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1

by Michael Cunningham

12,764 members

232 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Rchlwtsn

2

The Jane Austen Book Club

by Karen Joy Fowler

6,437 members

194 reviews

3

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Rchlwtsn

3

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,860 members

616 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

14,410 members

193 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Rchlwtsn

5

by Frank Herbert

42,923 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

6

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

7,820 members

396 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, Rchlwtsn

7

–And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano, the Deadly Seducer

661 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

by Alexander McCall Smith

5,710 members

102 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, Rchlwtsn

9

43,783 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

10

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

26,398 members

502 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

11

I Capture the Castle

9,240 members

295 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

23,054 members

339 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

15,415 members

565 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

14

by Anita Shreve

3,319 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, Rchlwtsn

15

by John Steinbeck

23,540 members

425 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, Rchlwtsn

16

A Short History of Nearly Everything

23,358 members

399 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, Rchlwtsn

17

by James Patterson

3,999 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

18

Visits from the Drowned Girl

by Steven Sherrill

114 members

5 reviews

3.1

Member: sturlington

19

20,198 members

466 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

20

5,605 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, Rchlwtsn

21

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

21,155 members

369 reviews

4

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,478 members

477 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

by Fannie Flagg

2,081 members

48 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Rchlwtsn, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,460 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

25

Kingdom Of The Wicked

67 members

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Beverly Lewis

1,340 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

27

by Michael Robotham

1,374 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

28

A History of Venice

by John Julius Norwich

1,110 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Michelle Huneven

158 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

30

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

8,754 members

416 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

31

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,785 members

684 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

32

Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

by Jerry Bledsoe

93 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

33

by Craig Thompson

5,223 members

245 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Peter Shaffer

2,156 members

21 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Donald E. Westlake

305 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

36

Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty

218 members

10 reviews

3.1

Member: dara85

37

22,036 members

564 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories

by Michael Chabon

674 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

39

by Joy Fielding

517 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

40

The Da Vinci Code

70,511 members

1,311 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Stephen$$Frey/Si342n$$Ann Bessey

1 member

Member: dara85

42

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,631 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

by David Baldacci

4,281 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

44

by Michael Connelly

4,696 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

45

Stuck Rubber Baby

by Howard Cruse

523 members

20 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

14,690 members

311 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Children's Blizzard

by David Laskin

1,694 members

77 reviews

4

Member: dara85

48

249 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

49

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

22,198 members

447 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

by Jonathan Lethem

1,037 members

26 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

51

The Light Fantastic

by Terry Pratchett

14,806 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

An Unfinished Life

610 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

53

Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook

170 members

6 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

54

by Terry Pratchett

14,494 members

255 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Dream of Scipio

2,209 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

56

My Boyfriend's Back

by Donna Hanover

36 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

57

by Terry Pratchett

15,854 members

253 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Master Butchers Singing Club

by Louise Erdrich

2,445 members

74 reviews

4

Member: dara85

59

1,166 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

60

by Terry Pratchett

11,209 members

148 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

2,392 members

106 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

62

94 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

63

The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society

by Kathryn Harrison

593 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

64

by Stephen King

8,372 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Drowning Tree

by Carol Goodman

695 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

66

Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebook Set (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Three Book Slipcased Set)

by Jonathan Tweet

72 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,773 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

Buried Evidence

by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

295 members

1 review

3.2

Member: dara85

69

Fiddler on the Roof [play]

by Joseph Stein

628 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

275 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

71

by Stephen King

22,936 members

495 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Beach House

by James Patterson

3,883 members

55 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

73

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

1,235 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Don Lasseter

60 members

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

75

by Alice Sebold

5,792 members

115 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

76

The Good Doctor

151 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,498 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

by Mary Higgins Clark

1,035 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

79

Angels and Demons

45,735 members

781 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

Murder in Brentwood

by Mark Fuhrman

244 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

81

by William Shakespeare

13,884 members

176 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Sign of the Book

by John Dunning

1,167 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

83

by Carl Hiaasen

2,403 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

by Beverly Lewis

1,429 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

85

Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

by Christopher Moore

4,032 members

118 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Day of Reckoning

by John Katzenbach

196 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

87

by Billie Letts

1,492 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

88

The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas

by Edward Gorey

657 members

14 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies

2,517 members

25 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Final Judgment

by Richard North Patterson

1,025 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

91

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,091 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

by J. F. Freedman

190 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

93

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

by Stephen King

8,393 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Stuart Woods

1,017 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

95

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

2,361 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

545 members

22 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

97

Deception Point

20,421 members

252 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us

54 members

½ 2.5

Member: dara85

99

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,269 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life

by Samuel G. Freedman

45 members

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

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