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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,033,560 ratings — published 2009
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 812,759 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,656,428 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,417 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.41 — 814,198 ratings — published 2016
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 407,912 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,497 ratings — published 2014
Remarkably Bright Creatures (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,273,865 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,803,437 ratings — published 2022
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,924,349 ratings — published 1960
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,878,381 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,272,420 ratings — published 2011
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,223,884 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,458 ratings — published 2010
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,161 ratings — published 2012
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 837,718 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,895,620 ratings — published 2005
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 732,013 ratings — published 2017
Humans of New York: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,764 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,445 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,370,101 ratings — published 2005
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 364,480 ratings — published 2008
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,001,045 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,511,745 ratings — published 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 870,896 ratings — published 2008
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,211,811 ratings — published 1997
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 993,321 ratings — published 2020
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,494,083 ratings — published 2022
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,436,400 ratings — published 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,602,931 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,731 ratings — published 2001
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 814,267 ratings — published 2008
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,890 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 755,772 ratings — published 1982
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,643 ratings — published 2002
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.34 — 85,466 ratings — published 2010
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 219,249 ratings — published 2014
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,826 ratings — published 2006
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.32 — 361,502 ratings — published 2007
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,535 ratings — published 2012
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,634 ratings — published 2007
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.15 — 142,241 ratings — published 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,620 ratings — published 1962
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,750,511 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.81 — 55,963 ratings — published 2012
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.30 — 235,132 ratings — published 2009
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.24 — 338,305 ratings — published 1989
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.96 — 623,808 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,666 ratings — published 1956
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,972,568 ratings — published 2008
“4-19-10 Monday 1:00 P.M.
Today the gas was turned off – more panic reactions. I’m wondering if the darkest hour is just before the dawn and all those wonderful cliches. I don’t see anyway out of my current situation, at least any quality of life I’m willing to accept. It’s just too much to think about right now. I lost the gas stove, the heat, and the water heater. Hmm cold showers, but found an electric crock pot and frying pan, and I still have the microwave.
I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose the water. My mother told me there’s a family who pitched a tent in the forest preserve. Somehow the father’s still working and keeping his two kids in school, with a little help from a local church.
And it’s good to know the forest rangers have a heart and have looked the other way. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they’ve dropped off some food and supplies. Isn’t that America.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
Today the gas was turned off – more panic reactions. I’m wondering if the darkest hour is just before the dawn and all those wonderful cliches. I don’t see anyway out of my current situation, at least any quality of life I’m willing to accept. It’s just too much to think about right now. I lost the gas stove, the heat, and the water heater. Hmm cold showers, but found an electric crock pot and frying pan, and I still have the microwave.
I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose the water. My mother told me there’s a family who pitched a tent in the forest preserve. Somehow the father’s still working and keeping his two kids in school, with a little help from a local church.
And it’s good to know the forest rangers have a heart and have looked the other way. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they’ve dropped off some food and supplies. Isn’t that America.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
“Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?”
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
