Lenny-Recommended Books

1.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,421 ratings
2.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,412 ratings
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The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,649 ratings
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Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family
Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family 3.91 avg rating — 3,259 ratings
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The Girls
The Girls 3.51 avg rating — 237,224 ratings
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Luckiest Girl Alive 3.54 avg rating — 253,076 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,215 ratings
8.
Holidays on Ice
Holidays on Ice 3.89 avg rating — 129,592 ratings
9.
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion 3.72 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
9.
Year of Yes
Year of Yes 4.06 avg rating — 97,932 ratings
11.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,053 ratings
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir 3.50 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
12.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories 3.68 avg rating — 23,815 ratings
12.
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,263,432 ratings
12.
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice 3.60 avg rating — 98,752 ratings
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Birds of America: Stories
Birds of America: Stories 4.09 avg rating — 16,399 ratings
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Speedboat
Speedboat 3.76 avg rating — 7,257 ratings
18.
The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,852 ratings
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Annie John
Annie John 3.72 avg rating — 12,517 ratings
20.
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill 3.93 avg rating — 8,220 ratings
21.
Amy Falls Down (Amy Gallup, #2)
Amy Falls Down (Amy Gallup, #2) 3.69 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
21.
It's Okay to Laugh
It's Okay to Laugh 4.21 avg rating — 11,015 ratings
23.
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget 4.04 avg rating — 22,969 ratings
24.
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield 4.32 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
24.
The Age of Grief
The Age of Grief 3.73 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 4.17 avg rating — 62,838 ratings
27.
Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5) 4.08 avg rating — 9,585 ratings
28.
The People in the Trees
The People in the Trees 3.73 avg rating — 44,442 ratings
29.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,085 ratings
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Wifey
Wifey 3.40 avg rating — 17,082 ratings
31.
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark 3.67 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
32.
Sweetbitter
Sweetbitter 3.33 avg rating — 77,685 ratings
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Saint Mazie
Saint Mazie 3.65 avg rating — 7,012 ratings
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The Days of Abandonment
The Days of Abandonment 3.87 avg rating — 54,911 ratings
35.
White Oleander
White Oleander really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 363,356 ratings
36.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 239,035 ratings
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Tampa
Tampa 3.33 avg rating — 54,255 ratings
38.
Ayiti
Ayiti 4.27 avg rating — 8,128 ratings
39.
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating — 21,511 ratings
40.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,755 ratings
41.
What the Living Do: Poems
What the Living Do: Poems 4.31 avg rating — 5,068 ratings
42.
The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,805 ratings
42.
I'm Very Into You: Correspondence, 1995-1996
I'm Very Into You: Correspondence, 1995-1996 3.82 avg rating — 827 ratings
44.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,044 ratings
45.
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology 4.07 avg rating — 74,935 ratings
46.
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies 3.59 avg rating — 145,776 ratings
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Ghost World
Ghost World 3.82 avg rating — 78,781 ratings
48.
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis 3.29 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
49.
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
50.
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
How to Escape from a Leper Colony 3.92 avg rating — 461 ratings
51.
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
So Sad Today: Personal Essays 3.80 avg rating — 17,128 ratings
52.
My Father, the Pornographer
My Father, the Pornographer 3.62 avg rating — 2,023 ratings
53.
The Best Most Useless Dress: Selected Writings of Claudia La Rocco
The Best Most Useless Dress: Selected Writings of Claudia La Rocco 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #12)
The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #12) 3.96 avg rating — 32,332 ratings
55.
The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life
The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life 4.10 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
56.
Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider's View from Inside the Fashion Industry
Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider's View from Inside the Fashion Industry
by: Amy Odell
3.40 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
57.
The Correspondence Artist
The Correspondence Artist 3.65 avg rating — 188 ratings
57.
Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,825 ratings
59.
Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon 3.56 avg rating — 118 ratings
60.
Can't and Won't
Can't and Won't 3.58 avg rating — 5,283 ratings
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Collaborative Way : A Story about Engaging the Mind and Spirit of a Company
Collaborative Way : A Story about Engaging the Mind and Spirit of a Company 3.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
62.
How to Breathe Underwater
How to Breathe Underwater 3.95 avg rating — 6,554 ratings
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Our Prayers After the Fire
Our Prayers After the Fire 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
64.
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford 3.72 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
64.
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness 3.24 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
66.
Meet Addy: An American Girl (American Girls: Addy, #1)
Meet Addy: An American Girl (American Girls: Addy, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 10,483 ratings
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Patience
Patience 3.88 avg rating — 11,555 ratings
68.
Willful Disregard
Willful Disregard 3.70 avg rating — 14,814 ratings
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Surveys
Surveys 3.33 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Ghostgirl (Ghostgirl, #1)
Ghostgirl (Ghostgirl, #1) 3.31 avg rating — 21,235 ratings
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My 1980s & Other Essays
My 1980s & Other Essays 3.74 avg rating — 458 ratings
72.
Women in Clothes
Women in Clothes 3.94 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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Among the Ten Thousand Things
Among the Ten Thousand Things 2.82 avg rating — 11,790 ratings
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Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
by: Anna Beer
4.11 avg rating — 301 ratings
75.
How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction 3.64 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
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The Bed Moved
The Bed Moved 3.38 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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Mickey
Mickey 4.14 avg rating — 266 ratings
79.
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman 3.65 avg rating — 254 ratings
80.
Eileen
Eileen 3.56 avg rating — 122,817 ratings
80.
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 205,297 ratings
82.
Rich and Pretty
Rich and Pretty 2.77 avg rating — 11,066 ratings
83.
White Girls
White Girls 3.87 avg rating — 4,183 ratings
83.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir 3.61 avg rating — 11,800 ratings
85.
Everybody Rise
Everybody Rise 2.94 avg rating — 6,421 ratings
85.
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art 3.48 avg rating — 588 ratings
87.
You (You, #1)
You (You, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 281,224 ratings
87.
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic 4.45 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis
The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis 4.32 avg rating — 832 ratings
90.
Beauty Talk & Monsters (Semiotext
Beauty Talk & Monsters (Semiotext 4.35 avg rating — 83 ratings
91.
Break in Case of Emergency
Break in Case of Emergency 2.99 avg rating — 1,631 ratings
92.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 4.27 avg rating — 37,931 ratings
92.
Island Beneath the Sea
Island Beneath the Sea 4.11 avg rating — 45,454 ratings
94.
Heart Full of Lies
Heart Full of Lies
by: Ann Rule
3.97 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
95.
Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes 3.70 avg rating — 12,120 ratings
95.
Innocents and Others
Innocents and Others 3.54 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
97.
Local Girls
Local Girls 2.87 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Everyone...
Everyone... 3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Fanpages
Fanpages it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce 3.85 avg rating — 304 ratings
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