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by Roberto Bolaño

6,661 members

185 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Bretzky1

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,256 members

632 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

3

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,884 members

3,496 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,863 members

415 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963

5

26,607 members

629 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

6

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,665 members

342 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Graveyard Book

22,300 members

1,264 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,515 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,637 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

3 Members: honeydew69862004, thecoroner, ahef1963

10

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,532 members

384 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

11

by Suzanne Collins

49,575 members

1,798 reviews

4.2

2 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963

12

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

9,637 members

423 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

13

American Gods {original}

33,709 members

933 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

9,707 members

507 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: hipdeep, honeydew69862004, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

3,050 members

72 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

16

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,154 members

63 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

17

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

8,207 members

368 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2,373 members

58 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

19

by W. G. Sebald

4,151 members

101 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

20

by José Saramago

2,516 members

50 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

21

7,850 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

22

The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

6,315 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

23

by Claudio Magris

162 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

24

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

9,956 members

346 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

25

by José Saramago

2,467 members

59 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

26

13,701 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

27

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,768 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

28

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,843 members

378 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Hilary Mantel

13,575 members

655 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

30

El séptimo velo

by Juan Manuel de Prada

69 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: raperper

31

The Plot Against America

8,978 members

218 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

32

3,716 members

96 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

33

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,167 members

292 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

34

7,050 members

147 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

35

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

13,052 members

279 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

36

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

21,156 members

369 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,037 members

941 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

43,787 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

101,879 members

936 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

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20,200 members

466 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Little Friend

7,282 members

158 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

by Rob Sheffield

1,859 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

43

Unseen Academicals

by Terry Pratchett

6,285 members

186 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

101,499 members

863 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

45

Hey Nostradamus!

by Douglas Coupland

2,817 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,356 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

47

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

103,025 members

887 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

48

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,427 members

315 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

by David Rutledge

93 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

50

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

97,109 members

1,572 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: honeydew69862004, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

51

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,083 members

779 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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6,709 members

129 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

53

by Craig Thompson

5,224 members

245 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,541 members

222 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

1,772 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

56

Fables, Vol. 01: Legends in Exile

by Bill Willingham

4,605 members

158 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

by Vernor Vinge

2,993 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

58

In a Sunburned Country

9,134 members

229 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

59

Death of an Ordinary Man

334 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Terry Pratchett

11,324 members

167 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

355 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

62

by K. A. Applegate

340 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

by David Perkins

82 members

4.8

Member: hipdeep

64

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,568 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Android's Dream

2,374 members

103 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

66

309 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

Domestic Violence: Poems

by Eavan Boland

60 members

1 review

4

Member: hipdeep

68

by Terry Pratchett

11,841 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

by Neal Stephenson

6,488 members

78 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

70

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

by Chris Hedges

1,672 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

Can We Talk About Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

by Beverly Daniel Tatum

134 members

4.2

Member: hipdeep

72

A Short History of Nearly Everything

23,360 members

399 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

73

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

6,331 members

530 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets

by Eavan Boland

32 members

4

Member: hipdeep

75

by Richard Russo

8,796 members

184 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft

2,679 members

179 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

by Billy Collins

1,153 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

78

by K. A. Applegate

463 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Acts of Contortion

9 members

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

80

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,271 members

911 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

81

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand

7,947 members

155 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

82

by Douglas Coupland

2,040 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

by Margaret Atwood

17,031 members

538 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

84

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

3,536 members

104 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists

by Jim Ottaviani

135 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

86

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,033 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Ann Patchett

13,300 members

461 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

88

by Terry Pratchett

10,213 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

89

by Scott Westerfeld

14,153 members

663 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

90

Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League

46 members

4

Member: hipdeep

91

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,154 members

489 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

92

The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

by Christopher Moore

1,538 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs

by Kimberly Witherspoon

183 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

94

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,428 members

423 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

95

by Bret Easton Ellis

3,010 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

by Mitch Cullin

173 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

Observatory Mansions

by Edward Carey

549 members

13 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by Terry Pratchett

9,916 members

115 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

by Kate Atkinson

7,944 members

350 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

100

Ultimate X-Men: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1

304 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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