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To Kill a Mockingbird

74,526 members

1,409 reviews

½ 4.4

23 Members: lilithcat, hipdeep, DaynaRT, eromsted, cpg, lahochstetler, KimarieBee, kiwiflowa, javagal, CurrerBell, roby72, redsox0407, ncgraham, thecoroner, JGKC, Dilara86, mysterymax, LSTEPH1967, electrice, Jarandel, cej1027, ahef1963, Rusty37

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I Capture the Castle

8,859 members

287 reviews

4.1

17 Members: Herenya, foggidawn, thorold, kiwiflowa, avatiakh, javagal, Soupdragon, ncgraham, susiesharp, souloftherose, elkiedee, Dilara86, ahef1963, sbrousz, Rusty37, ManWithAnAgenda, thesedayz

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by Charlotte Brontë

55,655 members

882 reviews

4.2

15 Members: Herenya, kageeh, kiwiflowa, CurrerBell, roby72, ncgraham, souloftherose, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Rusty37

4

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

36,198 members

413 reviews

3.9

14 Members: cpg, thorold, kiwiflowa, roby72, ncgraham, souloftherose, thecoroner, ro155, Dilara86, alex68, LSTEPH1967, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Louisa May Alcott

7,078 members

131 reviews

3.9

13 Members: kiwiflowa, aulsmith, javagal, CurrerBell, roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, Dilara86, LSTEPH1967, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Rusty37,DaynaRT

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

15,584 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

9 Members: dara85, lahochstetler, kiwiflowa, javagal, roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, elkiedee, ahef1963,kageeh

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,522 members

252 reviews

4.1

10 Members: cpg, roby72, ncgraham, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, LSTEPH1967, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,187 members

226 reviews

3.8

9 Members: kageeh, dara85, kiwiflowa, bestem, mitchellmom, souloftherose, LSTEPH1967, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

31,518 members

417 reviews

3.8

9 Members: codewell, roby72, redsox0407, ncgraham, thecoroner, electrice, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40,741 members

507 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, roby72, redsox0407, alex68, LSTEPH1967, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Le Grand Meaulnes

by Alain-Fournier

3,256 members

74 reviews

3.8

8 Members: aprille, pamelad, avatiakh, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, Jarandel

12

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

14,951 members

356 reviews

4

8 Members: aulsmith, bestem, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963, sbrousz, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

42,805 members

1,298 reviews

3.9

9 Members: dara85, kiwiflowa, codewell, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

50,247 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

9 Members: dara85, kiwiflowa, javagal, roby72, LSTEPH1967, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

26,259 members

576 reviews

3.9

7 Members: lahochstetler, kiwiflowa, javagal, susiesharp, LSTEPH1967, Jarandel, ahef1963,Soupdragon

16

The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

4,587 members

106 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: aprille, KimarieBee, kiwiflowa, JGKC, mysterymax

17

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

6,005 members

139 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aprille, thorold, CurrerBell, roby72, Dilara86, LSTEPH1967

18

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,092 members

138 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aprille, eromsted, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

19

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,378 members

107 reviews

3.9

6 Members: thorold, aulsmith, CurrerBell, thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy

20

Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

3,097 members

55 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: lilithcat, aprille, kageeh, thorold, aulsmith,LSTEPH1967

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,327 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,ncgraham

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25,277 members

612 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, redsox0407, thecoroner, ahef1963, jeffza, kara.shamy

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by Henry Fielding

7,767 members

89 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

30,761 members

317 reviews

3.9

6 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,350 members

618 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

26

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,168 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, LSTEPH1967, ahef1963

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A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,638 members

211 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aprille, roby72, ncgraham, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

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by Larry Watson

1,540 members

71 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aprille, dara85, kiwiflowa, javagal, kara.shamy

29

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

47,048 members

719 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: kageeh, kiwiflowa, CurrerBell, roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ncgraham

30

Citizen of the Galaxy

by Robert A. Heinlein

2,995 members

60 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, aulsmith, suitable1

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by Antonia White

890 members

23 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, lahochstetler, CurrerBell, elkiedee

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by Louis Sachar

21,990 members

933 reviews

4.1

5 Members: ncgraham, souloftherose, mysterymax, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

Looking for Alaska

17,727 members

1,180 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aprille, dara85, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Richard Wright

4,916 members

66 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, eromsted, Dilara86, kara.shamy

35

Northanger Abbey

20,366 members

405 reviews

3.8

4 Members: redsox0407, ncgraham, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

10,923 members

784 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aprille, mysterymax, ahef1963, sbrousz

37

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,552 members

1,049 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, electrice, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,LSTEPH1967

