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Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as generational)
avg rating 4.34 — 705,466 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,742 ratings — published 2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as generational)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,160,296 ratings — published 1967
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as generational)
avg rating 4.40 — 357,453 ratings — published 2023
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as generational)
avg rating 4.04 — 674,571 ratings — published 2002
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as generational)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,440 ratings — published 2020
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as generational)
avg rating 4.31 — 352,342 ratings — published 1982
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 720,176 ratings — published 1989
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 761,246 ratings — published 1952
Weyward (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as generational)
avg rating 4.05 — 472,456 ratings — published 2023
The Bright Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.22 — 229,951 ratings — published 2025
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.08 — 241,261 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.33 — 189,514 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,473 ratings — published 2026
The Mountains Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.31 — 71,555 ratings — published 2020
The Dutch House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.10 — 609,720 ratings — published 2019
A Spool of Blue Thread (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.45 — 105,250 ratings — published 2015
Barkskins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,337 ratings — published 2016
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,926 ratings — published 2000
Buckeye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 4.10 — 174,510 ratings — published 2025
Ask Again, Yes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.93 — 209,623 ratings — published 2019
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,013 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,832 ratings — published 1997
Commonwealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.84 — 216,910 ratings — published 2016
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,969 ratings — published 1976
Good Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 71,491 ratings — published 2025
A Grandmother Begins the Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,767 ratings — published 2023
Homecoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 4.05 — 123,372 ratings — published 2023
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,749 ratings — published 2019
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,421 ratings — published 2018
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 4.25 — 371,259 ratings — published 1977
Blessings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.67 — 20,534 ratings — published 2002
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.42 — 985,794 ratings — published 2025
A History of Burning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,427 ratings — published 2023
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,069,300 ratings — published 2024
Real Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.94 — 101,496 ratings — published 2024
Sandwich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.52 — 241,789 ratings — published 2024
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,994,023 ratings — published 2018
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.07 — 374,646 ratings — published 2023
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.12 — 592,938 ratings — published 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.24 — 287,257 ratings — published 2021
The Heart's Invisible Furies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.51 — 234,282 ratings — published 2017
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,654 ratings — published 2022
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.80 — 76,088 ratings — published 2022
Violeta (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,979 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,920,523 ratings — published 2022
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,686 ratings — published 2021
Infinite Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.92 — 51,480 ratings — published 2021
The Last Story of Mina Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.53 — 46,985 ratings — published 2020
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.85 — 131,830 ratings — published 2004
“But a generation that knows only how to travel — can they teach a generation how to arrive?”
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.”
― JPod
― JPod
