Judge A Book By Its Cover!
You know that wise old saying “Never judge a book by its cover”? But we all do it….its what draws us to most books in the first place! So go ahead and judge those covers!!
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205 The Little Prince
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206 Devilish
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208 Wondrous Strange (Wondrous ...
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209 Falling Under (Falling Unde...
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210 Spider-Touched (Ghostland W...
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211 The Hobbit
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,053,336 ratings
212 Marcelo in the Real World
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213 Because I Am Furniture
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214 Raised by Wolves (Raised by...
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215 Torment (Bloodlines, #2)
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216 Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompso...
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217 City of Lost Souls (The Mor...
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218 Bleeding Violet
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 3,162 ratings
219 Old Magic
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,354 ratings
220 Everneath (Everneath, #1)
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221 Wintergirls
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 36,432 ratings
222 Starcrossed (Starcrossed, #1)
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223 Tail of the Devil
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4.91 of 5 stars 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
224 Revelations (Bloodlines, #3)
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 161 ratings
225 The Forest of Hands and Tee...
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 40,893 ratings
226 Wicked: The Life and Times ...
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227 Nevermore (Nevermore, #1)
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228 Dark Song
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3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 863 ratings
229 The Goddess Test (Goddess T...
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230 Betrayal (The Descendants #1)
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231 The Daykeeper's Grimoire (P...
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232 The Last Olympian (Percy Ja...
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233 Stargazer (Evernight, #2)
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233 Tiger's Voyage (The Tiger S...
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 10,622 ratings
235 Passion (Fallen, #3)
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 51,488 ratings
236 Hourglass (Hourglass, #1)
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 10,420 ratings
237 Torn
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 233 ratings
238 Intrinsical (The Yara Silva...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
239 Extremely Loud and Incredib...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 160,034 ratings
240 Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 8,152 ratings
241 When You Reach Me
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 26,176 ratings
242 Banished (Banished, #1)
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
243 The Iron Knight (Iron Fey, #4)
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 23,895 ratings
244 Howl's Moving Castle (Howl'...
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245 Angel Star (Angel Star, #1)
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
246 PLAY
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 197 ratings
247 Darklight (Wondrous Strange...
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248 Darkest Powers Trilogy (Dar...
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4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 5,862 ratings
249 Selected Poems
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 5,009 ratings
250 Whitechapel Gods
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3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 921 ratings
251 Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 43,621 ratings
252 Boneshaker (The Clockwork C...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 14,036 ratings
253 The Thirteenth Chime (Sense...
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 223 ratings
254 Guardian of the Gate (Proph...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
255 Perchance to Dream (Théâtre...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
256 The Night Tourist (Jack Per...
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
257 Ninth Grade Slays (The Chro...
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258 Ghostland (Ghostland World,...
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259 Stray (Shifters, #1)
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 17,052 ratings
260 Evertaster
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 142 ratings
261 Generation Dead
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 7,572 ratings
262 Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
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263 Tuck Everlasting
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264 Life As We Knew It (Last Su...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 43,404 ratings
265 Perfect (Impulse, #2)
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 8,024 ratings
266 Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty...
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267 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 34,675 ratings
268 Twelfth Grade Kills (The Ch...
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269 Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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270 XVI (XVI, #1)
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 4,797 ratings
271 Last Sacrifice (Vampire Aca...
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 84,928 ratings
272 Guardian of the Dead
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
273 The Devil Wears Prada
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 366,383 ratings
274 Hunger (Gone, #2)
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 25,218 ratings
275 Spell Hunter (Faery Rebels,...
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276 The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys...
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 10,331 ratings
277 Storm Glass (Glass, #1)
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 10,193 ratings
278 Swoon (Swoon, #1)
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3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 4,164 ratings
279 The Zombie Room
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
280 The Adoration of Jenna Fox ...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 20,052 ratings
281 The Elephant Tree
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
282 Ghost Town (The Morganville...
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 18,344 ratings
283 The Gargoyle
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 22,091 ratings
284 The Alchemyst (The Secrets ...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 53,479 ratings
285 Personal Demons (Personal D...
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 5,429 ratings
286 The House of the Vampire Queen
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4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings
287 A Job From Hell (Ancient Le...
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 3,290 ratings
288 Half-Blood (Covenant, #1)
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 16,351 ratings
289 Magic Under Glass (Magic Un...
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
290 Shakespeare's Sonnets
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 35,250 ratings
291 Red Gone Bad
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
292 Visions (The Secret Watcher...
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4.51 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 49 ratings
293 Going Too Far
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 20,001 ratings
294 Magic Study (Study, #2)
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 25,234 ratings
295 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 109,170 ratings
296 If I Were You (Inside Out T...
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 6,378 ratings
297 Halfway to the Grave (Night...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 51,725 ratings
298 White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 15,713 ratings
299 A Certain Slant of Light (L...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 11,268 ratings
300 Plain Kate
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
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Comments (showing 1-50 of 60) (60 new)


