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Bleeding Violet
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3.64 avg rating — 5,584 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 863,498 ratings
score: 683,
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| 1200 |
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The House at Riverton
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 124,403 ratings
score: 683,
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| 1200 |
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Karna's Wheel
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Michael Tobert (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 416 ratings
score: 683,
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| 1205 |
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Generation Dead (Generation Dead, #1)
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Daniel Waters (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 13,191 ratings
score: 681,
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| 1205 |
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Then She Was Gone
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Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 943,078 ratings
score: 681,
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| 1207 |
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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 624,486 ratings
score: 679,
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| 1208 |
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,807 ratings
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| 1208 |
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Skull Full of Kisses
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 678,
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| 1208 |
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 174,492 ratings
score: 678,
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| 1211 |
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
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3.95 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1211 |
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Imperial Bedrooms
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3.20 avg rating — 20,633 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1211 |
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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3.86 avg rating — 85,388 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1211 |
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The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 181,833 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1211 |
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
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Ruth Ware (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 196,737 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1211 |
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The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
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Sarah Pearse (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 197,789 ratings
score: 677,
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| 1217 |
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Gates of Fire
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Steven Pressfield (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 42,769 ratings
score: 676,
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| 1217 |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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3.98 avg rating — 76,649 ratings
score: 676,
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| 1217 |
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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 715,926 ratings
score: 676,
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| 1220 |
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Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
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Amanda Sun (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 10,035 ratings
score: 675,
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| 1220 |
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Shattered Lives: A Brutal Murder, A Cop On The Edge
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4.30 avg rating — 327 ratings
score: 675,
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| 1222 |
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Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 61,160 ratings
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| 1223 |
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Nausea
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3.93 avg rating — 136,336 ratings
score: 672,
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| 1223 |
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The Secret Keeper
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 172,335 ratings
score: 672,
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| 1225 |
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Effacement
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Hieronymus Hawkes (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 456 ratings
score: 671,
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| 1226 |
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Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
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Kerri Maniscalco (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 177,348 ratings
score: 670,
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| 1227 |
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Joyland
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 175,879 ratings
score: 669,
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| 1228 |
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Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 298,237 ratings
score: 668,
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| 1229 |
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The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 237,000 ratings
score: 667,
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| 1230 |
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 95,838 ratings
score: 663,
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| 1230 |
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,179,198 ratings
score: 663,
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| 1230 |
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Final Girls
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Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 251,874 ratings
score: 663,
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| 1233 |
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Lightning
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 65,062 ratings
score: 660,
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| 1234 |
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Night Star (The Immortals, #5)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 54,873 ratings
score: 659,
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| 1234 |
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The Chalk Man
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C.J. Tudor (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 121,119 ratings
score: 659,
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| 1236 |
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Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)
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Lee Matthew Goldberg (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
score: 658,
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| 1237 |
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 83,645 ratings
score: 657,
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| 1237 |
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Fever 1793
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 131,991 ratings
score: 657,
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| 1239 |
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,001,953 ratings
score: 656,
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| 1240 |
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Strength (Curse of the Gods, #4)
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Jane Washington (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 20,309 ratings
score: 655,
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| 1240 |
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Eight Perfect Murders
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Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 92,558 ratings
score: 655,
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| 1242 |
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The Interestings
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3.60 avg rating — 122,750 ratings
score: 654,
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| 1243 |
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 114,746 ratings
score: 653,
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| 1243 |
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The Taste of Despair (The Master of Perceptions, #3)
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Darin C. Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 653,
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| 1243 |
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Endless Night
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3.81 avg rating — 43,419 ratings
score: 653,
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| 1246 |
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What Is the What
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4.15 avg rating — 86,835 ratings
score: 651,
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| 1246 |
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The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 225,828 ratings
score: 651,
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| 1246 |
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Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 1,319,158 ratings
score: 651,
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| 1249 |
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 672,173 ratings
score: 650,
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| 1250 |
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Let the Great World Spin
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Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 109,201 ratings
score: 647,
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| 1250 |
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 221,410 ratings
score: 647,
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| 1250 |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,005,139 ratings
score: 647,
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| 1250 |
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Needful Things
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 273,231 ratings
score: 647,
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| 1254 |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Newt Scamander (Pseudonym)
3.95 avg rating — 415,985 ratings
score: 646,
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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4.01 avg rating — 300,844 ratings
score: 646,
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| 1256 |
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We Are Okay
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Nina LaCour (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 99,677 ratings
score: 645,
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The Paris Apartment
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 694,666 ratings
