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1990s

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1

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

40,081 members

790 reviews

4.1

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

2

38,988 members

875 reviews

4.2

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

3

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

49,776 members

1,200 reviews

½ 4.4

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

4

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

19,686 members

405 reviews

4.2

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

5

14,223 members

313 reviews

4

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

6

by David Foster Wallace

14,998 members

269 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, jenniferw88

7

Mason & Dixon: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon

5,107 members

50 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

8

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

27,269 members

375 reviews

4.1

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

9

by Toni Morrison

5,668 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

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

10

by Derek Walcott

1,306 members

22 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

11

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

122,063 members

1,080 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

153,675 members

2,213 reviews

½ 4.3

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

13

by José Saramago

14,595 members

432 reviews

4.1

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

14

by Thomas Pynchon

4,665 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

15

by J. M. Coetzee

11,828 members

297 reviews

3.9

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

16

8,774 members

90 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

17

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

6,676 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

125,523 members

1,090 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

20,735 members

316 reviews

3.8

4 Members: alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, jenniferw88

20

by Michael Chabon

4,579 members

105 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, alex68, kara.shamy

21

A Clash of Kings

by George R. R. Martin

35,147 members

592 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Myyst, ahef1963, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Terry Pratchett

12,557 members

175 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Myyst, cej1027, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Margaret Atwood

13,063 members

274 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Myyst, thecoroner, kara.shamy

24

7,725 members

184 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

25

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

by Roberto Calasso

2,013 members

22 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

26

46,571 members

1,682 reviews

4.1

4 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

16,089 members

336 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: fundevogel, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

28

American Pastoral

8,872 members

188 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

29

A Home at the End of the World

by Michael Cunningham

2,808 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

21,139 members

352 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, alex68, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

by José Saramago

3,509 members

70 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

32

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,632 members

538 reviews

4.2

3 Members: kara.shamy, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Pereira Maintains

by Antonio Tabucchi

2,530 members

89 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

34

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

by Jon Scieszka

8,141 members

238 reviews

4.2

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

35

2,388 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

36

Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

4,546 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

37

by Michael Cunningham

13,624 members

243 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

13,233 members

270 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thecoroner, cej1027, jenniferw88

39

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,532 members

159 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, jenniferw88

40

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,707 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

41

She's Come Undone

13,095 members

219 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Louis Sachar

30,590 members

1,052 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Mariel of Redwall

by Brian Jacques

5,381 members

22 reviews

3.8

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence

by Nick Bantock

2,971 members

70 reviews

4.2

2 Members: fundevogel, ahef1963

45

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

by Gregory Maguire

33,073 members

708 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: fundevogel, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda

46

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

by Barbara Kingsolver

2,431 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: edwinbcn, kara.shamy

47

Four Ways to Forgiveness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,352 members

27 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Myyst, kara.shamy

48

by Guy Gavriel Kay

5,554 members

158 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Ursula K. Le Guin

6,060 members

99 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Myyst, kara.shamy

50

by Michael Crichton

24,093 members

369 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Elementary Particles

by Michel Houellebecq

6,050 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, alex68

52

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

4,081 members

63 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, jenniferw88

53

The Discovery of Dragons

576 members

6 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Secret History

25,140 members

644 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

55

I Married a Communist

2,194 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: eromsted, alex68

56

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,328 members

275 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Immortality (Perennial Classics)

by Milan Kundera

1,169 members

9 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

58

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,955 members

140 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

59

by Martin Cruz Smith

1,646 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

60

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

9,085 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

1,947 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

7,066 members

122 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

64

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

18,441 members

330 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

65

The Things They Carried

16,438 members

413 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

66

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

25,190 members

525 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

67

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

10,722 members

141 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

68

I Know This Much Is True

10,917 members

180 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,673 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

562 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

71

by Joanne Harris

8,324 members

213 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

72

by Alice McLerran

3,221 members

47 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Terry Pratchett

11,613 members

145 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

74

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

17,749 members

467 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

75

The Fifth Elephant

by Terry Pratchett

10,919 members

117 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett

10,668 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

77

by Anita Diamant

18,148 members

401 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

78

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

16,992 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

79

by Irvine Welsh

8,438 members

90 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Outcast of Redwall

by Brian Jacques

4,249 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

81

by Terry Pratchett

10,508 members

131 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

1,711 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, cej1027

83

Dark Lord of Derkholm

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,639 members

59 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Edward Rutherfurd

2,509 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

85

The Sweet Hereafter

by Russell Banks

1,782 members

37 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

86

by Edwidge Danticat

1,367 members

26 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

87

by Susan Cooper

1,711 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

88

by Brian Jacques

4,884 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Brian Jacques

4,290 members

18 reviews

3.8

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

23,404 members

402 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

A Place Called Freedom

3,258 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

92

Love Invents Us

624 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

93

Martin the Warrior

by Brian Jacques

5,459 members

24 reviews

4

2 Members: fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Neal Stephenson

21,919 members

435 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

24,243 members

812 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

96

12,330 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

97

24,043 members

595 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image

1,629 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: Bretzky1

99

The Land of Green Plums

by Herta Müller

1,209 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

100

All Souls' Rising

by Madison Smartt Bell

614 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

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