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The Stand
by
Stephen King
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 218,631 ratings
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The Road
by
Cormac McCarthy
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 282,549 ratings
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1984
by
George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 934,080 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)
by
Suzanne Collins
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 1,645,834 ratings
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Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 559,786 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by
Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 122,270 ratings
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I am Legend and Other Stories
by
Richard Matheson
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 58,797 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 258,078 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
by
Ray Bradbury
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 525,432 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 926,572 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by
Suzanne Collins
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 953,443 ratings
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Watchmen
by
Alan Moore
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 200,193 ratings
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Swan Song
by
Robert R. McCammon
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 18,071 ratings
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Cell
by
Stephen King
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 73,535 ratings
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| 15 |
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The Giver
by
Lois Lowry
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 546,761 ratings
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Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,009,255 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1)
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 64,431 ratings
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On the Beach
by
Nevil Shute
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 14,616 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by
Douglas Adams
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 528,325 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
by
Stephenie Meyer
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 365,922 ratings
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
by
Justin Cronin
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 67,923 ratings
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Earth Abides
by
George R. Stewart
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,722 ratings
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Blindness (Blindness, #1)
by
José Saramago
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 63,079 ratings
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| 24 |
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The War of the Worlds
by
H.G. Wells
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 75,281 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by
Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 31,987 ratings
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| 26 |
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The Postman
by
David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 13,329 ratings
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| 27 |
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A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 221,220 ratings
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The Time Machine
by
H.G. Wells
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 118,815 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
by
Pat Frank
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 14,764 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by
Suzanne Collins
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 867,413 ratings
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 44,414 ratings
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Lucifer's Hammer
by
Larry Niven
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 18,264 ratings
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
by
Douglas Adams
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 120,162 ratings
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
by
Brian K. Vaughan
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 34,519 ratings
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Under the Dome
by
Stephen King
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 77,351 ratings
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, #2)
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 27,783 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by
Philip K. Dick
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 99,822 ratings
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by
Stephen King
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 154,466 ratings
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One Second After
by
William R. Forstchen
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 9,461 ratings
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
by
S.M. Stirling
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 6,835 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 148,677 ratings
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by
Scott Westerfeld
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 196,083 ratings
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
by
Robert Kirkman
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 55,047 ratings
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| 44 |
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Watership Down
by
Richard Adams
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 153,963 ratings
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| 45 |
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The Children of Men
by
P.D. James
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 17,265 ratings
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)
by
Carrie Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 42,657 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
by
Ayn Rand
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 152,219 ratings
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
by
Jeanne DuPrau
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 87,368 ratings
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The Long Walk
by
Stephen King
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 36,624 ratings
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
by
John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 3,297 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by
Octavia E. Butler
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 11,152 ratings
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Into the Forest
by
Jean Hegland
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 3,575 ratings
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Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
by
Tim LaHaye
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 75,280 ratings
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The World Without Us
by
Alan Weisman
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,849 ratings
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
by
Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 48,479 ratings
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Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon,#1)
by
J.L. Bourne (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 6,852 ratings
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The Hot Zone
by
Richard Preston
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 33,742 ratings
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We
by
Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 19,203 ratings
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The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)
by
Guillermo del Toro
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 28,288 ratings
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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)
by
Stephen King
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 73,151 ratings
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The Brief History of the Dead
by
Kevin Brockmeier
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 6,043 ratings
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Cat's Cradle
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 133,460 ratings
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 66,754 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by
Terry Pratchett
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 149,311 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
by
David Mitchell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 71,701 ratings
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The Living Dead
by
John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 4,686 ratings
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| 67 |
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by
Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 317,766 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by
William Gibson
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 115,745 ratings
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Gone (Gone, #1)
by
Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 57,567 ratings
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Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
by
Douglas Adams
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 65,381 ratings
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Z for Zachariah
by
Robert C. O'Brien
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 5,441 ratings
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Little Brother
by
Cory Doctorow
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
by
Stephen King
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 64,542 ratings
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How I Live Now
by
Meg Rosoff
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 12,890 ratings
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Matched (Matched, #1)
by
Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 178,458 ratings
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 473,619 ratings
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Snow Crash
by
Neal Stephenson
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 101,880 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by
Eric Schlosser
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 147,777 ratings
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The Sounding
by
Carrie Salo (Goodreads Author)
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Rising
by
Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4,012 ratings
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The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
by
Stephen King
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 50,788 ratings
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| 82 |
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by
Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 54,354 ratings
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World Made by Hand
by
James Howard Kunstler
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 2,881 ratings
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Girlfriend in a Coma
by
Douglas Coupland
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 10,207 ratings
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| 85 |
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
by
Lois Lowry
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 46,390 ratings
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| 86 |
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Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
by
Jasper Fforde
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 13,091 ratings
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| 87 |
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The White Plague
by
Frank Herbert
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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| 88 |
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Monster Island (Zombies, #1)
by
David Wellington
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 4,843 ratings
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| 89 |
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Hater (Hater, #1)
by
David Moody (Goodreads Author)
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by
Jared Diamond
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,768 ratings
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| 91 |
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Messenger (The Giver, #3)
by
Lois Lowry
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 28,823 ratings
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| 92 |
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Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 33,761 ratings
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| 93 |
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Daimones (Daimones Trilogy, #1)
by
Massimo Marino (Goodreads Author)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 96 ratings
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| 94 |
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The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1)
by
John Twelve Hawks
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5,997 ratings
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| 95 |
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Twelve Monkeys
by
Elizabeth Hand
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Dog Stars
by
Peter Heller
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 11,611 ratings
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Spin
by
Robert Charles Wilson
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 10,894 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
by
John Wyndham
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 27,990 ratings
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)
by
Douglas Adams
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 78,150 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by
Octavia E. Butler
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 5,064 ratings
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