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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,215 members

709 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, MaskedMumbler, rretzler, EBT1002, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,604 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

7 Members: lauralkeet, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Ray Bradbury

54,263 members

1,006 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, rretzler, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,753 members

963 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, rretzler, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,502 members

478 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, banjo123, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

7 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

8

19,244 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, rmharris, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Octavia E. Butler

8,518 members

355 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, rretzler, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Joseph Heller

40,181 members

529 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, MaskedMumbler, rretzler, gypsysmom, skavlanj

11

Charlotte's Web

36,333 members

1,027 reviews

4.2

6 Members: lauralkeet, rretzler, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

12

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,863 members

415 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

13

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,480 members

250 reviews

3.9

6 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,789 members

244 reviews

4

6 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,856 members

433 reviews

3.9

6 Members: rmharris, lauralkeet, rretzler, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,741 members

241 reviews

3.8

6 Members: lauralkeet, rretzler, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

17

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,263 members

298 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj

18

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,425 members

476 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, rretzler, gypsysmom, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,253 members

348 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

20

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,666 members

342 reviews

3.8

5 Members: MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, banjo123, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Raymond Chandler

10,345 members

285 reviews

4

5 Members: rmharris, rretzler, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,140 members

365 reviews

4.2

5 Members: rretzler, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Nella Larsen

2,733 members

104 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963

24

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,847 members

565 reviews

4.1

4 Members: MaskedMumbler, banjo123, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Sylvia Plath

28,274 members

505 reviews

4

5 Members: lauralkeet, MaskedMumbler, rretzler, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

26

The Secret History

20,534 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,154 members

489 reviews

3.8

4 Members: gypsysmom, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

28

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

8,656 members

515 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: MaskedMumbler, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

29

Portnoy's Complaint

7,404 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: MaskedMumbler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj

30

by Marilynne Robinson

6,395 members

214 reviews

3.9

4 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

31

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,593 members

126 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, gypsysmom, banjo123, ManWithAnAgenda

32

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,538 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

33

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

by Stephen King

19,900 members

370 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,369 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: banjo123, ahef1963, skavlanj

35

by Ralph Ellison

16,266 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, lauralkeet, skavlanj

36

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,399 members

323 reviews

3.9

3 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, ahef1963

37

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

11,042 members

194 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: MaskedMumbler, rretzler, skavlanj

38

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,912 members

124 reviews

4

3 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123

39

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

3 Members: rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

5,992 members

147 reviews

4

3 Members: lauralkeet, rretzler, skavlanj

41

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

3,956 members

222 reviews

4

3 Members: lauralkeet, gypsysmom, banjo123

42

by Jack Kerouac

28,022 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: gypsysmom, skavlanj

43

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,991 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: MaskedMumbler, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,821 members

298 reviews

4.2

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

45

by Richard Wright

7,776 members

102 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, skavlanj

46

by Toni Morrison

7,722 members

98 reviews

3.8

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

47

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

7,353 members

129 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, skavlanj

48

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,205 members

119 reviews

4

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

49

by Tommy Orange

4,366 members

194 reviews

4

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

50

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,801 members

216 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

51

by Octavia E. Butler

3,458 members

129 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,956 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: banjo123, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Salvage the Bones

2,918 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

54

A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James

2,894 members

108 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, banjo123

55

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,868 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

56

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

1,200 members

62 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, banjo123

57

A Summons to Memphis

by Peter Taylor

1,032 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, skavlanj

58

595 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: lauralkeet, banjo123

59

by David Foster Wallace

13,263 members

244 reviews

4.2

Member: skavlanj

60

by Cormac McCarthy

11,676 members

274 reviews

4.2

Member: skavlanj

61

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,969 members

140 reviews

4.2

Member: skavlanj

62

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,714 members

107 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

63

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

4,014 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: skavlanj

64

The Adventures of Augie March

3,872 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: skavlanj

65

by Djuna Barnes

3,144 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Play It As It Lays

2,973 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: skavlanj

67

by Mary McCarthy

2,340 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

68

Sabbath's Theater

2,333 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: MaskedMumbler

69

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson

2,186 members

134 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

2,130 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Grace Metalious

1,690 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

by John Dos Passos

1,482 members

15 reviews

4

Member: skavlanj

73

A Sport and a Pastime

by James Salter

1,339 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: skavlanj

74

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

1,078 members

31 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: banjo123

75

Dancer from the Dance

by Andrew Holleran

1,019 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

718 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Salt Eaters

by Toni Cade Bambara

456 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: lauralkeet

78

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,844 members

378 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

79

8,004 members

85 reviews

3.9

80

by Katherine Dunn

6,156 members

163 reviews

4

81

by John Crowley

4,207 members

115 reviews

4

82

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

3,981 members

155 reviews

3.9

83

by Leslie Marmon Silko

3,587 members

60 reviews

3.8

84

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

by Julia Alvarez

3,405 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

85

3,317 members

133 reviews

3.8

86

2,946 members

67 reviews

3.9

87

The Intuitionist

by Colson Whitehead

2,233 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

88

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,154 members

63 reviews

4

89

2,069 members

94 reviews

3.8

90

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

1,917 members

58 reviews

4.2

91

by Sandra Cisneros

1,836 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

92

1,735 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

93

1,720 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

94

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

by Gary Shteyngart

1,556 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

95

by Chang-Rae Lee

1,422 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

96

1,314 members

18 reviews

3.8

97

1,198 members

23 reviews

4.1

98

by Mary Gaitskill

1,166 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

99

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

1,144 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

100

by Ishmael Reed

1,033 members

13 reviews

3.8

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