Contemporary Fiction

#2

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,685 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

#3

What Is the What

2006 • 94 Readers • 475 pages 4.2

#4

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

19 • 1,794 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

#5

Slaughterhouse 5

Critical Insights

1968 • 2,384 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#6

The Road

1974 • 1,963 Readers • 287 pages 4

#7

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 • 276 Readers • 437 pages 3.7

#8

Grimus

1975 • 15 Readers • 386 pages 3.3

#9

The Satanic Verses

1988 • 292 Readers • 568 pages 3.8

#10

Travels in the Scriptorium

2006 • 18 Readers • 180 pages 3.2

#11

Timequake

1997 • 127 Readers • 219 pages 3.7

#12

Stuck in neutral

5 Readers 2.7

#13

The Bean Trees

#1 of 2 in Greer Family

1988 • 115 Readers • 340 pages 3.9

#14

The Giver

#1 of 4 in The Giver

1993 • 1,965 Readers • 202 pages 4

#15

Gathering Blue

#2 of 4 in The Giver

2000 • 278 Readers • 241 pages 3.7

#16

Messenger

#3 of 4 in The Giver

2004 • 216 Readers • 169 pages 3.6

#17

The Crying of Lot 49

1965 • 369 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#18

The Stand

1978 • 1,556 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

#19

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1976 • 1,620 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

#20

Misery

1776 • 1,167 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#21

The Drawing of the Three

#2 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1981 • 738 Readers • 463 pages 4.1

#22

Pet Sematary

1983 • 992 Readers • 388 pages 3.9

#23

Carrie

1974 • 1,038 Readers • 253 pages 3.7

#24

The Waste Lands

#3 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1991 • 629 Readers • 498 pages 4.2

#25

The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

#1 of 6 in The Green Mile

1996 • 561 Readers • 512 pages 4.3

#26

Needful Things

1991 • 385 Readers • 933 pages 3.7

#27

Cujo

1981 • 444 Readers • 312 pages 3.5

#28

It

1980 • 1,388 Readers • 1,168 pages 4.1

#29

The Dead Zone

1978 • 426 Readers • 420 pages 3.8

#30

Different Seasons

17 • 395 Readers • 688 pages 4.2

#31

Christine

1983 • 335 Readers • 411 pages 3.6

#32

Firestarter

199 • 359 Readers • 416 pages 3.6

#33

Thinner

1984 • 225 Readers • 318 pages 3.2

#34

The Eyes of the Dragon

1987 • 328 Readers • 427 pages 3.9

#35

The Talisman

#1 of 2 in The Talisman

1984 • 282 Readers • 766 pages 3.8

#36

Insomnia

1994 • 294 Readers • 800 pages 3.7

#37

Bag of Bones

1988 • 263 Readers • 660 pages 3.6

#38

The Tommyknockers

1985 • 271 Readers • 880 pages 3.2

#39

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

1980 • 65 Readers • 242 pages 3.9

#40

City of Glass

#1 of 3 in New York Trilogy

1985 • 42 Readers • 216 pages 3.8

#41

The miracle letters of T. Rimberg

2008 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#42

Dandelion Wine

#1 of 2 in Green Town

1946 • 233 Readers • 239 pages 3.9

#43

Boy's Life

1991 • 197 Readers • 840 pages 4.4

#44

Life of Pi

1980 • 1,210 Readers • 480 pages 3.8

#45

A Thousand Splendid Suns

2000 • 1,014 Readers • 372 pages 4.3

#46

Player Piano

1952 • 207 Readers • 342 pages 3.8

#47

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

1987 • 879 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

#48

The Suicide Collectors

2008 • 3 Readers • 312 pages 1.5

#49

A Perfect Vacuum

1971 • 9 Readers • 229 pages 4.7

#50

Ship Breaker

#1 of 3 in Ship Breaker

2010 • 111 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

#51

The Final Solution

2004 • 41 Readers • 128 pages 3.1

#52

Lockdown

2010 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 2

#53

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

2010 • 52 Readers • 150 pages 3.8

#54

Pym

2011 • 15 Readers • 322 pages 4.3

#55

Mother Night

1961 • 320 Readers • 290 pages 4.2

#56

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,141 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

#58

Rosemary's Baby

#1 of 2 in Rosemary's Baby

1967 • 268 Readers • 319 pages 3.9

#59

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

1965 • 117 Readers • 190 pages 3.8

#60

Slapstick

1976 • 109 Readers • 274 pages 3.7

#61

Jailbird

79 Readers 3.7

#62

Deadeye Dick

1982 • 91 Readers • 271 pages 3.7

#63

Galápagos

1985 • 248 Readers • 338 pages 3.7

#64

Bluebeard

1987 • 109 Readers • 336 pages 4

#65

Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?

1990 • 101 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

#66

Robinson

1958 • 2 Readers • 180 pages 3

#67

I Am the Messenger

2002 • 238 Readers • 376 pages 4

#69

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 3 in Goon Squad

2010 • 501 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

#70

Atonement

2001 • 621 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

#71

No Country for Old Men

2005 • 598 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

#72

Cold Mountain

1997 • 152 Readers • 438 pages 3.7

#73

The Broom Of The System

1987 • 85 Readers • 467 pages 3.7

#74

Deception

1993 • 6 Readers • 210 pages 3

#75

The Bluest Eye

1970 • 541 Readers • 216 pages 4

#76

Jesus' Son

1992 • 125 Readers • 2h 24m 4.2

#77

Salvage the Bones

#2 of 3 in Bois Sauvage

2011 • 202 Readers 3.8

#78

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2002 • 1,459 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

#79

Emerald City and Other Stories

2012 • 14 Readers • 176 pages 4

#80

The Man in the High Castle

1962 • 919 Readers • 239 pages 3.5

#81

Zone One

2000 • 154 Readers 3.4

#82

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

1965 • 178 Readers • 192 pages 3.7

#83

The Box: Uncanny Stories

2008 • 3 Readers 2.5

#84

Solaris

1961 • 679 Readers • 222 pages 3.7

#85

The Penelopiad

#2 of 16 in Canongate's The Myths

2005 • 213 Readers • 199 pages 3.6

#86

Point Omega

2010 • 28 Readers • 117 pages 2.8

#87

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,008 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

#88

John the Revelator

2014 • 1 Reader 5

#89

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

2002 • 750 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

#90

Telegraph Avenue

2012 • 60 Readers • 465 pages 3.4

#91

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,282 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

#92

Bark: Stories

2014 • 2 Readers • 5 pages 4

#93

Life After Life

#1 of 2 in Todd Family

2013 • 377 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

#94

Trout Fishing in America

1967 • 43 Readers • 141 pages 3.9

#95

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,561 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

#96

The Evil Eye

2013 • 1 Reader • 224 pages 4

#97

Every day is for the thief

2014 • 20 Readers • 162 pages 3.9

#98

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 143 Readers • 351 pages 4.1

#99

Home

2012 • 33 Readers • 147 pages 3.4

#101

After Dark

2004 • 456 Readers • 201 pages 3.7