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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 73 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.03 — 171,014 ratings — published 2003
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 66 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.57 — 306,393 ratings — published 2000
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 65 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.21 — 248,973 ratings — published 1999
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Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback)
by Yann Martel (shelved 59 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.79 — 113,653 ratings — published 2001
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback)
by Mark Haddon (shelved 59 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 115,964 ratings — published 2003
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden (shelved 52 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 199,173 ratings — published 1997
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The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 51 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.67 — 175,445 ratings — published 2002
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The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 43 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 186,701 ratings — published 2002
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Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (shelved 40 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.94 — 124,592 ratings — published 2002
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 39 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 138,940 ratings — published 2000
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Paperback)
by Helen Fielding (shelved 39 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,934 ratings — published 1996
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Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan (shelved 39 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.71 — 53,976 ratings — published 2001
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 34 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 125,484 ratings — published 1998
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Twilight (Twilight Saga #1)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 34 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.02 — 283,003 ratings — published 2005
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 31 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.70 — 156,733 ratings — published 1988
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The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 31 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,943 ratings — published 2006
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Fight Club: A Novel (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk (shelved 31 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,507 ratings — published 1996
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The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 31 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.81 — 83,128 ratings — published 1985
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My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by Jodi Picoult (shelved 30 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 103,741 ratings — published 2004
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards (shelved 30 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.43 — 113,327 ratings — published 2005
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The God of Small Things (Hardcover)
by Arundhati Roy (shelved 29 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,477 ratings — published 1997
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,652 ratings — published 2005
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American Gods (Paperback)
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,751 ratings — published 2001
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High Fidelity (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,634 ratings — published 1995
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.88 — 25,326 ratings — published 2002
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About a Boy (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 28 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,659 ratings — published 1998
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 27 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.31 — 113,564 ratings — published 2006
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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 — 248,744 ratings — published 2006
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New Moon (Twilight, #2)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.92 — 37 ratings — published 2006
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The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 66,347 ratings — published 1985
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Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by Sara Gruen (shelved 26 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,964 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 — 233,421 ratings — published 1999
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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 — 232,818 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 — 317,705 ratings — published 1997
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 24 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.58 — 55,081 ratings — published 2000
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The Devil Wears Prada (Mass Market Paperback)
by Lauren Weisberger (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.42 — 72,653 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 — 137,361 ratings — published 2000
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The Hours (Paperback)
by Michael Cunningham (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,672 ratings — published 1998
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Eclipse (Twilight Saga, #3)
by Stephenie Meyer (shelved 23 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 181,217 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 — 233,891 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 — 101,552 ratings — published 1995
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Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)
by Lisa Kleypas (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,133 ratings — published 2007
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Welcome to Temptation (Dempsey's, 1)
by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads author) (shelved 22 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,619 ratings — published 2000
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Hardcover)
by Milan Kundera (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,738 ratings — published 1984
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by Jasper Fforde (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,170 ratings — published 2001
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,056 ratings — published 1967
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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 — 230,134 ratings — published 2003
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Bet Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads author) (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,026 ratings — published 2004
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The History of Love (Paperback)
by Nicole Krauss (shelved 21 times as contemporary)
avg rating 3.87 — 25,556 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 — 45,182 ratings — published 1958
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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)
