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1
The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
2,072 members
144 reviews
½ 3.7
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2
Changing Places
by David Lodge
2,094 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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3
The End of Alice
by A. M. Homes
1,351 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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4
Dirty Snow
by Georges Simenon
1,089 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
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5
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
8,115 members
100 reviews
4.1
Member
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6
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,398 members
1,236 reviews
4.1
Member
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7
Serena
by Ron Rash
1,945 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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8
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,296 members
635 reviews
4.1
Member
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9
Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
3,221 members
118 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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10
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,592 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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11
Shibumi
by Trevanian
1,988 members
60 reviews
3.9
Member
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12
Light in August
by William Faulkner
10,394 members
113 reviews
4
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13
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,460 members
624 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
4,827 members
60 reviews
3.8
Member
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18
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,365 members
868 reviews
3.9
Member
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19
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq
6,047 members
95 reviews
½ 3.6
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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
13 members
3.2
22
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,754 members
665 reviews
3.9
23
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,828 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
24
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22,200 members
531 reviews
4
25
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,786 members
368 reviews
4.2
26
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,824 members
577 reviews
3.9
27
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
17,345 members
241 reviews
4
28
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,959 members
266 reviews
4.1
29
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
14,093 members
327 reviews
4.2
30
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
12,508 members
531 reviews
3.8
31
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,473 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
32
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,288 members
338 reviews
4
33
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
9,738 members
177 reviews
½ 4.3
34
Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition)
by Robert A. Heinlein
9,223 members
159 reviews
3.8
35
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
8,937 members
443 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
7,289 members
427 reviews
4
37
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
7,077 members
84 reviews
3.9
38
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
6,246 members
107 reviews
4.1
39
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
5,512 members
216 reviews
4.2
40
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,641 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
41
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
4,612 members
85 reviews
½ 3.7
42
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
4,311 members
159 reviews
4
43
Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
4,198 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3,538 members
91 reviews
3.9
45
The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
3,126 members
53 reviews
½ 4.6
46
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
by Eric Hobsbawm
2,860 members
32 reviews
4
47
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
2,754 members
24 reviews
½ 4.4
48
Light
by M. John Harrison
2,247 members
67 reviews
½ 3.4
49
The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
2,041 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,654 members
105 reviews
4
51
The Dying Earth
by Jack Vance
1,621 members
43 reviews
3.8
52
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B Irvine
1,475 members
39 reviews
4
53
The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,466 members
13 reviews
4
54
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
1,415 members
8 reviews
3.8
55
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
1,236 members
18 reviews
½ 4.4
57
The Man Who Folded Himself
by David Gerrold
1,165 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
895 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
685 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
62
The Tea Master and the Detective
by Aliette de Bodard
643 members
49 reviews
3.8
63
Clash of Titans
by David M. Glantz
484 members
5 reviews
3.9
64
Mortals
by Norman Rush
413 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
65
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
372 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
196 members
1 review
3.9
70
Troika
by Alastair Reynolds
176 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
71
The Sound of Building Coffins
by Louis Maistros
155 members
19 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