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The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
2,069 members
143 reviews
3.8
Member
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2
Changing Places
by David Lodge
2,088 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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3
The End of Alice
by A. M. Homes
1,350 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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4
Dirty Snow
by Georges Simenon
1,082 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
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5
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
8,084 members
99 reviews
4.1
Member
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6
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,224 members
1,233 reviews
4.1
Member
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7
Serena
by Ron Rash
1,939 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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8
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,165 members
633 reviews
4.1
Member
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9
Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
3,213 members
118 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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10
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,581 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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11
Shibumi
by Trevanian
1,986 members
60 reviews
3.9
Member
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12
Light in August
by William Faulkner
10,353 members
113 reviews
4
Member
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13
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,419 members
625 reviews
4
Member
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14
The Seducer
by Jan Kjaerstad
472 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
The Vivisector
by Patrick White
722 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
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16
The Half Brother
by Lars Saabye Christensen
793 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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17
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
4,802 members
60 reviews
3.8
Member
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18
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,219 members
867 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq
6,045 members
94 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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20
The Cherry Pit
by Donald Harrington
53 members
1 review
4.1
Member
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21
Salacious
by A. Zavarelli
12 members
3.2
22
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,717 members
663 reviews
3.9
23
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,674 members
1,015 reviews
3.8
24
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22,113 members
530 reviews
4
25
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,674 members
367 reviews
4.2
26
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,761 members
577 reviews
3.9
27
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
17,279 members
240 reviews
4
28
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,852 members
265 reviews
4.1
29
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,025 members
323 reviews
4.2
30
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
12,407 members
523 reviews
3.8
31
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,420 members
148 reviews
½ 4.3
32
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,252 members
337 reviews
4
33
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
9,684 members
175 reviews
½ 4.3
34
Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition)
by Robert A. Heinlein
9,207 members
159 reviews
3.8
35
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
8,888 members
441 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
7,246 members
424 reviews
4
37
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
7,048 members
84 reviews
3.9
38
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
6,198 members
106 reviews
4.1
39
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
5,428 members
211 reviews
4.2
40
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,626 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
41
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
4,594 members
85 reviews
½ 3.7
42
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
4,301 members
158 reviews
4
43
Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
4,181 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3,518 members
91 reviews
3.9
45
The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
3,117 members
53 reviews
½ 4.6
46
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
by Eric Hobsbawm
2,847 members
32 reviews
4
47
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
2,753 members
24 reviews
½ 4.4
48
Light
by M. John Harrison
2,234 members
67 reviews
½ 3.4
49
The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
2,037 members
82 reviews
3.8
50
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,645 members
104 reviews
4
51
The Dying Earth
by Jack Vance
1,611 members
42 reviews
3.8
52
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B Irvine
1,477 members
39 reviews
4
53
The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,462 members
13 reviews
4
54
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
1,413 members
8 reviews
3.8
55
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
1,220 members
18 reviews
½ 4.4
57
The Man Who Folded Himself
by David Gerrold
1,164 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
58
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
1,107 members
6 reviews
4.2
59
Ancient Iraq
by Georges Roux
889 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Grant
by Jean Edward Smith
704 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
61
China: A History
by John Keay
684 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
62
The Tea Master and the Detective
by Aliette de Bodard
637 members
48 reviews
3.8
63
Clash of Titans
by David M. Glantz
484 members
5 reviews
3.9
64
Mortals
by Norman Rush
410 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
65
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
371 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
66
Women and Men
by Joseph McElroy
330 members
3 reviews
3.9
67
The Conqueror
by Jan Kjærstad
269 members
7 reviews
3.8
68
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
by B. H. Liddell Hart
197 members
1 review
3.9
70
Troika
by Alastair Reynolds
175 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
71
The Sound of Building Coffins
by Louis Maistros
155 members
18 reviews
3.8
72
Acadie
by Dave Hutchinson
130 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Lines Drawn
by Ker Dukey
3 members
4
74
Given (Highest Bidder #4)
by Lauren Landish - Willow Winters
1 member
4
75
Knocking Boots
by Willow Winters - Vivian Wood
1 member
4