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The seamstress

ByFrances de Pontes Peebles

2008 • 4 Readers • 646 pages • 5

The original 1982

The original 1982

ByLori Carson

The Emperor's Blades

#1 of 5 in Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

The Emperor's Blades

ByBrian Staveley

2014 • 346 Readers • 493 pages • 3.9

Noughts & Crosses

#1 of 5 in Noughts and Crosses

Noughts & Crosses

ByMalorie Blackman

2001 • 124 Readers • 132 pages • 3.8

Lion's Honey

#5 of 16 in Canongate's The Myths

ByDavid Grossman,Stuart Schoffman(Translator)

2005 • 2 Readers • 176 pages

Poor Things

ByAlasdair Gray

1992 • 191 Readers • 315 pages • 3.9

Blackout

#3 of 4 in Newsflesh

ByMira Grant

2012 • 74 Readers • 512 pages • 4

Deadline

#2 of 4 in Newsflesh

ByMira Grant

2011 • 86 Readers • 584 pages • 4.2

Scattered Among Strange Worlds

Scattered Among Strange Worlds

ByAliette de Bodard

2012 • 2 Readers

The gods of heavenly punishment

Gods of Heavenly Punishment

ByJennifer Cody Epstein

1 Reader

The Jefferson Bible

The Jefferson Bible

ByThomas Jefferson,Percival Everett

1819 • 7 Readers • 65 pages • 3

& Sons

ByDavid Gilbert

2013 • 3 Readers • 482 pages • 3

Lady of the English

Lady of the English

ByElizabeth Chadwick

2011 • 6 Readers • 544 pages • 4

Traitor's Blade

#1 of 5 in Greatcoats

Traitor's Blade

BySebastien de Castell

2014 • 340 Readers • 403 pages • 4

Train

ByPete Dexter

2003 • 3 Readers • 280 pages • 3.5

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

ByGaétan Soucy,Sheila Fischman(Translator)

1998 • 16 Readers • 156 pages • 3.5

Obernewtyn & The Farseekers

#1-2 of 6 in The Obernewtyn Chronicles

ByIsobelle Carmody

2000 • 32 Readers • 440 pages • 3.6

Hate List

Hate List

ByJennifer Brown

2009 • 59 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

Why can't we be good?

Why can't we be good?

ByJacob Needleman

2006 • 1 Reader • 285 pages

The Man in the Window

The Man in the Window

ByJon Cohen

1992 • 2 Readers • 266 pages • 3

The Iron Tracks

The Iron Tracks

ByAharon Appelfeld

1991 • 1 Reader • 195 pages

The Wounded Healer

The Wounded Healer

ByHenri J.M. Nouwen

1971 • 9 Readers • 145 pages • 5

A Praying Life

ByPaul E. Miller

2009 • 16 Readers • 277 pages • 4.8

Harry Potter's Bookshelf

Harry Potter's Bookshelf

ByJohn Granger

2009 • 2 Readers • 336 pages

The Lighthouse Road

#1 of 3 in Eide Family

The Lighthouse Road

ByPeter Geye

2012 • 5 Readers • 300 pages • 4

The Keeping Place

The Keeping Place

ByIsobelle Carmody

8 Readers • 4

Ashling

#3 of 6 in The Obernewtyn Chronicles

ByIsobelle Carmody

1995 • 14 Readers • 3.9

The Sending

#6 of 6 in The Obernewtyn Chronicles

ByIsobelle Carmody

2011 • 6 Readers • 755 pages • 4.5

If God Is Love

ByPhilip Gulley

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach's Curiosities

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

ByMary Roach

2003 • 566 Readers • 303 pages • 3.9

Every Man Dies Alone

Every Man Dies Alone

ByHans Fallada,Michael Hofmann(Translator)

1947 • 35 Readers • 593 pages • 4.6

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

ByTony Horwitz

2008 • 17 Readers • 445 pages • 4

Earth Girl (Earth Girl, #1)

