Mainstream Fiction Books
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Poet Of The Wrong Generation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.82 — 632 ratings — published 2016
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,881,436 ratings — published 1960
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,491,340 ratings — published 2003
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,117 ratings — published 2001
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,211,777 ratings — published 2012
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,522,635 ratings — published 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,596,809 ratings — published 2003
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,088,984 ratings — published 2017
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,891,834 ratings — published 1951
Big Little Lies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,115,368 ratings — published 2014
Somewhere Upriver (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 91 ratings — published 2013
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,035,840 ratings — published 2006
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,492 ratings — published 1989
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,461,841 ratings — published 2002
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,456,220 ratings — published 1949
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,848,040 ratings — published 2019
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,912,770 ratings — published 1925
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 853,388 ratings — published 2005
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,445,957 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,799,039 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,547,300 ratings — published 1945
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,623,468 ratings — published 2018
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,187,227 ratings — published 2018
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,287,322 ratings — published 2015
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,352,433 ratings — published 2001
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,973,841 ratings — published 2014
The Husband's Secret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 724,988 ratings — published 2013
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 558,291 ratings — published 1899
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,834,148 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,198,727 ratings — published 1954
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,700,446 ratings — published 2006
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,550,474 ratings — published 2022
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 576,023 ratings — published 2019
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 426,580 ratings — published 2009
After You (Me Before You, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,193 ratings — published 2015
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 548,015 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,721,120 ratings — published 2012
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,284,427 ratings — published 2011
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,445,242 ratings — published 2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 598,948 ratings — published 2012
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,662 ratings — published 1851
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.44 — 919,397 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,929 ratings — published 1982
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,275,423 ratings — published 2004
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 876,437 ratings — published 1922
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 563,203 ratings — published 2001
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 810,290 ratings — published 2008
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,734,164 ratings — published 2007
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,420,767 ratings — published 1985
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as mainstream-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,857,450 ratings — published 2003
“BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs... That's because all mainstream media again, they are all repiping the same power structure information and propaganda. So they don't need reporters...”
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“The difference between mainstream fiction and literature is what their writers do with words; the former places its emphasis on the story rather than the language used to tell that story; in literature, the language is the story; that is, the story is primarily a vehicle for a linguistic display of the writer's rhetorical abilities.”
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600


