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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

20,618 members

797 reviews

4.2

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2

The Things They Carried

14,383 members

393 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine, FormerLifeBookLover

3

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

19,343 members

1,136 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, tkenderdine

4

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,511 members

1,265 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, tkenderdine

5

The Pillars of the Earth

27,337 members

753 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, tkenderdine

6

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

4,019 members

115 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

7

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,619 members

341 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

8

5,576 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

9

6,452 members

451 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

10

In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

4,482 members

103 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

11

by Richard Russo

8,785 members

183 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

12

Remarkable Creatures

by Tracy Chevalier

3,229 members

226 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

13

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

4,171 members

86 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

14

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty

4,532 members

265 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

15

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

by Robert Silverberg

38 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: tkenderdine

16

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

3,876 members

160 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

17

Say You're One of Them

2,187 members

70 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

18

by Justin Cronin

9,406 members

634 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

19

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

by Jean-Dominique Bauby

4,462 members

154 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

20

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

6,309 members

529 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

21

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

1,569 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

22

People of the Book

by Geraldine Brooks

9,974 members

496 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

23

by Larry McMurtry

8,353 members

239 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

24

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,187 members

475 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

25

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,079 members

317 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

26

An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

by Paul Rusesabagina

741 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

27

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri

5,561 members

200 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

28

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

7,681 members

343 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

29

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

by Eleanor Roosevelt

431 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

30

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

by Lawrence Wright

3,459 members

79 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, tkenderdine

31

282 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

32

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

by Martin Sixsmith

702 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

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33

Anthropology of an American Girl

by Hilary Thayer Hamann

596 members

40 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

34

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

by William Styron

3,032 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

35

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

404 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

36

The Wolf of Wall Street

by Jordan Belfort

1,085 members

30 reviews

½ 3.3

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37

by Hillary Jordan

1,650 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

38

Mr Golightly's Holiday

by Salley Vickers

403 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

39

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

by Laurie Colwin

1,068 members

32 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: tkenderdine

40

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

213 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

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41

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

by Laura Hillenbrand

12,253 members

594 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: tkenderdine

42

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

5,052 members

196 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: tkenderdine

43

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

3,447 members

156 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

44

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

1,477 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

45

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

by Philip Gourevitch

3,483 members

66 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: tkenderdine

46

Moment of Truth

by Lisa Scottoline

1,077 members

18 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

47

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

by Stefan Fatsis

1,647 members

42 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

48

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

2,601 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

49

5,647 members

318 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

50

by Calvin Trillin

887 members

52 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

51

The Third Angel

by Alice Hoffman

1,228 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

52

Spilling Clarence

293 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

53

by Gregory David Roberts

7,369 members

230 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

54

Ragtime: A Novel

by E. L. Doctorow

6,261 members

125 reviews

3.9

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55

The Taste of Salt

by Martha Southgate

169 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

56

California Girl

by T. Jefferson Parker

546 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

57

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

by Vanora Bennett

857 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

58

The Weird Sisters

by Eleanor Brown

2,729 members

236 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

59

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

by James Fallon

261 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

60

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo

by Julia Stuart

1,050 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

61

by J. R. Moehringer

2,807 members

102 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

62

Skeletons at the Feast

by Chris Bohjalian

1,661 members

74 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

63

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

379 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

64

Rules of Civility

5,208 members

311 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

65

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,896 members

460 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

66

80 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

67

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

by Sloan Wilson

771 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

68

by Tananarive Due

410 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

69

The City & The City

by China Miéville

6,253 members

357 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

70

The Summer of the Bear

by Bella Pollen

253 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

71

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

by Maureen Stanton

141 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

72

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

1,365 members

125 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

73

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

by Karen Russell

1,625 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

74

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

by C. D. Wright

100 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: tkenderdine

75

The Creation of Eve

319 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

76

The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

433 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

77

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

by Jill Bolte Taylor

2,575 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

78

The Tiger's Wife

5,375 members

336 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

79

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

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

972 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

80

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

by Amanda Foreman

3,027 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

81

by Patricia Wood

1,006 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

82

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

5,521 members

130 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

83

The Household Guide to Dying

by Debra Adelaide

382 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

84

by Kate Christensen

485 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

85

If He Hollers, Let Him Go

by Chester Himes

585 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

86

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,533 members

222 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

87

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

by Robert M. Martin

151 members

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

88

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

by Dacher Keltner

194 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

89

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip Zimbardo

2,054 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

90

Divine Fury: A History of Genius

by Darrin M. McMahon

115 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

91

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4,937 members

70 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

92

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

3,588 members

131 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

93

After the Stroke: A Journal

150 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

94

At Eighty-Two: A Journal

143 members

4

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95

Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year

108 members

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

96

At Seventy: A Journal

304 members

3 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

97

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Winifred Watson

2,264 members

160 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

98

The Wife's Tale

by Lori Lansens

586 members

72 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

99

by Barbara Rogan

12 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

100

The Winter Vault

by Anne Michaels

672 members

40 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

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