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Description: Notable books that I have not yet read, but should.

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,487 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

5 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

2

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,768 members

638 reviews

4

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,964 members

723 reviews

4.2

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

4

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,307 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, danananas

5

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,458 members

478 reviews

4.2

5 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Metamorphosis

12,587 members

222 reviews

3.9

5 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, aspirit, gravir

7

by Charlotte Brontë

59,349 members

924 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

8

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

42,879 members

1,124 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Sense and Sensibility

38,356 members

529 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

10

American Gods {original}

33,700 members

933 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

11

by Sylvia Plath

28,255 members

505 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Truman Capote

23,856 members

467 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

13

22,647 members

360 reviews

3.8

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,471 members

477 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,848 members

616 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,536 members

468 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

17

The Secret History

20,515 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,836 members

342 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Albert Camus

18,596 members

249 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

20

15,032 members

804 reviews

3.9

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Emma Donoghue

14,383 members

979 reviews

4

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

22

by Stephen King

13,717 members

769 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by José Saramago

13,099 members

391 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

24

by Cormac McCarthy

11,685 members

274 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy, gravir

25

by Raymond Chandler

10,341 members

284 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

26

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,254 members

114 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

28

by George Eliot

4,235 members

70 reviews

3.8

4 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,428 members

495 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

30

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

36,047 members

942 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

31

by Kathryn Stockett

30,690 members

1,494 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

32

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

30,458 members

897 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

33

by Stephen King

23,300 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Toni Morrison

22,986 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Northanger Abbey

21,775 members

420 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

20,840 members

753 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

20,217 members

465 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

19,978 members

237 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

39

Looking for Alaska

19,254 members

753 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

18,920 members

886 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

41

by George Eliot

17,816 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,348 members

226 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

43

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,264 members

911 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

44

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,722 members

325 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

45

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,655 members

342 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

46

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,522 members

384 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

47

by Haruki Murakami

16,370 members

356 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, gravir

48

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,927 members

966 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,739 members

743 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

50

Where the Crawdads Sing

14,466 members

623 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

51

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,895 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Charles Dickens

13,727 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

13,283 members

515 reviews

4.2

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

54

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,146 members

489 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

55

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,986 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

56

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,744 members

242 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

57

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

12,599 members

260 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

58

by Madeline Miller

12,558 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, aspirit

59

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,509 members

142 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,266 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by George Eliot

11,410 members

152 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

62

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

11,332 members

691 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, jordantaylor, ahef1963

63

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,826 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

64

I Capture the Castle

9,240 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,193 members

280 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

66

Little Fires Everywhere

8,959 members

376 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Charlotte Brontë

8,846 members

146 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,722 members

290 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

69

by Ray Bradbury

7,572 members

191 reviews

4

3 Members: jordantaylor, aspirit, ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Gregory David Roberts

7,386 members

230 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

71

The Wasp Factory

7,124 members

204 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

72

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,611 members

139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

by Margaret Atwood

6,248 members

225 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

74

by John Steinbeck

5,689 members

93 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

75

The Tiger's Wife

5,403 members

337 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

76

5,354 members

60 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

77

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

5,238 members

262 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ricalyr, jordantaylor, kara.shamy

78

by Marguerite Duras

5,180 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda, gravir

79

The Miniaturist

by Jessie Burton

3,976 members

220 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

80

by J. G. Ballard

3,566 members

77 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, gravir

81

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

3,143 members

192 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963, kara.shamy

82

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,629 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

83

by León Tolstói

29,021 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy

84

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,252 members

632 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

85

by Gustave Flaubert

26,343 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

86

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,978 members

533 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

87

24,210 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

88

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,535 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, jordantaylor

89

Interview with the Vampire

22,958 members

333 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

90

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,520 members

245 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

91

by S. E. Hinton

21,185 members

680 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

92

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,510 members

1,249 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

93

by Jostein Gaarder

18,789 members

289 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

94

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,642 members

1,269 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

95

18,307 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

96

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,952 members

370 reviews

4.2

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

97

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,712 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ManWithAnAgenda

98

Foucault's Pendulum

17,561 members

259 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, gravir

99

by Margaret Atwood

17,022 members

538 reviews

3.9

2 Members: jordantaylor, ahef1963

100

by Ralph Ellison

16,258 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: jordantaylor, kara.shamy

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