3.86 avg rating — 10,196 ratings

"Best of the Gilead books, this is a wonderful, thoughtful love story. Really loved it."

4.16 avg rating — 81,165 ratings

"I loved this one about 60s Brooklyn with its vivid characters and its humanity.
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4.08 avg rating — 95,208 ratings

"Great book about Indian rights. WINNER!!
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4.12 avg rating — 861,692 ratings

"Best one so far. Interesting mashup of Paradise by Morrison and Color Purple by Walker."

3.50 avg rating — 111,376 ratings

"Gritty interesting story, well-deserving of its Kirkus prize win."

4.16 avg rating — 36,698 ratings

"Fantastic short stories vividly described with fully-fleshed out characters!"

4.37 avg rating — 27,526 ratings

"Moving stories and autobiography of how the undocumented brown population of the US survives, suffers and occasionally succeeds."

3.90 avg rating — 13,344 ratings

"Powerful story of the strength of memory and our connection to nature."

4.13 avg rating — 42,941 ratings

"Extraordinary collection of short stories!"

3.72 avg rating — 53,974 ratings

"Fantastic story set in contemporary India dealing with the oppression of women, transvestites and poverty. In the tradition of Rohinston Mistry, but with a feminist bent.
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4.31 avg rating — 63,667 ratings

"Wonderful and painful book about the many conflicts in Vietnam from the French colonial war until the reeducation camps of the 70s. "

4.10 avg rating — 163,636 ratings

"Beautiful story about a Ghanese micro-biologist and her struggle to understand herself."

4.04 avg rating — 195,168 ratings

"Really good, gripping police story with vivid characters and great plot twists."

3.78 avg rating — 7,868 ratings

"Great story, gripping and visceral."

3.78 avg rating — 37,488 ratings

"This one grew on me and I ended up liking this story of growing into one’s skin and accepting one’s past."

3.82 avg rating — 21,594 ratings

"Surprising Hawai'ian magical realism
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4.30 avg rating — 193,542 ratings

"I really enjoyed Shuggie and understand why it won the Booker. But, I feel that there are a few books that seem to be a bit more deserving.
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3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings

"Wonderful short stories from the Ozarks. "

3.68 avg rating — 3,636 ratings

"Beautiful, heartbreaking stories from Laos.
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3.67 avg rating — 1,733 ratings

"Decent coming of age story although the protagonist does not change as much as we might hope."

3.75 avg rating — 1,894 ratings

"Great coming of age story about Excel, an undocumented Filipino in Oakland"

3.83 avg rating — 20,712 ratings

"Interesting stories about immigrants from Laos."

3.56 avg rating — 37,864 ratings

"Much better than I expected. The ending is particularly well-done.
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3.93 avg rating — 73,572 ratings

"Great, original look at being Chinese in America."

3.88 avg rating — 1,279 ratings

"quirky story and lots of adorable ostriches
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3.95 avg rating — 20,854 ratings

"Decent book about labor struggles in Spokane, WA in the early 20th C
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3.96 avg rating — 138 ratings

"Interesting but not mind-blowing novel about the 50s"

4.13 avg rating — 24,608 ratings

"Certainly thought-provoking and evocative, but lacking substance at the same time.
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3.25 avg rating — 882 ratings

"Not bad, interesting voyage through the 60s in the Bay Area."

3.97 avg rating — 6,374 ratings

3.69 avg rating — 197,184 ratings

"Interesting novel but not as great as Station Eleven."

3.83 avg rating — 873 ratings

"good short stories which make we want to read his other work. It is rather unfortunate that we lost him last year."

4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings

"Rough life in West Virginia, but not as well written as some of the others in this list.
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3.78 avg rating — 26,581 ratings

"Interesting, depressing gold rush story of two Chinese orphans and their sad quest for independence in a violent world - very reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy"

3.86 avg rating — 3,897 ratings

"This was interesting but had few charming characters."

3.70 avg rating — 18,357 ratings

"I liked this one about widowhood, compassion and sisterhood."

3.14 avg rating — 169,110 ratings

"Apocalyptic tale of two families thrown together. Good writing. A page-turner."

3.85 avg rating — 465 ratings

"I felt that the first section was just ok, the second section about the nebulous Organization was good and that the last set were really great.
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3.59 avg rating — 4,262 ratings

"This one was rather predictable and the writing quality fell off towards the end when it became to reminiscent of Hunger Games."

3.61 avg rating — 51,235 ratings

"good novella, but not as engaging as Breathing Lessons"

3.73 avg rating — 2,428 ratings

3.76 avg rating — 1,138 ratings

4.37 avg rating — 694,064 ratings

"A thriller, but I dunno. Too much hype perhaps
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3.84 avg rating — 11,833 ratings

"Interesting but one-dimensional characters doomed this for me"

3.62 avg rating — 876 ratings

"Myeh. I liked The Young Wife's Tale but not really the rest."

3.43 avg rating — 4,108 ratings

"Scatalogically-obsessed magical realism. Not my thing."

3.72 avg rating — 64 ratings

"Kind of all over the place; Kafkaesque without the poetry"

3.70 avg rating — 41,334 ratings

"Dystopian 21st century version of Lord of the Flies. Lacks originality."

3.60 avg rating — 1,511 ratings

"I preferred his novels to his short stories."

3.76 avg rating — 4,129 ratings

"Perhaps I am just never going to be a JCO fan, but I was underwhelmed again by this one despite the title from a Whitman poem."

3.74 avg rating — 7,022 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 2,148 ratings

"DNF as I found this boring, pedantic and really did not understand why it was so highly rated.
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2.66 avg rating — 15,150 ratings

"Lame. I think he hasn't written anything really decent since Underworld..."

3.46 avg rating — 281 ratings