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1

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

5,095 members

171 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

2

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,931 members

104 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

3

by Robert Graves

9,220 members

168 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

4

by Albert Camus

18,602 members

249 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

5

Right Ho, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

3,651 members

96 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

6

The Name of the Rose

19,611 members

315 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

7

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,356 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

8

by Wilkie Collins

10,860 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

9

Lectures on Literature

by Vladimir Nabokov

1,360 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: Franchescanado

10

by Truman Capote

23,875 members

467 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

11

by John Steinbeck

9,946 members

186 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

12

19,796 members

228 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

13

The Wasp Factory

7,127 members

204 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

14

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,856 members

433 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

15

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,510 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

16

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,084 members

779 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

17

11,060 members

173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

18

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,468 members

480 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

19

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,802 members

309 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

20

The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel

by Giorgio De Maria

254 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

21

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

22

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,326 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

23

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,498 members

146 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

24

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G.K. Chesterton

7,081 members

170 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, Franchescanado

25

2,401 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

26

350 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

27

Blackwater: The Complete Saga

by Michael McDowell

260 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Franchescanado

28

823 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

29

My Life and Hard Times

by James Thurber

1,161 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

30

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,648 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Franchescanado

31

Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

6,125 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Franchescanado

32

The Conference of the Birds

by Farid Ud-Din Attar

1,339 members

13 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

33

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

34

by Kurt Vonnegut

7,313 members

91 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

35

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

3,392 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Franchescanado

36

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

10,150 members

274 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

37

by Hermann Hesse

27,966 members

381 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

38

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,969 members

140 reviews

4.2

Member: Franchescanado

39

Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

1,976 members

55 reviews

3.8

Member: Franchescanado

40

3,475 members

290 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Franchescanado

41

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

by Yukio Mishima

2,412 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: Franchescanado

42

Plain Tales from the Hills

by Rudyard Kipling

1,347 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Franchescanado

43

The Anabasis [in translation]

2,397 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

44

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,726 members

290 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

45

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

2,924 members

141 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Franchescanado

46

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

by Seth Dickinson

1,517 members

90 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

47

The Three-Body Problem

8,897 members

413 reviews

3.8

Member: Franchescanado

48

4,535 members

124 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

49

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

9,434 members

205 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

50

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,642 members

125 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Franchescanado

51

The Last of the Wine

by Mary Renault

1,676 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

52

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

by Chris Harman

708 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

53

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,631 members

698 reviews

4.2

Member: Franchescanado

54

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

by Richard Feynman

9,926 members

173 reviews

4.2

Member: Franchescanado

55

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,552 members

469 reviews

4.2

Member: Franchescanado

56

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,050 members

385 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

57

Nothing Lasts Forever

by Roderick Thorp

266 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Franchescanado

58

Stations of the Tide

by Michael Swanwick

844 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Franchescanado

59

The Satanic Bible

by Anton Szandor LaVey

1,836 members

36 reviews

3.1

Member: Franchescanado

60

The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

6,315 members

175 reviews

4

Member: Franchescanado

61

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,786 members

684 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

62

by León Tolstói

29,052 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Franchescanado

63

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,309 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Franchescanado

64

by Haruki Murakami

16,376 members

357 reviews

3.9

Member: Franchescanado

65

by Zack Parsons

148 members

8 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Franchescanado

66

by Joseph Heller

40,183 members

529 reviews

4.1

Member: Franchescanado

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