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by Louisa May Alcott

26,684 members

402 reviews

4

7 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lp92

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,814 members

375 reviews

½ 3.4

7 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963, lp92, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Edith Wharton

9,541 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ahef1963

4

by Henry David Thoreau

14,221 members

193 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, Bretzky1, lp92

5

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,680 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, trisarahdactyl, ahef1963

6

The Secret History

20,540 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Louisa May Alcott

4,605 members

56 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963

8

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,831 members

191 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,864 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Richard Russo

8,797 members

184 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,671 members

23 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

12

The Lace Reader

by Brunonia Barry

3,400 members

281 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

13

by Sylvia Plath

28,287 members

505 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,235 members

426 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Stephen King

10,069 members

124 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

16,449 members

295 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

17

The Stepford Wives

3,087 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

22,097 members

411 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

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by Stephen King

14,285 members

231 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

20

by Stephen King

11,042 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,

21

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,750 members

204 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

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by Vladimir Nabokov

31,849 members

565 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

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The Weight of Water

by Anita Shreve

3,201 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

24

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

by Jonathan Edwards

1,020 members

11 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

25

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

944 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The World According to Garp

15,347 members

198 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

27

by Shirley Jackson

759 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

by Stephen King

9,339 members

154 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

29

4,552 members

295 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

30

1,858 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

31

6,497 members

452 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

32

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,818 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

33

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,186 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

34

by Stephen King

14,709 members

292 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

35

1,848 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Thomas Tryon

1,374 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

3,859 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Michelle Gagnon

178 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

39

by Anita Shreve

2,457 members

143 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

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by Grace Metalious

1,691 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charlotte MacLeod

484 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

42

Death at an Early Age

by Jonathan Kozol

403 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: aulsmith

43

by Lisa Gardner

2,388 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

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The Family Vault

by Charlotte MacLeod

538 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

45

Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal

by David France

68 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

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The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,697 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Lisa Gardner

2,312 members

86 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

48

by Thornton Wilder

5,117 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert

by John Barylick

87 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

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by Chris Bohjalian

5,728 members

122 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

51

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

by John Hodgman

636 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

by David E. Shi

147 members

3 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

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Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

8,637 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

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by Thomas Tryon

1,146 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Murder in Boston

39 members

3

Member: dara85

56

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

10,908 members

123 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,

57

by Charlotte Vale Allen

76 members

3 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: dara85

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by Carrie Brown

234 members

12 reviews

4

Member: dara85

59

Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors

by Joseph A. Citro

137 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Secrets of Eden

by Chris Bohjalian

1,113 members

91 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

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The Late George Apley

by John P. Marquand

671 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

62

The Outer Cape: A Novel

by Patrick Dacey

60 members

16 reviews

½ 2.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,773 members

963 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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4,235 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

65

Fair, Clear, and Terrible: The Story of Shiloh Maine

by Shirley Nelson

37 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

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by Richard Matheson

2,374 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda,

67

Where Are the Children?

by Mary Higgins Clark

2,327 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

68

Six Haunted Hairdos

by Gregory Maguire

65 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

69

Two Little Girls in Blue

by Mary Higgins Clark

2,947 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

70

The Curse of the Blue Figurine

by John Bellairs

772 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Gregory Maguire

45 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

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397 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Dog Who Came to Stay

131 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

74

The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

3,600 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

by Brock Clarke

1,597 members

92 reviews

3

Member: sturlington

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by Andrew Gross

917 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

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Don't Look Twice

by Andrew Gross

516 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

78

Plain Bad Heroines

by Emily M. Danforth

1,125 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Prayers for the Dead

by Faye Kellerman

994 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

80

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary Rowlandson

490 members

13 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Journal of Madam Knight

by Sarah Kemble Knight

61 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Something Upstairs

by Avi

810 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

by John Bellairs

518 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

10,780 members

363 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

85

Losing Christina Collection

by Caroline B. Cooney

52 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Story So Far

8 members

1 review

5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Shirley Jackson

802 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Witches of Eastwick

3,260 members

46 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

16,952 members

475 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith

90

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,839 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith

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by Stephen King

10,712 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

9,012 members

70 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

93

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,854 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

9,930 members

139 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963, ,sturlington

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by Stephen King

11,686 members

263 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: trisarahdactyl, ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

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The Da Vinci Code

70,522 members

1,312 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, lp92, ,aulsmith ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

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by Stephen King

11,728 members

454 reviews

3.8

98

Cycle of the Werewolf

by Stephen King

3,248 members

74 reviews

½ 3.4

99

by Jack Kerouac

28,027 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

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2,891 members

63 reviews

½ 3.3

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