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by Gail Carriger

5,815 members

526 reviews

3.9

8 Members: hailelib, _Zoe_, foggidawn, KimarieBee, norabelle414, SylviaC, souloftherose, MDGentleReader

2

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,542 members

1,249 reviews

4.2

6 Members: lahochstetler, KimarieBee, cbl_tn, merrystar, SylviaC, souloftherose

3

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,786 members

657 reviews

3.8

6 Members: lorax, foggidawn, lahochstetler, cbl_tn, MDGentleReader, kara.shamy

4

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,766 members

575 reviews

3.9

6 Members: merrystar, SylviaC, souloftherose, KOsWL, MDGentleReader, Vneall

5

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

3,789 members

265 reviews

4

5 Members: lorax, ijustgetbored, norabelle414, suitable1, souloftherose

6

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,271 members

911 reviews

4

4 Members: lahochstetler, KimarieBee, melonbrawl, ahef1963

7

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

15,733 members

606 reviews

4

4 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, cbl_tn, aholsonback

8

by Emma Donoghue

14,402 members

979 reviews

4

4 Members: lahochstetler, norabelle414, ahef1963, kara.shamy

9

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

5,886 members

354 reviews

4.2

4 Members: lahochstetler, suitable1, souloftherose, ahef1963

10

The Mysterious Howling

by Maryrose Wood

1,720 members

117 reviews

3.9

4 Members: _Zoe_, ijustgetbored, keristars, souloftherose

11

The Children's Blizzard

by David Laskin

1,695 members

77 reviews

4

4 Members: lorax, DaynaRT, _Zoe_, AnnaClaire

12

The Fault in Our Stars

27,126 members

1,557 reviews

4.2

3 Members: KimarieBee, SylviaC, kara.shamy

13

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

25,135 members

377 reviews

4.1

3 Members: keristars, SylviaC, kara.shamy

14

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,505 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: KimarieBee, al.vick, ahef1963

15

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,762 members

743 reviews

4.2

3 Members: KimarieBee, SylviaC, souloftherose

16

The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly

6,944 members

328 reviews

3.9

3 Members: foggidawn, KimarieBee, ahef1963

17

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,772 members

287 reviews

4.1

3 Members: keristars, souloftherose, ahef1963

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by Louise Penny

6,742 members

427 reviews

3.8

3 Members: lahochstetler, souloftherose, kara.shamy

19

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,562 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: lahochstetler, aulsmith, kara.shamy

20

by Evelyn Waugh

3,509 members

61 reviews

3.8

3 Members: keristars, lahochstetler, kara.shamy

21

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

3,225 members

178 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: keristars, lahochstetler, ahef1963

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Excellent Women

2,756 members

126 reviews

4

3 Members: lahochstetler, cbl_tn, merrystar

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by Winifred Holtby

937 members

41 reviews

4.1

3 Members: lahochstetler, merrystar, souloftherose

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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

835 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: lorax, ijustgetbored, AnnaClaire

25

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

808 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: staffordcastle, melonbrawl, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Markus Zusak

45,229 members

2,131 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: norabelle414, ahef1963

27

40,446 members

1,590 reviews

4.2

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

28

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,033 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cbl_tn, ManWithAnAgenda

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18,320 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: KimarieBee, Lexxi

30

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,786 members

684 reviews

4.1

2 Members: keristars, kara.shamy

31

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,050 members

385 reviews

4

2 Members: Edward, kara.shamy

32

The Lies of Locke Lamora

10,269 members

442 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, KimarieBee

33

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

9,731 members

665 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: norabelle414, souloftherose

34

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

8,910 members

223 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

35

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

8,349 members

725 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, MDGentleReader

36

His Majesty's Dragon

8,100 members

372 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

37

by Sarah Waters

7,880 members

287 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, kara.shamy

38

by Stephen King

6,554 members

342 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Lexxi, kara.shamy

39

The Railway Children

5,946 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MDGentleReader, ahef1963

