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by Gail Carriger

6,283 members

548 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hailelib, _Zoe_, foggidawn, KimarieBee, norabelle414, SylviaC, souloftherose, MDGentleReader

2

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

21,333 members

1,312 reviews

4.2

6 Members: lahochstetler, KimarieBee, cbl_tn, merrystar, SylviaC, souloftherose

3

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

8,523 members

688 reviews

3.8

6 Members: lorax, foggidawn, lahochstetler, cbl_tn, MDGentleReader, kara.shamy

4

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,236 members

593 reviews

3.9

6 Members: merrystar, SylviaC, souloftherose, KOsWL, MDGentleReader, Vneall

5

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

4,320 members

275 reviews

4

5 Members: lorax, ijustgetbored, norabelle414, suitable1, souloftherose

6

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

18,416 members

932 reviews

4

4 Members: lahochstetler, KimarieBee, melonbrawl, ahef1963

7

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

16,854 members

639 reviews

4

4 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, cbl_tn, aholsonback

8

by Emma Donoghue

16,132 members

1,027 reviews

4

4 Members: lahochstetler, norabelle414, ahef1963, kara.shamy

9

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

6,687 members

389 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: lahochstetler, suitable1, souloftherose, ahef1963

10

The Mysterious Howling

by Maryrose Wood

2,032 members

127 reviews

3.9

4 Members: _Zoe_, ijustgetbored, keristars, souloftherose

11

The Children's Blizzard

by David Laskin

1,879 members

86 reviews

4

4 Members: lorax, DaynaRT, _Zoe_, AnnaClaire

12

The Fault in Our Stars

32,890 members

1,652 reviews

4.2

3 Members: KimarieBee, SylviaC, kara.shamy

13

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

27,828 members

408 reviews

4.1

3 Members: keristars, SylviaC, kara.shamy

14

by Elizabeth Kostova

23,186 members

797 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: KimarieBee, al.vick, ahef1963

15

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

17,018 members

779 reviews

4.2

3 Members: KimarieBee, SylviaC, souloftherose

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by Louise Penny

7,926 members

476 reviews

3.8

3 Members: lahochstetler, souloftherose, kara.shamy

17

The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly

7,592 members

343 reviews

3.9

3 Members: foggidawn, KimarieBee, ahef1963

18

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

7,397 members

323 reviews

4.1

3 Members: keristars, souloftherose, ahef1963

19

by Elizabeth Gaskell

5,188 members

144 reviews

3.8

3 Members: lahochstetler, aulsmith, kara.shamy

20

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

3,746 members

195 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: keristars, lahochstetler, ahef1963

21

by Evelyn Waugh

3,651 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: keristars, lahochstetler, kara.shamy

22

Excellent Women

3,121 members

137 reviews

4

3 Members: lahochstetler, cbl_tn, merrystar

23

by Winifred Holtby

1,043 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: lahochstetler, merrystar, souloftherose

24

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

929 members

25 reviews

4

3 Members: staffordcastle, melonbrawl, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

865 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: lorax, ijustgetbored, AnnaClaire

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by Markus Zusak

52,603 members

2,244 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: norabelle414, ahef1963

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46,906 members

1,685 reviews

4.1

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

28

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

30,946 members

1,110 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cbl_tn, ManWithAnAgenda

29

23,124 members

1,384 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: KimarieBee, Lexxi

30

by David Mitchell

19,719 members

719 reviews

4.1

2 Members: keristars, kara.shamy

31

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

19,025 members

459 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Edward, kara.shamy

32

The Lies of Locke Lamora

12,415 members

473 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, KimarieBee

33

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

11,061 members

686 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: norabelle414, souloftherose