#1 of 3 in Earth Girl

Earth Girl (Earth Girl, #1)

ByJanet Edwards

2012 • 17 Readers • 358 pages • 3.8

Green

#1 of 2 in Green Universe

ByJay Lake

2009 • 16 Readers • 368 pages • 2.8

The moral vision of the New Testament

The moral vision of the New Testament

ByRichard B. Hays

1996 • 5 Readers • 508 pages • 4

Rent Girl

ByMichelle Tea

2004 • 5 Readers • 239 pages

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

ByHenri J.M. Nouwen

1992 • 14 Readers • 160 pages • 4.4

Eighty Days

ByMatthew Goodman

2013 • 22 Readers • 453 pages • 3.6

Dirty Wings

#2 of 2 in Metamorphoses

BySarah McCarry

2014 • 4 Readers • 280 pages

Vessel

BySarah Beth Durst

2012 • 22 Readers • 415 pages • 3.5

Sunbolt

#1 of 1 in The Sunbolt Chronicles

ByIntisar Khanani

2013 • 18 Readers • 135 pages • 4.5

The Seven Basic Plots

The Seven Basic Plots

ByChristopher Booker

2004 • 17 Readers • 738 pages • 3.3

Heart of the Mirage

#1 of 3 in Mirage Makers

Heart of the Mirage

ByGlenda Larke

2006 • 6 Readers • 466 pages

When I Was Five I Killed Myself

When I Was Five I Killed Myself

ByHoward Buten

1981 • 8 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

Crow Lake

ByMary Lawson

2002 • 24 Readers • 302 pages • 3.8

The Creation of Anne Boleyn

The Creation of Anne Boleyn

BySusan Bordo

2013 • 9 Readers • 343 pages • 4

A Book of Mediterranean Food

A Book of Mediterranean Food

ByElizabeth David

1950 • 1 Reader • 203 pages

Let Yourself Be Loved

Let Yourself Be Loved

ByPhillip Bennett

1997 • 1 Reader • 100 pages

Lament for a Son

Lament for a Son

ByNicholas Wolterstorff

1987 • 7 Readers • 116 pages • 4

Vagina

ByNaomi Wolf

2012 • 9 Readers • 515 pages • 4

Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze

#4 of 3 in The Melendy Family

Spiderweb for Two

ByElizabeth Enright

1951 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

Incubus

#1 of 3 in Fairwick Chronicles

The Demon Lover

ByCarol Goodman

2011 • 11 Readers • 482 pages • 2.3

Letters from a Skeptic

Letters from a Skeptic

ByGregory A. Boyd

1993 • 5 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

White Walls

ByTatyana Tolstaya,Jamey Gambrell(Translator),+1 more

2007 • 2 Readers • 404 pages

Effigy

ByAlissa York

2007 • 5 Readers • 448 pages • 2

The Novel Cure

ByElla Berthoud,Susan Elderkin

2013 • 10 Readers • 420 pages • 3.7

Shadow on the Crown

#1 of 3 in The Emma of Normandy Trilogy

Shadow on the Crown

ByPatricia Bracewell

2013 • 13 Readers • 528 pages • 2.5

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark

ByLesley Kagen

2007 • 2 Readers • 340 pages • 5

Moral Tribes

ByJoshua D. Greene

2013 • 36 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7

Rock Crystal

ByAdalbert Stifter

2008 • 6 Readers • 99 pages • 3.5

You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

ByJohn Scalzi

2007 • 9 Readers • 319 pages • 4

Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation

Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation

ByMadeleine L'Engle

1997 • 4 Readers • 210 pages • 4

The Crooked Branch

The Crooked Branch

ByJeanine Cummins

2013 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z

Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z

ByDavid Sacks

2003 • 1 Reader • 395 pages

Twixt

BySarah Diemer

2013 • 3 Readers • 238 pages • 4

Bigfoot Dreams

ByFrancine Prose

1986 • 3 Readers • 280 pages • 3

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education

