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1

by Kathryn Stockett

34,370 members

1,539 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

2

Water for Elephants

31,579 members

1,219 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

3

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

58,167 members

1,375 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

4

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

48,072 members

1,819 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

5

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

39,239 members

599 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

6

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

38,662 members

974 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

7

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

33,859 members

939 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

29,424 members

614 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

by Gillian Flynn

26,302 members

1,637 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

26,236 members

524 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

11

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

23,146 members

847 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

12

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,652 members

370 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

13

by Laurie Halse Anderson

16,652 members

750 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

14

by Emma Donoghue

16,086 members

1,027 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

15

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

11,951 members

377 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

16

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

10,032 members

214 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

17

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

9,796 members

246 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

by Beatrice Sparks

9,695 members

237 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

19

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

8,908 members

395 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

20

The Prince of Tides

6,394 members

114 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

21

4,136 members

172 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

22

Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

3,318 members

50 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

23

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

3,169 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

24

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

3,004 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

25

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

by Jaycee Dugard

2,622 members

140 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

26

by Carolyn Jessop

1,915 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

27

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

1,287 members

67 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

28

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

by Alison Arngrim

648 members

66 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

29

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

154,263 members

2,219 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

30

To Kill a Mockingbird

90,204 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

31

by Charlotte Brontë

68,164 members

1,018 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

32

by Stephenie Meyer

65,408 members

2,355 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

33

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,338 members

813 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

34

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,501 members

818 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

35

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,540 members

586 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

36

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,539 members

1,238 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

37

by Orson Scott Card

45,667 members

1,124 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

38

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,980 members

481 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

39

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

33,760 members

977 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

40

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,739 members

416 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

41

by Charles Dickens

28,519 members

273 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

42

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

28,201 members

776 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

43

by Stephen King

27,461 members

530 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

44

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

26,785 members

320 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

45

by Toni Morrison

26,641 members

448 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

46

by S. E. Hinton

26,017 members

740 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

47

by Stephen King

25,944 members

465 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

48

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

25,310 members

526 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

49

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

24,338 members

813 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

50

James and the Giant Peach

23,736 members

386 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

51

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,393 members

389 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

52

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

21,918 members

1,190 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

53

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

21,720 members

407 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

54

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,693 members

265 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

55

21,447 members

233 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

56

18,435 members

869 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

57

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,392 members

232 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

58

by Stephen King

18,377 members

242 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

59

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,795 members

392 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

60

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

17,685 members

577 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

61

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,596 members

260 reviews

4

Member: dara85

62

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

17,396 members

1,038 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

63

by Stephen King

17,301 members

342 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

64

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

16,980 members

777 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

65

by Stephen King

16,882 members

854 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

66

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

15,428 members

321 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

67

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,418 members

519 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

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

by Laura Hillenbrand

14,403 members

618 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: dara85

69

The Austere Academy

by Lemony Snicket

13,949 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

70

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

13,255 members

826 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

71

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

11,442 members

250 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

72

I Know This Much Is True

10,949 members

180 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

73

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

10,831 members

671 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

74

A Million Little Pieces

10,361 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

75

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

10,067 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

by Stephen King

9,875 members

102 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

77

by Stephen King

9,779 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

78

A Child Called "It"

9,420 members

320 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

79

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,244 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

80

by Stephen King

9,160 members

83 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

81

by Kate Atkinson

8,815 members

381 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

82

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

8,774 members

448 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

83

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

8,084 members

319 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

84

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,969 members

140 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

85

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

7,959 members

339 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

86

The Kitchen God's Wife

7,398 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

87

Where the Heart Is

by Billie Letts

7,393 members

111 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

88

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

7,363 members

353 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

89

Flowers in the Attic

by V. C. Andrews

7,295 members

213 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

90

by Jodi Picoult

6,411 members

121 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

91

Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

5,996 members

273 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

92

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,829 members

127 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

93

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,616 members

124 reviews

4

Member: dara85

94

Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

5,467 members

165 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

95

by Jodi Picoult

4,872 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

96

by Louise Penny

4,647 members

248 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

97

The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

4,447 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

98

by Anne Enright

4,374 members

216 reviews

3.1

Member: ahef1963

99

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

4,359 members

263 reviews

4

Member: dara85

100

by Jodi Picoult

4,112 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

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