38

Summer of My German Soldier

by Bette Greene

2,880 members

46 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, dara85, ahef1963, sbrousz

39

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

590 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

40

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,747 members

134 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1

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35,735 members

489 reviews

4.1

4 Members: ncgraham, Bretzky1, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Graveyard Book

20,884 members

1,232 reviews

4.2

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,ncgraham

43

Red Sky at Morning

by Richard Bradford

592 members

20 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, mysterymax, sbrousz

44

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

21,588 members

917 reviews

3.8

4 Members: souloftherose, LSTEPH1967, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Ray Bradbury

7,177 members

180 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, cthulhuslibrarian, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : Not a novel

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

19,553 members

727 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, roby72, LSTEPH1967, ManWithAnAgenda

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19,601 members

293 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda,ncgraham

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by Robert R. McCammon

2,414 members

88 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aprille, Huge_Horror_Fan, LSTEPH1967

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by Alberto Moravia

437 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

50

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7,672 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68

51

The Age of Reason

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3,233 members

25 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

52

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns

4,003 members

86 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, dara85, sbrousz

53

by Hermann Hesse

26,549 members

361 reviews

4

4 Members: aprille, aulsmith, roby72, Bretzky1

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

4,969 members

162 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963,

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by Sylvia Plath

26,570 members

478 reviews

4

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Rilla of Ingleside

by L. M. Montgomery

5,878 members

59 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, parlerodermime, Rusty37

57

I'll Take You There

by Joyce Carol Oates

609 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, Soupdragon, kara.shamy

58

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

4,740 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, sbrousz

59

Claudine at School

426 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, elkiedee, Dilara86

60

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

7,100 members

214 reviews

4.1

3 Members: bestem, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Arturo's Island

by Elsa Morante

741 members

18 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

62

A Long Way from Verona

368 members

10 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, Soupdragon, elkiedee

63

2,811 members

243 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, aulsmith, souloftherose

64

The Confusions of Young Törless

by Robert Musil

2,040 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68

65

The Adventures of Augie March

3,697 members

71 reviews

3.9

3 Members: eromsted, roby72, thecoroner

66

Life with Mother Superior

92 members

5 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, CurrerBell, sbrousz

67

A Painted House

by John Grisham

8,961 members

111 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, dara85, ahef1963

68

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

10,740 members

288 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

69

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

17,977 members

329 reviews

4

3 Members: eromsted, ahef1963, kara.shamy

70

Jakob von Gunten

by Robert Walser

1,161 members

32 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, thecoroner, alex68

71

by Lev Grossman

9,711 members

650 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

72

by Rudyard Kipling

8,512 members

191 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aprille, aulsmith, ahef1963

73

Pather Panchali

by Bibhutibhushan Banerji

200 members

12 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, roby72, alex68

74

Look Homeward, Angel

by Thomas Wolfe

3,404 members

47 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, redsox0407

75

A Ring of Endless Light

by Madeleine L'Engle

3,286 members

37 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, parlerodermime

76

by Beverly Cleary

2,264 members

28 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, kageeh

77

Hearts in Atlantis

by Stephen King

8,136 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, LSTEPH1967, kara.shamy

78

by Orson Scott Card

39,244 members

1,024 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: bestem, ahef1963, jeffza,ncgraham ,ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Charles Dickens

13,049 members

241 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

80

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

1,147 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, roby72, thecoroner

81

by Jack Kerouac

26,895 members

370 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

82

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

13,571 members

923 reviews

4.1

2 Members: souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Greengage Summer

by Rumer Godden

698 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, souloftherose

84

by Anne Rivers Siddons

594 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, Jarandel

85

Mary George of Allnorthover

by Lavinia Greenlaw

42 members

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, Soupdragon

86

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,467 members

118 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

87

One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia

3,655 members

218 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, CurrerBell

88

2,527 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, parlerodermime

89

by Alfred Andersch

486 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, thorold

90

The Silent Shore

by Ruth Elwin Harris

103 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, Rusty37

91

by Stephen King

4,391 members

263 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

92

Stardust [Graphic]

2,166 members

56 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, hipdeep

93

by Madeleine L'Engle

736 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, parlerodermime

94

by Kevin Crossley-Holland

302 members

12 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, Rusty37

95

Voyages of Brian Sea-Worthy

by Ralph Nading Hill

1 member

1 review

4

2 Members: aprille, mysterymax

96

Annie on My Mind

by Nancy Garden

1,993 members

74 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, CurrerBell

97

A Boy's Own Story

by Edmund White

1,674 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, thorold

98

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

27,174 members

531 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Rusty37

99

Up a Road Slowly

1,056 members

26 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, dara85

100

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,221 members

76 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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