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Description: Books featured on the Reading Glasses Podcast by Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

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1

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,963 members

279 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

2

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

13,048 members

193 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

3

The Graveyard Book

22,734 members

1,265 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

4

The Stepford Wives

3,140 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

5

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

21,762 members

479 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

6

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,942 members

244 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

7

The Joy Luck Club

17,890 members

199 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

8

Every Heart a Doorway

by Seanan McGuire

3,509 members

292 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

9

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

by Deborah Howe

7,418 members

159 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

10

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

9,780 members

472 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

11

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

2,326 members

115 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

12

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

876 members

57 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

13

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson

3,410 members

198 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

14

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire

1,738 members

147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

15

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

19,034 members

517 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, heather.odonnell

16

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

9,362 members

456 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

17

Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick

by Matt Fraction

1,358 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

18

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

17,005 members

323 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

19

by Emily St. John Mandel

12,136 members

790 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

20

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

19,153 members

1,289 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

21

by Nnedi Okorafor

2,992 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

22

by Ray Bradbury

55,349 members

1,014 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

23

102 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

24

by Cherie Priest

3,756 members

219 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

25

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

15,302 members

975 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

26

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

17,758 members

421 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

27

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

20,911 members

800 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

28

by Stephen King

22,561 members

412 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

29

The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm

691 members

14 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

30

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

11,162 members

457 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

31

No Matter the Wreckage

403 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

32

by Justin Cronin

9,587 members

643 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

33

3,559 members

250 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

34

The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

7,075 members

258 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

35

On Chesil Beach

8,539 members

368 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

36

by Stephen King

16,760 members

299 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

37

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

16,032 members

380 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

38

20,610 members

700 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

39

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,302 members

491 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

40

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,505 members

372 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

41

22,377 members

565 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

42

by John Gardner

6,153 members

109 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

43

All About Love: New Visions

2,609 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

44

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,195 members

87 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

45

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

21,080 members

795 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

46

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

43,502 members

1,161 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

47

The Woman in Cabin 10

6,218 members

324 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

48

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

53,538 members

713 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

49

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

70,821 members

1,090 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

50

Get in Trouble: Stories

1,174 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

51

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,816 members

117 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

52

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

37,511 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

53

by Wilkie Collins

11,030 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

54

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,421 members

203 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

55

Pride and Prejudice

83,087 members

1,381 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

56

by Stephen King

14,052 members

778 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

57

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

19,600 members

886 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

58

by Margaret Atwood

3,035 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

59

4,728 members

249 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

60

19,467 members

486 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

61

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

4,124 members

258 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

62

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

by Michelle McNamara

3,632 members

167 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

63

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

24,502 members

331 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

64

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

5,207 members

60 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

65

The Obelisk Gate

by N. K. Jemisin

4,479 members

193 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

66

by Terry Pratchett

35,579 members

798 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

67

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

14,161 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

68

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

45,043 members

711 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, heather.odonnell

69

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

by Shirley Jackson

632 members

16 reviews

4

Member: heather.odonnell

70

Lives of the Monster Dogs

by Kirsten Bakis

1,080 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: heather.odonnell

71

The Heart Goes Last

by Margaret Atwood

2,650 members

151 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: heather.odonnell

72

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

6,049 members

343 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

73

719 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

74

Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

1,199 members

82 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

75

by Colson Whitehead

2,097 members

133 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

76

by Indrapramit Das

633 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

77

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,203 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

78

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon

1,608 members

42 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: heather.odonnell

79

by Madeleine Roux

1,998 members

93 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: heather.odonnell

80

Heroine Worship

160 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

81

82 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: heather.odonnell

82

The Lies of Locke Lamora

10,540 members

440 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

83

by Omar El Akkad

1,905 members

95 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

84

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

2,330 members

120 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

85

The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel

890 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

86

Abandon Me: Memoirs

by Melissa Febos

161 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

87

Carter Beats the Devil

by Glen David Gold

2,651 members

56 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

88

by Chuck Palahniuk

503 members

16 reviews

3.1

Member: heather.odonnell

89

by Will McIntosh

92 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

90

Heroine Complex

528 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: heather.odonnell

91

The Con Artist: A Novel

by Fred Van Lente

70 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

92

by Mur Lafferty

1,144 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

93

Eternal Life: A Novel

376 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

94

by Samanta Schweblin

1,295 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

95

The Hike: A Novel

744 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: heather.odonnell

96

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

by Matthew Sullivan

1,773 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: heather.odonnell

97

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

by Ruth Franklin

508 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: heather.odonnell

98

The Refrigerator Monologues

by Catherynne M. Valente

418 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: heather.odonnell

99

by Courtney Milan

248 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: heather.odonnell

100

by Elizabeth Day

359 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: heather.odonnell

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