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Top 25 Titles

Novels (2005- Present)

Ranking/Title/Author/Rating (1-5, NR- Not Rated)

1) Grapes of Wrath

5.00

John Steinbeck

2) The Big Rock Candy Mountain

4.93

Wallace Stegner

3) War and Peace

4.91

Leo Tolstoy

4) The Human Stain

4.90

 Philip Roth

5) To Kill a Mockingbird

4.875

Harper Lee

6) Beloved

4.87

Toni Morrison

7) All the King's Men

4.86

Robert Penn Warren

7) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

4.86

Carson McCullers

9) The Great Gatsby

4.83

F. Scott Fitzgerald

10) Demon Copperhead

4.81

Barbara Kingsolver

11) My Antonia

4.79

Willa Cather

11) Crime and Punishment

4.79

Fyodor Dostoevsky

11) A Gentleman in Moscow

4.79

Amor Towles

14) The Heart of the Matter

4.78

Graham Greene

15) Ironweed

4.77

William Kennedy

16) The Narrow Road to the Deep North

4.76

Richard Flanagan

17) Great Expectations

4.73

Charles Dickens

17) East of Eden

4.73

John Steinbeck

17) Go Tell It on the Mountain

4.73

James Baldwin

20) The Comedian

4.72

Graham Greene

21) The Optimist's Daughter

4.71

Eudora Welty

22) The Bluest Eye

4.70

Toni Morrison

23) Cannery Row

4.68

John Steinbeck

24) Lord Jim

4.67

Joseph Conrad

25) Sophie's Choice

4.64

William Styron


Non Fiction (2005- Present)

Ranking/Title/Author/Rating (1-5, NR- Not Rated)

NR) Guns, Germs & Steel

NR

Jared Diamond

1) Alexander Hamilton

4.81

Ron Cherno

2) Team of Rivals

4.68

Doris Kearns Goodwin

3) The Gathering Storm

4.63

Winston Churchill

4) Caste

4.62

Isabel Wilkerson

5)  One Minute to Midnight

4.54

Michael Dobbs

6)  The Origins of Totalitarianism

4.50

Hannah Arendt

7)  Their Finest Hour

4.49

Winston Churchill

8)  The Warmth of Other Suns

4.48

Isabel Wilkerson

9)  Just Mercy

4.40

Bryan Stephenson

9)  Cosmic Queries

4.40

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

11)  The Big Short

4.30

Michael Lewis

11)  The Splendid and the Vile

4.30

Erik Larson

13)  Collapse

4.29

Jared Diamond

14)  Appeasement

4.26

Tim Bouverie

14) The Winter Fortress

4.26

Neal Bascomb

16)  Unbroken

4.25

Laura Hillenbrand

17) Empire of the Summer Moon

4.24

S.C. Gwynne

18) In the Garden of Beasts

4.21

Erik Larson


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