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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

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,265 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

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

2

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

24,081 members

851 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: lenshep, kicomp, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

3

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

7,343 members

319 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sylvatica, ahef1963, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

4

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

17,269 members

1,035 reviews

4.1

4 Members: BobJay, ahef1963, EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

5

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,684 members

1,015 reviews

3.8

4 Members: elleayess, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

6

The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly

7,555 members

343 reviews

3.9

4 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

7

38,947 members

872 reviews

4.2

4 Members: lenshep, kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

8

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

10,259 members

503 reviews

4.1

4 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

9

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

8,682 members

591 reviews

4

3 Members: susan0316, KimKimpton, SantaThing2014

10

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt

4,053 members

268 reviews

4.1

3 Members: susan0316, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

11

22,723 members

1,377 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: BobJay, SantaThing2014

12

by Edward Rutherfurd

4,966 members

87 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

13

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

29,302 members

597 reviews

4.1

3 Members: lenshep, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

14

46,573 members

1,682 reviews

4.1

3 Members: susan0316, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

15

by Marilynne Robinson

13,387 members

416 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hazel1123, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

16

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

9,425 members

625 reviews

4

2 Members: susan0316, SantaThing2014

17

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,045 members

791 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

18

by Markus Zusak

52,164 members

2,236 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

19

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

9,409 members

758 reviews

3.8

2 Members: erinclark, SantaThing2014

20

by Diana Gabaldon

27,050 members

1,053 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimKimpton, SantaThing2014

21

Wicked Appetite

by Janet Evanovich

2,985 members

152 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Susan300, SantaThing2014

22

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,521 members

300 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

23

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

10,568 members

565 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Caputok, SantaThing2014

24

The Secret History

25,105 members

643 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kicomp, ahef1963, SantaThing2014

25

5,672 members

261 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lenshep, SantaThing2014

26

The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

13,841 members

300 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, yorklmd, SantaThing2014

27

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

23,349 members

1,200 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

28

by Stephen King

5,672 members

123 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hazel1123, SantaThing2014

29

Bridge of Birds

by Barry Hughart

2,692 members

101 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: elleayess, SantaThing2014

30

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

29,742 members

838 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

31

The Forgotten Garden

8,716 members

471 reviews

4

2 Members: EllsieFind, SantaThing2014

32

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

8,464 members

350 reviews

4

2 Members: hazel1123, SantaThing2014

33

34,908 members

959 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

34

by Gillian Flynn

26,332 members

1,630 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

35

The Pillars of the Earth

30,318 members

804 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

36

by Cornelia Funke

20,689 members

542 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

37

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

57,931 members

1,372 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

38

by Margaret Atwood

18,769 members

577 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

39

The Clockwork Scarab

by Colleen Gleason

779 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

40

by Tatiana de Rosnay

12,221 members

679 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

41

26,610 members

628 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

42

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,152 members

598 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

43

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

10,126 members

554 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

44

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

6,634 members

390 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

45

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

11,111 members

653 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kicomp, SantaThing2014

46

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,776 members

223 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

47

by Neal Stephenson

21,900 members

434 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

48

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

14,951 members

253 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

49

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

8,503 members

684 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

50

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,350 members

428 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

51

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

by Catherynne M. Valente

4,237 members

275 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

52

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

24,999 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

53

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,372 members

614 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

54

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

7,372 members

160 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

55

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,183 members

435 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

56

The Cuckoo's Calling

by Robert Galbraith

11,418 members

625 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

57

by Tess Gerritsen

4,834 members

152 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

58

by Sarah Addison Allen

5,467 members

397 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

59

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,902 members

685 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

60

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

by Christopher Moore

5,215 members

164 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

61

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,662 members

405 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

62

by Louise Penny

7,842 members

472 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

63

A Morbid Taste for Bones

by Ellis Peters

4,421 members

117 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

64

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

21,232 members

1,307 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

65

Ancillary Justice

7,251 members

424 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

66

by Connie Willis

2,779 members

128 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

67

by Connie Willis

8,749 members

397 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

68

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

21,612 members

180 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

69

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

4,150 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

70

The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

11,707 members

475 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

71

Northanger Abbey

24,913 members

460 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

72

by J. M. Barrie

22,619 members

363 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, SantaThing2014

73

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

22,148 members

1,385 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

74

by Rachel Hartman

4,341 members

276 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

75

by Emily St. John Mandel

14,593 members

874 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

76

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

10,256 members

337 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

77

Mistborn: The Final Empire

by Brandon Sanderson

17,806 members

530 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

78

9,891 members

453 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

79

It Takes a Witch

by Heather Blake

461 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

80

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

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,863 members

81 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

81

11,663 members

630 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

82

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

by N. K. Jemisin

4,842 members

308 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

83

The Lies of Locke Lamora

12,291 members

471 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

84

by Marissa Meyer

14,587 members

874 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

85

by Mary Doria Russell

8,505 members

436 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

86

Saga, Volume One

by Brian K. Vaughan

5,555 members

306 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

87

11,982 members

335 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

88

The Goblin Emperor

by Katherine Addison

3,658 members

224 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

89

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

9,521 members

343 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

90

by M. T. Anderson

5,606 members

443 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

91

by Patricia Briggs

8,159 members

357 reviews

4.1

Member: SantaThing2014

92

by Gail Carriger

6,245 members

545 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

93

by William Gibson

25,930 members

418 reviews

3.9

Member: SantaThing2014

94

by Lev Grossman

11,754 members

713 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: SantaThing2014

95

The Fatal Shore

by Robert Hughes

4,285 members

57 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

96

First Grave on the Right

by Darynda Jones

2,322 members

210 reviews

3.8

Member: SantaThing2014

97

4,164 members

304 reviews

4

Member: SantaThing2014

98

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

10,176 members

172 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

99

Daughter of the Forest

by Juliet Marillier

4,789 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: SantaThing2014

100

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

20,284 members

613 reviews

4.2

Member: SantaThing2014

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Started: SantaThing2014
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