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Belzhar

ByMeg Wolitzer

2014 • 23 Readers • 274 pages • 3.2

Never Can Say Goodbye

Never Can Say Goodbye

ByNick Flynn(Contributor),Sari Botton(Editor)

2014 • 2 Readers • 232 pages

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

ByMeghan Daum

2014 • 26 Readers • 257 pages • 3.5

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

ByRebecca Solnit

2014 • 7 Readers • 334 pages • 2

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings

ByMarlon James

2014 • 204 Readers • 688 pages • 4.1

The end of innocence

The end of innocence

ByAllegra Jordan

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

The assassination of Margaret Thatcher

ByHilary Mantel

2014 • 27 Readers • 142 pages • 3.4

Dirty Work

ByGabriel Weston

2013 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Dissonance

#1 of 2 in Dissonance

ByErica O'Rourke

2014 • 10 Readers • 484 pages • 3.5

The Summer Queen

#1 of 2 in Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Summer Queen

ByElizabeth Chadwick

2013 • 26 Readers • 496 pages • 3.4

Your Face in Mine A Novel

Your Face in Mine A Novel

ByJess Row

2014 • 5 Readers • 384 pages • 3.5

10:04

ByBen Lerner

2014 • 63 Readers • 257 pages • 3.4

The Laughing Monsters

The Laughing Monsters

ByDenis Johnson

2014 • 11 Readers • 240 pages • 3

Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

ByMacrina Wiederkehr

2008 • 2 Readers • 224 pages • 3

Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected About Being a Mom - Lisa-jo’s Story of Becoming & Being a Mom, and in the Process, & Discovering

Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected About Being a Mom - Lisa-jo’s Story of Becoming & Being a Mom, and in the Process, & Discovering

ByLisa-Jo Baker

2014 • 1 Reader

Couples

ByJohn Updike

1968 • 10 Readers • 570 pages • 3

Infinite Jest

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1996 • 840 Readers • 1,079 pages • 4.2

Clayhanger

#6 of 4 in The Five Towns

ByArnold Bennett

1910 • 5 Readers • 4

The Plague of Doves

The Plague of Doves

ByLouise Erdrich

2008 • 35 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

Odd John

ByOlaf Stapledon

1935 • 12 Readers • 190 pages • 4

The January Dancer

#1 of 3 in Spiral Arm

The January Dancer

ByMichael Flynn

2008 • 11 Readers • 3

A Complicated Kindness

A Complicated Kindness

ByMiriam Toews

2004 • 48 Readers • 253 pages • 3.8

The Glamour

ByChristopher Priest

1984 • 10 Readers • 326 pages • 3.3

The Puppet Masters

The Puppet Masters

ByRobert A. Heinlein

1951 • 66 Readers • 3.4

The Case of the Team Spirit

#1 of 9 in Bad Machinery

The case of the team spirit

ByJohn Allison

1901 • 6 Readers • 140 pages • 3.5

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

1995 • 619 Readers • 349 pages • 4

Bel-Ami

ByGuy de Maupassant,Douglas Parmée(translator),+1 more

1885 • 67 Readers • 416 pages • 3.6

The Lies of Locke Lamora

#1 of 7 in Gentleman Bastard

The Lies of Locke Lamora

ByScott Lynch

2006 • 1,798 Readers • 745 pages • 4.3

How Late It Was, How Late

How Late it Was, How Late

ByJames Kelman

1994 • 18 Readers • 373 pages • 3.7

untouchable

ByMulk Raj Anand

1935 • 17 Readers • 240 pages • 3.4

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

ByVictor Serge

2004 • 7 Readers • 404 pages

How the Dead Live

How the Dead Live

ByWill Self

2000 • 15 Readers • 404 pages • 3.5

John Henry Days

John Henry Days

ByColson Whitehead

2001 • 15 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

Letters from Skye

Letters from Skye

ByJessica Brockmole

2013 • 19 Readers • 306 pages • 4

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Amor and Psycho

Amor and Psycho: Stories

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

BySalman Rushdie

1981 • 428 Readers • 640 pages • 4

Nightmare Abbey

Nightmare Abbey

ByThomas Love Peacock

1818 • 10 Readers • 248 pages • 3

The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

ByGraham Robb

2013 • 3 Readers • 416 pages

The Stranger

ByAlbert Camus,Matthew Ward(Translator)