40

by Maria V. Snyder

5,295 members

310 reviews

4.1

2 Members: keristars, KimarieBee

41

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,851 members

175 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

42

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,844 members

272 reviews

3.8

2 Members: foggidawn, lahochstetler

43

by Jasper Fforde

4,119 members

266 reviews

4.1

2 Members: foggidawn, keristars

44

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

4,030 members

234 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: _Zoe_, souloftherose

45

by Karen Russell

3,614 members

238 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: keristars, kara.shamy

46

The Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliff

3,205 members

62 reviews

4

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

47

by Louisa May Alcott

2,720 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MDGentleReader, ahef1963

48

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,454 members

41 reviews

4

2 Members: al.vick, kara.shamy

49

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

by Gabrielle Zevin

1,932 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: _Zoe_, kara.shamy

50

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

by Conor Grennan

1,064 members

127 reviews

4.2

2 Members: _Zoe_, ahef1963

51

The Night Bookmobile

by Audrey Niffenegger

958 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: _Zoe_, souloftherose

52

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog

by Ysabeau S. Wilce

862 members

61 reviews

3.8

2 Members: foggidawn, keristars

53

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo

739 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hailelib, 2wonderY

54

Kat, Incorrigible

by Stephanie Burgis

467 members

54 reviews

4

2 Members: _Zoe_, keristars

55

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

312 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, melonbrawl

56

by Haruki Murakami

16,376 members

357 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

57

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

11,590 members

499 reviews

4

Member: Lexxi

58

10,846 members

358 reviews

4.1

Member: souloftherose

59

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore

10,648 members

416 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

60

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

by Richard Feynman

9,926 members

173 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

61

9,449 members

641 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: keristars

62

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

9,427 members

310 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

8,755 members

416 reviews

4

Member: SylviaC

64

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

8,207 members

368 reviews

4.2

Member: _Zoe_

65

The Sign of the Beaver

by Elizabeth George Speare

8,101 members

84 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

66

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

8,016 members

391 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

67

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl

6,600 members

306 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: keristars

68

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated}

by James W. Loewen

6,365 members

97 reviews

4

Member: keristars

69

by Melissa Marr

6,049 members

309 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: foggidawn

70

5,875 members

247 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

71

5,400 members

219 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

72

by Brandon Mull

5,399 members

203 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

73

An Instance of the Fingerpost

5,260 members

138 reviews

3.9

Member: keristars

74

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

5,056 members

351 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: keristars

75

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

4,860 members

389 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: keristars

76

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

4,608 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

77

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

4,370 members

197 reviews

4.2

Member: _Zoe_

78

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

4,304 members

249 reviews

3.9

Member: eromsted

79

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

4,213 members

178 reviews

3.8

Member: _Zoe_

80

by John Crowley

4,207 members

115 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

81

4,177 members

92 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: norabelle414

82

Ella Minnow Pea

3,978 members

260 reviews

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

83

Heartstopper: Volume 1

by Alice Oseman

3,861 members

143 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

3,842 members

185 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

85

The Great Kapok Tree

by Lynne Cherry

3,683 members

64 reviews

4.2

Member: al.vick

86

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

by Kate Summerscale

3,512 members

173 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: lahochstetler

87

3,410 members

279 reviews

3.8

Member: _Zoe_

88

Kitten's First Full Moon

by Kevin Henkes

3,301 members

315 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

89

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

3,195 members

106 reviews

4.1

Member: suitable1

90

The Brain That Changes Itself : Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

by Norman Doidge

3,141 members

77 reviews

4.2

Member: SylviaC

91

by Rainbow Rowell

2,881 members

231 reviews

4

Member: foggidawn

92

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

by Philip C. Stead

2,778 members

338 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

93

Here Be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,580 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: suitable1

94

And Tango Makes Three

by Justin Richardson

2,543 members

311 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: al.vick

95

Bridge of Birds

by Barry Hughart

2,521 members

96 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: tottman

96

Luck in the Shadows

by Lynn Flewelling

2,486 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: al.vick

97

by Rachel Hawkins

2,462 members

233 reviews

3.9

Member: _Zoe_

98

by Melanie Rawn

2,422 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: al.vick

99

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

2,282 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: MDGentleReader

100

Winter Solstice

by Rosamunde Pilcher

2,270 members

66 reviews

4

Member: SylviaC

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