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To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
    4.18 avg rating — 889,588 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by
Mark Twain
    3.74 avg rating — 509,851 ratings
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It
by
Stephen King
    3.93 avg rating — 73,715 ratings
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by
Ray Bradbury
    3.90 avg rating — 20,600 ratings
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Judgment Cove
by
Christopher Godsoe (Goodreads Author)
    4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
    3.56 avg rating — 576,130 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
    3.73 avg rating — 664,016 ratings
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| 8 |
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Black Swan Green
by
David Mitchell
    3.95 avg rating — 7,503 ratings
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| 9 |
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The Body
by
Stephen King
    4.19 avg rating — 5,559 ratings
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| 10 |
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Boy's Life
by
Robert R. McCammon
    4.28 avg rating — 3,845 ratings
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| 11 |
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The Outsiders
by
S.E. Hinton
    3.95 avg rating — 124,322 ratings
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| 12 |
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by
Lois Lowry
    4.11 avg rating — 264,987 ratings
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| 13 |
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The Bottoms
by
Joe R. Lansdale
    4.17 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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| 14 |
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The Secret Life of Bees
by
Sue Monk Kidd
    3.86 avg rating — 381,815 ratings
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| 15 |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by
Betty Smith
    4.20 avg rating — 85,868 ratings
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by
Judy Blume
    3.85 avg rating — 49,300 ratings
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| 17 |
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The Starlight Crystal
by
Christopher Pike
    3.62 avg rating — 718 ratings
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| 17 |
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Ada: Legend of a Healer
by
R.A. McDonald (Goodreads Author)
    4.06 avg rating — 87 ratings
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| 19 |
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A Separate Peace
by
John Knowles
    3.50 avg rating — 52,099 ratings
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| 20 |
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by
Philip Pullman
    3.83 avg rating — 278,919 ratings
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| 21 |
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Dandelion Wine
by
Ray Bradbury
    3.96 avg rating — 12,309 ratings
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| 22 |
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Outside - a post-apocalyptic novel (The Outside Series #1)
by
Shalini Boland (Goodreads Author)
    3.66 avg rating — 124 ratings
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| 23 |
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Ham on Rye
by
Charles Bukowski
    4.13 avg rating — 11,977 ratings
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| 23 |
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Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series #1)
by
Shalini Boland (Goodreads Author)
    3.87 avg rating — 160 ratings
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| 25 |
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Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
    3.80 avg rating — 38,308 ratings
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| 26 |
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The Bell Jar
by
Sylvia Plath
    3.88 avg rating — 104,173 ratings
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| 27 |
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Angela's Ashes
by
Frank McCourt
    3.95 avg rating — 106,326 ratings
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| 28 |
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Different Seasons
by
Stephen King
    4.13 avg rating — 51,906 ratings
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| 29 |
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The Boar
by
Joe R. Lansdale
    3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 30 |
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A Fine Dark Line
by
Joe R. Lansdale
    4.00 avg rating — 530 ratings
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| 31 |
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
by
Frank Herbert
    3.96 avg rating — 174,420 ratings
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| 31 |
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
    3.88 avg rating — 32,596 ratings
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| 33 |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by
Robert A. Heinlein
    3.75 avg rating — 98,509 ratings
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| 34 |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by
James Joyce
    3.54 avg rating — 34,296 ratings
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| 35 |
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Of Human Bondage
by
W. Somerset Maugham
    4.01 avg rating — 12,148 ratings
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| 36 |
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Paddy Clarke ha ha ha: Roman
by
Roddy Doyle
    3.70 avg rating — 4,416 ratings
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| 37 |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by
Patrick Süskind
    3.87 avg rating — 39,855 ratings
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| 38 |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
by
Patrick Ness
    4.04 avg rating — 11,803 ratings
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| 38 |
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
by
Amy O'Hare
    3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 38 |
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Bridge to Terabithia
by
Katherine Paterson
    3.88 avg rating — 82,473 ratings
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| 41 |
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Spin (Spin, #1)
by
Robert Charles Wilson
    3.96 avg rating — 4,793 ratings
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| 41 |
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Jasper Jones
by
Craig Silvey
    4.00 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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| 43 |
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Moloka'i
by
Alan Brennert
    4.10 avg rating — 15,502 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Talisman
by
Stephen King
    4.00 avg rating — 25,229 ratings
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| 45 |
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The Risk Pool
by
Richard Russo
    3.93 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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| 46 |
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Summer Sisters
by
Judy Blume
    3.67 avg rating — 25,220 ratings
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| 47 |
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Middlesex
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
    3.83 avg rating — 208,340 ratings
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| 48 |
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
by
John Fante
    4.08 avg rating — 1,668 ratings
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| 49 |
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
    4.03 avg rating — 384,957 ratings
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| 50 |
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Great Expectations
by
Charles Dickens
    3.60 avg rating — 111,237 ratings
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| 51 |
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by
Louisa May Alcott
    3.93 avg rating — 474,073 ratings
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| 52 |
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A Walk to Remember
by
Nicholas Sparks
    3.95 avg rating — 83,243 ratings
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| 53 |