1942 • 2,048 Readers • 134 pages • 3.9

Amsterdam A History of the World's Most Liberal City

ByRussell Shorto

2013 • 11 Readers • 394 pages • 3.4

Perdido Street Station

#1 of 3 in New Crobuzon

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

ByChina Miéville

2000 • 597 Readers • 24h 9m • 4

Waiting for the Mahatma

Waiting for the Mahatma

ByR.K. Narayan

1955 • 5 Readers • 260 pages • 4

Wolf and the Watchman

Wolf and the Watchman

ByScott C. Johnson

2014 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 3

The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game

ByHermann Hesse,Richard Winston(Translator),+1 more

1943 • 153 Readers • 578 pages • 3.8

Lord Jim

ByJoseph Conrad

1900 • 69 Readers • 304 pages • 3.5

The Painted Bird

The Painted Bird

ByJerzy Kosiński

52 Readers • 4.2

One Lonely Night

#4 of 21 in Mike Hammer

One Lonely Night

ByMickey Spillane

1951 • 6 Readers • 224 pages • 2

PROVENCE, 1970

ByLuke Barr

2013 • 4 Readers • 320 pages • 4

The infinite moment of us

The infinite moment of us

ByLauren Myracle

18 Readers • 2.3

As I Lay Dying

ByWilliam Faulkner

1930 • 413 Readers • 231 pages • 3.6

Red Mars

#1 of 3 in Mars Trilogy

ByKim Stanley Robinson

1992 • 526 Readers • 671 pages • 3.8

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

ByJacqueline A. Jones

2013 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

New Grub Street

New Grub Street

ByGeorge Gissing

1891 • 24 Readers • 576 pages • 4

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

ByJames M. Cain

1934 • 112 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7

Room at The Top

#1 of 1 in At the Top

Room at the Top

ByJohn Braine

1957 • 1 Reader • 234 pages

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The Berlin Stories

The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin

ByChristopher Isherwood

1 Reader

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

#1-3 of 12 in A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

ByAnthony Powell

1955 • 52 Readers • 718 pages • 4

The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos

ByJohn Wyndham

1957 • 97 Readers • 52 pages • 4

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

ByNathan Englander

2012 • 9 Readers • 224 pages • 4.7

The Yearling

ByMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 • 46 Readers • 428 pages • 3.9

Flood

#1 of 1 in Flood

ByStephen Baxter

2008 • 28 Readers • 489 pages • 4.3

Freedom National

Freedom National

ByJames Oakes

2012 • 1 Reader • 596 pages

Winger

#1 of 2 in Winger

ByAndrew Smith

2013 • 34 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

Madame Bovary

ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 562 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

Sybil, or the Two Nations

Sybil, or the Two Nations

ByBenjamin Disraeli

1845 • 5 Readers • 431 pages • 3

Nation

ByTerry Pratchett,Laura Ellen Andersen

2008 • 122 Readers • 393 pages • 4

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature

ByDavid George Haskell

2012 • 26 Readers • 3.6

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick And The Dead

ByJoy Williams

2000 • 10 Readers • 320 pages • 4

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

ByGraham Greene

2004 • 54 Readers • 272 pages • 3.8

Incandescence

ByGreg Egan

2008 • 18 Readers • 300 pages • 3.3

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

ByMark Z. Danielewski

1999 • 1,375 Readers • 709 pages • 4.1

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook

ByDoris Lessing

1999 • 115 Readers • 676 pages • 3.9

Starship Troopers

Heinlein's Juveniles

Starship Troopers

ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 643 Readers • 353 pages • 3.7

Rot ist mein Name

ByOrhan Pamuk,Ingrid Iren(Translator)

1998 • 82 Readers • 556 pages • 3.8

The Savage Detectives

The Savage Detectives

ByRoberto Bolaño

1998 • 181 Readers • 592 pages • 4

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

ByGeorge Packer

2013 • 6 Readers • 449 pages • 4

Nausea

ByJean-Paul Sartre,Lloyd Alexander(Translator)

1938 • 302 Readers • 196 pages • 3.7

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Z

ByVassilis Vassilikos

3 Readers

Anthem

ByAyn Rand

1936 • 227 Readers • 48 pages • 3.5

City at the End of Time

City at the End of Time

ByGreg Bear

2008 • 11 Readers • 498 pages • 3.3

Suttree

ByCormac McCarthy

1979 • 137 Readers • 471 pages • 4.2

The knights of the cornerstone

The knights of the cornerstone

ByJames P. Blaylock

2008 • 1 Reader • 294 pages

The Kills

#1 of 1 in The Kills

ByRichard House

2013 • 3 Readers • 1,024 pages • 3

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

#3 of 10 in George Smiley

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

ByJohn le Carré

1963 • 313 Readers • 301 pages • 4.1

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Pilgrim's Wilderness

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

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War Trash

ByHa Jin

2 Readers

The Ninth Circle

The Ninth Circle

ByAlex Bell

2008 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

At the Mountains of Madness

1 Dark Adventure Radio Theatre

At the Mountains of Madness

ByH.P. Lovecraft

1931 • 271 Readers • 268 pages • 3.8

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover

ByD.H. Lawrence

1928 • 69 Readers • 388 pages • 3.6

Dombey and Son

ByCharles Dickens

1848 • 33 Readers • 978 pages • 3.8

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

ByClaire Tomalin

2012 • 5 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The Ginger Man

ByJ.P. Donleavy

1955 • 14 Readers • 347 pages • 3

Song of Time

ByIan R. MacLeod

2008 • 11 Readers • 3

The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans

ByM.L. Stedman

2012 • 263 Readers • 339 pages • 3.8

Singularity's Ring

Singularity's Ring

ByPaul Melko

2009 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

The Worm Ouroboros

#0 of 1 in The Zimiamvian Trilogy

The Worm Ouroboros

ByE.R. Eddison

1922 • 57 Readers • 520 pages • 4

Delilah Dirk And The Turkish Lieutenant

#1 of 3 in Delilah Dirk

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

ByTony Cliff

2011 • 22 Readers • 176 pages • 4.1

How should a person be?

How Should a Person Be?

BySheila Heti

2012 • 61 Readers • 290 pages • 3.6

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

Berlin Alexanderplatz

ByAlfred Döblin,Eugene Jolas(Translator)

1929 • 45 Readers • 635 pages • 3.8

ByZadie Smith

2012 • 100 Readers • 338 pages • 3.6