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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,033,604 ratings — published 2009
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 812,782 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,656,530 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,419 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.41 — 814,229 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 4.37 — 407,931 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,500 ratings — published 2014
Remarkably Bright Creatures (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,274,034 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,803,499 ratings — published 2022
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,924,496 ratings — published 1960
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,878,438 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,272,461 ratings — published 2011
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,223,916 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,475 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 — 117,162 ratings — published 2012
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.08 — 837,729 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,895,674 ratings — published 2005
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 732,041 ratings — published 2017
Humans of New York: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,764 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,453 ratings — published 2015
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,370,133 ratings — published 2005
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.26 — 364,483 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 — 1,001,057 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,511,803 ratings — published 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 870,911 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 4.21 — 1,211,861 ratings — published 1997
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.36 — 993,408 ratings — published 2020
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,494,188 ratings — published 2022
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,436,436 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 — 1,602,960 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,734 ratings — published 2001
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.19 — 814,291 ratings — published 2008
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,898 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.28 — 755,795 ratings — published 1982
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.77 — 404,644 ratings — published 2002
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.34 — 85,469 ratings — published 2010
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.49 — 219,257 ratings — published 2014
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,833 ratings — published 2006
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.32 — 361,503 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 — 66,537 ratings — published 2012
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,635 ratings — published 2007
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.15 — 142,243 ratings — published 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,632 ratings — published 1962
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,750,588 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.81 — 55,963 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 — 235,138 ratings — published 2009
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.24 — 338,312 ratings — published 1989
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 3.96 — 623,810 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,695 ratings — published 1956
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-interest)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,972,786 ratings — published 2008
“4-19-10 Monday 1:00 P.M.
Today the gas was turned off – more panic reactions. I’m wondering if the darkest hour is just before the dawn and all those wonderful cliches. I don’t see anyway out of my current situation, at least any quality of life I’m willing to accept. It’s just too much to think about right now. I lost the gas stove, the heat, and the water heater. Hmm cold showers, but found an electric crock pot and frying pan, and I still have the microwave.
I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose the water. My mother told me there’s a family who pitched a tent in the forest preserve. Somehow the father’s still working and keeping his two kids in school, with a little help from a local church.
And it’s good to know the forest rangers have a heart and have looked the other way. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they’ve dropped off some food and supplies. Isn’t that America.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
Today the gas was turned off – more panic reactions. I’m wondering if the darkest hour is just before the dawn and all those wonderful cliches. I don’t see anyway out of my current situation, at least any quality of life I’m willing to accept. It’s just too much to think about right now. I lost the gas stove, the heat, and the water heater. Hmm cold showers, but found an electric crock pot and frying pan, and I still have the microwave.
I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose the water. My mother told me there’s a family who pitched a tent in the forest preserve. Somehow the father’s still working and keeping his two kids in school, with a little help from a local church.
And it’s good to know the forest rangers have a heart and have looked the other way. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they’ve dropped off some food and supplies. Isn’t that America.”
― The Mind Game Company: The Players
“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
