Geniuses: Books by MacArthur Fellows

1.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,660 ratings
2.
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,896 ratings
3.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,163 ratings
4.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,468 ratings
5.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,485 ratings
6.
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
7.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,740 ratings
8.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,343 ratings
9.
V.
V. 3.97 avg rating — 24,778 ratings
10.
J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
11.
The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System 3.85 avg rating — 23,981 ratings
12.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,518 ratings
13.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating — 52,663 ratings
14.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,143 ratings
15.
Against the Day
Against the Day 4.05 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
16.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 3.84 avg rating — 31,109 ratings
17.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,958 ratings
18.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn 3.86 avg rating — 42,132 ratings
19.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,966 ratings
20.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by: Yiyun Li
3.93 avg rating — 3,977 ratings
20.
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo 3.85 avg rating — 4,795 ratings
20.
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating — 137,128 ratings
23.
Oblivion
Oblivion 4.07 avg rating — 15,564 ratings
24.
The Pale King
The Pale King 3.97 avg rating — 19,431 ratings
25.
The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker 3.81 avg rating — 8,256 ratings
26.
Diving Into the Wreck
Diving Into the Wreck 4.24 avg rating — 9,540 ratings
27.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating — 63,055 ratings
28.
The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones 4.07 avg rating — 9,774 ratings
28.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978 4.36 avg rating — 1,133 ratings
30.
Alice James: A Biography
Alice James: A Biography 3.85 avg rating — 182 ratings
31.
Almanac of the Dead
Almanac of the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 3,131 ratings
31.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,018 ratings
33.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 3.71 avg rating — 8,732 ratings
33.
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,042 ratings
35.
The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper 3.52 avg rating — 12,465 ratings
36.
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust 3.55 avg rating — 8,490 ratings
37.
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 222,959 ratings
38.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,742 ratings
39.
As She Climbed Across the Table
As She Climbed Across the Table 3.67 avg rating — 5,674 ratings
40.
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 38,336 ratings
41.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,973 ratings
42.
M.C. Higgins, the Great
M.C. Higgins, the Great 3.43 avg rating — 4,364 ratings
43.
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout 4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
43.
Archaic Smile
Archaic Smile 4.45 avg rating — 130 ratings
43.
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books 4.25 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
43.
Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics) 4.02 avg rating — 110 ratings
43.
Petrochemical America
Petrochemical America 4.45 avg rating — 106 ratings
43.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating — 375,108 ratings
43.
Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination
Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
50.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
by: Ved Mehta
3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
50.
Sleep Donation
Sleep Donation 3.32 avg rating — 8,002 ratings
50.
Hapax
Hapax 4.22 avg rating — 253 ratings
50.
A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men 4.09 avg rating — 6,826 ratings
50.
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
55.
Olives
Olives 4.27 avg rating — 284 ratings
55.
Hamilton: The Revolution
Hamilton: The Revolution 4.45 avg rating — 54,261 ratings
57.
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
57.
The Refugees
The Refugees 3.86 avg rating — 21,720 ratings
59.
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 4.21 avg rating — 7,895 ratings
59.
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing 4.35 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
59.
Tremble: Poems
Tremble: Poems 4.29 avg rating — 168 ratings
62.
Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems
Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems 3.96 avg rating — 181 ratings
62.
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living 4.32 avg rating — 887 ratings
62.
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating — 291,027 ratings
65.
Twilight of the Superheroes
Twilight of the Superheroes 3.62 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
65.
The Time of Our Singing
The Time of Our Singing 4.26 avg rating — 4,147 ratings
65.
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,577 ratings
65.
When My Brother Was an Aztec
When My Brother Was an Aztec 4.39 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
69.
The Fortress of Solitude
The Fortress of Solitude 3.84 avg rating — 24,040 ratings
69.
Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
69.
Galatea 2.2: A Novel
Galatea 2.2: A Novel 3.73 avg rating — 3,410 ratings
72.
Ship Fever: Stories
Ship Fever: Stories 4.04 avg rating — 4,301 ratings
72.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 4.08 avg rating — 10,969 ratings
74.
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
75.
The Colossus of New York
The Colossus of New York 3.69 avg rating — 4,216 ratings
76.
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air 3.27 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
76.
Bleeding Edge
Bleeding Edge 3.61 avg rating — 13,748 ratings
78.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,642 ratings
78.
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,154 ratings
78.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating — 116,575 ratings
81.
Carpenter's Gothic
Carpenter's Gothic 3.85 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
81.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,374 ratings
83.
The Man With Night Sweats
The Man With Night Sweats
by: Thom Gunn
4.10 avg rating — 755 ratings
84.
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
84.
Kinder Than Solitude
Kinder Than Solitude
by: Yiyun Li
3.40 avg rating — 2,964 ratings
84.
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 4.39 avg rating — 16,458 ratings
87.
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,368 ratings
88.
Tatlin!
Tatlin! 4.53 avg rating — 58 ratings
88.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,849 ratings
90.
The Geography of the Imagination
The Geography of the Imagination 4.41 avg rating — 462 ratings
90.
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry 4.26 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
90.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 132,999 ratings
93.
Vineland
Vineland 3.75 avg rating — 14,014 ratings
93.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red 4.26 avg rating — 34,584 ratings
95.
The Book of My Lives
The Book of My Lives 4.18 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
96.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating — 26,610 ratings
96.
Deepstep Come Shining
Deepstep Come Shining 4.23 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
98.
Is God Happy? Selected Essays
Is God Happy? Selected Essays 4.08 avg rating — 334 ratings
98.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,443 ratings
100.
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science 4.28 avg rating — 51,628 ratings
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