message 1: by Maria (new)

Maria It's interesting how almost all the books on this list have dark, haunting covers.


message 2: by Destiny (new)

Destiny Maria wrote: "It's interesting how almost all the books on this list have dark, haunting covers."
I noticed that too. I guess that's what's visually appealing to people.


message 3: by AudryT (new)

AudryT Never tried to vote on Goodreads before. Here goes.


message 4: by Robert (new)

Robert Barker I am surprised how simple some of the good ones are, the ones lower on the list are too busy I guess


message 5: by Kristin (new)

Kristin i love how the first six books are my six of my favorite books ever


message 6: by Alli (new)

Alli i love this website.


message 7: by Nicole (new)

Nicole Gaspar i actually ended u p picking up a book that is now my all time favorite (cry wolf by Briggs, its on this list) by thinking the cover looked interesting =)


message 8: by Alli (new)

Alli Thanks I will have to check that book out. I found 7 books on here


message 9: by Nicole (new)

Nicole Gaspar lol me too. i have such a huge kist of books i gotta get my hands on. Cry wolf is about werewolves, there is a sister series (some of the same charaters) by the same author its the mercy thompson series. you can read one withouth the other, but i love them both, and they sort of follow eacher on a time line and share the same charaters, but thats pretty much all that they have in common


message 10: by Nicole (new)

Nicole Gaspar list not kist oops


message 11: by Yiling (new)

Yiling they should put more of the least popular on top


message 12: by Jasmin (new)

Jasmin these are awsome books they should add more


message 13: by Sheba (new)

Sheba They are great books to read and enjoy!! :) :)


message 14: by Krista (new)

Krista This is a fantastic site.. now i can look for more books to add to my collection. :)


message 15: by Claire (new)

Claire hmmm... alternatively, if a book sucks and it also has an awful cover, it could be on this list according to the name "judge a book by its cover"


message 16: by Hayley (new)

Hayley love the fact that hush, hush is the first one on the entire list!!!


message 17: by Paweł (last edited Feb 14, 2011 01:58am) (new)

Paweł so poor covers... honestly, i voted on 10 out of 600.


message 18: by Paweł (new)

Paweł Jasmin wrote: "these are awsome books they should add more"
you can add your's ^^


message 19: by Nickbobed (new)

Nickbobed I think Fallen has one of the coolest covers, the cover is actually what drew me in to read it.


 ♥ Lady Dalis :D ♥ i read almost all the books up there......


message 21: by Kelsa (new)

Kelsa Nickbobed wrote: "I think Fallen has one of the coolest covers, the cover is actually what drew me in to read it."


Same for me. I bought it cause of the cover. To bad the book wasn't as good as I was hoping for, but it was still a good read.


message 22: by Lauren (new)

Lauren is it just me, or is it always that the WORST books have the BEST cover!?!? take fallen for an example.......


 ♥ Lady Dalis :D ♥ actually fallen didn't really get good for me until i got to like the 16th chapter


message 24: by [deleted user] (new)

Fallen I thought was okay, after you et into it. The second one was good. My favorite guy characters are Jace and Patch. So I like that they are up there. Most of these I have read and a lot of them I liked.


message 25: by Daphne (new)

Daphne Delacroix Kristin wrote: "i love how the first six books are my six of my favorite books ever"

same here!


message 26: by Breanne (new)

Breanne Tiger series should get an award for their covers. They are amazing!!!


message 27: by Tochi (new)

Tochi eclipse is my best book cover there cos it says a lot in it's simplicity


message 28: by Buthayna (new)

Buthayna I hated the Hollow cover. I read the book and it was amazing , but I pictured abbey to be more Beautiful and without all this make-up which by the way looks scary.


message 29: by André (new)

André Rodrigues ♥ Lady Dalis :D ♥ wrote: "i read almost all the books up there......"

