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Description: The books that have been featured in Powell's Indiespensable subscription

Rank Title Author Added

1

14,292 members

776 reviews

3.9

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

2

Stitches: A Memoir

1,949 members

173 reviews

4.1

3 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda, nthz

3

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

5,574 members

317 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

4

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

17,698 members

1,242 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill, nthz

5

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,227 members

78 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Flying Troutmans

by Miriam Toews

900 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

7

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,420 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

8

by Jeff VanderMeer

1,996 members

85 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

9

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

3,336 members

268 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3,768 members

188 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

11

by Samantha Hunt

659 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

12

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

6,189 members

389 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

13

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

17,559 members

854 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

14

by Tommy Orange

3,913 members

182 reviews

4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

15

by Paul Harding

3,573 members

225 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

16

Did You Ever Have a Family

1,213 members

97 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

17

5,485 members

268 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

18

Late in the Day

by Tessa Hadley

372 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

19

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

4,831 members

286 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

20

A Ladder to the Sky

808 members

57 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

21

by Garth Risk Hallberg

1,269 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

22

326 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

23

How the Dead Dream

by Lydia Millet

294 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

24

by Annie Proulx

1,495 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

25

The Burning Girl

by Claire Messud

539 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

26

by Brit Bennett

1,881 members

92 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

27

The Third Hotel

by Laura Van den Berg

330 members

16 reviews

3.2

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

28

by Michael Chabon

2,054 members

83 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

29

by Rachel Kushner

1,419 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

30

by Richard Powers

878 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

31

The Blazing World

by Siri Hustvedt

882 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

32

She Would Be King

by Wayétu Moore

517 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

33

All My Puny Sorrows

by Miriam Toews

1,249 members

63 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

34

Stephen Florida

255 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

35

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

1,143 members

59 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

36

by Eli Gottlieb

289 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

37

by Hillary Jordan

2,894 members

202 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

38

1,368 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

39

by Monica Drake

499 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

40

3,180 members

60 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

41

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

8,406 members

405 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

42

by Glen David Gold

484 members

24 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

43

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

4,572 members

347 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

44

by Gerbrand Bakker

930 members

75 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

45

Into the Beautiful North

by Luis Alberto Urrea

862 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

46

The Cry of the Sloth

296 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

47

The Wild Things

1,404 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

48

by Louise Erdrich

1,012 members

65 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

49

by Karl Marlantes

2,728 members

131 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RavenHill

50

The Lonely Polygamist

1,383 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

51

I Curse the River of Time

by Per Petterson

802 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

52

by Jonathan Franzen

9,383 members

405 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

53

by Benjamin Percy

187 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

54

The Instructions

652 members

24 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

55

The Fates Will Find Their Way

by Hannah Pittard

494 members

45 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

56

by Andre III Dubus

762 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

57

Bright Before Us

by Katie Arnold-Ratliff

84 members

1 review

3.2

Member: RavenHill

58

by Alice LaPlante

1,151 members

103 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

59

The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

5,164 members

288 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

60

Running the Rift

by Naomi Benaron

575 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

61

The Book of Jonas

284 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

62

131 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

63

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,261 members

333 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

64

A Million Heavens

by John Brandon

162 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

65

by J. Robert Lennon

196 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

66

The Death of Bees

by Lisa O'Donnell

955 members

90 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

67

With or Without You

by Dominica Ruta

1 member

1 review

4

Member: RavenHill

68

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

2,300 members

176 reviews

4.2

Member: RavenHill

69

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

288 members

11 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

70

312 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

71

The Childhood of Jesus

by J. M. Coetzee

750 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: RavenHill

72

The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1

139 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

73

The Great Glass Sea

177 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

74

by Cecilia Ekbäck

561 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

75

Our Endless Numbered Days

by Claire Fuller

756 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

76

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

by Vendela Vida

393 members

26 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

77

A Doubter's Almanac

487 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

78

by Jonathan Safran Foer

1,363 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

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Started: RavenHill
May 2017
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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