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My Library's Recommended Adult Fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,033 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

2

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,038 members

941 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

3

19,796 members

228 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

4

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,542 members

1,249 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

5

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,658 members

1,269 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

6

The Midnight Library

10,660 members

455 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

7

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

9,043 members

298 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

8

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,141 members

365 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

9

by Kathy Reichs

6,435 members

166 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

10

The House in the Cerulean Sea

6,354 members

331 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

11

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,766 members

575 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

12

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells

5,618 members

354 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

13

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

5,470 members

290 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

14

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

4,889 members

114 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

15

by Anthony Trollope

4,391 members

131 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

16

by Fredrik Backman

4,314 members

214 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

17

The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

3,692 members

84 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

18

The Giver of Stars

3,362 members

162 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

19

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

3,260 members

165 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

20

A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

2,845 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

21

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

2,668 members

172 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

22

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

2,524 members

113 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

23

The Collapsing Empire

2,509 members

124 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

24

The Once and Future Witches

by Alix E. Harrow

2,469 members

86 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

25

The Memory Police

2,197 members

95 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

26

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

2,058 members

89 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

27

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,972 members

136 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

28

The Last Graduate

1,962 members

81 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

29

by T. Kingfisher

1,719 members

88 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

30

by Jodi Picoult

1,612 members

80 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

31

by Chris Pavone

1,574 members

128 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

32

The Pursuit of Love / Love in a Cold Climate

by Nancy Mitford

1,478 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

33

The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

1,319 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

34

All Adults Here

1,056 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

35

by Sarah Addison Allen

1,034 members

37 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

36

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

by Paul Gallico

742 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

37

The Witness for the Dead

by Katherine Addison

698 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

38

by Afia Atakora

671 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

39

by Graham Moore

668 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

40

The Apple Orchard

639 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

41

by Kiersten White

637 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

42

The Luminous Dead

by Caitlin Starling

607 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

43

by Miriam Toews

507 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

44

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

by Ursula K. Le Guin

415 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

45

Recitatif: A Story

by Toni Morrison

372 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

46

Cold, Cold Bones

by Kathy Reichs

363 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

47

335 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

48

Prosper's Demon

by K. J. Parker

320 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

49

The Actual Star

by Monica Byrne

284 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

50

263 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

51

by Delilah S. Dawson

258 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

52

When the Reckoning Comes

by LaTanya McQueen

258 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

53

What Storm, What Thunder

by Myriam J. A. Chancy

153 members

10 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

54

by Joanne Harris

152 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

55

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

by Hilma Wolitzer

150 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

About This List

Started: sturlington
June 2017
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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