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BySally Rooney

All of This

ByRebecca Woolf

Madwoman

ByChelsea Bieker

Bright Objects

ByRuby Todd

2024 • 11 Readers • 432 pages

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

BySara Imari Walker

2024 • 9 Readers • 272 pages

The Gold Bug Variations

The Gold Bug Variations

ByRichard Powers

1991 • 25 Readers • 639 pages • 4.6

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

ByRichard Powers

1985 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

Ex-Wife

ByUrsula Parrott

1929 • 27 Readers • 239 pages • 4.3

Freedom Is a Feast

Freedom Is a Feast

ByAlejandro Puyana

2024 • 1 Reader

Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

ByBrendan Ballou

2023 • 11 Readers • 4.3

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Crawling Behind

Crawling Behind: America’s Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It

ByElliot Haspel

1 Reader

Childhood / Youth / Dependency

#1-3 of 3 in The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood / Youth / Dependency

ByTove Ditlevsen,Tiina Nunnally(Translator),+1 more

Another Marvelous Thing

Another Marvelous Thing

ByLaurie Colwin

1986 • 6 Readers • 145 pages

Scaffolding

ByLauren Elkin

2024 • 10 Readers • 348 pages • 4.5

Liars

BySarah Manguso

2024 • 33 Readers • 257 pages • 3.8

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

ByJonathan Haidt

James

ByPercival Everett

2024 • 446 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

ByAlexander Chee

Entitlement

ByRumaan Alam

24 Readers • 276 pages • 2.5

Acts of Desperation

Acts of Desperation

ByMegan Nolan

2021 • 111 Readers • 266 pages • 4.3

Willful Disregard

#1 of 2 in Ester Nilsson

Willful Disregard

ByLena Andersson

2013 • 4 Readers • 208 pages • 4

Table for Two: Fictions

#1.5 of 1 in Rules of Civility

Table for Two: Fictions

ByAmor Towles

A Court of Thorns and Roses

#2 of 6 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses

BySarah J. Maas

The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning

The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning

BySamhita Mukhopadhyay

9 Readers

The Savage Detectives

The Savage Detectives

ByRoberto Bolaño

1998 • 193 Readers • 592 pages • 4.1

Why Did I Ever

ByMary Robison

2001 • 6 Readers • 208 pages

Gretel and the Great War

Gretel and the Great War

ByAdam Ehrlich Sachs

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

ByGriffin Dunne

2024 • 21 Readers • 364 pages • 4

Molly

ByBlake Butler

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

ByHerman Melville

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

ByLucia Berlin

2015 • 153 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

Woman of Interest: A Memoir

Woman of Interest: A Memoir

ByTracy O'Neill

2024 • 2 Readers • 4.5

Austerlitz

ByW.G. Sebald,James Wood

2001 • 105 Readers • 265 pages • 4.5

Ragtime

ByE.L. Doctorow

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

A River Runs Through it and Other Stories

ByNorman Maclean,Robert Redford,+1 more

2017 • 71 Readers • 263 pages • 4.2

Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue

ByMichael Chabon

2012 • 60 Readers • 465 pages • 3.4

Doxology

ByNell Zink

2019 • 18 Readers • 2.5

About Grace

ByAnthony Doerr

2004 • 31 Readers • 402 pages • 3

Veronica

ByMary Gaitskill

2005 • 35 Readers • 272 pages • 3

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

ByMatt Bell

2022 • 25 Readers • 168 pages • 4.8

Tree of Smoke

ByDenis Johnson

2008 • 66 Readers • 624 pages • 4.4

Four Seasons in Rome

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

ByAnthony Doerr

Evenings and Weekends

Evenings and Weekends

ByOisín McKenna

2024 • 72 Readers • 248 pages • 3.7

The Sympathizer

#1 of 2 in The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer

ByViet Thanh Nguyen

2015 • 476 Readers • 384 pages • 4

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

ByAnna Akbari

2024 • 23 Readers • 3.8

A Touch of Jen

ByBeth Morgan

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

#4 of 45 in Hercule Poirot

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

ByAgatha Christie

-2100 • 705 Readers • 306 pages • 4.2

The Bee Sting

ByPaul Murray

2022 • 356 Readers • 736 pages • 4.3

You Like It Darker

You Like It Darker

ByStephen King

2024 • 247 Readers • 512 pages • 4.1

Gift From the Sea

Gift from the Sea

ByAnne Morrow Lindbergh

36 Readers • 4.3

The Husbands

ByHolly Gramazio

2024 • 203 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories

ByDaniel Mason

2020 • 13 Readers • 240 pages • 4.5

Sandwich

ByCatherine Newman

2024 • 49 Readers • 192 pages • 4

Last Night at the Lobster

Last Night at the Lobster

ByStewart O'Nan

2007 • 25 Readers • 160 pages • 3.7

Mrs Dalloway

ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 639 Readers • 282 pages • 3.7

