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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,611 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,281 members

520 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

3

by Mary Shelley

42,972 members

714 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

4

by Truman Capote

23,877 members

467 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

5

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,540 members

469 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

6

The Secret History

20,536 members

559 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

7

19,797 members

228 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

8

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,238 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

9

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,469 members

480 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

10

The World According to Garp

15,345 members

198 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

11

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,977 members

245 reviews

4

Member: yarb

12

by J. D. Salinger

11,803 members

112 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

13

by J. M. Coetzee

10,888 members

279 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

14

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,706 members

174 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

15

The Magic Mountain

9,660 members

176 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

16

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,428 members

315 reviews

4

Member: yarb

17

by E. M. Forster

8,820 members

133 reviews

4

Member: yarb

18

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,233 members

426 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

19

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

Member: yarb

20

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

Member: yarb

21

by William S. Burroughs

7,032 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: yarb

22

by John Williams

6,798 members

356 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: yarb

23

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,604 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

24

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

6,596 members

151 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

25

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

5,871 members

102 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

26

5,391 members

79 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

27

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,256 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

28

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,156 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

29

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,812 members

115 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

30

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,430 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

31

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

4,424 members

92 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

32

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

by Philip K. Dick

4,329 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

33

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,266 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

34

3,876 members

87 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

35

by Milan Kundera

3,830 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

36

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,588 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

37

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,538 members

62 reviews

4

Member: yarb

38

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,386 members

37 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

39

by Thomas Pynchon

3,017 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

40

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

2,897 members

99 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

41

The Drowned World

by J. G. Ballard

2,778 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: yarb

42

by Heinrich Böll

2,486 members

40 reviews

4

Member: yarb

43

A Month in the Country

2,330 members

120 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

44

The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

2,269 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

45

Pereira Maintains

by Antonio Tabucchi

2,209 members

79 reviews

4

Member: yarb

46

The Siege of Krishnapur

by J. G. Farrell

2,098 members

68 reviews

4

Member: yarb

47

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

1,917 members

58 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

48

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

1,868 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

49

Appointment in Samarra

1,813 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

50

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

1,582 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

51

The Debt to Pleasure

by John Lanchester

1,567 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

52

by William Gaddis

1,387 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

53

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,249 members

59 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

54

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

by Herman Melville

1,220 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: yarb

55

The Crystal World

by J. G. Ballard

1,212 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

56

by Alasdair Gray

1,095 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

57

1,054 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

58

The Restraint of Beasts

by Magnus Mills

1,009 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

59

by Brian Catling

977 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: yarb

60

In a Lonely Place

by Dorothy B. Hughes

897 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

61

815 members

22 reviews

4.2

Member: yarb

62

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

by Breece D'J Pancake

815 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

63

Fancies and Goodnights

by John Collier

761 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

64

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

by William H. Gass

728 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

65

Cassandra at the Wedding

by Dorothy Baker

720 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

66

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

718 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

67

Nightmare Alley

by William Lindsay Gresham

711 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

68

by Daniel Clowes

702 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

69

by Viktor Pelevin

679 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

70

Version Control

by Dexter Palmer

625 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

71

Hard Rain Falling

by Don Carpenter

620 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: yarb

72

by Dezső Kosztolányi

609 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

73

by Norman Douglas

562 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

74

The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

526 members

1 review

3.9

Member: yarb

75

by Charles Portis

517 members

22 reviews

4

Member: yarb

76

Wish Her Safe at Home

by Stephen Benatar

417 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: yarb

77

The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last

by Edward St. Aubyn

393 members

6 reviews

4

Member: yarb

78

The Best of Saki

380 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

79

The End of Vandalism

334 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: yarb

80

The Mirror Thief

310 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: yarb

81

by Robert Aickman

286 members

8 reviews

4

Member: yarb

82

Duplex: A Novel

by Kathryn Davis

271 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

83

by Vladimir Sorokin

250 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: yarb

84

In Youth Is Pleasure

by Denton Welch

207 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: yarb

85

201 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: yarb

86

by Rudy Wurlitzer

181 members

4 reviews

4

Member: yarb

87

by Matthew De Abaitua

120 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: yarb

88

by MacDonald Harris

106 members

2 reviews

3

Member: yarb

89

The Best of Lucius Shephard, Vol. I

by Lucius Shepard

86 members

1 review

4.1

Member: yarb

90

Gentleman Overboard

by Herbert Clyde Lewis

84 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: yarb

91

Anthropo-Specter-Beast

by Tadeusz Konwicki

57 members

3.8

Member: yarb

92

by MacDonald Harris

23 members

½ 4.3

Member: yarb

93

The Bronc People: A Classic Novel of the American Southwest

by William Eastlake

23 members

1 review

3.9

Member: yarb

94

Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France

17 members

1 review

4.2

Member: yarb

95

by MacDonald Harris

16 members

4.2

Member: yarb

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