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1

by Kathryn Stockett

30,732 members

1,494 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

2

Water for Elephants

28,978 members

1,184 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

3

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

53,017 members

1,300 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

4

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,384 members

1,752 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

5

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

36,770 members

563 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

6

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

36,061 members

942 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

7

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

30,485 members

899 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

27,208 members

588 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

by Gillian Flynn

22,295 members

1,547 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

20,563 members

798 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

11

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,880 members

342 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

12

by Laurie Halse Anderson

14,835 members

723 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

13

by Emma Donoghue

14,404 members

980 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

14

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

10,780 members

363 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

15

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,963 members

190 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

16

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

8,912 members

223 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

17

8,687 members

217 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

6,957 members

344 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

19

The Prince of Tides

5,842 members

110 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

20

3,679 members

161 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

21

Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

2,983 members

48 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

22

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

2,937 members

43 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

23

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

2,815 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, KimarieBee

24

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

by Jaycee Dugard

2,206 members

136 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

25

by Carolyn Jessop

1,761 members

107 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

26

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

1,178 members

65 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

27

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

by Alison Arngrim

575 members

56 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

28

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

134,652 members

2,065 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

29

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,948 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963

30

by Charlotte Brontë

59,399 members

924 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

31

by Stephenie Meyer

58,579 members

2,269 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

32

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,357 members

708 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

33

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,932 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

34

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,288 members

520 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

35

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,681 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

36

by Orson Scott Card

41,389 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

37

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,726 members

440 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

38

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

30,617 members

934 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

39

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

26,004 members

389 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

25,421 members

730 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

41

by Charles Dickens

24,422 members

242 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

42

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,271 members

298 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

43

by Stephen King

23,323 members

453 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

44

by Toni Morrison

23,024 members

409 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

45

22,265 members

480 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

46

by Stephen King

22,097 members

411 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

47

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

21,523 members

493 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

48

by S. E. Hinton

21,221 members

680 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

49

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

20,871 members

753 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

50

James and the Giant Peach

19,905 members

363 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

51

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,758 members

373 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

52

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,285 members

248 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

53

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,260 members

348 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

54

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

18,207 members

208 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

55

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,967 members

1,121 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

56

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,532 members

384 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

57

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,935 members

215 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

58

by Stephen King

15,451 members

208 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

59

15,059 members

804 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

60

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,945 members

966 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

61

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,894 members

226 reviews

4

Member: dara85

62

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,770 members

743 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

63

by Stephen King

14,709 members

292 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

64

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

14,695 members

311 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

65

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

14,493 members

550 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

66

by Stephen King

13,741 members

769 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

67

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,155 members

489 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

12,360 members

595 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: dara85

69

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

11,761 members

798 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

70

The Austere Academy

by Lemony Snicket

11,684 members

110 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

71

I Know This Much is True

10,246 members

169 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

72

A Million Little Pieces

9,747 members

230 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

73

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

9,544 members

231 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

74

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

9,136 members

640 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

75

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

8,637 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

by Stephen King

8,573 members

197 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

77

by Stephen King

8,519 members

88 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

78

A Child Called "It"

8,513 members

305 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

79

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,093 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

80

by Stephen King

7,948 members

75 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

81

by Kate Atkinson

7,946 members

350 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

82

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,405 members

132 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

83

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

7,226 members

313 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

84

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

7,104 members

406 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

85

The Kitchen God's Wife

6,975 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

86

Where the Heart Is

by Billie Letts

6,875 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

87

by Markus Zusak

6,634 members

336 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

88

Flowers In The Attic

by V. C. Andrews

6,395 members

188 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

89

by Jodi Picoult

5,889 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

90

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,461 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

91

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,207 members

119 reviews

4

Member: dara85

92

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

5,054 members

260 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

93

Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

4,990 members

161 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

94

by Jodi Picoult

4,409 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

95

Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

4,402 members

236 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

96

by Anne Enright

4,067 members

204 reviews

3.1

Member: ahef1963

97

by Louise Penny

4,044 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

98

The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

4,037 members

72 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

99

The Kitchen House

by Kathleen Grissom

3,858 members

245 reviews

4

Member: dara85

100

by Jodi Picoult

3,723 members

72 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

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