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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

19,521 members

300 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

2

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

14,219 members

205 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

3

The Graveyard Book

24,853 members

1,313 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

4

The Stepford Wives

3,524 members

105 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

5

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,508 members

508 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

6

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,919 members

270 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

7

The Joy Luck Club

19,251 members

219 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

8

Every Heart a Doorway

by Seanan McGuire

4,253 members

326 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

9

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

by Deborah Howe

8,808 members

170 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

10

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

12,110 members

525 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

11

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

3,452 members

142 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

12

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

991 members

61 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

13

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson

3,964 members

208 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

14

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire

2,002 members

159 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

15

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

21,161 members

549 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

16

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

11,167 members

496 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

17

Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick

by Matt Fraction

1,519 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

18

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

18,570 members

363 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

19

by Emily St. John Mandel

14,592 members

874 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

20

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

22,144 members

1,385 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

21

by Nnedi Okorafor

3,562 members

295 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

22

by Ray Bradbury

63,138 members

1,140 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

23

112 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

24

by Cherie Priest

3,975 members

231 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

25

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

17,267 members

1,035 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

26

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,573 members

470 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

27

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

23,020 members

842 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

28

by Stephen King

25,760 members

463 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

29

The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm

778 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

30

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

12,284 members

477 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

31

No Matter the Wreckage

489 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

32

by Justin Cronin

10,400 members

672 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

33

4,128 members

259 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

34

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

8,269 members

282 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

35

On Chesil Beach

9,002 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

36

by Stephen King

18,963 members

337 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

37

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,176 members

435 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

38

23,017 members

754 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

39

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,423 members

519 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

40

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

10,919 members

444 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

41

24,020 members

595 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

42

by John Gardner

6,687 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

43

All About Love: New Visions

3,921 members

60 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

44

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,650 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

45

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

24,071 members

851 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

46

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,247 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

47

The Woman in Cabin 10

7,977 members

364 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

48

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,831 members

810 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

49

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

76,958 members

1,195 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

50

Get in Trouble: Stories

1,329 members

83 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

51

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

8,544 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

52

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,649 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

53

by Wilkie Collins

12,061 members

274 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

54

His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, a/k/a The Golden Compass | The Subtle Knife | The Amber Spyglass )

by Philip Pullman

15,320 members

205 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

55

Pride and Prejudice

93,648 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

56

by Stephen King

16,757 members

850 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

57

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

23,880 members

961 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

58

by Margaret Atwood

3,201 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

59

5,388 members

281 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

60

21,003 members

518 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

61

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

4,931 members

283 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

4,449 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

63

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

27,685 members

365 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

64

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

5,829 members

63 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

65

The Obelisk Gate

by N. K. Jemisin

5,694 members

223 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

66

38,942 members

872 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

67

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,482 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

68

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,159 members

775 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

69

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

by Shirley Jackson

737 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

3,162 members

163 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: heather.odonnell

72

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

7,316 members

394 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

73

829 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

2,352 members

139 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

76

by Indrapramit Das

744 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

77

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,345 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

78

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

by Andrew Solomon

1,817 members

45 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: heather.odonnell

79

by Madeleine Roux

2,432 members

96 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: heather.odonnell

80

Heroine Worship

175 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

81

97 members

8 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

82

The Lies of Locke Lamora

12,285 members

471 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

83

by Omar El Akkad

2,263 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

84

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

2,707 members

135 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

85

The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel

1,092 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

86

Abandon Me: Memoirs

by Melissa Febos

191 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

87

Carter Beats the Devil

by Glen David Gold

2,755 members

58 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

656 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

1,344 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

93

Eternal Life: A Novel

442 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

94

by Samanta Schweblin

1,604 members

94 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

95

962 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

96

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

by Matthew Sullivan

1,966 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

97

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

by Ruth Franklin

588 members

24 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

98

The Refrigerator Monologues

by Catherynne M. Valente

482 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

99

by Courtney Milan

273 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

100

by Elizabeth Day

425 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

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