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by
Anne Frank
    4.02 avg rating — 523,010 ratings
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| 54 |
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The Red Pony
by
John Steinbeck
    3.25 avg rating — 11,726 ratings
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| 55 |
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My Ántonia
by
Willa Cather
    3.67 avg rating — 37,416 ratings
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| 56 |
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by
Carson McCullers
    3.87 avg rating — 23,629 ratings
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| 56 |
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by
Norman Maclean
    4.06 avg rating — 6,449 ratings
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| 58 |
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The Alchemist
by
Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
    3.62 avg rating — 358,984 ratings
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| 59 |
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If Rock and Roll Were a Machine
by
Terry Davis
    4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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| 59 |
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Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake
by
Cori Crooks (Goodreads Author)
    4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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| 59 |
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A Season of Miracles
by
Rusty Whitener
    4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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| 59 |
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Stick Man
by
Richard Rossi
    5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 59 |
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Candide
by
Voltaire
    3.72 avg rating — 38,164 ratings
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| 59 |
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by
Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
    4.05 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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| 59 |
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(W)hole
by
Ruth Madison (Goodreads Author)
    3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
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| 59 |
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Betsey Brown
by
Ntozake Shange
    3.70 avg rating — 198 ratings
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| 59 |
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A Lost Argument
by
Therese Doucet (Goodreads Author)
    3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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| 59 |
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Düzenin Yabancılaşması: Batılaşma
by
İdris Küçükömer
    3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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| 59 |
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Destined
by
Gail Cleare (Goodreads Author)
    4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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| 59 |
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The Shadow of the Wind
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    4.17 avg rating — 64,109 ratings
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| 59 |
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by
Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
    4.54 avg rating — 34,999 ratings
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| 72 |
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Purple Hibiscus
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    3.92 avg rating — 4,122 ratings
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| 72 |
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The Boy with No Shoes
by
William Horwood
    4.31 avg rating — 55 ratings
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| 72 |
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Emile: Or On Education
by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    3.53 avg rating — 765 ratings
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| 72 |
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Looking for Alaska
by
John Green
    4.27 avg rating — 40,237 ratings
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| 72 |
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Me and Mr. Booker
by
Cory Taylor
    3.32 avg rating — 47 ratings
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| 72 |
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The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development
by
Sandra L. Calvert
    4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 72 |
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Breath
by
Ruth Madison (Goodreads Author)
    4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 79 |
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Jim the Boy
by
Tony Earley
    3.76 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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| 79 |
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La Petite Fadette
by
George Sand
    3.74 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
by
Margaret Weis
    4.00 avg rating — 13,882 ratings
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| 82 |
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The Fabulous Clipjoint
by
Fredric Brown
    4.01 avg rating — 95 ratings
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| 82 |
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Evil Genius (Genius, #1)
by
Catherine Jinks
    3.74 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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| 82 |
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
by
Peter Cameron
    3.69 avg rating — 2,529 ratings
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| 82 |
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Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.87 avg rating — 563 ratings
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| 82 |
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My Convent Life
by
George Sand
    4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
by
E.L. Konigsburg
    4.14 avg rating — 38,867 ratings
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| 88 |
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Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat, #2)
by
Francesca Lia Block
    4.15 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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| 88 |
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Animal's People
by
Indra Sinha
    3.76 avg rating — 645 ratings
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| 88 |
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Where Rivers Change Direction
by
Mark Spragg
    4.20 avg rating — 322 ratings
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| 88 |
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My Father's Glory & My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood
by
Marcel Pagnol
    4.11 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by
Mordecai Richler
    3.62 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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| 93 |
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.12 avg rating — 9,586 ratings
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| 93 |
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Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
by
Francesca Lia Block
    3.77 avg rating — 4,730 ratings
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| 93 |
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Down to the Bone
by
Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author)
    3.65 avg rating — 309 ratings
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| 93 |
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The Collected Works, Vol. 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    3.81 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Miss you like crazy: Eliza Clark.
by
Eliza Clark
    4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Necessary Hunger
by
Nina Revoyr
    3.65 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Summer of Night
by
Dan Simmons
    3.94 avg rating — 2,239 ratings
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    3.58 avg rating — 8,867 ratings
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