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Description: The books that have been featured in Powell's Indiespensable subscription

Rank Title Author Added

1

15,896 members

824 reviews

3.9

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Stitches: A Memoir

2,027 members

177 reviews

4.2

3 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda, nthz

3

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

6,286 members

353 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

4

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

19,722 members

1,292 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill, nthz

5

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,330 members

78 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Flying Troutmans

by Miriam Toews

930 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

7

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,926 members

123 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

8

by Jeff VanderMeer

2,262 members

88 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill, nthz

9

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

3,494 members

279 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: RavenHill, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Sing, Unburied, Sing

4,310 members

203 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

11

by Samantha Hunt

704 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

12

1,200 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Flaneurette, kara.shamy, RavenHill

13

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

6,411 members

394 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, RavenHill

14

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

20,288 members

906 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

15

by Tommy Orange

4,850 members

203 reviews

4

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

16

by Paul Harding

3,812 members

236 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

17

Did You Ever Have a Family

1,278 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

18

6,075 members

288 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: RavenHill, nthz

19

Late in the Day

by Tessa Hadley

416 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

20

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

5,242 members

294 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

21

A Ladder to the Sky

905 members

63 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

22

by Garth Risk Hallberg

1,381 members

57 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

23

348 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

24

How the Dead Dream

by Lydia Millet

302 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

25

by Annie Proulx

1,642 members

86 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

26

The Burning Girl

by Claire Messud

584 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

27

by Brit Bennett

2,112 members

97 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

28

The Third Hotel

by Laura Van den Berg

360 members

18 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

29

by Michael Chabon

2,282 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

30

by Rachel Kushner

1,609 members

71 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

31

by Richard Powers

932 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

32

The Blazing World

by Siri Hustvedt

961 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

33

She Would Be King

by Wayétu Moore

561 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

34

All My Puny Sorrows

by Miriam Toews

1,353 members

66 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

35

Stephen Florida

273 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

36

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

1,276 members

63 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Flaneurette, RavenHill

37

by Eli Gottlieb

300 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, RavenHill

38

by Hillary Jordan

3,028 members

211 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

39

1,408 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

40

by Monica Drake

519 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

41

3,287 members

61 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

42

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

8,757 members

413 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

43

by Glen David Gold

494 members

24 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

44

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

4,687 members

353 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

45

by Gerbrand Bakker

961 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

46

Into the Beautiful North

by Luis Alberto Urrea

899 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

47

The Cry of the Sloth

299 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: RavenHill

48

The Wild Things

1,471 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

49

by Louise Erdrich

1,067 members

65 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

50

by Karl Marlantes

2,891 members

134 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RavenHill

51

The Lonely Polygamist

1,414 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

52

I Curse the River of Time

by Per Petterson

831 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

53

by Jonathan Franzen

9,801 members

411 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

54

by Benjamin Percy

190 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

55

The Instructions

703 members

25 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

56

The Fates Will Find Their Way

by Hannah Pittard

514 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

57

by Andre III Dubus

794 members

42 reviews

4

Member: RavenHill

58

Bright Before Us

by Katie Arnold-Ratliff

84 members

1 review

3.2

Member: RavenHill

59

by Alice LaPlante

1,178 members

104 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

60

The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

5,452 members

288 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

61

Running the Rift

by Naomi Benaron

593 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

62

The Book of Jonas

290 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

63

132 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

64

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,389 members

338 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

65

A Million Heavens

by John Brandon

172 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

66

by J. Robert Lennon

204 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: RavenHill

67

The Death of Bees

by Lisa O'Donnell

979 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: RavenHill

68

With or Without You

by Dominica Ruta

2 members

1 review

4

Member: RavenHill

69

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

2,457 members

186 reviews

4.2

Member: RavenHill

70

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

299 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: RavenHill

71

322 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: RavenHill

72

The Childhood of Jesus

by J. M. Coetzee

813 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

73

The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1

141 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

74

The Great Glass Sea

178 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: RavenHill

75

by Cecilia Ekbäck

594 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

76

Our Endless Numbered Days

by Claire Fuller

806 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

77

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

by Vendela Vida

417 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: RavenHill

78

A Doubter's Almanac

520 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: RavenHill

79

by Jonathan Safran Foer

1,482 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: RavenHill

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Started: RavenHill
May 2017
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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