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Best Domestic Fiction

Description: Fiction generally set in the home, about everyday life.
Members: 5 participating members
thecoroner, ahef1963, DeboraNunes, cpg, KimarieBee

Rank Title Author Added

1

Pride and Prejudice

74,772 members

1,303 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cpg, thecoroner, ahef1963

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

73,307 members

1,394 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cpg, ahef1963

3

21,117 members

346 reviews

3.8

2 Members: DeboraNunes, thecoroner

4

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,386 members

244 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

5

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

12,993 members

244 reviews

3.9

2 Members: DeboraNunes, ahef1963

6

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

11,866 members

252 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

7

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,289 members

613 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

8

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,209 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

9

by Pearl S. Buck

13,088 members

255 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

10

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

47,742 members

651 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

11

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,389 members

324 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

12

The Housekeeper and the Professor

2,958 members

209 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

13

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,210 members

114 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

14

25,103 members

610 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

15

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

15,828 members

372 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

16

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

38,284 members

1,249 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

17

by Toni Morrison

21,319 members

394 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

18

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

27,417 members

306 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

19

by Rohinton Mistry

8,797 members

245 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: KimarieBee

20

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

15,401 members

419 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

21

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,536 members

218 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

22

by Louisa May Alcott

25,947 members

407 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

23

22,649 members

326 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

24

The Joy Luck Club

16,880 members

190 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

25

5,363 members

101 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

26

by Honoré de Balzac

5,617 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

27

by Michael Cunningham

12,196 members

219 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

28

by Kate Atkinson

7,749 members

334 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

29

by Virginia Woolf

19,186 members

310 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

30

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,315 members

216 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

31

A Thousand Acres

5,909 members

135 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

by Edith Wharton

9,041 members

204 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

33

Washington Square

4,166 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

34

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates

5,870 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

35

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,239 members

172 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

36

Sense and Sensibility

35,629 members

498 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

37

6,400 members

93 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

38

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

20,009 members

676 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

39

The Adventures of Augie March

3,664 members

71 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

40

The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property; In Chancery; To Let)

by John Galsworthy

873 members

14 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

41

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

16,754 members

474 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

42

American Pastoral

7,677 members

171 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

43

What a Carve Up!

by Jonathan Coe

2,249 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

44

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

1,136 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

45

by Richard Russo

8,519 members

182 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

46

1,998 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

47

A Painted House

by John Grisham

8,890 members

109 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

48

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani

1,932 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

49

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,274 members

121 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

The Mill on the Po

by Riccardo Bacchelli

86 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

51

by Jonathan Franzen

9,126 members

397 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

52

The Secret Scripture

by Sebastian Barry

2,717 members

148 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

53

The Little World of the Past

by Antonio Fogazzaro

272 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

54

The Way the Crow Flies

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2,176 members

60 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

55

The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington

1,553 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

56

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

8,243 members

121 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

57

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

1,889 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

58

by Charles Dickens

10,449 members

132 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

59

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

34,466 members

924 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

60

by Natalia Ginzburg

1,095 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

61

by J. M. Coetzee

10,416 members

260 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

62

by Geraldine Brooks

6,514 members

272 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

63

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

5,081 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

64

by Charles Dickens

12,901 members

236 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

65

18,513 members

217 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

66

Northanger Abbey

20,134 members

405 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

67

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,213 members

178 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

68

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,348 members

108 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

69

The Portrait of a Lady

10,569 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

70

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5,727 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

71

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,280 members

64 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

72

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

32,106 members

529 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

73

by Federico De Roberto

396 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

74

26,677 members

507 reviews

4.2

75

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

25,153 members

486 reviews

4.2

76

by Gustave Flaubert

24,697 members

365 reviews

½ 3.7

77

by John Steinbeck

21,717 members

389 reviews

½ 4.4

78

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,060 members

332 reviews

3.8

79

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,104 members

293 reviews

4

80

by Margaret Atwood

8,771 members

153 reviews

3.9

81

8,740 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

82

by E. M. Forster

8,366 members

124 reviews

4

83

by Marilynne Robinson

5,990 members

198 reviews

3.9

84

by Katherine Dunn

5,856 members

156 reviews

4

85

by Francine Prose

981 members

30 reviews

½ 3.3

86

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

863 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

87

The Shadow Year

by Jeffrey Ford

344 members

34 reviews

3.9

88

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories

by Fred Chappell

163 members

3 reviews

4

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