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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini
    4.15 avg rating — 512,269 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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Philippa Gregory
    3.95 avg rating — 120,363 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini
    4.28 avg rating — 195,655 ratings
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World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth, #2)
by
Ken Follett
    4.12 avg rating — 34,965 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Annie Barrows
    4.10 avg rating — 114,275 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield
    3.89 avg rating — 68,551 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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Year of Wonders
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Geraldine Brooks
    3.91 avg rating — 27,750 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    4.17 avg rating — 63,934 ratings
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Middlesex
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
    3.83 avg rating — 208,099 ratings
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Innocent Traitor
by
Alison Weir
    3.86 avg rating — 7,481 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen
    4.06 avg rating — 307,773 ratings
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
    3.76 avg rating — 53,153 ratings
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
by
Ariana Franklin
    3.89 avg rating — 8,724 ratings
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by
C.J. Sansom
    3.96 avg rating — 3,715 ratings
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
by
Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
    4.35 avg rating — 22,013 ratings
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Moloka'i
by
Alan Brennert
    4.10 avg rating — 15,457 ratings
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People of the Book
by
Geraldine Brooks
    3.87 avg rating — 28,707 ratings
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Exit the Actress
by
Priya Parmar (Goodreads Author)
    3.88 avg rating — 465 ratings
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A Thread of Grace
by
Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
    3.95 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
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The 19th Wife
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David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author)
    3.58 avg rating — 16,252 ratings
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| 23 |
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The Heretic's Daughter
by
Kathleen Kent
    3.69 avg rating — 9,741 ratings
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The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
by
Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
    4.18 avg rating — 25,302 ratings
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The Last Queen
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C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)
    3.94 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
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The Serpent's Tale (Mistress of the Art of Death, #2)
by
Ariana Franklin
    3.80 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by
Christopher Moore
    4.26 avg rating — 38,072 ratings
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The Boleyn Inheritance
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Philippa Gregory
    3.74 avg rating — 27,766 ratings
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| 29 |
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An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
    4.27 avg rating — 14,785 ratings
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The Terror
by
Dan Simmons
    3.92 avg rating — 5,525 ratings
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| 31 |
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Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
by
Steven Saylor
    3.74 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by
Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
    3.98 avg rating — 78,260 ratings
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Cleopatra's Daughter
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
    4.07 avg rating — 5,115 ratings
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Azincourt
by
Bernard Cornwell
    3.89 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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The Forest
by
Edward Rutherfurd
    3.86 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
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March
by
Geraldine Brooks
    3.64 avg rating — 16,076 ratings
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Wolf Hall
by
Hilary Mantel
    3.76 avg rating — 11,459 ratings
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The Meaning of Night
by
Michael Cox
    3.61 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
by
Beverly Swerling (Goodreads Author)
    3.91 avg rating — 755 ratings
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Orchard of Dust
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Brian Edward Bahr (Author)
    5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Lady Elizabeth
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Alison Weir
    3.87 avg rating — 5,040 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
    3.86 avg rating — 32,557 ratings
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Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
by
L.M. Montgomery
    4.15 avg rating — 33,406 ratings
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The Secret Bride (In The Court of Henry VIII, #1)
by
Diane Haeger
    3.60 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar (Brethren Trilogy, #1)
by
Robyn Young
    3.68 avg rating — 591 ratings
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
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Robert Alexander (Goodreads Author)
    3.84 avg rating — 3,565 ratings
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Crusade (Brethren Trilogy, #2)
by
Robyn Young
    3.87 avg rating — 342 ratings
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My Heart Remembers
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Kim Vogel Sawyer
    3.85 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Slammerkin
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
    3.60 avg rating — 3,899 ratings
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War and Remembrance
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Herman Wouk
    4.22 avg rating — 4,887 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak
    3.92 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
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The Light in the Forest
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Conrad Richter
    3.17 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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Fever 1793
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
    3.84 avg rating — 16,493 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1)
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Ken Follett
    4.08 avg rating — 15,516 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter
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Betty Mahmoody
    3.92 avg rating — 4,156 ratings
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The Crimson Petal and the White
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Michel Faber
    3.71 avg rating — 9,095 ratings
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Mary, Called Magdalene
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Margaret George
    3.75 avg rating — 2,617 ratings
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Requiem: The Fall of the Templars (Brethren Trilogy #3)
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Robyn Young
    3.83 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Night
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Elie Wiesel
    4.22 avg rating — 153,605 ratings
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A Conspiracy of Ravens (Lady Trent Mysteries #2)
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Gilbert Morris
    3.88 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Mermaid in the Basement
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Gilbert Morris
    3.74 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Heretic Queen
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
    4.18 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
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North And South
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John Jakes
    3.95 avg rating — 6,946 ratings
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Island Beneath the Sea
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Isabel Allende
    3.87 avg rating — 4,567 ratings
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The Last Wife of Henry VIII
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Carolly Erickson
    3.69 avg rating — 2,312 ratings
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From Here to Eternity
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James Jones
    4.01 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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Caprice and Rondo (The House of Niccolo, #7)
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Dorothy Dunnett
    4.40 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Patrick Süskind
    3.87 avg rating — 39,742 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun
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Frances Mayes
    3.50 avg rating — 129,219 ratings
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The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2)
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Elizabeth Peters
    3.96 avg rating — 4,704 ratings
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Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
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Anchee Min
    3.79 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
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Fireflies in December
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Jennifer Erin Valent (Goodreads Author)
    3.89 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
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The Last Empress (Empress Orchid, #2)
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Anchee Min
    3.55 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
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Oscar And Lucinda
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Peter Carey
    3.66 avg rating — 3,769 ratings
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The Book of Eleanor
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Pamela Kaufman
    3.70 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Lion in the Valley (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #4)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.06 avg rating — 3,834 ratings
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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Mary Renault
    4.11 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
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The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog (Amelia Peabody #7)
by
Elizabeth Peters (pseud.)
    4.07 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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Timeline
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Michael Crichton
    3.63 avg rating — 38,177 ratings
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Nefertiti
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
    3.98 avg rating — 6,352 ratings
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Seeing a Large Cat (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #9)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.08 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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The Falcon at the Portal (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #11)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.09 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #12)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.20 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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The List of Seven
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Mark Frost (Goodreads Author)
    3.86 avg rating — 714 ratings
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The Golden One (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #14)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.05 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
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Lord of the Silent (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #13)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.10 avg rating — 2,368 ratings
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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Susan Vreeland
    3.60 avg rating — 8,162 ratings
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Tomb of the Golden Bird (An Amelia Peabody Mystery, #18)
by
Elizabeth Peters
    4.01 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4)
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George MacDonald Fraser
    4.29 avg rating — 838 ratings
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City of Shadows
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Ariana Franklin
    3.95 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5)
by
George MacDonald Fraser
    4.24 avg rating — 762 ratings
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My Theodosia
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Anya Seton
    3.48 avg rating — 277 ratings
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The Great American
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Alex Abella (Goodreads Author)
    3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Defender of the Realm
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Corey Holst (Goodreads Author)
    4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Murderous Procession (Mistress of the Art of Death, #4)
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Ariana Franklin
    3.98 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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Saint Paul Trois Ch Teaux: 1948
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By Fire, By Water
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Mitchell James Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
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The Cahokian
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Zoe Saadia (Goodreads Author)
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The Accidental Spy
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John Richard Lindermuth
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An Inspector Calls
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J.B. Priestley
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