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Description: This is everything the NTS Books Discord Channel has discussed since 2022, updated from our internal spreadsheet. Last update 7/15/2026. Some graphic novels are not on Librarything and are not included. Two articles are not listed: Lana & Me: Our Dark Twisted Co-Dependent Relationship on the Content Farm by CARLES Among the Discarded of the World - William T. Vollmann

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1

by Frank Herbert

50,819 members

807 reviews

½ 4.3

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2

by Herman Melville

41,906 members

621 reviews

3.8

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3

by Sylvia Plath

32,794 members

560 reviews

4

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4

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

30,941 members

495 reviews

½ 4.3

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5

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,125 members

661 reviews

4.1

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6

by Stephen King

25,950 members

465 reviews

4.1

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7

The Secret History

25,304 members

650 reviews

4.1

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8

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,914 members

514 reviews

4.2

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9

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,426 members

461 reviews

3.8

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10

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,370 members

312 reviews

3.9

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11

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

19,525 members

369 reviews

4.2

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12

A Prayer for Owen Meany

19,392 members

348 reviews

4.2

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13

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,377 members

438 reviews

4.1

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14

by Stephen King

18,989 members

338 reviews

3.9

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15

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18,975 members

458 reviews

4.1

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16

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,715 members

438 reviews

4.1

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17

by William Faulkner

16,896 members

238 reviews

3.9

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18

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,376 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

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19

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

14,327 members

284 reviews

4

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20

by Cormac McCarthy

14,117 members

327 reviews

4.2

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21

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

12,949 members

312 reviews

4.2

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22

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

12,593 members

189 reviews

3.9

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23

A Gentleman in Moscow

12,211 members

606 reviews

½ 4.4

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24

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

12,137 members

274 reviews

4

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25

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

11,622 members

319 reviews

4.1

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26

The Magic Mountain

11,263 members

195 reviews

4.2

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27

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

10,851 members

228 reviews

4.1

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28

The Complete Maus

by Art Spiegelman

10,790 members

286 reviews

½ 4.5

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29

by Larry McMurtry

10,592 members

284 reviews

½ 4.6

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30

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

9,715 members

250 reviews

4

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31

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

9,693 members

338 reviews

4

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32

by Susanna Clarke

9,500 members

407 reviews

4.2

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33

by John Williams

8,978 members

430 reviews

½ 4.3

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34

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

8,331 members

283 reviews

½ 4.3

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35

by Roberto Bolaño

7,804 members

213 reviews

4.1

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36

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

7,801 members

229 reviews

4

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37

by Richard Powers

7,623 members

296 reviews

4.1

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38

A Fire upon the Deep

by Vernor Vinge

7,193 members

165 reviews

4.1

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39

by Marilynne Robinson

7,107 members

236 reviews

3.9

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40

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

6,971 members

170 reviews

½ 4.5

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41

by Maggie O'Farrell

6,967 members

310 reviews

4.2

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42

Practical Magic

by Alice Hoffman

6,965 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

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43

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,913 members

86 reviews

4.2

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44

6,658 members

268 reviews

4.1

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45

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

6,499 members

113 reviews

4.2

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46

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

6,454 members

163 reviews

4

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47

by Virginia Woolf

6,350 members

85 reviews

4.1

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48

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

6,117 members

182 reviews

3.9

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49

by Iain M. Banks

5,990 members

161 reviews

4

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50

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

by Haruki Murakami

5,907 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

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51

Call Me by Your Name

by André Aciman

5,898 members

178 reviews

4

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52

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,895 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

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53

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,684 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

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54

Einstein's Dreams

by Alan Lightman

5,609 members

160 reviews

4

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55

The Gnostic Gospels

by Elaine Pagels

5,472 members

57 reviews

3.9

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56

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

5,435 members

95 reviews

3.8

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57

by Cormac McCarthy

5,384 members

80 reviews

4

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58

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

4,820 members

152 reviews

4

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59

Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard

4,747 members

40 reviews

3.9

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60

by Thomas Pynchon

4,685 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

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61

by Alessandro Baricco

4,473 members

165 reviews

3.8

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62

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,457 members

71 reviews

4.1

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63

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

4,412 members

183 reviews

3.9

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64

4,389 members

221 reviews

½ 4.3

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65

4,273 members

92 reviews

4.1

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66

4,160 members

169 reviews

4.2

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67

The Bone People

4,157 members

122 reviews

4.1

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68

4,133 members

45 reviews

3.9

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69

by Yasunari Kawabata

3,983 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

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70

The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck

3,945 members

122 reviews

3.9

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71

The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage

by W. G. Sebald

3,891 members

89 reviews

4.2

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72

3,874 members

131 reviews

3.9

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73

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

3,756 members

66 reviews

½ 4.5

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74

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe

3,749 members

147 reviews

½ 4.4

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75

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

by Yukio Mishima

3,704 members

68 reviews

3.8

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76

by Nnedi Okorafor

3,598 members

294 reviews

3.9

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77

The Woman in the Dunes

3,565 members

76 reviews

3.8

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78

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

3,526 members

50 reviews

½ 4.3

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79

by Thomas Pynchon

3,507 members

103 reviews

½ 3.6

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80

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

3,479 members

65 reviews

4.2

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81

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,430 members

98 reviews

4.2

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82

Confessions of a Mask

by Yukio Mishima

3,119 members

53 reviews

3.9

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83

by Charles Burns

3,035 members

91 reviews

3.8

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84

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

3,014 members

23 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell

85

The Earthsea Quartet

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,990 members

35 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell

86

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,988 members

76 reviews

3.9

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87

by Yukio Mishima

2,927 members

44 reviews

4.1

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88

The Marriage Portrait

by Maggie O'Farrell

2,851 members

130 reviews

4

Member: adaorhell

89

The Hour of the Star

by Clarice Lispector

2,830 members

90 reviews

3.9

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90

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

by Yukio Mishima

2,806 members

55 reviews

3.8

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91

by Geraldine Brooks

2,804 members

137 reviews

4.2

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92

by W. G. Sebald

2,800 members

54 reviews

4.1

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93

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

2,694 members

137 reviews

½ 4.3

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94

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

2,559 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: adaorhell

95

In Praise of Shadows

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

2,557 members

67 reviews

3.9

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96

by Joan D. Vinge

2,529 members

57 reviews

3.9

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97

by Elif Batuman

2,407 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

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98

The Pyramid: The Kurt Wallander Stories

by Henning Mankell

2,353 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

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99

by Nicholson Baker

2,352 members

51 reviews

3.9

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100

Butcher's Crossing

by John Williams

2,338 members

80 reviews

4.1

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