Amy Greene's Recommended Reading

1.
Eventide (Plainsong, #2)
Eventide (Plainsong, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 25,904 ratings
2.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,864 ratings
3.
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 78,110 ratings
4.
The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker 4.17 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
5.
She’s Come Undone
She’s Come Undone 3.91 avg rating — 357,281 ratings
6.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,401 ratings
7.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,750 ratings
8.
Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.66 avg rating — 32,326 ratings
9.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist 3.90 avg rating — 107,788 ratings
10.
Oral History
Oral History
by: Lee Smith
4.05 avg rating — 4,203 ratings
11.
Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment 4.13 avg rating — 26,190 ratings
12.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,705 ratings
13.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,741 ratings
14.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,343 ratings
15.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,544 ratings
16.
It
It 4.24 avg rating — 1,227,655 ratings
17.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,032 ratings
18.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,865 ratings
19.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,142 ratings
20.
One Foot in Eden
One Foot in Eden
by: Ron Rash
4.13 avg rating — 6,024 ratings
21.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,290 ratings
22.
The Tiny One
The Tiny One 3.66 avg rating — 320 ratings
23.
Evening
Evening 3.39 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
24.
Await Your Reply
Await Your Reply
by: Dan Chaon
3.54 avg rating — 16,142 ratings
25.
The Feast of Love
The Feast of Love 3.69 avg rating — 9,754 ratings
26.
Abide with Me
Abide with Me 3.91 avg rating — 19,137 ratings
27.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 259,668 ratings
28.
Fair and Tender Ladies
Fair and Tender Ladies
by: Lee Smith
4.19 avg rating — 7,973 ratings
29.
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating — 2,439,641 ratings
30.
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3) 3.94 avg rating — 13,677 ratings
31.
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,471 ratings
32.
A Parchment of Leaves
A Parchment of Leaves 4.22 avg rating — 5,119 ratings
33.
Ellen Foster
Ellen Foster 3.79 avg rating — 31,762 ratings
34.
A Virtuous Woman
A Virtuous Woman 3.69 avg rating — 25,471 ratings
35.
Eva Moves the Furniture
Eva Moves the Furniture 3.68 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
36.
The House on Fortune Street
The House on Fortune Street 3.52 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
37.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,043 ratings
38.
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,236 ratings
39.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,955 ratings
40.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,050 ratings
41.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
42.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 140,317 ratings
43.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,892 ratings
44.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,026 ratings
45.
The Hunters
The Hunters 3.48 avg rating — 663 ratings
46.
Lark & Termite
Lark & Termite 3.44 avg rating — 4,168 ratings
47.
The Last Good Time
The Last Good Time 3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings
48.
A Gracious Plenty
A Gracious Plenty 3.98 avg rating — 2,646 ratings
49.
Peace Like a River
Peace Like a River 4.03 avg rating — 99,202 ratings
50.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping 3.81 avg rating — 57,356 ratings
51.
The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,857 ratings
52.
Father and Son
Father and Son 4.12 avg rating — 2,914 ratings
53.
Jim the Boy
Jim the Boy 3.84 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
54.
The Typist
The Typist 3.68 avg rating — 619 ratings
55.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,535 ratings
56.
The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,285 ratings
57.
Great House
Great House 3.49 avg rating — 18,530 ratings
58.
Room
Room 4.08 avg rating — 826,379 ratings
59.
The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,392 ratings
60.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
61.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,195 ratings
62.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs 3.76 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
63.
Heroic Measures
Heroic Measures 3.69 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
64.
The Long Home
The Long Home 4.03 avg rating — 2,746 ratings
65.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,145 ratings
66.
This Gone Place
This Gone Place 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
67.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,223 ratings
68.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,279 ratings
69.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
70.
The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries 3.89 avg rating — 41,489 ratings
71.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,053 ratings
72.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,449 ratings
73.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,748 ratings
74.
Tinkers
Tinkers 3.41 avg rating — 37,940 ratings
75.
All the Living
All the Living 3.62 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
76.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,955 ratings
77.
Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,457 ratings
78.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,104 ratings
79.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,435 ratings
80.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,186 ratings
81.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone 3.86 avg rating — 38,161 ratings
82.
Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut
by: Adam Ross
3.25 avg rating — 5,602 ratings
83.
The Quickening
The Quickening 3.30 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
84.
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove 3.79 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
85.
Eli the Good
Eli the Good 4.16 avg rating — 2,268 ratings