34

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

9,819 members

246 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

35

Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

9,486 members

759 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, MDGentleReader

36

His Majesty's Dragon

9,265 members

407 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

37

by Sarah Waters

8,711 members

311 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, kara.shamy

38

by Stephen King

8,138 members

377 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Lexxi, kara.shamy

39

The Railway Children

7,030 members

88 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MDGentleReader, ahef1963

40

by Maria V. Snyder

5,919 members

315 reviews

4.1

2 Members: keristars, KimarieBee

41

by Jacqueline Winspear

5,438 members

296 reviews

3.8

2 Members: foggidawn, lahochstetler

42

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

5,286 members

196 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

43

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

5,010 members

252 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: _Zoe_, souloftherose

44

by Jasper Fforde

4,490 members

278 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, keristars

45

by Karen Russell

4,027 members

253 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: keristars, kara.shamy

46

The Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliff

3,668 members

72 reviews

4

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

47

by Louisa May Alcott

3,051 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MDGentleReader, ahef1963

48

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,892 members

51 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, kara.shamy

49

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

by Gabrielle Zevin

2,069 members

123 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: _Zoe_, kara.shamy

50

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

by Conor Grennan

1,143 members

132 reviews

4.2

2 Members: _Zoe_, ahef1963

51

The Night Bookmobile

by Audrey Niffenegger

986 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: _Zoe_, souloftherose

52

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog

by Ysabeau S. Wilce

909 members

61 reviews

3.8

2 Members: foggidawn, keristars

53

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo

829 members

32 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, 2wonderY

54

Kat, Incorrigible

by Stephanie Burgis

507 members

56 reviews

4

2 Members: _Zoe_, keristars

55

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

344 members

9 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, melonbrawl

56

by Haruki Murakami

19,115 members

395 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

57

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

13,548 members

527 reviews

4

Member: Lexxi

58

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

13,074 members

365 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

12,056 members

338 reviews

4.1

Member: souloftherose

60

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore

11,430 members

442 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

61

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

11,384 members

442 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

62

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard Feynman

11,036 members

200 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

63

11,032 members

662 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: keristars

64

The Sign of the Beaver

by Elizabeth George Speare

9,762 members

84 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

65

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

9,488 members

434 reviews

4

Member: SylviaC

66

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,324 members

392 reviews

4.2

Member: _Zoe_

67

7,139 members

253 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

68

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

by James W. Loewen

6,995 members

99 reviews

4

Member: keristars

69

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl

6,964 members

312 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: keristars

70

by Brandon Mull

6,439 members

207 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

71

by Melissa Marr

6,357 members

319 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: foggidawn

72

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

6,095 members

375 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: keristars

73

Heartstopper: Volume 1

by Alice Oseman

6,060 members

188 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

5,970 members

228 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

75

An Instance of the Fingerpost

5,671 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: keristars

76

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

5,511 members

409 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: keristars

77

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

5,027 members

211 reviews

4.2

Member: _Zoe_

78

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

4,988 members

246 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

79

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

by Lynne Cherry

4,830 members

67 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

80

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

4,690 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: _Zoe_

81

by John Crowley

4,605 members

125 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

82

Ella Minnow Pea

4,595 members

281 reviews

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

83

4,552 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: norabelle414

84

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

4,551 members

260 reviews

3.9

Member: eromsted

85

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

4,550 members

202 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

86

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

4,024 members

120 reviews

4.1

Member: suitable1

87

Kitten's First Full Moon

by Kevin Henkes

3,937 members

323 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

88

3,752 members

295 reviews

3.8

Member: _Zoe_

89

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

by Kate Summerscale

3,726 members

178 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: lahochstetler

90

I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

3,718 members

124 reviews

4.1

Member: tottman

91

The Brain That Changes Itself : Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

by Norman Doidge

3,566 members

81 reviews

4.2

Member: SylviaC

92

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

by Philip C. Stead

3,400 members

352 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: MDGentleReader

93

by Rainbow Rowell

3,301 members

254 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

94

And Tango Makes Three

by Justin Richardson

3,023 members

323 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: al.vick

95

Here Be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,778 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: suitable1

96

Luck in the Shadows

by Lynn Flewelling

2,711 members

69 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

97

Bridge of Birds

by Barry Hughart

2,700 members

101 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: tottman

98

by Rachel Hawkins

2,672 members

238 reviews

3.9

Member: _Zoe_

99

by Melanie Rawn

2,662 members

26 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

100

Winter Solstice

by Rosamunde Pilcher

2,559 members

71 reviews

4

Member: SylviaC

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