4.01 avg rating — 595,603 ratings

"Funny and heartwarming story about a geneticist with Asperger's and his highly analytical search for the perfect wife. "

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 760,947 ratings

"Amazon and Goodreads both called this the best nonfiction book in years. A great historical and enthralling look behind-the scenes at the Chicago Worlds Fair"

3.73 avg rating — 31,994 ratings

"Anoth historical book, this time about the women who lived and worked in Los Alamos, NM in the 1940s supporting the Manhattan Project"

3.88 avg rating — 96,614 ratings

"Lovely, well written novel about a man torn between his disastrous family obligations back in India and his simple, straightforward life in Rhode Island. "

4.19 avg rating — 79,156 ratings

"A great memoir about a midwife working in London's poorest neighborhoods post WWII. The book and its sequels inspired a BBC series. "

3.81 avg rating — 7,948 ratings

"Set in the near future, its a suspenseful, conspiracy story set in a medical quarantine. "

3.79 avg rating — 15,075 ratings

"One of my personal favorites! Its part Holocaust-set historical fiction, part mystery, and part fairy tale. Very well-written by an author thats usually a children's and YA author"

3.61 avg rating — 36,390 ratings

"Historical fiction based on the model for Degas' sculpture "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen". Ballet! Paris! Brothels! Sisters! Betrayal!"

3.95 avg rating — 60,446 ratings

"Another fun one from Mary Roach...this one is about all the research that goes into space travel. The food, the personality tests, the hygiene, the packing lists..."

4.02 avg rating — 284,464 ratings

"A personal favorite of mine! A son of Indian immigrants struggles to figure out where he belongs in the world. Made into a nice movie starring Kal Penn"

3.88 avg rating — 148,851 ratings

"This has gotten great reviews all over the place, and is soon to be a movie starring Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Connie Britton and more. A dryly funny dysfunctional family gathers at their father's funeral"

3.88 avg rating — 410,718 ratings

"Sometimes sweet, sometimes sad, sometimes cringe-worthy story about star-crossed lovers that can't seem to get their timing right. Each chapter takes place on the July 15 of each year from 1989 to 2004. Made into a pretty good movie with Anne Hathaway (though her British accent is horrible!)"

4.04 avg rating — 45,297 ratings

"One of my favorite bloggers names this as her favorite book. Plus I always like books that tell a well-known story from a different point of view. In this case, its Captain Ahab's wife from Moby Dick. "

3.88 avg rating — 64,214 ratings

"When a stuffy Kansas lady chaperones a young future movie star to NYC in the 1920s, her mind is opened to a whole new world. She takes her fresh perspective back to Kansas with her to help improve her family life and community. Love seeing the last century's world event's through her eyes. "

3.92 avg rating — 295,903 ratings

"Just finished this fabulous Southern novel. It starts with a parade of colorful characters and then transitions into a courtroom drama. "

4.06 avg rating — 240,947 ratings

"Another Mary Roach! This time about the taboo science of death...I found it fascinating and very funny. "

4.46 avg rating — 1,742,007 ratings

"I love anything by Khaled Hosseini, but this story about sister wives is a page turner no matter how much it makes you want to cringe. "

4.16 avg rating — 2,113,298 ratings

"Great movie, better book."

3.35 avg rating — 21,603 ratings

"Another "rich, rebellious southern girl gets sent away so as not to embarrass the family" story, but Thea is not a stereotyped, one-sided character like the ones that star in other such stories. "

3.87 avg rating — 599,801 ratings

"Funny, light, an original, easy read about a precocious teenager searching for her runaway, eccentric mother, told in the form of e-mails, memos, faxes, and diary entries. "

3.90 avg rating — 368,857 ratings

"Short and suspenseful story about a woman with amnesia whose memory resets every time she falls asleep. Soon to be a movie with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth.
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3.96 avg rating — 1,057,600 ratings

"Tina Fey's fabulously funny and REAL stories about growing up in the suburbs and being a working mom. I don't think there's anyone that can't relate to her dorkiness in this memoir."

3.55 avg rating — 37,039 ratings

"An Appalacian-set story about logging magnates... soon to be a movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence"

3.91 avg rating — 969,058 ratings

"After Mia is the sole survivor of a car accident that kills her family, she goes into a coma and gets to decide if she wants to live a painful life as an orphan, or let go and be with her parents and brother again. It was just made into a movie. "

3.72 avg rating — 80,455 ratings

"a police thriller set in [a highly fictionalized] Sitka, Alaska. "

4.39 avg rating — 2,887,954 ratings

"Both the book and the movie have gotten great reviews, Im curious to read it. "

3.90 avg rating — 215,718 ratings

4.05 avg rating — 80,181 ratings