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Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover

9,739 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Justin Cronin

9,376 members

632 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,819 members

961 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

9,744 members

463 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy

5

3,597 members

273 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy

6

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,351 members

1,246 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

7

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

18,756 members

880 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,370 members

1,262 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

9

by Emma Donoghue

14,299 members

977 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

10

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

8,670 members

517 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

11

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,731 members

654 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

12

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

5,919 members

567 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

13

The Tiger's Wife

5,362 members

334 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

14

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

4,982 members

290 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

15

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4,724 members

232 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

4,540 members

198 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

17

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

4,028 members

214 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

18

by Anthony Horowitz

3,818 members

233 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

19

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

3,754 members

129 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Ann Patchett

3,627 members

188 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

21

by Jeanine Cummins

3,581 members

181 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

22

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

3,424 members

250 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

23

3,407 members

251 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

24

3,181 members

171 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

25

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

3,029 members

133 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

26

The Paris Library

by Janet Skeslien Charles

1,909 members

99 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

27

by Jodi Picoult

1,691 members

130 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

28

by Lauren Groff

1,616 members

90 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

29

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,284 members

78 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

30

How to Sell a Haunted House

by Grady Hendrix

1,247 members

53 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

31

All Our Wrong Todays

1,130 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Christine Mangan

872 members

50 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

33

by Robert Jones Jr.

820 members

26 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

by Nina MacLaughlin

200 members

7 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy

35

The Angel's Game

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

8,785 members

418 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

36

The Light Between Oceans

by M. L. Stedman

7,287 members

507 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

37

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,874 members

459 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

38

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

5,157 members

292 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

39

The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd

5,063 members

320 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

40

by Tommy Orange

4,254 members

192 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

41

by Fredrik Backman

4,162 members

208 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

42

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,757 members

212 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

43

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

3,698 members

169 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

44

by Mohsin Hamid

3,601 members

231 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

45

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

3,129 members

161 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

46

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

3,021 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

47

The Queen of the Tearling

by Erika Johansen

2,864 members

169 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

48

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,591 members

121 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

49

My Dark Vanessa

by Kate Elizabeth Russell

2,525 members

139 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

50

Our Souls at Night

2,338 members

226 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

51

by Richard Ford

2,299 members

135 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

52

by Michael Chabon

2,143 members

85 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

53

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

by Neal Stephenson

2,053 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

by Katarina Bivald

1,976 members

165 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

55

by Brit Bennett

1,972 members

95 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

56

The Women in the Castle: A Novel

by Jessica Shattuck

1,956 members

120 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

57

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,875 members

128 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

58

1,848 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

59

In the Dream House: A Memoir

by Carmen Maria Machado

1,709 members

63 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

60

by Hillary Jordan

1,647 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

61

by Tara Conklin

1,502 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

62

1,478 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

63

by David Nicholls

1,452 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

64

by Jonathan Lethem

1,444 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

65

by Maggie Shipstead

1,341 members

65 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

66

Underground Airlines

by Ben H. Winters

1,305 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

67

Did You Ever Have a Family

1,232 members

98 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

68

I Have Some Questions For You

by Rebecca Makkai

1,188 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

69

by Alice Hoffman

973 members

70 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

70

by Hanya Yanagihara

960 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

71

Death in Her Hands

by Ottessa Moshfegh

889 members

44 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

72

851 members

41 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

73

The incendiaries

775 members

43 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

693 members

45 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

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by Kaitlyn Greenidge

668 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

76

She Would Be King

by Wayétu Moore

543 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

77

Orhan's Inheritance

by Aline Ohanesian

465 members

29 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

78

The Light Pirate

by Lily Brooks-Dalton

457 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

79

by Malcolm Brooks

204 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

80

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

by Boris Kachka

184 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

81

A Lucky Man: Stories

by Jamel Brinkley

163 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

82

135 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

83

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

by Laura Hillenbrand

12,192 members

593 reviews

½ 4.4

84

by Stephen King

11,712 members

452 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

85

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

9,501 members

537 reviews

½ 4.3

86

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

8,726 members

287 reviews

4.1

87

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

8,527 members

411 reviews

½ 3.7

88

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,589 members

550 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington
Explanations: sturlington : DNF

89

Daisy Jones and The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

6,027 members

332 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

90

Half Broke Horses

by Jeannette Walls

4,686 members

236 reviews

4

91

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

4,619 members

352 reviews

½ 3.3

92

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

by Katherine Howe

4,554 members

343 reviews

½ 3.7

93

4,365 members

282 reviews

3.9

94

4,363 members

129 reviews

4.1

95

The Hour I First Believed

3,791 members

171 reviews

3.8

96

by Christopher Moore

3,435 members

182 reviews

3.9

97

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

3,192 members

153 reviews

½ 3.5

98

by Dennis Lehane

2,930 members

139 reviews

4

99

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

2,463 members

75 reviews

4

100

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

2,429 members

256 reviews

3.9

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