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1990s

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,249 members

794 reviews

4.1

6 Members: Myyst, fundevogel, Dilara86, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

2

39,250 members

877 reviews

4.2

5 Members: fundevogel, Dilara86, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

50,177 members

1,201 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: Myyst, ahef1963, raperper, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,719 members

407 reviews

4.2

5 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

5

14,332 members

316 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by David Foster Wallace

15,054 members

271 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jenniferw88

7

Mason & Dixon: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon

5,141 members

51 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

8

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

27,373 members

377 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Myyst, fundevogel, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Toni Morrison

5,723 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy

10

by Derek Walcott

1,314 members

22 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

11

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

122,808 members

1,087 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88,ManWithAnAgenda

12

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

by J. K. Rowling

154,826 members

2,225 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88,ManWithAnAgenda

13

by José Saramago

14,682 members

433 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Thomas Pynchon

4,704 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

15

by J. M. Coetzee

11,867 members

299 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy

16

8,833 members

91 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

17

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,691 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy

18

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

126,341 members

1,098 reviews

4.2

5 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88,ManWithAnAgenda

19

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

by Jostein Gaarder

20,858 members

318 reviews

3.8

4 Members: alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, jenniferw88

20

by Michael Chabon

4,596 members

105 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, kara.shamy

21

A Clash of Kings

by George R. R. Martin

35,425 members

593 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Myyst, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Terry Pratchett

12,620 members

175 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Myyst, cej1027, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Margaret Atwood

13,179 members

275 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Myyst, thecoroner, kara.shamy

24

7,794 members

186 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

25

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

by Roberto Calasso

2,020 members

23 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

26

46,908 members

1,685 reviews

4.1

4 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

15,974 members

338 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: fundevogel, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

28

American Pastoral

8,891 members

189 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

29

A Home at the End of the World

by Michael Cunningham

2,819 members

49 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, kara.shamy
Explanations: aulsmith: Published in 1990 but mostly about the 1980s in New York City.

30

by Chuck Palahniuk

21,258 members

352 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, alex68, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

by José Saramago

3,538 members

70 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

32

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,780 members

539 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kara.shamy, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Pereira Maintains

by Antonio Tabucchi

2,551 members

89 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

34

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

by Jon Scieszka

8,210 members

239 reviews

4.2

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

35

2,410 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

36

Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

4,563 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

37

by Michael Cunningham

13,651 members

243 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

13,305 members

272 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, jenniferw88

39

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,561 members

159 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, jenniferw88

40

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,730 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

41

She's Come Undone

13,129 members

219 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Louis Sachar

30,808 members

1,058 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Mariel of Redwall

by Brian Jacques

5,412 members

22 reviews

3.8

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence

by Nick Bantock

2,997 members

71 reviews

4.2

2 Members: fundevogel, ahef1963

45

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

33,267 members

710 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: fundevogel, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

46

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

by Barbara Kingsolver

2,437 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: edwinbcn, kara.shamy

47

Four Ways to Forgiveness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,357 members

27 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Myyst, kara.shamy

48

by Guy Gavriel Kay

5,584 members

160 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Ursula K. Le Guin

6,034 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Myyst, kara.shamy

50

by Michael Crichton

24,200 members

371 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Elementary Particles

by Michel Houellebecq

6,072 members

96 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, alex68

52

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

4,103 members

64 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, jenniferw88

53

The Discovery of Dragons

581 members

7 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Secret History

25,426 members

651 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

55

I Married a Communist

2,205 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: eromsted, alex68

56

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,393 members

277 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Immortality (Perennial Classics)

by Milan Kundera

1,172 members

9 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

58

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,982 members

141 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

59

by Martin Cruz Smith

1,648 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

60

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

9,150 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: fundevogel, ahef1963

61

by J.M.G. Le Clézio

157 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

62

1,964 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

63

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

7,118 members

122 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

18,516 members

330 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

65

The Things They Carried

16,556 members

415 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

66

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

25,377 members

527 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

67

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

10,778 members

141 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

68

I Know This Much Is True

10,972 members

180 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,691 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

565 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

71

by Joanne Harris

8,350 members

213 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

72

by Alice McLerran

3,261 members

48 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Terry Pratchett

11,673 members

148 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

17,940 members

468 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

75

The Fifth Elephant

by Terry Pratchett

10,970 members

117 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett

10,708 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

77

by Anita Diamant

18,189 members

403 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

78

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

17,129 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

79

by Irvine Welsh

8,477 members

91 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Outcast of Redwall

by Brian Jacques

4,273 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Terry Pratchett

10,561 members

132 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

1,720 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

83

Dark Lord of Derkholm

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,647 members

59 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Edward Rutherfurd

2,521 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

85

The Sweet Hereafter

by Russell Banks

1,790 members

37 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

86

by Edwidge Danticat

1,371 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

87

by Susan Cooper

1,721 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

88

by Brian Jacques

4,918 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Brian Jacques

4,316 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

23,644 members

404 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

A Place Called Freedom

3,281 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

92

Love Invents Us

629 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

93

Martin the Warrior

by Brian Jacques

5,472 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Neal Stephenson

22,047 members

439 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

24,428 members

815 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

96

12,382 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

97

24,148 members

597 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image

1,637 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: Bretzky1

99

The Land of Green Plums

by Herta Müller

1,210 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

100

All Souls' Rising

by Madison Smartt Bell

620 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

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