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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 72 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.04 — 166,566 ratings — published 2003
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 65 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.57 — 300,104 ratings — published 2000
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 63 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.21 — 244,496 ratings — published 1999
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Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 58 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,569 ratings — published 2001
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 57 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 114,679 ratings — published 2003
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 51 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 194,961 ratings — published 1997
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The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 51 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.67 — 171,821 ratings — published 2002
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The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 42 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 182,863 ratings — published 2002
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 39 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.69 — 136,962 ratings — published 2000
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Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 38 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 122,303 ratings — published 2002
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Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan (shelved 38 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.71 — 53,273 ratings — published 2001
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Paperback)
by Helen Fielding (shelved 37 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.61 — 69,462 ratings — published 1996
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Twilight (Twilight, #1)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 34 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.02 — 275,973 ratings — published 2005
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 33 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 123,028 ratings — published 1998
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The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 31 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,727 ratings — published 2006
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Fight Club: A Novel (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk (shelved 30 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,079 ratings — published 1996
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The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 30 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.81 — 80,446 ratings — published 1985
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My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by Jodi Picoult (shelved 29 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 102,037 ratings — published 2004
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards (shelved 29 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.43 — 110,764 ratings — published 2005
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The God of Small Things (Hardcover)
by Arundhati Roy (shelved 29 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,138 ratings — published 1997
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,120 ratings — published 2005
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 152,675 ratings — published 1988
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American Gods (Paperback)
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,266 ratings — published 2001
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High Fidelity (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,394 ratings — published 1995
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About a Boy (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,463 ratings — published 1998
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 27 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.88 — 24,901 ratings — published 2002
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.45 — 245,569 ratings — published 2006
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New Moon (Twilight, #2)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.91 — 189,866 ratings — published 2006
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Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,348 ratings — published 2006
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 25 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,133 ratings — published 2006
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 25 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.35 — 230,243 ratings — published 1999
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The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 25 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 65,520 ratings — published 1985
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 24 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 229,838 ratings — published 1998
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 24 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 311,314 ratings — published 1997
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The Devil Wears Prada (Mass Market Paperback)
by Lauren Weisberger (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.42 — 70,258 ratings — published 2002
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,569 ratings — published 2000
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Eclipse (Twilight, #3)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 177,432 ratings — published 2007
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.35 — 230,716 ratings — published 2000
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.58 — 54,631 ratings — published 2000
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
by Gregory Maguire (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.35 — 100,304 ratings — published 1995
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The Hours (Paperback)
by Michael Cunningham (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,464 ratings — published 1998
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Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)
by Lisa Kleypas (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,102 ratings — published 2007
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,953 ratings — published 2001
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.27 — 227,161 ratings — published 2003
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The History of Love (Paperback)
by Nicole Krauss (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.87 — 25,263 ratings — published 2006
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Paperback)
by Mitch Albom (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.68 — 44,370 ratings — published 1958
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She's Come Undone (Mass Market Paperback)
by Wally Lamb (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 45,875 ratings — published 1992
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Welcome to Temptation (Dempsey's, 1)
by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads author) (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,575 ratings — published 2000
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Hardcover)
by Milan Kundera (shelved 20 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,289 ratings — published 1984
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by J.K. Rowling (shelved 20 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,725 ratings — published 2005
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"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory; you must remember this."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
"She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?"
"Why not?"
"Sure."
His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?"
"What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?"
"Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.""
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Breathing Room)
"Why not?"
"Sure."
His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?"
"What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?"
"Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.""
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Breathing Room)
