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Description: Books featured on the Reading Glasses Podcast by Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

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1

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,590 members

301 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

2

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

14,266 members

205 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

3

The Graveyard Book

24,929 members

1,313 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

4

The Stepford Wives

3,539 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

5

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,556 members

511 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

6

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,974 members

271 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

7

The Joy Luck Club

19,315 members

220 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

8

Every Heart a Doorway

by Seanan McGuire

4,289 members

328 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

9

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

by Deborah Howe

8,837 members

170 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

10

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

12,131 members

524 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

11

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

3,497 members

144 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

12

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

993 members

60 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

13

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson

3,981 members

209 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

14

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire

2,009 members

160 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

15

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

21,199 members

550 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

16

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

11,206 members

494 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

17

Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick

by Matt Fraction

1,520 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

18

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

18,624 members

366 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

19

by Emily St. John Mandel

14,683 members

874 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

20

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

22,255 members

1,384 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

21

by Nnedi Okorafor

3,580 members

297 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

22

by Ray Bradbury

63,441 members

1,141 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

23

112 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

24

by Cherie Priest

3,979 members

231 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

25

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

17,349 members

1,037 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

26

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,707 members

472 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

27

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

23,101 members

846 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

28

by Stephen King

25,926 members

464 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

29

The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm

782 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

30

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

12,337 members

476 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

31

No Matter the Wreckage

492 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

32

by Justin Cronin

10,435 members

672 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

33

4,129 members

259 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

34

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

8,310 members

283 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

35

On Chesil Beach

9,019 members

388 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

36

by Stephen King

19,057 members

337 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

37

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,304 members

438 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

38

23,099 members

754 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

39

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,393 members

519 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

40

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

11,022 members

447 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

41

24,083 members

595 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

42

by John Gardner

6,690 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

43

All About Love: New Visions

3,942 members

61 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

44

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,669 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

45

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

24,199 members

853 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

46

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,392 members

1,236 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

47

The Woman in Cabin 10

7,947 members

364 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

48

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,145 members

812 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

49

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,172 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

50

Get in Trouble: Stories

1,336 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

51

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,577 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

52

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,814 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

53

by Wilkie Collins

12,085 members

273 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

54

His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)

by Philip Pullman

15,393 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

55

Pride and Prejudice

94,117 members

1,512 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

56

by Stephen King

16,804 members

854 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

57

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

24,012 members

966 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

58

by Margaret Atwood

3,209 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

59

5,405 members

283 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

60

21,062 members

518 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

61

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

4,961 members

284 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

62

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

by Michelle McNamara

4,481 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

63

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,792 members

368 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

64

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

5,858 members

64 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

65

The Obelisk Gate

by N. K. Jemisin

5,744 members

224 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

66

39,079 members

875 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

67

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,548 members

270 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

68

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,201 members

777 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

69

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

by Shirley Jackson

739 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

70

Lives of the Monster Dogs

by Kirsten Bakis

1,185 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: heather.odonnell

71

The Heart Goes Last

by Margaret Atwood

2,999 members

162 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: heather.odonnell

72

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

7,366 members

397 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

73

834 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

74

Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

1,371 members

87 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

75

by Colson Whitehead

2,358 members

139 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

76

by Indrapramit Das

750 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

77

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,352 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

78

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon

1,824 members

45 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: heather.odonnell

79

by Madeleine Roux

2,454 members

96 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: heather.odonnell

80

Heroine Worship

176 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

81

98 members

8 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

82

The Lies of Locke Lamora

12,355 members

471 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

83

by Omar El Akkad

2,283 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

84

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

2,719 members

136 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

85

The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel

1,097 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

86

Abandon Me: Memoirs

by Melissa Febos

192 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

87

Carter Beats the Devil

by Glen David Gold

2,759 members

58 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

657 members

18 reviews

3.2

Member: heather.odonnell

89

by Will McIntosh

102 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

90

Heroine Complex

587 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: heather.odonnell

91

The Con Artist: A Novel

by Fred Van Lente

85 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

92

by Mur Lafferty

1,348 members

110 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

93

Eternal Life: A Novel

444 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

94

by Samanta Schweblin

1,627 members

94 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

95

970 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

96

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

by Matthew Sullivan

1,979 members

153 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

97

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

by Ruth Franklin

594 members

24 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

98

The Refrigerator Monologues

by Catherynne M. Valente

483 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

99

by Courtney Milan

274 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

100

by Elizabeth Day

422 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

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