ByMichael Dirda

2004 • 5 Readers • 558 pages

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Therese Raquin

ByÉmile Zola

1867 • 3 Readers

History

ByElsa Morante

1974 • 27 Readers • 768 pages • 4.7

How Not to Speak of God

How Not to Speak of God

ByPeter Rollins

2006 • 3 Readers • 144 pages • 2

The Flood

ByMaggie Gee

2004 • 1 Reader • 362 pages

The Age of Kali

The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters

ByWilliam Dalrymple

1998 • 6 Readers • 406 pages • 3

Cradle of Flavor

Cradle of Flavor

ByJames Oseland

2006 • 2 Readers • 384 pages • 5

The Genius Factory

The Genius Factory

ByDavid Plotz

2005 • 4 Readers • 288 pages • 3

Not Wanted on the Voyage

Not Wanted on the Voyage

ByTimothy Findley

1996 • 8 Readers • 372 pages • 4

Clara Callan

ByRichard B. Wright

2001 • 6 Readers • 432 pages • 3.5

The End of the Point

The End of the Point

ByElizabeth Graver

2013 • 5 Readers • 352 pages

Indiscretion a novel

ByCharles Dubow

2012 • 5 Readers • 400 pages

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Shakespeare's Kitchen

ByLore Segal

2007 • 2 Readers • 225 pages

You Know When the Men Are Gone

You Know When the Men Are Gone

BySiobhan Fallon

2011 • 5 Readers • 226 pages • 3.7

In the Place of Fallen Leaves

In the Place of Fallen Leaves

ByTim Pears

2005 • 1 Reader • 290 pages

Forgotten Among the Lilies

Forgotten Among the Lilies

ByRonald Rolheiser

2007 • 339 pages

The Dark Tide

ByVera Brittain

1923 • 1 Reader • 260 pages

Wish Her Safe at Home

Wish Her Safe at Home

ByStephen Benatar

1982 • 6 Readers • 263 pages • 4

The Last King of Scotland

The Last King of Scotland

ByGiles Foden

1998 • 13 Readers • 345 pages • 3.6

Hopeful Monsters

#5 of 2 in Catastrophe Practice

Hopeful Monsters

ByNicholas Mosley

1990 • 3 Readers • 300 pages • 5

The Vizard Mask

The Vizard Mask

ByDiana Norman

1994 • 2 Readers • 704 pages

The Golden Fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles

The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

ByPadraic Colum

1921 • 4 Readers • 351 pages

Kat, Incorrigible

#1 of 2 in Kat, Incorrigible

Kat, Incorrigible

ByStephanie Burgis

2010 • 13 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

ByClive James

2007 • 5 Readers • 912 pages

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

ByHanna Rosin

2012 • 12 Readers • 310 pages • 4

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

ByLois Wright

2007 • 1 Reader • 198 pages

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The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.

The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.

ByGeorge Steiner

2 Readers

Bring Us the Old People

Bring Us the Old People

ByMarisa Kantor Stark

2 Readers

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Ladykiller

Ladykiller: Stories

ByCharlotte Gill

1 Reader

Nights Below Station Street

Nights Below Station Street

ByDavid Adams Richards

2 Readers • 4

The Eye of Cybele

The Eye of Cybele

ByDaniel Chavarría

1993 • 2 Readers • 606 pages

Bed in Heaven

ByTessa de Loo

2000 • 2 Readers • 144 pages

House of Day, House of Night

House of Day, House of Night

ByOlga Tokarczuk,Antonia Lloyd-Jones(Translator)

1998 • 8 Readers • 308 pages

Leaves Of Narcissus: A Modern Arabic Novel

Leaves Of Narcissus: A Modern Arabic Novel

BySomaya Ramadan,Marilyn Booth(Translator)

2002 • 2 Readers • 111 pages