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1

by Charlotte Brontë

10,058 members

157 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Richard Adams

27,863 members

512 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,259 members

595 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Herman Melville

41,592 members

619 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,214 members

596 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Charles Dickens

15,320 members

274 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by George Eliot

20,689 members

367 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

8

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,522 members

300 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,737 members

531 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

8,785 members

141 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,101 members

521 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Octavia E. Butler

10,640 members

405 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

11,454 members

317 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

38,988 members

516 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Mary Shelley

50,938 members

813 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,906 members

685 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Charlotte Brontë

67,769 members

1,016 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Sense and Sensibility

43,948 members

573 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

19

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,458 members

162 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

20

14,212 members

312 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Pride and Prejudice

93,693 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,516 members

374 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Once and Future King

17,288 members

225 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,926 members

271 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

25

43,933 members

567 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,552 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers

3,112 members

72 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by E. M. Forster

9,682 members

144 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,525 members

369 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,532 members

137 reviews

4

Member: aprille

31

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

28,932 members

360 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

32

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

8,085 members

133 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

33

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

2,036 members

80 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

34

2,999 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

35

by Jhumpa Lahiri

13,402 members

343 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

36

Sing, Unburied, Sing

4,971 members

212 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

37

by Theodore Dreiser

4,384 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

38

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,223 members

384 reviews

4

Member: aprille

39

by Mary Doria Russell

8,505 members

436 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

40

by Maggie O'Farrell

6,825 members

307 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

41

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

9,439 members

387 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

42

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

9,727 members

253 reviews

4

Member: aprille

43

The Lymond Chronicles: Books 1-6

by Dorothy Dunnett

20 members

5

Member: aprille

44

by David Mitchell

19,582 members

717 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

45

1,370 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

46

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,725 members

213 reviews

4

Member: aprille

47

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Earle Stegner

4,724 members

158 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

48

by Richard Powers

7,513 members

297 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

49

6,113 members

226 reviews

4

Member: aprille

50

by Ralph Ellison

18,368 members

230 reviews

4

Member: aprille

51

by Penelope Fitzgerald

3,217 members

160 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

52

A Gentleman in Moscow

12,098 members

601 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aprille

53

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

3,727 members

155 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

54

by Marilynne Robinson

13,388 members

416 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

55

by Marilynne Robinson

2,992 members

123 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

56

Once Upon a River

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

816 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

57

The Name of the Rose

21,740 members

335 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

58

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,071 members

324 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

59

10,093 members

235 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

60

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,030 members

660 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

61

by Naguib Mahfouz

3,085 members

65 reviews

4

Member: aprille

62

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

6,164 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

63

Charlotte's Web

41,361 members

1,069 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

64

Mars Trilogy: Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

105 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aprille

65

2,490 members

137 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

66

The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage

by W. G. Sebald

3,861 members

89 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

67

The Space Between Us

by Thrity Umrigar

2,677 members

115 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

68

American Pastoral

8,869 members

188 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

69

The Untouchable

by John Banville

1,715 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

70

by Louise Erdrich

1,930 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

71

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,350 members

428 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

72

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

4,510 members

321 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

73

by Willa Cather

15,208 members

310 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

74

Master & Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

10,334 members

240 reviews

4

Member: aprille

75

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,744 members

303 reviews

4

Member: aprille

76

by Margaret Atwood

9,776 members

176 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

77

by Harriette Arnow

813 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

78

by George Eliot

4,180 members

61 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

79

The Commitments

1,480 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

80

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,218 members

283 reviews

4

Member: aprille

81

Oscar and Lucinda

4,479 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

82

by Carol Shields

3,234 members

97 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

83

The Fortnight in September

by R. C. Sherriff

638 members

25 reviews

4

Member: aprille

84

by Douglas Stuart

3,718 members

155 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

85

by Susanna Clarke

9,377 members

403 reviews

4.2

Member: aprille

86

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

21,973 members

441 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

87

735 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aprille

88

Salvage the Bones

3,577 members

179 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

89

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,367 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

90

The Radetzky March

3,339 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

91

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

9,613 members

331 reviews

4

Member: aprille

92

The Book of Form and Emptiness

1,518 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

93

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

1,548 members

49 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aprille

94

Terminal Innocence

by Klaus Rifbjerg

104 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aprille

95

by Sarah Waters

8,631 members

310 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

96

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

7,533 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

97

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

20,263 members

496 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

98

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,556 members

247 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

99

by Cormac McCarthy

38,802 members

1,509 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

100

34,911 members

959 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille,ManWithAnAgenda

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