Complete List of Titles, arranged by rating
Updated through February 2015
Note: These numbers represent the average rating of each book based on an ever-changing group of participants. Some books might be higher or lower than expected because fewer people happened to read the book in that given month, or the dynamic and interest of the group has changed since a book was read. Take these—as you should take any rating—with a grain of salt. Sincerely, The First Monday Reading Group (which meets on the final Monday of every month…. See we can’t even be trusted to get our name right.)
9.5—Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
9.22—The Help, Kathryn Stockett
9.17—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
9.05—Unbroken, Lauren Hillenbrand
9—Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
8.99—Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
8.8—The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
8.8167—I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
8.78—Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
8.667—Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
8.49—My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
8.45—To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
8.43—The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
8.4167—Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
8.4—The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8.275—On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, Andrew Peterson
8.26—Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Cad
8.25—A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
8.25—Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
8.189—The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
8.17—Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik
8.167—Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
8.167—Sammy's Hill, Kristin Gore
8.1—Water for Elephants, Sarah Gruen
8.09—My Year with Eleanor, Noelle Hancock
8.0375—Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
8.03—Molka'i, Alan Brennert
7.375—A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg
7.98—Wild, Cheryl Strayed
7.9375—Same Kind of Different as Me, Ron Hall & Denver Moore
7.921—Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
7.92—The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
7.875—The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
7.87—Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
7.86875—The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
7.83—The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Burbery
7.83—The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
7.65—The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
7.8125—The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
7.8028—Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
7.75—A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel
7.7—A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
7.7—Seven, an experimental mutiny against excess, Jen Hatmaker
7.68—The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
7.675—The Color of Water, James McBride
7.667—The House at Tyneford, Natasha Solomons
7.625—Double Identity, Margaret Peterson Haddix
7.583—A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
7.58—The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
7.53—The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
7.5—The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
7.5—Distant Land of My Father, Bo Caldwell
7.5—In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Gracia Burnham
7.47—The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Louise Murphy
7.45—The Known World, Edward P. Jones
7.45—Watership Down, Richard Adams
7.4375—Rocket Boys, Homer H. Hickam
7.42—Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza
7.4—Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
7.393—Room, Emma Donoghue
7.375—A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg
7.33—Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christopher Moore
7.3—The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
7.3—The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
7.28—The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
7.167—Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
7.1—The Host, Stephenie Meyer
7.083—Somewhere Inside, Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
7.0625—The Persian Pickle Club, Sandra Dallas
7—The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
6.95—The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
6.9285—Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
6.92—Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
6.92—The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
6.9—Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
6.86—How to Be an American Housewife, Margaret Dilloway
6.857—The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
6.83—Safely Home, Randy Alcorn
6.82—The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
6.8—Life of Pi, Yann Martel
6.8—Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
6.75—Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
6.75—Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
6.67—Cane River, Lalita Tademy
6.625—I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
6.525—Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
6.5—The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff
6.45—The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
6.41—The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
6.4—Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
6.375—Eli, Bill Myer
6.25—Blindness, Jose Saramago
6.25—Empire Falls, Richard Russo
6.229—Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman
6.214—A Name of Her Own, Jane Kirkpatrick
6.2—Chocolat, Joanne Harris
6.1967—Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
6.16—In Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner
6—The Shack, William P. Young
6—The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
5.875—Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
5.84—Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
5.75—Feed, M.T. Anderson
5.6875—House Rules, Jodi Picoult
5.68—Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
5.64—The Ultimate Gift, Jim Stovall
5.6—The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
5.6—Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
5.25—Thr3e, Ted Dekker
5.21—One Day, David Nicholls
5.2—Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
5.0625—Little Bee, Chris Cleave
5—Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5—The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
4.675—The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
4.05—Wicked, Gregory Maguire
4—A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
3.8—Our Lady of the Forest, David Guterson
3.667—Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
unrated due to the nature of the content:
recommended—Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
unrated due to the fact that we could not finish:
not recommended—Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
unrated due to lost data:
not recommended—Slapstick or Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut
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