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Rank Title Author Added

1

18,517 members

869 reviews

3.9

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

2

Stitches: A Memoir

2,145 members

180 reviews

4.1

3 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda, nthz

3

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

7,416 members

399 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

4

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

22,630 members

1,358 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill, nthz

5

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,472 members

81 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Flying Troutmans

by Miriam Toews

970 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

7

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

3,760 members

136 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

8

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,688 members

101 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

9

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

3,646 members

292 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Sing, Unburied, Sing

5,025 members

212 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

11

by Samantha Hunt

769 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

12

1,362 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

13

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

6,894 members

410 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

14

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

24,169 members

971 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

15

by Tommy Orange

6,149 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

16

by Paul Harding

4,156 members

244 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

17

Did You Ever Have a Family

1,357 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

18

7,285 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

19

Late in the Day

by Tessa Hadley

465 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

20

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

5,987 members

311 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

21

A Ladder to the Sky

1,045 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

22

City on Fire: A novel

by Garth Risk Hallberg

1,515 members

61 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

23

387 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

24

How the Dead Dream

by Lydia Millet

329 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

25

by Annie Proulx

1,835 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

26

The Burning Girl

by Claire Messud

647 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

27

by Brit Bennett

2,384 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

28

The Third Hotel: A Novel

by Laura Van den Berg

414 members

20 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

29

by Michael Chabon

2,569 members

94 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

30

by Rachel Kushner

1,873 members

83 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

31

by Richard Powers

1,022 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

32

The Blazing World

by Siri Hustvedt

1,063 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

33

She Would Be King: A Novel

by Wayétu Moore

642 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

34

All My Puny Sorrows

by Miriam Toews

1,510 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

35

Stephen Florida

301 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

36

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

1,512 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

37

by Eli Gottlieb

309 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

38

by Hillary Jordan

3,227 members

219 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

39

1,487 members

92 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

40

by Monica Drake

542 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

41

3,432 members

61 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

42

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

9,203 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

43

by Glen David Gold

521 members

25 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

44

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

4,877 members

357 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

45

by Gerbrand Bakker

1,011 members

78 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

46

Into the Beautiful North

by Luis Alberto Urrea

972 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

47

The Cry of the Sloth

314 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

48

The Wild Things

1,550 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

49

by Louise Erdrich

1,139 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

50

by Karl Marlantes

3,141 members

138 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RavenHill

51

The Lonely Polygamist

1,477 members

111 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

52

I Curse the River of Time

by Per Petterson

863 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

53

by Jonathan Franzen

10,741 members

426 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

54

by Benjamin Percy

197 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

55

The Instructions

766 members

27 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

56

The Fates Will Find Their Way

by Hannah Pittard

537 members

50 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

57

by Andre III Dubus

831 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

58

Bright Before Us

by Katie Arnold-Ratliff

87 members

1 review

3.2

Member: RavenHill

59

by Alice LaPlante

1,197 members

102 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

60

The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

5,799 members

298 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

61

Running the Rift

by Naomi Benaron

614 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

62

The Book of Jonas

300 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

63

137 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

64

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,590 members

350 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

65

A Million Heavens

by John Brandon

186 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

66

by J. Robert Lennon

206 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

67

The Death of Bees

by Lisa O'Donnell

1,033 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

68

With or Without You

by Dominica Ruta

2 members

1 review

4

Member: RavenHill

69

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

2,627 members

195 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RavenHill

70

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

328 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

71

333 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

72

The Childhood of Jesus

by J. M. Coetzee

892 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

73

The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1

142 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

74

The Great Glass Sea

199 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: RavenHill

75

by Cecilia Ekbäck

655 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

76

Our Endless Numbered Days

by Claire Fuller

895 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

77

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

by Vendela Vida

444 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

78

A Doubter's Almanac

559 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

79

by Jonathan Safran Foer

1,680 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

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May 2017
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