,554 members
167 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 96
4 Members
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32
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
8,545 members
415 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 80
5 Members
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33
Joyland
by Stephen King
4,725 members
264 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 100
3 Members
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34
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,339 members
226 reviews
4
Global Rank 79
5 Members
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35
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,060 members
1,542 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 91
4 Members
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36
The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
3,203 members
199 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 113
3 Members
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37
The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
6,114 members
353 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 118
3 Members
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38
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
3,989 members
114 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 124
3 Members
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39
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
2,740 members
111 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 125
3 Members
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40
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
4,025 members
164 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 127
3 Members
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41
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
by Neil Gaiman
3,975 members
199 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 131
3 Members
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42
Euphoria
by Lily King
2,637 members
162 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 132
3 Members
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43
The Nightmare
by Lars Kepler
1,133 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 180
2 Members
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44
The Black Country
by Alex Grecian
595 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 181
2 Members
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45
The Blazing World
by Siri Hustvedt
918 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 226
3 Members
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46
The Devil's Workshop
by Alex Grecian
347 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 229
2 Members
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47
The Spinning Heart
by Donal Ryan
518 members
32 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 234
2 Members
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48
Alias Hook
by Lisa Jensen
237 members
23 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 235
2 Members
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49
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
12,696 members
232 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 247
2 Members
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50
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
by Michael Paterniti
167 members
27 reviews
4
Global Rank 249
2 Members
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51
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
9,173 members
168 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 251
2 Members
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52
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
2,858 members
108 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 252
2 Members
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53
The Constant Princess
by Philippa Gregory
5,926 members
164 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 260
2 Members
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54
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
by Marie-Helene Bertino
532 members
72 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 263
2 Members
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55
Same Time Next Week: True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness
by Lee Gutkind
35 members
11 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 274
2 Members
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56
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,024 members
247 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 276
2 Members
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57
Broken Harbour
by Tana French
3,244 members
229 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 277
2 Members
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58
All the Old Knives
by Olen Steinhauer
420 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 278
2 Members
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60
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
8,505 members
312 reviews
4
Global Rank 322
2 Members
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61
The Hypnotist
by Lars Kepler
2,488 members
148 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 332
2 Members
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62
Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,141 members
93 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 341
2 Members
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63
An Unnecessary Woman
by Rabih Alameddine
1,249 members
84 reviews
4
Global Rank 344
2 Members
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65
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
3,761 members
212 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 352
2 Members
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66
Purity
by Jonathan Franzen
2,260 members
78 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 152
3 Members
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67
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,235 members
98 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 353
2 Members
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68
West of Sunset
by Stewart O'Nan
366 members
24 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 354
2 Members
edparks, kara.shamy
69
Black River
by S. M. Hulse
223 members
22 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 355
2 Members
edparks, kara.shamy
70
In the Country: Stories
by Mia Alvar
296 members
6 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 357
2 Members
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71
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
166 members
8 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 358
2 Members
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72
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
by Suki Kim
835 members
87 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 367
2 Members
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73
Alice Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
by Alexis Coe
184 members
19 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 401
2 Members
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74
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
3,469 members
196 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 404
2 Members
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75
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
by Meg Elison
733 members
49 reviews
4
Global Rank 406
2 Members
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76
Dominion
by C. J. Sansom
1,058 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 409
2 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy
77
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
2,722 members
192 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 416
2 Members
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78
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
by Cynthia Barnett
531 members
90 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 421
2 Members
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79
The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
15,543 members
379 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 424
2 Members
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80
Lightless
by C. A. Higgins
347 members
28 reviews
3.2
Global Rank 426
2 Members
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81
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,701 members
296 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 473
2 Members
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82
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,213 members
1,137 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 477
2 Members
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83
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
3,533 members
163 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 479
2 Members
Tafadhali, kara.shamy
84
Every Dead Thing
by John Connolly
2,121 members
79 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 480
2 Members
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85
Lamentation
by C. J. Sansom
1,017 members
45 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 483
2 Members
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86
The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
6,142 members
172 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 485
2 Members
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87
The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker
5,416 members
359 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 488
2 Members
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88
Dodger
by Terry Pratchett
2,704 members
138 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 489
2 Members
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89
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
1,337 members
68 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 493
2 Members
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90
The Truth According to Us
by Annie Barrows
925 members
88 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 495
2 Members
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91
After Alice
by Gregory Maguire
1,389 members
69 reviews
2.9
Global Rank 500
2 Members
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92
How To Be a Good Wife
by Emma Chapman
393 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 501
2 Members
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93
The Library at Mount Char
by Scott Hawkins
2,923 members
249 reviews
4
Global Rank 103
3 Members
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94
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,471 members
384 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 544
2 Members
Dilara86, kara.shamy
95
Frog Music
by Emma Donoghue
1,465 members
96 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 545
2 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy
96
Paper Towns
by John Green
15,875 members
561 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 606
2 Members
rretzler, kara.shamy
97
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
8,272 members
539 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 607
2 Members
kara.shamy, Peace2
98
Pretty Is: A Novel
by Maggie Mitchell
223 members
23 reviews
3.1
Global Rank 608
2 Members
Bookmarque, kara.shamy
99
The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
3,925 members
220 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 610
2 Members
Bookmarque, kara.shamy
100
The Maid's Version
by Daniel Woodrell
610 members
46 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 612
2 Members
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