First Novels

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Author's first novels that are worth reading.
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debut novel
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Whistling In the Dark
by Lesley Kagen
895 members
39 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 282
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Sleep Toward Heaven
by Amanda Eyre Ward
398 members
19 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 315
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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,600 members
93 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 31
4 Members
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
52,750 members
1,300 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 10
5 Members
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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
7,289 members
507 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 154
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Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
4,144 members
86 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 60
3 Members
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
36,560 members
562 reviews
4
Global Rank 337
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,502 members
442 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 25
4 Members
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Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
16,178 members
287 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 26
4 Members
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Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,316 members
76 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 105
2 Members
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,421 members
441 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 21
4 Members
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The Black Echo
by Michael Connelly
5,591 members
163 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 97
2 Members
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Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
2,946 members
206 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 210
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The Weight of Silence
by Heather Gudenkauf
1,916 members
103 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 233
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In the Bleak Midwinter
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
1,572 members
130 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 243
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The King of Lies
by John Hart
1,255 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 265
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The Life We Bury
by Allen Eskens
1,788 members
140 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 235
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Promise Not to Tell
by Jennifer McMahon
1,114 members
68 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 270
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The Bridges of Madison County
by Robert James Waller
6,452 members
101 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 159
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The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
15,103 members
314 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 135
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Still Missing
by Chevy Stevens
2,194 members
211 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 226
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The Invisible Bridge
by Julie Orringer
2,110 members
137 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 228
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Starvation Lake
by Bryan Gruley
367 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 317
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The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
4,537 members
338 reviews
4
Global Rank 184
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
14,127 members
612 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 78
2 Members
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The Condition
by Jennifer Haigh
1,060 members
65 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 272
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The Poacher's Son
by Paul Doiron
753 members
85 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 123
2 Members
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A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
12,425 members
152 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 45
3 Members
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
21,911 members
423 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 70
3 Members
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
44,265 members
1,327 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 19
4 Members
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Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
3,674 members
183 reviews
4
Global Rank 109
2 Members
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by Harry Bernstein
971 members
39 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 278
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
11,132 members
685 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 47
3 Members
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Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
6,425 members
450 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 89
2 Members
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The Dry
by Jane Harper
3,764 members
265 reviews
4
Global Rank 108
2 Members
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The Good Girl
by Mary Kubica
2,563 members
186 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 114
2 Members
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You Don't Know Me
by Nancy Bush
52 members
½ 3.5
Global Rank 336
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The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
5,426 members
249 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 99
2 Members
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River, Cross My Heart
by Breena Clarke
1,257 members
14 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 264
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
2,900 members
66 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 112
2 Members
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If the Creek Don't Rise
by Leah Weiss
381 members
36 reviews
4
Global Rank 316
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
30,484 members
1,488 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 64
2 Members
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
27,050 members
588 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 67
2 Members
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The Paper Palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller
1,376 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 254
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