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1

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

14,823 members

369 reviews

4.1

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2

Notes from a Small Island

9,504 members

212 reviews

3.8

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3

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

7,405 members

145 reviews

3.9

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4

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,306 members

237 reviews

4

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5

13,578 members

138 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

6

Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

15,363 members

579 reviews

3.8

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7

The Birchbark House

by Louise Erdrich

2,406 members

74 reviews

3.9

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8

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

6,113 members

259 reviews

3.9

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9

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

2,433 members

57 reviews

½ 4.5

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10

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,162 members

1,417 reviews

½ 4.3

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11

by Victoria Aveyard

7,566 members

330 reviews

½ 3.7

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12

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,176 members

114 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: jordantaylor, cej1027

13

Portnoy's Complaint

7,133 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

14

The Ninth Daughter

by Barbara Hamilton

264 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

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15

by Sharon Kay Penman

807 members

14 reviews

3.9

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16

by Eleanor Herman

1,445 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

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17

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

by Paul Theroux

1,780 members

29 reviews

3.9

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18

The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

2,527 members

92 reviews

½ 3.5

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19

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

by Elizabeth Gilbert

2,090 members

93 reviews

½ 3.5

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20

Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

by Jillian Lauren

508 members

28 reviews

½ 3.3

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21

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

by Pauline W. Chen

474 members

15 reviews

3.8

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22

The Typewriter Girl

by Alison Atlee

175 members

6 reviews

3

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23

Her Infinite Variety: A Novel

by Louis Auchincloss

64 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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24

Alice I Have Been: A Novel

by Melanie Benjamin

1,525 members

146 reviews

½ 3.7

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25

61 members

½ 3.7

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26

2,269 members

51 reviews

3.9

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27

A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman

2,787 members

30 reviews

4.1

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28

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz [novella]

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

254 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

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29

Positive: One Doctor's Personal Experiences with Death, Life and the US Healthcare System

by Michael Saag

12 members

4

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30

The Fate of Mercy Alban

363 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

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31

Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles

106 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

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32

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

3,497 members

32 reviews

4.1

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33

A Glory of Unicorns

by Bruce Coville

561 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

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34

My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey

by Charles Rowan Beye

39 members

1 review

3.1

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35

by Leah Pileggi

107 members

18 reviews

3.8

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36

Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon

44 members

3.1

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37

Freud's Mistress

260 members

34 reviews

½ 3.4

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38

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

21,255 members

844 reviews

½ 3.5

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39

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

by Anton DiSclafani

868 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

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40

The Passions of Dr. Darcy

by Sharon Lathan

32 members

3

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41

The Boleyn King

by Laura Andersen

372 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

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42

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

3,181 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

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43

by Sharon Kay Penman

1,318 members

20 reviews

½ 4.4

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44

The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World

54 members

8 reviews

2.8

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45

The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories

43 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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46

by Stephanie Carroll

44 members

9 reviews

4.2

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47

Memoirs of a scam man: The life and deals of Patsy Anthony Lepera

by Patsy Anthony Lepera

4 members

½ 2.5

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48

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

1,696 members

93 reviews

3.8

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49

Notes of a Tourist on Planet Earth: Being a Collection of Hilarious Essays, Poems and Ponderings About the Human Species

2 members

2

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50

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

by Jesse Bullington

510 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

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51

Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City

by Constance Rosenblum

25 members

1 review

3

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52

The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging

by Kate Young Caley

50 members

1 review

3.8

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53

Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

by Henry Petroski

299 members

1 review

½ 3.6

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54

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

4,592 members

248 reviews

3.9

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55

by Stephenie Meyer

17,457 members

643 reviews

3.9

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56

The Me Nobody Knows

by Stephen M. Joseph

70 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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57

The Darling Strumpet

by Gillian Bagwell

184 members

24 reviews

3.8

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58

Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World

by Gerard Helferich

238 members

2 reviews

3.9

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59

4,517 members

137 reviews

½ 3.6

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60

The Sunne in Splendour

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,312 members

73 reviews

½ 4.4

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61

A Hologram for the King

1,599 members

65 reviews

½ 3.4

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62

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

4,619 members

55 reviews

4

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63

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

25,368 members

495 reviews

4.2

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64

Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, The Bad, and the Complicated... Life Behind the O.R. Doors

by Paul A. Ruggieri

95 members

2 reviews

3

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65

The Road to Wellville

1,630 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

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66

by Michelle Moran

998 members

94 reviews

4

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67

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

804 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

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68

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

2,364 members

50 reviews

3.9

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69

Rivals in the Tudor Court

94 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

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70

The Midwife of Venice

by Roberta Rich

606 members

45 reviews

½ 3.5

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71

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

by Karen Abbott

1,442 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

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72

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

4,134 members

46 reviews

4.1

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73

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

2,966 members

81 reviews

4.1

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74

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

2,831 members

137 reviews

½ 3.5

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75

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

1,416 members

78 reviews

½ 3.5

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76

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation

by Charles Glass

475 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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77

Toscanini's Fumble: And Other Tales of Clinical Neurology

by Harold L. Klawans

122 members

3 reviews

4.1

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78

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

17,478 members

1,109 reviews

½ 3.7

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79

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

2,090 members

66 reviews

4

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80

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman

5,735 members

183 reviews

3.8

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81

Washington Square

4,217 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

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82

A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100

42 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

83

My Education: A Book of Dreams

by William S. Burroughs

539 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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84

by Arthur Phillips

1,427 members

27 reviews

3.2

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85

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

by Sandeep Jauhar

327 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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86

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,265 members

404 reviews

4.2

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87

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

59,800 members

3,420 reviews

½ 4.3

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88

by William Safire

395 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

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89

by Eugene O'Neill

140 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

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90

The Emperor Jones

by Eugene O'Neill

193 members

2 reviews

3.2

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91

The Human Stain

6,379 members

94 reviews

3.8

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92

The Nympho and Other Maniacs: The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies

by Irving Wallace

183 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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93

No One Is Here Except All of Us

by Ramona Ausubel

388 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

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94

The Shawl: A Story and Novella

by Cynthia Ozick

858 members

24 reviews

3.9

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95

by Louis Joseph Vance

17 members

½ 3.5

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96

The Torrents of Spring

by Ernest Hemingway

606 members

12 reviews

3.1

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97

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

6,174 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

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98

Fortune Made His Sword

by Martha Rofheart

150 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jordantaylor

99

A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings

by Shel Silverstein

10,115 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: jordantaylor

100

by Flannery O'Connor

3,659 members

113 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

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