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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. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
  2. The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin
  3. Savages by Don Winslow
  4. Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont
  5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  6. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave: A Dr. Siri Investigation Set in Laos by Colin Cotterill
  7. Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage by Robert Morgan
  9. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
  10. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  11. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
  12. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  13. Paradise by Toni Morrison
  14. Bear v. Shark: The Novel by Chris Bachelder
  15. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
  16. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  17. Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
  18. Open House by Elizabeth Berg
  19. The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
  20. Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
  21. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 by Abraham Lincoln, Don E. Fehrenbacher
  22. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
  23. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
  24. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  25. Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
  26. Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
  27. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  28. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
  29. River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  30. Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
  31. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  32. Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
  33. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
  34. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
  35. Once A Spy by Keith Thomson
  36. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
  37. Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
  38. Lucky Dog by Mark Barrowcliffe
  39. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  40. Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
  41. I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One by Soseki Natsume
  42. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
  43. A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  44. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  45. A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August by William Faulkner
  46. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  47. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  48. Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  49. Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
  50. The Meanest Thing To Say: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 by Bill Cosby

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