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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 199,962 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by
Mark Haddon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 426,054 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
by
Susanna Kaysen
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 68,722 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by
Ken Kesey
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 246,508 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 88,408 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
by
Daniel Keyes
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 141,435 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,097,974 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by
Stephen Chbosky
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 270,915 ratings
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Speak
by
Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 149,143 ratings
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Looking for Alaska
by
John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 150,679 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
by
Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 38,925 ratings
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
by
Ned Vizzini (Goodreads Author)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 37,017 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
by
Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 104,035 ratings
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Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 285,302 ratings
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Fight Club
by
Chuck Palahniuk
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 172,101 ratings
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Prozac Nation
by
Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 26,558 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by
Kay Redfield Jamison
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19,388 ratings
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Cut
by
Patricia McCormick
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 22,896 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by
Jay Asher (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 145,671 ratings
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Musical Chairs
by
Jen Knox (Goodreads Author)
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
by
Marya Hornbacher
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,823 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by
Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 43,192 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
by
Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 59,162 ratings
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| 24 |
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The Lovely Bones
by
Alice Sebold
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 861,819 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by
Joanne Greenberg
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 13,785 ratings
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Shutter Island
by
Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 55,019 ratings
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Wintergirls
by
Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 36,439 ratings
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| 28 |
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
by
Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 28,576 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by
Sylvia Plath
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 6,655 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
by
Sylvia Nasar
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 28,683 ratings
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Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 249,383 ratings
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Death of a Salesman
by
Arthur Miller
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 76,370 ratings
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A Million Little Pieces
by
James Frey
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 118,504 ratings
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She's Come Undone
by
Wally Lamb
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 154,869 ratings
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Willow
by
Julia Hoban
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 14,101 ratings
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Middlesex
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 307,028 ratings
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Lucky
by
Alice Sebold
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 49,335 ratings
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Just Listen
by
Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 89,010 ratings
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| 39 |
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Like Water for Chocolate
by
Laura Esquivel
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 187,811 ratings
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Forrest Gump
by
Winston Groom
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 16,771 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 50,669 ratings
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| 42 |
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by
John Elder Robison (Goodreads Author)
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 25,000 ratings
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| 43 |
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The Unwords
by
Non Nomen (Goodreads Author)
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Wayward Gifted - Broken Point
by
Donna K. Childree (Goodreads Author)
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
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My Lobotomy
by
Howard Dully
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 5,407 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by
Andrew Solomon
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 2,997 ratings
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| 47 |
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
by
Marya Hornbacher
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 4,509 ratings
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A Piece of Cake
by
Cupcake Brown
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 9,353 ratings
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Kissing Doorknobs
by
Terry Spencer Hesser
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 466,741 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by
William Styron
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 6,529 ratings
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A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
by
Marilee Strong
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 940 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
by
Diane Setterfield
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 122,943 ratings
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
by
Portia de Rossi
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 18,501 ratings
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Ariel
by
Sylvia Plath
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 17,693 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by
Temple Grandin
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 4,639 ratings
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Skin Game
by
Caroline Kettlewell
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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| 58 |
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I Don't Want To Be Crazy
by
Samantha Schutz
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
by
Tom Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Promise of Departure
by
L.W. Montgomery (Goodreads Author)
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
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| 61 |
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Les Pensees Dangereuses
by
Sharon E. Cathcart (Goodreads Author)
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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| 62 |
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The Boy Detective Fails
by
Joe Meno
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,964 ratings
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| 63 |
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The Silver Linings Playbook
by
Matthew Quick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 29,598 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
by
Truddi Chase
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 7,711 ratings
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
by
Sonya Sones
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 192,490 ratings
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I Know This Much Is True
by
Wally Lamb
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 137,153 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
by
Virginia Woolf
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 74,409 ratings
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Lie Down in Darkness
by
William Styron
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Spaghetti is Not a Finger Food
by
Jodi Carmichael (Goodreads Author)
4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by
Robert D. Hare
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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Naked
by
David Sedaris
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 124,533 ratings
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Addition
by
Toni Jordan
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by
Dave Eggers
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 100,240 ratings
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Dibs: In Search of Self
by
Virginia M. Axline
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 4,200 ratings
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Lowboy
by
John Wray
3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
by
Richard Baer
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Passing for normal: Tourette's, OCD and growing up crazy
by
Amy Wilensky
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
by
Koren Zailckas (Goodreads Author)
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 12,759 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
by
Julie Gregory
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,747 ratings
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But Inside I'm Screaming
by
Elizabeth Flock (Goodreads Author)
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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Nothing
by
Robin Friedman
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 254 ratings
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A Long Way Down
by
Nick Hornby
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 36,416 ratings
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The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
by
Janice Galloway
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Through the Dark Woods: A Young Woman's Journey Out of Depression
by
Joanna Swinney
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
by
Annie G. Rogers
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 519 ratings
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| 86 |
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After the Strawberry
by
Kathryn Pope (Goodreads Author)
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 94 ratings
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My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me
by
Amanda Green (Goodreads Author)
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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| 89 |
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The Sociopath Next Door
by
Martha Stout
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 7,776 ratings
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Beat Depression and Reclaim Your Life
by
Alexandra Massey
2.67 of 5 stars 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| 90 |
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Marcelo in the Real World
by
Francisco X. Stork (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 7,632 ratings
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| 90 |
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Scars
by
Cheryl Rainfield (Goodreads Author)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 3,431 ratings
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One Child
by
Torey Hayden
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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| 94 |
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Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet, #1)
by
R.J. Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
by
Julie Anne Peters
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 7,534 ratings
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Alias Grace
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 31,544 ratings
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I Am the Cheese
by
Robert Cormier
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 7,550 ratings
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by
Dawn Prince-Hughes
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
by
Peter D. Kramer
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 640 ratings
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The Pact: A Love Story
by
Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 128,160 ratings
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