Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

★ 4.2

2003

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

★ 4.1

1997

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

★ 4.2

1999

The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

★ 4.0

1942

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

★ 4.2

1982

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Leo Tolstoj, Aylmer Maude

★ 4.0

1877

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

★ 3.8

1952

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

★ 3.7

2008

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

★ 3.8

2011

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

★ 3.9

2001

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

★ 3.8

1999

The Aeneid

Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald

★ 3.8

-17

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Alan Myers, Joseph Frank, Anna Brailovsky

★ 4.2

1868

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

★ 4.4

2015

The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris, Anjali Singh

★ 4.4

2003

How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

★ 3.7

2011

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo

★ 4.0

2012

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer

★ 3.7

1879

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

★ 4.2

1991

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

★ 4.0

1981

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

★ 4.1

2008

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

★ 3.5

1898

The Shoemaker's Wife

Adriana Trigiani

★ 4.0

2012

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

★ 4.1

1960

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

★ 4.5

2014

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

★ 3.9

2004

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev, George Reavy, Jane Costlow

★ 3.9

1862

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

★ 4.0

2002

Euphoria

Lily King

★ 3.8

2014

Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Hermann Hesse

★ 4.1

1919

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden

★ 4.0

2012

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

★ 4.4

2009

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

★ 4.3

2008

Black Boy

Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr.

★ 4.0

1945

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

★ 4.1

1933

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

★ 3.5

1854

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

★ 3.7

2007

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

★ 4.1

2014

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

★ 4.1

1833

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

★ 4.0

2006

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher

★ 4.0

1979

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Ayana Mathis

★ 3.5

2012

Rich Man, Poor Man

Irwin Shaw

★ 4.2

1969

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

★ 4.1

2013

Snow

Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely

★ 3.5

2002

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

★ 3.8

1922

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux

★ 3.8

1878

The Crimson Petal and the White

Michel Faber

★ 3.9

2002

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

★ 4.1

1861

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

★ 3.8

1890

The Island

Victoria Hislop

★ 4.0

2005

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

★ 4.5

2010

Fortune's Rocks

Anita Shreve

★ 3.9

1999

Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susan Meissner

★ 4.2

2015

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson, Monica W. Elbert

★ 4.2

1903

A Piece of Cake

Cupcake Brown

★ 4.2

2006

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Jean Sasson

★ 4.0

1992

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley

★ 3.8

2010

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Adeline Yen Mah

★ 3.9

1997

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara March

★ 3.8

1993

Island Beneath the Sea

Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden

★ 4.0

2009

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

★ 3.9

1776

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

★ 3.8

1837

Not Without My Daughter

Betty Mahmoody

★ 4.0

1987

The Joke

Milan Kundera

★ 4.0

1967

Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book

Rod Campbell

★ 4.3

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

★ 3.9

1952

Maurice

E.M. Forster

★ 4.0

1971

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Gerald Bevan

★ 4.0

1835

Blue Highways

William Least Heat-Moon

★ 4.0

1982

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Conor Grennan

★ 4.3

2010

Three Comrades

Erich Maria Remarque

★ 4.5

1936

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui, Linda Coverdale

★ 3.8

2009

The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

★ 3.9

1990

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Guy Delisle

★ 3.9

2003

Commencement

J. Courtney Sullivan

★ 3.4

2009

Burmese Days

George Orwell

★ 3.8

1934

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale

★ 4.1

1887

Slammerkin

Emma Donoghue

★ 3.7

2000

Stupid White Men

Michael Moore

★ 3.3

2001

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman

★ 3.7

2008

The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

★ 3.8

1900

Os Maias

José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Ester de Lemos

★ 4.0

1888

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

Gabriel García Márquez, J.S. Bernstein

★ 3.9

1961

Epileptic

David B.

★ 3.9

2002

There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz

★ 4.3

1991

Detroit: An American Autopsy

Charlie LeDuff

★ 4.0

2013

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Ian Mortimer

★ 4.0

2008

Lie Down with Lions

Ken Follett

★ 3.8

1985

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

★ 4.1

1899

Restless

William Boyd

★ 3.8

2006

The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal, Richard Howard, Robert Andrew Parker

★ 3.8

1839

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche, Douglas Smith

★ 4.1

1887

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

★ 4.2

2003

Platform

Michel Houellebecq

★ 3.8

2001

Desolation Angels

Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson

★ 3.9

1958

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

★ 3.7

2012

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ergin Altay

★ 4.0

1861

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

Michael Patrick MacDonald

★ 4.1

1999

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Inga Muscio, Betty Dodson

★ 3.9

1998