| #2 |  So Big
| 4.5 | 3 reads | |
| #3 |  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
| 3.78 | 143 reads | |
| #4 |  Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
| 4.88 | 9 reads | |
| #5 |  The Road
| 4.04 | 996 reads | |
| #6 |  Middlesex
| 4.18 | 276 reads | |
| #7 |  Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.83 | 279 reads | |
| #8 |  The Color Purple
| 4.12 | 350 reads | |
| #9 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.15 | 2,242 reads | |
| #10 |  Beloved
| 3.94 | 291 reads | |
| #11 |  The Shipping News
| 3.81 | 85 reads | |
| #12 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.97 | 505 reads | |
| #13 |  Interpreter of Maladies
| 3.92 | 124 reads | |
| #14 |  Less
| 3.78 | 206 reads | |
| #16 |  Olive Kitteridge
| 4.14 | 115 reads | |
| #17 |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
| 4.49 | 40 reads | |
| #18 |  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
| 4.25 | 21 reads | |
| #19 |  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
| 4.19 | 177 reads | |
| #20 |  The Executioner's Song
| 4.13 | 17 reads | |
| #21 |  All The King's Men All The King's Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
| 5 | 1 read | |
| #22 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.77 | 512 reads | |
| #23 |  Gone with the Wind
| 4.03 | 256 reads | |
| #24 |  The Good Earth
| 3.76 | 107 reads | |
| #25 |  The Bridge of San Luis Rey
| 3.93 | 31 reads | |
| #26 |  The Age of Innocence
| 4.02 | 98 reads | |
| #27 |  The Nickel Boys
| 4.22 | 200 reads |