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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

Early Earth

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

ByIsabel Greenberg

2013 • 40 Readers • 3.9

Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas

Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas

ByFrancine Prose

1997 • 1 Reader

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

ByKate Atkinson

1995 • 57 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher

Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher

ByWalter Moers

2011 • 17 Readers • 453 pages • 2.9

The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery

The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery

BySara Davidson

2014 • 2 Readers • 193 pages

Cold Comfort Farm

1 Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

ByStella Gibbons

1932 • 89 Readers • 338 pages • 3.9

A Suitable Boy

#1 of 2 in A Bridge of Leaves

ByVikram Seth

1993 • 93 Readers • 678 pages • 3.9

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 468 Readers • 810 pages • 4.2

Cloud Atlas

ByDavid Mitchell

2003 • 1,028 Readers • 509 pages • 3.9

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

The Shadow of the Wind

ByCarlos Ruiz Zafón,Lucia Graves(Translator)

2001 • 1,137 Readers • 487 pages • 4.1

Anna Karenina

ByLeo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1877 • 1,357 Readers • 1,480 pages • 4

Atonement

ByIan McEwan

2001 • 621 Readers • 144 pages • 3.9

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

ByHarper Lee

1960 • 3,574 Readers • 323 pages • 4.1

Vanity Fair

#1 of 2 in Vanity Fair

ByWilliam Makepeace Thackeray

1847 • 186 Readers • 922 pages • 3.6

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

ByEvelyn Waugh

1930 • 297 Readers • 351 pages • 3.8

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

ByKhaled Hosseini

1969 • 1,646 Readers • 401 pages • 4.2

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

#2 of 3 in French Trilogy

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

BySebastian Faulks

1993 • 53 Readers • 483 pages • 3.9

God is Not One : the Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

God is Not One : the Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

ByStephen R. Prothero

2010 • 7 Readers • 388 pages • 3.7

The Chosen

#1 of 1 in Reuven Malther

ByChaim Potok

1966 • 80 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

Die größere Hoffnung

Die größere Hoffnung

ByIlse Aichinger

1948 • 1 Reader • 218 pages

The Immortal Bartfuss

The Immortal Bartfuss

ByAharon Appelfeld

1983 • 1 Reader

Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization

Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization

ByMark Coté(editor)

2006 • 1 Reader • 357 pages

Academic Callings: The University We Have Had, Now Have, and Could Have

Academic Callings: The University We Have Had, Now Have, and Could Have

ByJanice Angela Newson(editor),Claire Polster(Editor)

2010 • 1 Reader • 264 pages

The Trip to Echo Spring

The Trip to Echo Spring

ByOlivia Laing

2013 • 7 Readers • 340 pages • 3

Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

ByDavid Walsh

3 Readers • 1

Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

ByReed Albergotti

2013 • 2 Readers • 3

Run, Boy, Run

ByUri Orlev

2003 • 1 Reader • 205 pages

Beaufort

ByRon Leshem

1 Reader

All Whom I Have Loved

All Whom I Have Loved

ByAharon Appelfeld

1999 • 1 Reader • 246 pages

Our Holocaust

ByAmir Gutfreund

2000 • 2 Readers • 420 pages

See Under: Love

See Under: Love

ByDavid Grossman,Betsy Rosenberg(Translator)

1986 • 2 Readers

Thanks to My Mother

Thanks to My Mother

BySchoschana Rabinovici

2000 • 4 Readers • 214 pages • 5

The Guest Cat

ByTakashi Hiraide,Eric Selland(Translator)

2001 • 89 Readers • 140 pages • 3.4

Norwegian Wood

ByHaruki Murakami,Jay Rubin

1987 • 1,340 Readers • 389 pages • 3.9

The Mad Scientist's Daughter

The Mad Scientist's Daughter

ByCassandra Rose Clarke

2013 • 18 Readers • 391 pages • 3

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

ByGrace Lin

2009 • 76 Readers • 4.1

The Crown Snatchers

The Crown Snatchers

ByFriedrich Karl Waechter

1972 • 1 Reader

The Dogs of Babel

The Dogs of Babel

ByCarolyn Parkhurst

2003 • 10 Readers • 278 pages • 4

Dog Is My Co-Pilot

Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship

ByBark Editors

1 Reader • 3

James Herriot's Dog Stories

James Herriot's Dog Stories

ByJames Herriot

1986 • 4 Readers • 464 pages • 4

Roads to Berlin

Roads to Berlin

ByCees Nooteboom,Laura Watkinson(Translator)

1990 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

Half Empty

ByDavid Rakoff

2010 • 20 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

On Judaism: An Introduction to the Essence of Judaism by One of the Most Important Religious Thinkers of the Twentieth Century

On Judaism: An Introduction to the Essence of Judaism by One of the Most Important Religious Thinkers of the Twentieth Century

