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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,097,533 ratings — published 2009
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.48 — 847,726 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,794,173 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,087 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.41 — 853,116 ratings — published 2016
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 425,293 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,329,017 ratings — published 2011
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,223 ratings — published 2014
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,581,642 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,902,669 ratings — published 2022
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,122,528 ratings — published 1960
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,973,868 ratings — published 2018
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 759,998 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,281,014 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.13 — 828,636 ratings — published 2010
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,387 ratings — published 2012
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 848,986 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,978,688 ratings — published 2005
Humans of New York: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,975 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,299 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,410,686 ratings — published 2005
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 368,929 ratings — published 2008
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,018,014 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,610,974 ratings — published 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 890,566 ratings — published 2008
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,274,082 ratings — published 1997
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,103,556 ratings — published 2020
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,622,797 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,433,380 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,494,004 ratings — published 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,634,105 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,860 ratings — published 2001
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 831,227 ratings — published 2008
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,426 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,070 ratings — published 1982
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.77 — 408,301 ratings — published 2002
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,210 ratings — published 2010
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 226,891 ratings — published 2014
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,644 ratings — published 2006
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 366,611 ratings — published 2007
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,263 ratings — published 2012
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,878 ratings — published 2007
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.14 — 146,104 ratings — published 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,873 ratings — published 1962
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,883,061 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,441 ratings — published 2012
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.30 — 240,015 ratings — published 2009
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.24 — 344,460 ratings — published 1989
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,024 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,402,707 ratings — published 1956
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“5-4-10 Tuesday 8:00 A.M.
Made a large batch of chili and spaghetti to freeze yesterday. And some walnut fudge! Relieved the electricity is still on.
It’s another beautiful sunny day with fluffy white clouds drifting by. The last cloud bank looked like a dog with nursing pups.
I open the window and let in some fresh air filled with the scent of apple and plum blossoms and flowering lilacs. Feels like it’s close to 70 degrees. There’s a boy on a skate board being pulled along by his St. Bernard, who keeps turning around to see if his young friend is still on board.
I’m thinking of a scene still vividly displayed in my memory. I was nine years old. I cut through the country club on my way home from school and followed a narrow stream, sucking on a jawbreaker from Ben Franklins, and I had some cherry and strawberry pixie straws, and banana and vanilla taffy inside my coat pocket. The temperature was in the fifties so it almost felt like spring. There were still large patches of snow on the fairways in the shadows and the ground was soggy from the melt off.
Enthralled with the multi-layers of ice, thin sheets and tiny ice sickles gleaming under the afternoon sun, dripping, streaming into the pristine water below, running over the ribbons of green grass, forming miniature rapids and gently flowing rippling waves and all the reflections of a crystal cathedral, merging with the hidden world of a child. Seemingly endless natural sculptures.
Then the hollow percussion sounds of the ice thudding, crackling under my feet, breaking off little ice flows carried away into a snow-covered cavern and out the other side of the tunnel. And I followed it all the way to bridge under Maple Road as if I didn't have a care in the world.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
Made a large batch of chili and spaghetti to freeze yesterday. And some walnut fudge! Relieved the electricity is still on.
It’s another beautiful sunny day with fluffy white clouds drifting by. The last cloud bank looked like a dog with nursing pups.
I open the window and let in some fresh air filled with the scent of apple and plum blossoms and flowering lilacs. Feels like it’s close to 70 degrees. There’s a boy on a skate board being pulled along by his St. Bernard, who keeps turning around to see if his young friend is still on board.
I’m thinking of a scene still vividly displayed in my memory. I was nine years old. I cut through the country club on my way home from school and followed a narrow stream, sucking on a jawbreaker from Ben Franklins, and I had some cherry and strawberry pixie straws, and banana and vanilla taffy inside my coat pocket. The temperature was in the fifties so it almost felt like spring. There were still large patches of snow on the fairways in the shadows and the ground was soggy from the melt off.
Enthralled with the multi-layers of ice, thin sheets and tiny ice sickles gleaming under the afternoon sun, dripping, streaming into the pristine water below, running over the ribbons of green grass, forming miniature rapids and gently flowing rippling waves and all the reflections of a crystal cathedral, merging with the hidden world of a child. Seemingly endless natural sculptures.
Then the hollow percussion sounds of the ice thudding, crackling under my feet, breaking off little ice flows carried away into a snow-covered cavern and out the other side of the tunnel. And I followed it all the way to bridge under Maple Road as if I didn't have a care in the world.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
