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ahef1963, dara85, KimarieBee

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1

by Kathryn Stockett

29,541 members

1,471 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

2

Water for Elephants

28,776 members

1,160 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

3

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

51,645 members

1,290 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

4

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

41,943 members

1,715 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

5

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

35,660 members

554 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

6

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

34,997 members

933 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

7

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

29,455 members

887 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

26,722 members

584 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

by Gillian Flynn

21,168 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

19,825 members

788 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

11

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,999 members

333 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

12

by Laurie Halse Anderson

14,580 members

714 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

13

by Emma Donoghue

13,891 members

969 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

14

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

10,438 members

360 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

15

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,692 members

186 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

16

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

8,603 members

212 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

17

8,382 members

214 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

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

6,511 members

328 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

19

The Prince of Tides

5,700 members

107 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

20

3,569 members

154 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

21

Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

2,901 members

46 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

22

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

2,828 members

41 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

23

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

2,743 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

24

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

by Jaycee Dugard

2,069 members

132 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

25

by Carolyn Jessop

1,720 members

107 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

26

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

1,151 members

64 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

27

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

by Alison Arngrim

552 members

55 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

28

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

by J. K. Rowling

128,817 members

2,019 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

29

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,232 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

30

by Charlotte Brontë

56,865 members

894 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

31

by Stephenie Meyer

56,655 members

2,252 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,726 members

671 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

33

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,045 members

730 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

34

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,618 members

509 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

35

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,776 members

1,114 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

36

by Orson Scott Card

39,942 members

1,031 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

37

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,010 members

419 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

38

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

29,456 members

914 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

39

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,235 members

379 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

24,567 members

713 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

41

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,523 members

295 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

42

by Charles Dickens

23,225 members

227 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

43

by Stephen King

22,293 members

438 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

44

by Toni Morrison

22,050 members

399 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

45

21,130 members

463 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

46

by Stephen King

20,969 members

398 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

47

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

20,489 members

482 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

48

by S. E. Hinton

19,979 members

665 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

49

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

19,971 members

738 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

50

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,199 members

361 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

51

James and the Giant Peach

18,909 members

352 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

52

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,599 members

241 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

53

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,430 members

337 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

54

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

17,147 members

199 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

55

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

16,758 members

1,084 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

56

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,243 members

379 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

57

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,152 members

209 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

58

by Stephen King

14,661 members

195 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

59

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

14,476 members

307 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

60

14,182 members

769 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

61

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,172 members

217 reviews

4

Member: dara85

62

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,080 members

935 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

63

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,028 members

731 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

64

by Stephen King

13,996 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

65

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

by Kate DiCamillo

13,705 members

539 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

66

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,878 members

474 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

67

by Stephen King

12,827 members

728 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

68

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

by Laura Hillenbrand

11,692 members

581 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: dara85

69

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

11,223 members

791 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

70

The Austere Academy

by Lemony Snicket

11,029 members

111 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

I Know This Much is True

10,010 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

72

A Million Little Pieces

9,553 members

231 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

8,966 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

74

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

8,641 members

619 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

75

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

8,255 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

A Child Called "It"

8,249 members

301 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

77

by Stephen King

8,198 members

193 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

78

by Stephen King

8,150 members

85 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

79

by Kate Atkinson

7,818 members

340 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

80

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,714 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

81

by Stephen King

7,633 members

68 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

82

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,256 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

83

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

6,987 members

309 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

84

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

6,858 members

388 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

85

The Kitchen God's Wife

6,805 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

86

Where the Heart Is

by Billie Letts

6,738 members

106 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

87

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

6,399 members

330 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

88

Flowers In The Attic

by V. C. Andrews

6,041 members

183 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

89

by Jodi Picoult

5,732 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

90

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,352 members

123 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

91

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,066 members

117 reviews

4

Member: dara85

92

Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

4,816 members

161 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

93

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

4,427 members

244 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

94

by Jodi Picoult

4,271 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

95

by Anne Enright

3,981 members

203 reviews

3.1

Member: ahef1963

96

Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

3,935 members

222 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

97

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

3,896 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

98

by Louise Penny

3,830 members

219 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

99

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

3,729 members

243 reviews

4

Member: dara85

100

by Jodi Picoult

3,605 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

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January 2018
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