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1

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

19,809 members

788 reviews

4.2

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2

The Things They Carried

13,816 members

380 reviews

4.2

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3

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

18,158 members

1,116 reviews

½ 3.7

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4

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

17,473 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

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5

Pillars of the Earth

26,428 members

743 reviews

4.2

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6

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

3,775 members

107 reviews

4.2

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7

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,263 members

337 reviews

3.8

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8

5,432 members

207 reviews

4

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9

6,251 members

442 reviews

4.2

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10

In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

4,305 members

102 reviews

4.1

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11

by Richard Russo

8,631 members

183 reviews

4

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12

Remarkable Creatures

by Tracy Chevalier

3,148 members

226 reviews

3.9

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13

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

3,957 members

82 reviews

4.1

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14

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty

4,370 members

252 reviews

3.9

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15

The Auk, the Dodo and the Oryx: Vanished and Vanishing Creatures

by Robert Silverberg

38 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

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16

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

3,714 members

157 reviews

3.8

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17

Say You're One of Them

2,120 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

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18

by Justin Cronin

9,151 members

621 reviews

3.9

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19

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jean-Dominique Bauby

4,331 members

153 reviews

4

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20

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

6,074 members

524 reviews

4.2

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21

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

1,527 members

94 reviews

4

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22

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

9,684 members

483 reviews

3.9

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23

by Larry McMurtry

8,123 members

241 reviews

½ 4.5

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24

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,021 members

466 reviews

½ 3.7

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25

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

8,990 members

312 reviews

3.9

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26

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

by Paul Rusesabagina

718 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

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27

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri

5,411 members

199 reviews

4.1

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28

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

7,319 members

327 reviews

3.8

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29

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

by Eleanor Roosevelt

403 members

12 reviews

4

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30

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright

3,340 members

78 reviews

½ 4.3

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31

275 members

18 reviews

3.9

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32

Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

by Martin Sixsmith

659 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

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33

Anthropology of an American Girl

by Hilary Thayer Hamann

582 members

39 reviews

½ 3.3

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34

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

by William Styron

2,934 members

77 reviews

3.9

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35

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter

395 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

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36

The Wolf of Wall Street

by Jordan Belfort

1,025 members

30 reviews

½ 3.3

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37

by Hillary Jordan

1,602 members

170 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

Mr Golightly's Holiday

by Salley Vickers

394 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

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39

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

by Laurie Colwin

1,047 members

31 reviews

½ 4.3

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40

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

207 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

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41

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

11,676 members

581 reviews

½ 4.4

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42

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

4,814 members

205 reviews

½ 4.3

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43

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

3,309 members

151 reviews

½ 3.5

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44

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

1,433 members

36 reviews

3.9

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45

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda

by Philip Gourevitch

3,378 members

66 reviews

½ 4.4

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46

Moment of Truth

by Lisa Scottoline

1,041 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

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47

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players

by Stefan Fatsis

1,621 members

42 reviews

3.8

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48

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

2,499 members

33 reviews

3.9

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49

5,479 members

310 reviews

4

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50

by Calvin Trillin

874 members

52 reviews

4

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51

The Third Angel

by Alice Hoffman

1,207 members

43 reviews

½ 3.4

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52

Spilling Clarence

288 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

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53

by Gregory David Roberts

7,118 members

226 reviews

4.1

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54

by E. L. Doctorow

6,088 members

118 reviews

3.9

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55

The Taste of Salt

by Martha Southgate

170 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

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56

California Girl

by T. Jefferson Parker

536 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

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57

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

by Vanora Bennett

832 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

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58

The Weird Sisters

by Eleanor Brown

2,644 members

233 reviews

½ 3.5

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59

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

by James Fallon

241 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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60

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo

by Julia Stuart

1,034 members

120 reviews

½ 3.7

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61

by J. R. Moehringer

2,740 members

95 reviews

3.8

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62

Skeletons at the Feast

by Chris Bohjalian

1,629 members

75 reviews

4

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63

The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

369 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

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64

Rules of Civility

4,864 members

296 reviews

4

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65

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,756 members

448 reviews

4

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66

76 members

1 review

2.9

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67

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

by Sloan Wilson

752 members

25 reviews

3.8

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68

by Tananarive Due

357 members

8 reviews

3.9

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69

The City & The City

by China Miéville

6,015 members

346 reviews

4

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70

The Summer of the Bear

by Bella Pollen

241 members

17 reviews

3.9

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71

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America

by Maureen Stanton

137 members

14 reviews

4.1

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72

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

1,340 members

122 reviews

3.8

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73

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

by Karen Russell

1,582 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

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74

One With Others: [a little book of her days]

by C. D. Wright

94 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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75

The Creation of Eve

308 members

43 reviews

3.8

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76

The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

421 members

11 reviews

3.8

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77

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Jill Bolte Taylor

2,489 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

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78

The Tiger's Wife

5,237 members

329 reviews

½ 3.5

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79

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

941 members

27 reviews

4.1

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80

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

by Amanda Foreman

2,946 members

67 reviews

3.8

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81

by Patricia Wood

989 members

68 reviews

3.9

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82

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

5,325 members

125 reviews

4.2

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83

The Household Guide to Dying

by Debra Adelaide

377 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

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84

by Kate Christensen

481 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

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85

If He Hollers, Let Him Go

by Chester Himes

561 members

9 reviews

3.9

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86

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,451 members

219 reviews

½ 3.5

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87

There Are Two Errors In The The Title Of This Book: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes

by Robert M. Martin

145 members

½ 3.6

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88

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

by Dacher Keltner

186 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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89

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip Zimbardo

1,952 members

27 reviews

3.9

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90

Divine Fury: A History of Genius

by Darrin M. McMahon

111 members

5 reviews

3.8

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91

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4,717 members

68 reviews

4

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92

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

3,414 members

127 reviews

4

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93

After the Stroke: A Journal

148 members

3 reviews

3.9

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94

At Eighty-Two: A Journal

142 members

4

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95

Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year

105 members

3.8

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96

At Seventy: A Journal

300 members

3 reviews

4

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97

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Winifred Watson

2,208 members

158 reviews

4.1

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98

The Wife's Tale

by Lori Lansens

574 members

72 reviews

½ 3.6

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99

by Barbara Rogan

12 members

3

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100

The Winter Vault

by Anne Michaels

650 members

39 reviews

½ 3.4

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February 2014
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