Most of the 1277 books?


Jasny♥girl~locked~in~her~mind♥ AudryT wrote: "Never tried to vote on Goodreads before. Here goes."

Same here! I'm brand new to this place! :3


message 31: by [deleted user] (new)

The Ballad of Young Tam LinBest of all, the writing is even better than the cover.


message 32: by Wednesday (new)

Wednesday As far as the Fallen series goes, I think Passion (Fallen, #3) has the prettiest cover.


message 33: by Ashley (new)

Ashley Buthayna wrote: "I hated the Hollow cover. I read the book and it was amazing , but I pictured abbey to be more Beautiful and without all this make-up which by the way looks scary."

Glad to know i wasnt the only one who thought the cover was off. The cover ruined my impression of her. Thank goodness i downloaded the book and didnt see the cover first.


The story line draws me in, The cover is the next thing i look at. If it has eye-appeal then maybe it will be a good read. Though this theory does not always work.


message 34: by Hermione (new)

Hermione Maria wrote: "It's interesting how almost all the books on this list have dark, haunting covers."

They attract the most attention. (:


message 35: by Xela (new)

Xela I think it's funny that the top 10 books on this list are all written badly, with terrible romance and spineless heroines.

In fact, on further inspection, it seems like most of this list (with the exception of a few) is a bunch of terrible books. Maybe that's why they're on this list: because they looked better than they actually were.


message 36: by TheOneAndOnlySam (new)

TheOneAndOnlySam well said Xela, but i reckon quite a few of these books are good reads. for example hush hush was one of my faves till i discovered tiger's curse by colleen houck. but twilight has a horrible cover and a weird and not so good story to match


message 37: by Hermione (new)

Hermione Honestly, Hush, Hush was great, but when I read it a second time, it totally flattened my high expectations. I don't know why, but I just ... I dunno. It wasn't as interesting.

And though the Tiger's Curse has a splendid and beautiful cover, I found the book boring.

I suppose what's in the book is just a matter of opinion, but I think our views will not be so diverse on talking about the beauty of the covers. :)


message 38: by TheOneAndOnlySam (new)

TheOneAndOnlySam yeah, covers on books are pretty much the yes or no to should i or shouldn't i. but a lot of book that i have read, are horrible covers, but then the story itself was amazing, and vice versa. it all really depends on what u like to read


message 39: by Hermione (new)

Hermione Exactly! You totally summed up my words better than I could myself. xD


message 40: by Hannah (new)

Hannah They say we should'nt judge books by their covers,but thats what most of us do anyway,because covers are made to pique the interest of potential readers


message 41: by Chimney (new)

Chimney It's horrible, but I tend to judge a book by its cover nearly all the time. It is the deciding factor usually when I have several books I want to get, yet can only get one or two of them.


message 42: by Hermione (new)

Hermione ^ Yes!! Finally someone other than me that judges books by covers!!


message 43: by Chimney (last edited Apr 27, 2012 07:44pm) (new)

Chimney A cover is part of the package, plus I love to pull them off the shelf and admire them. :)


message 44: by Hermione (new)

Hermione Exactly. (: Covers are supposed to eye-catching for me if I want to pick up the book.

And if the story's good, it goes in my to-read list!


message 45: by Josephene (new)


message 46: by Josephene (new)

Josephene Stull Love this cover. The old truck, barn animals, and hot woman is right on with the Witches, Bitches, and Good Ol' Boys title.


message 47: by Josephene (new)

Josephene Stull I love this cover. The old truck, barn animals, and sexy woman is right on with the Witches, Bitches, and Good Ol' Boys title.


message 48: by Alexia (new)

Alexia Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)this is the best book ever READ it


message 49: by FB (new)

FB Love the idea because it is soooo true!!!!!


message 50: by hailah (new)

hailah ahmed I love all these book's


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