The Hours

ByMichael Cunningham

1998 • 197 Readers • 244 pages • 4

If I Survive You

If I Survive You

ByJonathan Escoffery

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

ByAdam Moss

14 Readers

One Good Turn

#2 of 6 in Jackson Brodie

ByKate Atkinson

2006 • 68 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

ByMolly Roden Winter

The New York Trilogy

#1 of 3 in New York Trilogy

The New York Trilogy

ByPaul Auster

1987 • 192 Readers • 314 pages • 3.9

4 3 2 1

ByPaul Auster

2017 • 110 Readers • 995 pages • 4.3

Real Americans

ByRachel Khong

2024 • 146 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3 Bois Sauvage

Sing, Unburied, Sing

ByJesmyn Ward

All Fours

ByMiranda July

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

ByKai Bird

2010 • 1 Reader • 448 pages

The Sicilian Inheritance

The Sicilian Inheritance

ByJo Piazza

2024 • 23 Readers • 385 pages • 3.5

David Copperfield

David Copperfield

ByCharles Dickens

1849 • 509 Readers • 68 pages • 4

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

ByNaomi Klein

9 • 246 Readers • 333 pages • 4.3

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

ByLeslie Jamison

2024 • 16 Readers • 218 pages • 5

The Hero of This Book

The Hero of This Book

ByElizabeth McCracken

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

ByEtgar Keret,Nathan Englander(Translator),+2 more

2010 • 9 Readers • 189 pages • 4.3

The Seven Good Years

The Seven Good Years

BySondra Silverston(Translator),Miriam Shlesinger(Translator),+3 more

2013 • 14 Readers • 173 pages • 4.5

The Principles of Uncertainty

The Principles of Uncertainty

ByMaira Kalman

My Name Is Barbra

My Name Is Barbra

ByBarbra Streisand

Minor Feelings

ByCathy Park Hong

2020 • 165 Readers • 209 pages • 4.1

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

ByDaniel Defoe

1722 • 60 Readers • 328 pages • 3.5

The Memory of Love

The Memory of Love

ByAminatta Forna

2010 • 4 Readers • 445 pages

Idlewild

ByJames Frankie Thomas

2023 • 18 Readers • 4.3

Martyr! A Novel

ByKaveh Akbar

2024 • 308 Readers • 353 pages • 4.1

The Counting House

The Counting House

ByGary Sernovitz

2023 • 1 Reader

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

ByMichael Easter

Miracle Creek

ByAngie Kim

2019 • 246 Readers • 369 pages • 4

Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree

ByAndrew Solomon

2017 • 102 Readers • 464 pages • 4.3

We All Want Impossible Things

We All Want Impossible Things

ByCatherine Newman

2022 • 53 Readers • 167 pages • 4.3

The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

ByYu Hua,Allan H. Barr(Translator)

2013 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 4

To Live

ByYu Hua,Michael Berry(Translator),+1 more

1992 • 34 Readers • 250 pages • 4.1

Brothers

ByYu Hua,Eileen Chow(Translator),+1 more

2005 • 16 Readers • 641 pages • 4.8

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 3,475 Readers • 398 pages • 4.4

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

ByKate Kennedy

2024 • 44 Readers • 328 pages • 5

Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

ByCarmen Maria Machado

2017 • 589 Readers • 245 pages • 3.8

Crossing to Safety

Crossing to Safety

ByWallace Stegner

1987 • 67 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

ByC Pam Zhang

2020 • 158 Readers • 288 pages • 4

The Midcoast

ByAdam White

2022 • 15 Readers • 336 pages • 3.3

So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, See You Tomorrow

ByWilliam Maxwell

1980 • 37 Readers • 135 pages • 3.7

The Writing Retreat

The Writing Retreat

ByJulia Bartz

2023 • 284 Readers • 320 pages • 3.4

Long Island Compromise

Long Island Compromise

ByTaffy Brodesser-Akner

2021 • 74 Readers • 440 pages • 4.4

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

ByJames McBride

2023 • 446 Readers • 385 pages • 3.9

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

ByShannon Reed

2024 • 22 Readers • 336 pages • 4.4

With or Without You

With or Without You

ByDomenica Ruta