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Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover

8,950 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Justin Cronin

9,172 members

622 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

3

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

3,281 members

122 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Robert Jones Jr.

741 members

26 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

5

2,873 members

161 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

6

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,106 members

935 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

3,459 members

262 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

8,951 members

437 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

9

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

2,618 members

122 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

10

The Tiger's Wife

5,249 members

330 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

11

by Jeanine Cummins

3,211 members

172 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

12

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

5,748 members

550 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

13

The Paris Library

by Janet Skeslien Charles

1,693 members

93 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

14

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,538 members

646 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

15

by Emma Donoghue

13,911 members

970 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

16

by Jodi Picoult

1,583 members

123 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

17

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

18,780 members

1,222 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

18

by Christine Mangan

834 members

50 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

19

All Our Wrong Todays

1,086 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Mohsin Hamid

3,420 members

218 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

21

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,215 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

17,541 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

23

The Women in the Castle

by Jessica Shattuck

1,846 members

119 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

24

The incendiaries

735 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

8,395 members

507 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

26

654 members

45 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

27

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

by Neal Stephenson

1,906 members

98 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

She Would Be King

by Wayétu Moore

509 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

29

by Tommy Orange

3,816 members

181 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

30

by Michael Chabon

2,035 members

81 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

31

by Anthony Horowitz

3,533 members

224 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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by Brit Bennett

1,851 members

91 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

33

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

3,711 members

203 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

34

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

3,232 members

236 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

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1,812 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

36

by Alice Hoffman

934 members

70 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

37

The Light Between Oceans

by M. L. Stedman

7,182 members

494 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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797 members

41 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

39

A Lucky Man: Stories

by Jamel Brinkley

150 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

40

by Fredrik Backman

3,613 members

188 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

41

My Dark Vanessa

by Kate Elizabeth Russell

2,203 members

130 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

42

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,769 members

448 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

43

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

by Nina MacLaughlin

185 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

44

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

by Katarina Bivald

1,902 members

164 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

45

Daisy Jones and The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

5,122 members

308 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

46

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

4,810 members

283 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

47

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,356 members

536 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

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3,265 members

247 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

49

Orhan's Inheritance

by Aline Ohanesian

453 members

28 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

50

Our Souls at Night

2,256 members

218 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

51

Did You Ever Have a Family

1,215 members

96 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

52

by Ann Patchett

3,446 members

185 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

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by Kaitlyn Greenidge

591 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

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by Lauren Groff

1,384 members

75 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

55

The Angel's Game

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

8,533 members

422 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

56

by Richard Ford

2,251 members

133 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

57

by Tara Conklin

1,442 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

58

Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

by Boris Kachka

177 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

59

The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd

5,017 members

316 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

60

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

17,298 members

836 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

61

The Queen of the Tearling

by Erika Johansen

2,722 members

161 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

62

by Malcolm Brooks

198 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

63

by David Nicholls

1,388 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

64

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,527 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

65

by Maggie Shipstead

1,206 members

60 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

66

by Hanya Yanagihara

770 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

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1,370 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

68

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

3,107 members

137 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

69

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,413 members

95 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

70

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

11,705 members

581 reviews

½ 4.4

71

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

9,214 members

524 reviews

½ 4.3

72

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

8,367 members

408 reviews

½ 3.7

73

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

7,261 members

248 reviews

4.1

74

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

4,870 members

286 reviews

½ 4.3

75

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

4,557 members

345 reviews

½ 3.3

76

Half Broke Horses

by Jeannette Walls

4,545 members

228 reviews

4

77

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

by Katherine Howe

4,457 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

78

4,247 members

279 reviews

3.9

79

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4,138 members

210 reviews

½ 3.7

80

The Hour I First Believed

3,714 members

170 reviews

3.8

81

3,484 members

103 reviews

4.1

82

by Christopher Moore

3,344 members

181 reviews

3.9

83

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

3,105 members

151 reviews

4.2

84

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

3,028 members

152 reviews

½ 3.5

85

by Dennis Lehane

2,873 members

137 reviews

4

86

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

2,696 members

162 reviews

3.8

87

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

2,519 members

133 reviews

4

88

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

2,383 members

250 reviews

3.9

89

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,365 members

112 reviews

3.9

90

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

2,350 members

72 reviews

4

91

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

2,297 members

177 reviews

4.2

92

The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

2,231 members

185 reviews

3.9

93

by B. A. Shapiro

1,996 members

193 reviews

½ 3.7

94

by Philipp Meyer

1,930 members

102 reviews

4

95

Circling the Sun

by Paula McLain

1,915 members

178 reviews

3.9

96

This Tender Land

by William Kent Krueger

1,906 members

121 reviews

4.2

97

Beat the Reaper

1,906 members

193 reviews

3.8

98

by Dennis Lehane

1,899 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

99

Love on the Brain

by Ali Hazelwood

1,714 members

37 reviews

3.9

100

by Hillary Jordan

1,604 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

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November 2016
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