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We think you, the avid reader, can do the best job explaining why a book is Flashlight Worthy. These are the top 50 books that most urgently need your thoughts — have you read any of them?

  1. Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda Davis, Vesanto Melina
  2. Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
  3. River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  4. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
  5. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
  6. The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
  7. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
  8. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
  9. The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
  10. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
  11. Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
  12. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
  13. Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
  14. Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
  15. The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin
  16. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  17. The Joy of Vegan Baking: The Compassionate Cooks' Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  18. I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One by Soseki Natsume
  19. Dining with Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine by Lee Hall, Priscilla Feral
  20. Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
  21. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
  22. A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  23. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  24. Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  25. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  26. Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont
  27. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
  28. Open House by Elizabeth Berg
  29. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
  30. Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  31. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  32. Paradise by Toni Morrison
  33. A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August by William Faulkner
  34. Lucky Dog by Mark Barrowcliffe
  35. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  36. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  37. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  38. Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
  39. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 by Abraham Lincoln, Don E. Fehrenbacher
  40. Bear v. Shark: The Novel by Chris Bachelder
  41. Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage by Robert Morgan
  42. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  43. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  44. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
  45. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  46. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  47. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
  48. Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
  49. The Meanest Thing To Say: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 by Bill Cosby
  50. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

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