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My Library's Recommended Adult Fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

27,871 members

1,039 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

2

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,806 members

938 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

3

19,685 members

226 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

4

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,369 members

1,246 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

5

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,418 members

1,264 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

6

The Midnight Library

10,332 members

447 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

7

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

8,765 members

290 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

8

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

7,982 members

363 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

9

by Kathy Reichs

6,398 members

166 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

10

The House in the Cerulean Sea

6,183 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

11

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,744 members

569 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

12

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells

5,484 members

343 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

13

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

5,207 members

284 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

14

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

4,538 members

105 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

15

by Anthony Trollope

4,362 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

16

by Fredrik Backman

4,184 members

209 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

17

The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

3,663 members

84 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

18

The Giver of Stars

3,274 members

159 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

19

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

3,149 members

161 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

20

A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

2,793 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

21

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

2,490 members

162 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

22

The Collapsing Empire

2,480 members

123 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

23

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

2,470 members

113 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

24

The Once and Future Witches

by Alix E. Harrow

2,385 members

83 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

25

The Memory Police

2,138 members

93 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

26

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

1,977 members

88 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

27

The Last Graduate

1,947 members

79 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

28

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,892 members

131 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

29

Nettle and Bone

by T. Kingfisher

1,647 members

83 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

30

by Chris Pavone

1,566 members

128 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

31

by Jodi Picoult

1,538 members

76 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

32

The Pursuit of Love / Love in a Cold Climate

by Nancy Mitford

1,476 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

33

The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

1,293 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

34

All Adults Here

1,035 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

35

by Sarah Addison Allen

985 members

37 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

36

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

by Paul Gallico

738 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

37

The Witness for the Dead

by Katherine Addison

685 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

38

by Afia Atakora

665 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

39

by Graham Moore

654 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

40

The Apple Orchard

619 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

41

by Kiersten White

608 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

42

The Luminous Dead

by Caitlin Starling

591 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

43

by Miriam Toews

493 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

44

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

by Ursula K. Le Guin

412 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

45

Recitatif: A Story

by Toni Morrison

355 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

46

Cold, Cold Bones

by Kathy Reichs

344 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

47

329 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

48

Prosper's Demon

by K. J. Parker

308 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

49

The Actual Star

by Monica Byrne

281 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

50

257 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

51

When the Reckoning Comes

by LaTanya McQueen

250 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

52

by Delilah S. Dawson

249 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

53

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

by Hilma Wolitzer

150 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

54

What Storm, What Thunder

by Myriam J. A. Chancy

149 members

10 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

55

by Joanne Harris

147 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

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Started: sturlington
June 2017
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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