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SantaThing 2014 Gifts

Description: This year, Loranne collected all the books chosen by all our Secret Santas for SantaThing into one list. Titles are ordered from most to least popular in terms of number of copies ordered for SantaThing.
Based on tag: SantaThing 2014
Members: 17 participating members
SantaThing2014, ahef1963, kicomp, yorklmd, EllsieFind, lenshep, susan0316, elleayess, hazel1123, KimKimpton, BobJay, erinclark, Caputok, SoniaCabellud, NHNick, sylvatica, Susan300

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,728 members

1,114 reviews

4.1

6 Members: elleayess, ahef1963, yorklmd, NHNick, SantaThing2014, SoniaCabellud

2

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

19,352 members

767 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: lenshep, kicomp, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

3

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,568 members

278 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sylvatica, ahef1963, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

4

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,067 members

935 reviews

4.1

4 Members: BobJay, ahef1963, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

5

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,047 members

921 reviews

3.8

4 Members: elleayess, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

6

The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly

6,697 members

319 reviews

3.9

4 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

7

33,364 members

778 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: lenshep, kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

8

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,618 members

413 reviews

4.1

4 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

9

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,330 members

533 reviews

4

3 Members: susan0316, KimKimpton, SantaThing2014

10

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt

3,476 members

240 reviews

4.1

3 Members: susan0316, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

11

16,929 members

1,198 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: BobJay, SantaThing2014

12

by Edward Rutherfurd

4,395 members

70 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

13

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,462 members

502 reviews

4.1

3 Members: lenshep, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

14

38,394 members

1,556 reviews

4.2

3 Members: susan0316, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

15

by Marilynne Robinson

10,559 members

361 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hazel1123, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

16

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

8,043 members

576 reviews

4

2 Members: susan0316, SantaThing2014

17

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

35,100 members

734 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

18

by Markus Zusak

43,118 members

2,106 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

19

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

8,145 members

713 reviews

3.8

2 Members: erinclark, SantaThing2014

20

by Diana Gabaldon

22,959 members

971 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimKimpton, SantaThing2014

21

Wicked Appetite

by Janet Evanovich

2,600 members

153 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Susan300, SantaThing2014

22

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

15,519 members

271 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

23

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

9,196 members

524 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Caputok, SantaThing2014

24

The Secret History

19,132 members

528 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

25

4,984 members

235 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lenshep, SantaThing2014

26

The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

12,540 members

281 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

27

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

18,176 members

1,117 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

28

by Stephen King

4,350 members

94 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hazel1123, SantaThing2014

29

Bridge of Birds

by Barry Hughart

2,474 members

96 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: elleayess, SantaThing2014

30

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

26,347 members

752 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

31

The Forgotten Garden

7,718 members

441 reviews

4

2 Members: EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

32

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

6,883 members

319 reviews

4

2 Members: hazel1123, SantaThing2014

33

American Gods {original}

32,841 members

914 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

34

by Gillian Flynn

21,146 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

35

Pillars of the Earth

26,437 members

743 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

36

by Cornelia Funke

17,298 members

508 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

37

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

51,621 members

1,290 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

38

by Margaret Atwood

16,657 members

523 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

39

The Clockwork Scarab

by Colleen Gleason

697 members

106 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

40

by Tatiana de Rosnay

10,842 members

645 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

41

24,284 members

574 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

42

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,409 members

525 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

43

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

8,377 members

506 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

44

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

5,662 members

341 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

45

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,626 members

611 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

46

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,255 members

199 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

47

by Neal Stephenson

19,637 members

383 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

48

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

13,551 members

230 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

49

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,525 members

646 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

50

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,461 members

409 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

51

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

by Catherynne M. Valente

3,723 members

254 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

52

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,236 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

53

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

20,109 members

515 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

54

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,389 members

138 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

55

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,775 members

358 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

56

The Cuckoo's Calling

by Robert Galbraith

9,393 members

570 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

57

by Tess Gerritsen

4,243 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

58

by Sarah Addison Allen

4,903 members

366 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

59

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,802 members

587 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

60

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

by Christopher Moore

4,792 members

160 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

61

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,394 members

372 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

62

by Louise Penny

6,346 members

411 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

63

A Morbid Taste for Bones

by Ellis Peters

3,816 members

101 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

64

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

18,760 members

1,222 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

65

Ancillary Justice

5,599 members

348 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

66

by Connie Willis

2,563 members

110 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

67

by Connie Willis

7,747 members

364 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

68

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

18,864 members

162 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

69

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

3,534 members

208 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

70

The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

9,136 members

450 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

71

Northanger Abbey

20,855 members

405 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

72

by J. M. Barrie

18,008 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

73

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

17,374 members

1,231 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

74

by Rachel Hartman

3,674 members

258 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

75

by Emily St. John Mandel

10,792 members

751 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

76

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,160 members

310 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

77

Mistborn: The Final Empire

by Brandon Sanderson

11,654 members

413 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

78

8,338 members

394 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

79

It Takes a Witch

by Heather Blake

409 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

80

Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor/ Barrayar/ Aftermaths)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,675 members

77 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

81

9,910 members

566 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

82

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

by N. K. Jemisin

4,003 members

279 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

83

The Lies of Locke Lamora

9,613 members

425 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

84

by Marissa Meyer

10,839 members

808 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

85

by Mary Doria Russell

7,526 members

397 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

86

by Brian K. Vaughan

4,482 members

280 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

87

10,406 members

332 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

88

The Goblin Emperor

by Katherine Addison

2,700 members

182 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

89

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,307 members

287 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

90

by M. T. Anderson

5,072 members

430 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

91

by Patricia Briggs

7,364 members

332 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

92

by Gail Carriger

5,607 members

510 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

93

by William Gibson

22,581 members

364 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

94

by Lev Grossman

10,053 members

650 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: SantaThing2014

95

The Fatal Shore

by Robert Hughes

3,779 members

54 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

96

First Grave on the Right

by Darynda Jones

2,007 members

199 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

97

3,451 members

262 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

98

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

8,447 members

154 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

99

Daughter of the Forest

by Juliet Marillier

4,276 members

132 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

100

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

11,277 members

470 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

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Started: SantaThing2014
January 2015
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