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1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

42,783 members

1,298 reviews

3.9

5 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

37,064 members

701 reviews

4.2

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

3

The Picture of Dorian Gray

36,994 members

602 reviews

4

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

4

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,307 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, danananas

5

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,447 members

452 reviews

4.2

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Metamorphosis

11,457 members

191 reviews

3.9

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, aspirit, gravir

7

by Charlotte Brontë

55,594 members

882 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

8

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

39,773 members

1,100 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Sense and Sensibility

35,983 members

500 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

10

32,748 members

903 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by Sylvia Plath

26,550 members

477 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Truman Capote

22,435 members

443 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

13

21,301 members

348 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

20,567 members

451 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,336 members

576 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

19,212 members

447 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

17

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,580 members

329 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Secret History

18,452 members

514 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Albert Camus

17,540 members

230 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

20

13,634 members

764 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Emma Donoghue

13,557 members

961 reviews

4

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

22

Blindness (Harvest Book)

by José Saramago

12,400 members

373 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

23

by Stephen King

12,380 members

721 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Cormac McCarthy

10,669 members

256 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy, gravir

25

by Raymond Chandler

9,762 members

271 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

26

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,674 members

175 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

4,999 members

109 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

28

by George Eliot

4,163 members

71 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

41,473 members

470 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

30

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

34,737 members

926 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

31

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

28,946 members

878 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

32

by Kathryn Stockett

28,941 members

1,463 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

33

The Diary of a Young Girl

26,766 members

500 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

34

by Stephen King

21,681 members

434 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Toni Morrison

21,565 members

396 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Northanger Abbey

20,344 members

405 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

19,518 members

727 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

19,444 members

454 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

18,979 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

40

by George Eliot

16,789 members

317 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

16,596 members

896 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

42

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,462 members

221 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

43

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

16,347 members

820 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

44

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,180 members

335 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

45

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

15,920 members

373 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

46

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

15,752 members

304 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

47

by Haruki Murakami

15,331 members

338 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, gravir

48

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

13,632 members

736 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

49

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

13,554 members

923 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Charles Dickens

13,038 members

241 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

12,962 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,531 members

471 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

53

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,325 members

179 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

54

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

11,890 members

250 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

55

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

11,839 members

130 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,501 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

57

Where the Crawdads Sing

11,330 members

561 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

58

Looking for Alaska

11,051 members

438 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

by George Eliot

10,727 members

151 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

10,200 members

446 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

61

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

9,686 members

627 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

62

by Madeline Miller

9,601 members

413 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

63

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,208 members

112 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

64

I Capture the Castle

8,849 members

287 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

8,759 members

270 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

66

by Charlotte Brontë

8,329 members

138 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

67

Little Fires Everywhere

7,748 members

351 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,360 members

276 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

69

by Ray Bradbury

7,172 members

180 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Gregory David Roberts

7,027 members

223 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

71

The Wasp Factory

6,771 members

197 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

72

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,273 members

133 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by John Steinbeck

5,417 members

90 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

74

The Tiger's Wife

5,191 members

327 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

75

by Margaret Atwood

5,185 members

207 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

76

5,047 members

54 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

77

by Marguerite Duras

4,867 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

78

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,631 members

242 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

79

The Miniaturist

by Jessie Burton

3,622 members

204 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by J. G. Ballard

3,357 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

81

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2,669 members

184 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

82

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

38,549 members

1,256 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

83

27,040 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy

84

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,339 members

618 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

85

by Gustave Flaubert

24,942 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

86

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

23,839 members

517 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

87

22,881 members

328 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

88

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

22,407 members

432 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, jordantaylor

89

Interview with the Vampire

21,723 members

314 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

90

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

21,292 members

233 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

91

by S. E. Hinton

19,380 members

665 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

92

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

18,515 members

1,213 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

93

by Jostein Gaarder

17,941 members

270 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

94

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,227 members

356 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

95

Foucault's Pendulum

16,908 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, gravir

96

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

16,726 members

1,218 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

97

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,609 members

248 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Margaret Atwood

16,301 members

519 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

99

16,288 members

1,183 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

100

by Ralph Ellison

15,384 members

199 reviews

4

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