ByMartin Buber

1972 • 1 Reader

Zeitoun

ByDave Eggers

2009 • 83 Readers • 342 pages • 4

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

BySeneca

64 • 309 Readers • 254 pages • 4.3

How to be Idle

ByTom Hodgkinson

2013 • 12 Readers • 304 pages • 3

Spinning Straw into Gold: Straight Talk for Troubled Times

Spinning Straw into Gold: Straight Talk for Troubled Times

ByMorris Berman

2013 • 1 Reader • 92 pages

The Art of Loving

The Art of Loving

ByErich Fromm

1956 • 121 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

Creation

ByGore Vidal

1981 • 25 Readers • 612 pages • 3.9

The Boy on the Wooden Box

The Boy on the Wooden Box

ByLeon Leyson

2013 • 20 Readers • 256 pages • 4.2

Jim Henson: The Biography

Jim Henson: The Biography

ByBrian Jay Jones

2013 • 42 Readers • 608 pages • 4

Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist

Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist

ByTim Federle

2013 • 8 Readers • 161 pages • 4

Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it

Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it

ByJennifer Michael Hecht

2013 • 4 Readers • 280 pages • 3

Mountain High

ByDaniel Friebe,Pete Goding

2011 • 1 Reader • 223 pages

Still Writing

ByDani Shapiro

2013 • 11 Readers • 230 pages • 4.6

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

ByLarry W. Phillips

1999 • 30 Readers • 160 pages • 4

Advice to Little Girls

Advice to Little Girls

ByMark Twain

1867 • 1 Reader • 4

Love and math : the heart of hidden reality

Love and math : the heart of hidden reality

ByEdward Frenkel

2013 • 12 Readers • 292 pages • 3.5

Racing through the dark

Racing Through the Dark

ByDavid Millar

3 Readers • 3.5

What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend

ByJohn Homans

2012 • 2 Readers • 273 pages

E. B. White on Dogs

E. B. White on Dogs

ByElwyn Brooks White

2013 • 1 Reader • 178 pages • 3.5

Slaying the Badger

Slaying the Badger

ByRichard Moore

2011 • 1 Reader • 283 pages

My brother's book

My brother's book

ByMaurice Sendak

2013 • 1 Reader • 31 pages

Good dog, stay

Good Dog. Stay.

ByAnna Quindlen

1 Reader

Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

ByJill Homer

2011 • 3 Readers • 343 pages

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

ByJeremy Dean

2012 • 9 Readers • 272 pages • 4

The Spring Classics: Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races

The Spring Classics: Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races

ByPhilippe Bouvet,Philippe Brunel,+2 more

2010 • 1 Reader • 223 pages

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

In the heart of the sea

ByNathaniel Philbrick

2000 • 211 Readers • 340 pages • 4.1

Appetites

ByCaroline Knapp

2003 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 4.5

Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

ByCaroline Knapp

1998 • 3 Readers • 4

Hanns and Rudolf

Hanns and Rudolf

ByThomas Harding

2013 • 5 Readers • 368 pages • 3

Drinking

ByCaroline Knapp

1996 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 4.5

Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

ByMelvin Jules Bukiet(Editor)

2002 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction

ByMelvin Jules Bukiet(editor)

2006 • 1 Reader • 301 pages

After

ByMelvin Jules Bukiet

1996 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood

Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood

ByMelvin Jules Bukiet

1991 • 1 Reader • 201 pages

Job

ByDorothy Thompson(Translator),Joseph Roth

1930 • 8 Readers • 220 pages • 3.5

As a Driven Leaf

As a Driven Leaf

ByMilton Steinberg

1939 • 6 Readers • 480 pages

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

#1 of 2 in Khalifa Brothers

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

BySalman Rushdie

1990 • 109 Readers • 224 pages • 4.1

Far to Go

ByAlison Pick

2010 • 7 Readers • 312 pages

The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

ByCarolyn Abraham

2012 • 1 Reader • 380 pages

The Memory of Water

Life Writing

The Memory of Water

ByAllen Smutylo

2013 • 1 Reader • 257 pages

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

ByTeresa Toten

2015 • 12 Readers • 246 pages • 3.3

The Lion Seeker

The Lion Seeker

ByKenneth Bonert

2 Readers • 4

My Family for the War

My Family for the War

ByAnne C. Voorhoeve,Tammi Reichel(Translator)

2008 • 2 Readers • 416 pages

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate

ByWendy Moore

2013 • 6 Readers • 343 pages • 3.7

Mr. Fox

ByHelen Oyeyemi

2011 • 56 Readers • 3.5

In One Person

In one person a novel

ByJohn Irving

2012 • 40 Readers • 450 pages • 3.7

We, the Drowned

We, the Drowned

ByCarsten Jensen,Charlotte Barslund(Translator),+1 more

2006 • 64 Readers • 678 pages • 4

The Translation of Dr. Apelles

The Translation of Dr. Apelles

ByDavid Treuer

2006 • 1 Reader • 335 pages

The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan

ByKurt Vonnegut

1959 • 521 Readers • 322 pages • 4

A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being

ByRuth Ozeki(Narrator)

2013 • 375 Readers • 14h 43m • 4

All Dogs Are Blue

All Dogs Are Blue

ByRodrigo de Souza Leão

2008 • 1 Reader • 117 pages • 3

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This Is Running for Your Life

This Is Running for Your Life

ByMichelle Orange

1 Reader

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

ByJessica Soffer

2013 • 3 Readers • 4

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

ByReza Aslan

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

Seraphina

#1 of 2 in Seraphina

ByRachel Hartman

2012 • 255 Readers • 467 pages • 4

When My Name Was Keoko

When My Name Was Keoko

ByLinda Sue Park

2002 • 18 Readers • 199 pages • 3.7

Beasts

ByJohn Crowley

1976 • 2 Readers • 184 pages

Lord Byron's Novel

Lord Byron's Novel

ByJohn Crowley