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Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as generational)
avg rating 4.34 — 705,524 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,763 ratings — published 2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as generational)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,160,325 ratings — published 1967
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as generational)
avg rating 4.40 — 357,471 ratings — published 2023
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as generational)
avg rating 4.04 — 674,576 ratings — published 2002
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as generational)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,467 ratings — published 2020
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as generational)
avg rating 4.31 — 352,372 ratings — published 1982
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 720,185 ratings — published 1989
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 761,409 ratings — published 1952
Weyward (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as generational)
avg rating 4.05 — 472,557 ratings — published 2023
The Bright Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.22 — 230,031 ratings — published 2025
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.08 — 241,265 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as generational)
avg rating 4.33 — 189,523 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,476 ratings — published 2026
The Mountains Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.31 — 71,564 ratings — published 2020
The Dutch House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 4.10 — 609,748 ratings — published 2019
A Spool of Blue Thread (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.45 — 105,253 ratings — published 2015
Barkskins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,338 ratings — published 2016
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as generational)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,933 ratings — published 2000
Buckeye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 4.10 — 174,550 ratings — published 2025
Ask Again, Yes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.93 — 209,626 ratings — published 2019
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,014 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,842 ratings — published 1997
Commonwealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 3.84 — 216,917 ratings — published 2016
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as generational)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,970 ratings — published 1976
Good Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 71,496 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 — 123,376 ratings — published 2023
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,756 ratings — published 2019
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,425 ratings — published 2018
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generational)
avg rating 4.25 — 371,266 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 — 986,190 ratings — published 2025
A History of Burning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,428 ratings — published 2023
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,069,397 ratings — published 2024
Real Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.94 — 101,500 ratings — published 2024
Sandwich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.52 — 241,821 ratings — published 2024
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,994,086 ratings — published 2018
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.07 — 374,673 ratings — published 2023
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.12 — 592,977 ratings — published 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.24 — 287,262 ratings — published 2021
The Heart's Invisible Furies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.51 — 234,294 ratings — published 2017
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,656 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 — 114,986 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,920,599 ratings — published 2022
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,687 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 — 46,986 ratings — published 2020
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as generational)
avg rating 3.85 — 131,836 ratings — published 2004
“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.”
― Electrical Forensics
― Electrical Forensics
“All along, I thought I was protecting the kids. Shielding them from realities behind closed doors. Sacrificing to maintain a two-parent Christian home. Making hard, better choices for their faith, family, and education than I made for myself, trying to safeguard them from pain.
But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
