Previous Selections by Rating

Please note that this list does not include all of the books we have read - only the ones we have rated.

5 Irises

• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
• Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
• The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
• The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
• The Birth House (Ami McKay)
• Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)
• Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
• Molokai (Alan Brennert)
• Last Change to See (Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine)
• Dooms Day Book (Connie Willis)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
• Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
• March (Geraldine Brooks)
• Sarah's Key (Tatiana De Rosnay)
• Room (Emma Donoghue)
• Secret Daughter (Shilpi Gowda)
• Bossypants (Tina Fey)
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Chris Hadfield)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
• The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)
• The Feather Thief (Kirk Wallace Johnson)

4.5 Irises

• The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
• The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
• Galore (Michael Crummey)
• The Best Laid Plans (Terry Fallis)
• The Illegal (Lawrence Hill)
• Caroline: Little House Revisited (Sara Miller)
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
• Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
• Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
• A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik)
• The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
• Moon of the Crusted Snow (Waubeshig Rice)
• A Woman is No Man (Etaf Rum)

4 Irises

• A Woman of Passion (Virginia Henley)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Ian Fleming)
• Still Life with Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)
• Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
• Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)
• Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Christopher Moore)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
• Gods Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club (Kate Jacobs)
• My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
• The Tiger Claw (Shauna Singh Baldwin)
• The Other Boleyn Girl (Phillipa Gregory)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
• The Great Gatsby (F.Scott Fitzgerald)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith)
• Lamb (Christopher Moore)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
• Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
• The Lake of Dreams (Kim Edwards)
• The Virgin Cure (Ami McKay)
• Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead (Sheryl Sandberg)
• Mistress of the Art of Death (Ariana Franklin)
• Sense and Sensibility (Joanna Trollope)
• People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
• Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel (Eli Brown)
• The Ghost Bride (Yangsze Choo)
• The Baker's Secret (Stephen P. Kiernan)
• Where'd You Go Bernadette (Maria Semple)
• The Seven Death of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
• Educated (Tara Westover)
• Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
• Universe of Two (Stephen P. Kiernan)
• The Flight Girls (Noelle Salazar)
• The Humans (Matt Haig)
• Gutter Child (Jael Richardson)
• The Library Book (Susan Orlean)
• Greenwood (Michael Christie)
• The Boston Girl (Anita Diamant)

3.5 Irises

• Friday Night Lights (H.G. Bissinger)
• Honolulu (Alan Brennert)
• French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew (Peter Mayle)
• Grave Goods (Ariana Franklin)
• You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) (Felicia Day)
• The Chaperone (Laura Moriarty)
• Northanger Abbey (Val McDermid)
• The Secret Letters of the Monk who Sold his Ferrari (Robin Sharma)
• Next Year in Havana (Chanel Cleeton)
• The Family Next Door (Sally Hepworth)
• The Simple Wild (K.A. Tucker)
• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
• The Atomic City Girls (Janet Beard)
• Maybe in Another Life (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
• The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
• The Rules of Magic (Alice Hoffman)
• A Lullaby for Witches (Hester Fox) 
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Balli Kaur Jaswal)

3 Irises

• The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
• Enemy Women (Paulette Jiles)
• The Golden Spruce (John Valliant)
• The Secret River (Kate Grenville)
• Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)
• Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
• The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
• Someday, Someday Maybe (Lauren Graham)
• The Descendants (Kaui Hart-Hemingo)
• Yes Please (Amy Poehler)
• The Nest (Cythia D'aprix Sweeney)
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis (J.D. Vance)
• The Dollhouse (Fiona Davis)
• The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)
• The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Michael Lewis)
• Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)

2.5 Irises

• Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
• Emma (Alexander McCall Smith)
• The Other Einstein (Marie Benedict)
• The Personality Brokers (Merve Emre)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
• This is Where I Leave You (Jonathan Tropper)

2 Irises

• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
• A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews)
• Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan)
• The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)
• Watchmen (Alan Moore)
• The Serpent's Tale (Ariana Franklin)
• The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
• Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)

1.5 Irises

• Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins) 

1 Iris

• Absolute Friends (John Le Carre)