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The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
1,774 members
135 reviews
3.8
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Changing Places
by David Lodge
1,880 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
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The End of Alice
by A. M. Homes
1,134 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
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Dirty Snow
by Georges Simenon
897 members
28 reviews
3.8
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Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,970 members
89 reviews
4.1
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
39,718 members
1,091 reviews
4.1
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Serena
by Ron Rash
1,712 members
110 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
30,429 members
538 reviews
4.1
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Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
2,875 members
103 reviews
½ 3.6
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10
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,151 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
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Shibumi
by Trevanian
1,680 members
54 reviews
3.9
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Light in August
by William Faulkner
8,815 members
103 reviews
4
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13
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
7,797 members
571 reviews
4
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The Seducer
by Jan Kjaerstad
428 members
11 reviews
3.8
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The Vivisector
by Patrick White
619 members
10 reviews
4.1
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The Half Brother
by Lars Saabye Christensen
739 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
4,003 members
56 reviews
3.8
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
13,574 members
764 reviews
3.9
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The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq
5,292 members
85 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Cherry Pit
by Donald Harington
48 members
1 review
4.2
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Salacious
by A. Zavarelli
10 members
3.2
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
25,277 members
612 reviews
3.9
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
21,588 members
917 reviews
3.8
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
18,185 members
458 reviews
4
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
16,804 members
317 reviews
4.2
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
16,311 members
519 reviews
3.9
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Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
15,182 members
203 reviews
4
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
10,688 members
256 reviews
4.2
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
10,611 members
215 reviews
4.1
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Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
9,029 members
307 reviews
4
31
Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition)
by Robert A. Heinlein
8,537 members
146 reviews
3.8
32
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
8,371 members
122 reviews
½ 4.3
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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
7,330 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
7,296 members
353 reviews
3.8
35
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
5,712 members
341 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
5,401 members
344 reviews
4
37
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
4,815 members
54 reviews
3.9
38
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
4,093 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
39
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
4,032 members
82 reviews
4.1
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
3,816 members
47 reviews
½ 4.4
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Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
3,584 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
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Home
by Marilynne Robinson
3,566 members
145 reviews
4
43
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
2,847 members
124 reviews
4.1
44
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2,578 members
76 reviews
3.8
45
The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
2,465 members
44 reviews
½ 4.6
46
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
by Eric Hobsbawm
2,277 members
27 reviews
4
47
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
2,215 members
21 reviews
½ 4.4
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Light
by M. John Harrison
1,961 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
1,779 members
68 reviews
3.8
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The Dying Earth
by Jack Vance
1,346 members
36 reviews
3.8
51
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,277 members
87 reviews
4
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Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
1,253 members
9 reviews
3.9
53
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B Irvine
1,162 members
36 reviews
4
54
The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,160 members
11 reviews
4
56
The Man Who Folded Himself
by David Gerrold
1,007 members
39 reviews
½ 3.6
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A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
934 members
6 reviews
4.2
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Ancient Iraq
by Georges Roux
774 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
745 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
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Grant
by Jean Edward Smith
594 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
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China: A History
by John Keay
516 members
8 reviews
3.8
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The Tea Master and the Detective
by Aliette de Bodard
492 members
38 reviews
3.8
63
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
by David M. Glantz
365 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Mortals
by Norman Rush
363 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Conqueror
by Jan Kjaerstad
254 members
7 reviews
3.8
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Women and Men
by Joseph McElroy
243 members
3 reviews
4
67
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
206 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
by B. H. Liddell Hart
163 members
1 review
3.9
69
Troika
by Alastair Reynolds
155 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
70
The Sound of Building Coffins
by Louis Maistros
140 members
17 reviews
3.8
72
Acadie
by Dave Hutchinson
100 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lines Drawn
by Ker Dukey
2 members
4
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Given (Highest Bidder #4)
by Lauren Landish - Willow Winters
1 member
4
75
Knocking Boots
by Willow Winters - Vivian Wood
1 member
4