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Books I Own But Haven't Read

Description: .....and I need to read at least half of these books before I permit myself to buy more!

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by Veronica Roth

25,572 members

1,441 reviews

4

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Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,987 members

97 reviews

3.9

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by Markus Zusak

6,631 members

336 reviews

4

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by Charles Dickens

5,634 members

89 reviews

4

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5

by Ann Patchett

13,300 members

461 reviews

3.9

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6

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

5,728 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

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7

Water for Elephants

28,972 members

1,184 reviews

4.1

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8

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,644 members

59 reviews

3.9

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9

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

6,248 members

393 reviews

3.9

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10

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,768 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

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11

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,516 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

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12

by Marilynne Robinson

6,395 members

214 reviews

3.9

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13

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,241 members

146 reviews

4.1

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14

by Truman Capote

23,873 members

467 reviews

4.1

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15

by Diana Gabaldon

23,946 members

989 reviews

4.2

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16

The War of the Worlds

18,517 members

310 reviews

3.8

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17

by Isaac Asimov

15,111 members

271 reviews

4

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18

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,416 members

209 reviews

4

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by Rohinton Mistry

9,195 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

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20

by John Steinbeck

9,946 members

186 reviews

4

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21

The Metamorphosis

12,605 members

222 reviews

3.9

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22

Interesting Times

by Terry Pratchett

8,627 members

80 reviews

4

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23

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,513 members

228 reviews

4.1

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24

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,864 members

192 reviews

4

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25

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,075 members

181 reviews

4

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26

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,614 members

139 reviews

3.8

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27

by Anne McCaffrey

5,592 members

41 reviews

3.8

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28

by Graham Greene

5,172 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

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29

4,511 members

97 reviews

½ 3.6

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30

by Susan Cooper

5,090 members

72 reviews

3.9

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31

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,562 members

132 reviews

3.8

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32

by Stephen King

6,554 members

342 reviews

3.8

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33

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,970 members

32 reviews

4.1

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34

A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens

1,872 members

23 reviews

4.1

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35

The Long Way Home

by Louise Penny

2,195 members

130 reviews

3.9

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36

The Purity of Vengeance

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

1,340 members

68 reviews

3.9

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37

The Riddle of the Third Mile

by Colin Dexter

973 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

5,120 members

147 reviews

4

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39

Silver on the Tree

by Susan Cooper

4,985 members

64 reviews

4

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40

The Patron Saint of Liars

by Ann Patchett

2,727 members

83 reviews

3.8

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41

by John Grisham

4,087 members

165 reviews

3.9

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42

2,334 members

82 reviews

3.9

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43

2,254 members

27 reviews

4.1

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44

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,630 members

698 reviews

4.2

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45

by Albert Camus

18,602 members

249 reviews

4

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46

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,727 members

325 reviews

4

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47

by Hermann Hesse

13,612 members

195 reviews

4

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48

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,620 members

156 reviews

4.1

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49

The Invisible Man

10,983 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

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50

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,695 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

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51

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,613 members

169 reviews

3.9

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52

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,237 members

43 reviews

4.1

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53

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2,243 members

34 reviews

3.9

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The Boys from Brazil

2,072 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Graham Greene

1,165 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

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56

Gorillas in the Mist

1,052 members

15 reviews

4

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57

40,249 members

387 reviews

4

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,845 members

565 reviews

4.1

59

by León Tolstói

29,045 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

60

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

28,032 members

1,043 reviews

4.1

61

Les Misérables

26,437 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

62

Mere Christianity

26,435 members

220 reviews

½ 4.3

63

19,994 members

238 reviews

4

64

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

18,158 members

470 reviews

4.1

65

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,727 members

271 reviews

3.9

66

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,050 members

385 reviews

4

67

Life, the Universe, and Everything

by Douglas Adams

15,764 members

142 reviews

4

68

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,258 members

178 reviews

3.9

69

by Margaret Atwood

11,923 members

259 reviews

3.9

70

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

10,835 members

253 reviews

4

71

by Stephen King

9,145 members

114 reviews

3.8

72

The Bonfire of the Vanities

8,991 members

132 reviews

3.8

73

by E. M. Forster

8,819 members

133 reviews

4

74

Hearts in Atlantis

by Stephen King

8,640 members

106 reviews

½ 3.7

75

by Toni Morrison

7,722 members

98 reviews

3.8

76

The Island of Dr. Moreau

7,298 members

173 reviews

½ 3.6

77

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

6,886 members

163 reviews

3.8

78

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

by Eckhart Tolle

6,805 members

106 reviews

4

79

by D. H. Lawrence

6,690 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

80

by Honoré de Balzac

5,997 members

109 reviews

3.8

81

by Susan Cooper

5,892 members

89 reviews

4.1

82

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,429 members

89 reviews

3.8

83

Breathing Lessons

4,264 members

74 reviews

½ 3.6

84

Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

4,173 members

54 reviews

3.8

85

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

4,129 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

86

by James Hilton

3,989 members

101 reviews

3.9

87

The Adventures of Augie March

3,872 members

73 reviews

3.8

88

by Evelyn Waugh

3,832 members

84 reviews

3.8

89

by Ann Patchett

3,799 members

188 reviews

½ 3.6

90

The Swan Thieves

by Elizabeth Kostova

3,328 members

198 reviews

½ 3.5

91

Death with Interruptions

by José Saramago

3,117 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

92

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

3,086 members

25 reviews

4

93

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,737 members

39 reviews

3.9

94

The Cloister Walk

by Kathleen Norris

2,698 members

32 reviews

4

95

The Thurber Carnival

by James Thurber

2,589 members

33 reviews

4.2

96

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Peter Abelard

2,373 members

11 reviews

3.8

97

by Michael Ondaatje

2,347 members

84 reviews

½ 3.5

98

The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

2,269 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

99

The Berlin Stories

by Christopher Isherwood

2,184 members

41 reviews

3.9

100

by Iris Murdoch

2,145 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

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