First Novels

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

78,660 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, KimarieBee, thorold, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Chris.Wolak, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,877 members

723 reviews

4.2

8 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, rfebrer, ManWithAnAgenda, voweluser

3

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

59,163 members

921 reviews

4.2

7 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Chris.Wolak, rfebrer, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,124 members

705 reviews

3.9

7 Members: jain, merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

42,775 members

714 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Chris.Wolak, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Adam Bede

by George Eliot

4,210 members

70 reviews

3.8

6 Members: jain, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

134,121 members

2,057 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: KimarieBee, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Chris.Wolak,ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,643 members

1,190 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,659 members

1,081 reviews

3.8

5 Members: merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

52,879 members

1,300 reviews

4.2

5 Members: dara85, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

39,613 members

635 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

38,216 members

529 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,202 members

433 reviews

3.8

5 Members: hipdeep, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Neverwhere

by Neil Gaiman

24,969 members

580 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

20,405 members

558 reviews

4.1

5 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

17,729 members

339 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: KimarieBee, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,233 members

911 reviews

4

5 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Chris.Wolak, rfebrer

18

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

9,221 members

294 reviews

4.1

5 Members: jain, thorold, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: thorold: Great book, but Smith wasn't exactly a new author when she wrote it, she had a lot of successful plays to her credit.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

44,375 members

1,332 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

24,267 members

298 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963

21

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

23,522 members

441 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: dara85, merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom

22

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

21,251 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

19,550 members

312 reviews

4.2

4 Members: jain, merrystar, alex68, gypsysmom

24

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

18,518 members

1,265 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jain, KimarieBee, gypsysmom, ahef1963

25

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith

16,536 members

443 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: dara85, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963

26

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,301 members

288 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, merrystar, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz

13,106 members

488 reviews

3.8

4 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

28

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,739 members

243 reviews

4

4 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

9,602 members

423 reviews

3.8

4 Members: thorold, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

30

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

8,964 members

289 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

31

The Chosen

by Chaim Potok

6,608 members

93 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, jain, alex68, ahef1963

32

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,713 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

33

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

40,079 members

527 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, alex68, gypsysmom

34

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,548 members

1,271 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom, ahef1963

35

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,564 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

29,506 members

562 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963

37

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

24,938 members

472 reviews

4.2

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Neuromancer

by William Gibson

23,096 members

379 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, alex68, gypsysmom

39

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice

22,971 members

333 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963

40

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,672 members

372 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, kara.shamy

41

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,370 members

325 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,825 members

1,118 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy

43

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,966 members

246 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, alex68

44

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

13,465 members

239 reviews

3.9

3 Members: jain, gypsysmom, voweluser

45

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,801 members

190 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

12,477 members

153 reviews

3.8

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963

47

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

12,379 members

323 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963

48

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

11,241 members

687 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, gypsysmom, ahef1963

49

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

10,310 members

284 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

9,083 members

131 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thorold, alex68, gypsysmom

51

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

by Robin Sloan

8,329 members

723 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963

52

The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell

7,729 members

406 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jain, KimarieBee, gypsysmom

53

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,630 members

551 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom, ahef1963

54

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

7,616 members

93 reviews

4

3 Members: thorold, alex68, gypsysmom

55

Still Life

by Louise Penny

6,668 members

426 reviews

3.8

3 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

56

Déjà Dead

by Kathy Reichs

6,423 members

166 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom, ahef1963

57

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,237 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

58

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

by Marina Lewycka

5,730 members

239 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: thorold, gypsysmom, ahef1963

59

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë

5,124 members

170 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: jain, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

4,887 members

134 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, thorold, gypsysmom

61

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns

4,149 members

86 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dara85, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

62

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

3,617 members

273 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy

63

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,310 members

1,749 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

35,575 members

507 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

30,631 members

1,490 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: dara85, alex68

66

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

28,163 members

503 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

27,943 members

1,042 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

27,161 members

480 reviews

4

2 Members: jain, alex68

69

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

27,125 members

588 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, alex68

70

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

26,267 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, gypsysmom

71

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,040 members

424 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dara85, merrystar, gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

72

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,543 members

1,280 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Martian

by Andy Weir

18,192 members

1,246 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

74

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

17,622 members

198 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,516 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

17,361 members

480 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

77

High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby

14,893 members

201 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

78

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

14,309 members

620 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, gypsysmom

79

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,261 members

267 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

80

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith

13,668 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, gypsysmom

81

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

by Dave Eggers

13,413 members

209 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

82

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

12,942 members

190 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

83

The Hunt for Red October

by Tom Clancy

11,297 members

117 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, KimarieBee

84

Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9,978 members

83 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

85

The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe

8,956 members

132 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alex68, gypsysmom

86

His Majesty's Dragon

by Naomi Novik

8,084 members

372 reviews

4.1

2 Members: jain, gypsysmom

87

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,781 members

656 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy

88

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,795 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

89

Still Alice

by Lisa Genova

6,452 members

451 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, gypsysmom

90

Casino Royale

by Ian Fleming

6,354 members

253 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

91

Ancillary Justice

by Ann Leckie

5,968 members

365 reviews

4

2 Members: jain, gypsysmom

92

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

by George Saunders

5,809 members

337 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy

93

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,785 members

223 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

94

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,770 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Horse Whisperer

by Nicholas Evans

5,740 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

96

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

by Thomas Mann

5,684 members

109 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, alex68
Explanations: thorold: A first novel that would be the culmination of a lifetime's effort if anyone else had written it.

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