score: 645,
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,695,681 ratings
score: 644,
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| 1258 |
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,139,943 ratings
score: 644,
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| 1258 |
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All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 75,428 ratings
score: 644,
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| 1258 |
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Supreme Betrayal (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #6)
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Mark M. Bello (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 3,790 ratings
score: 644,
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| 1262 |
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Green (Green Universe #1)
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3.25 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
score: 642,
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| 1262 |
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Queer
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3.49 avg rating — 22,384 ratings
score: 642,
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| 1264 |
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Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 670,159 ratings
score: 641,
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| 1264 |
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The Sight of Demons (The Master of Perceptions, #1)
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Darin C. Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 304 ratings
score: 641,
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| 1266 |
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Nevermore (Nevermore, #1)
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Kelly Creagh (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 30,456 ratings
score: 640,
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| 1267 |
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The Place That Gave
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Emem Uko (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 129 ratings
score: 638,
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| 1268 |
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Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 140,168 ratings
score: 637,
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| 1269 |
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A Northern Light
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 45,610 ratings
score: 636,
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| 1269 |
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Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 41,420 ratings
score: 636,
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| 1271 |
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Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,129,988 ratings
score: 635,
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| 1272 |
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Blackbirds: Volume 1
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Andre Coleman (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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My Life at First Try
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Mark Budman (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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Ice
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Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7,421 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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The Death of Bunny Munro
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3.44 avg rating — 17,027 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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The Likeness
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 177,209 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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Promise Cove (Pelican Pointe, #1)
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Vickie McKeehan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,168 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1272 |
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The Hunted (The Hunted, #1)
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 634,
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| 1279 |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 890,228 ratings
score: 633,
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| 1280 |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (Fantastic Beasts: The Original Screenplay, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 166,386 ratings
score: 631,
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| 1280 |
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The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 632,988 ratings
score: 631,
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| 1280 |
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Finley’s Way
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 631,
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| 1283 |
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,433,806 ratings
score: 630,
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| 1283 |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,451 ratings
score: 630,
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| 1285 |
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 355,360 ratings
score: 629,
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| 1286 |
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 995,762 ratings
score: 628,
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| 1286 |
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SHADOW PANTHEON: (PANTHEON SAGA BOOK 2) (THE PANTHEON SAGA)
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Eric Nierstedt (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 628,
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| 1288 |
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 519,923 ratings
score: 627,
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| 1288 |
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The Alice Network
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 605,010 ratings
score: 627,
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| 1288 |
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The Lost Apothecary
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Sarah Penner (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 481,095 ratings
score: 627,
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| 1291 |
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Gods Behaving Badly
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Marie Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 19,657 ratings
score: 626,
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| 1291 |
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Invisible Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 95,071 ratings
score: 626,
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| 1293 |
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Puddle Jumping (Puddle Jumping, #1)
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Amber L. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 12,443 ratings
score: 625,
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| 1293 |
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 121,526 ratings
score: 625,
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| 1293 |
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 99,128 ratings
score: 625,
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Aug 10, 2008 10:22PM
i like this list because you didn't even have to read the book to be a part of it and the art on some of these books are really cool
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I have to agree with Debbie - love a couple of the cover art work but agree with Judi - have to say i think our book covers for both Escape from the Pharma Drug Cartel and Shattered Reality could compete very well here. Thanks and best of luck to those authors involved.www.kimberlycheryl.net
With all due respect, these are all hideous mass-market eyesores. The books themselves may be excellent, mind you, but mass market books are cheap and ugly by nature. For truly beautiful book-objects one needs to look at presses like Ugly Duckling Presse or Futurepoem, or any press whose primary purpose is something other than selling crap to people waiting to board airplanes or to read on the train. For attractive glossy mass-market type covers, I think comics, graphic novels or classic sci-fi or pulp books are far more attractive than the abominations we see here. Of all of them, the old art deco Atlas Shrugged cover is passable, despite the fact that I loathe Ayn Rand with every fiber of my being.
For truly imaginative work you might consider Jinger Heaston's cover for my 'Corruption's Child' or Molly Courtright's for my 'Cruel Cuts' both available from Whiskey Creek Press, www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Mark: not all of them. Paradise Stories, a masterful work of short fiction, has original art on its cover, a beautiful painting done specifically for the book by Joshua Evans.
How many Stephenie Meyer fans are voting because they like the series and not because they think the covers are great? I mean, they work, sure, but, come on!Twilight
really not so special.
The real problem with this list is that you just get whatever cover of the book happens to show up under the "primary" listing; so for an older book with dozens or even hundreds of editions, you might well end up with a very unattractive cover showing on this website. I love the Richard Powers art on H.G. Wells "The Time Machine", and other Wells paperbacks published by Berkley from the 50s-70s, but those aren't what I see when I look up the books here.Which I suppose might be a partial explanation for why almost all of the books listed here are relatively new books that only have 1 or 2 different covers to choose from...
If you hate the "mass market" covers, which really don't dominate as much as Mark says (except maybe Twilight), then look further down the list. The covers with fewer votes usually represent the covers that really drew the reader in, instead of just books that were voted for because they're popular and have a lot of fans here who are voting.
I voted for the covers I chose because I think they suited and enhanced the book inside. AND that they were attractive artistically.
My votes go to Gravity's Rainbow and A Confederacy of Dunces. Almost every edition for these novels, including the first edition and more recent editions, have had a visually pleasing cover that prepares one for what's inside.
I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list.
love your picks {despite what mark says!}. except for stephenie meyer's books. i'm not a fan of the cover art on those.
who keeps voting for stephenie meyer and her boring stock-photo covers?
I'm adding many of the covers produced by my publisher, Echelon Press, including
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Mark wrote: "With all due respect, these are all hideous mass-market eyesores. The books themselves may be excellent, mind you, but mass market books are cheap and ugly by nature. For truly beautiful book-obj..."did you nominate any of these books to be on the list?
Nicole wrote: "I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list."they are on everylist
I chose books whose covers I liked... and would like to be able to comment/question other voters at to what their reason was for voting for certain books...
Damn. People on this site have taste for SHIT. You people probably have Thomas Kinkade paintings on your walls.
nope. I have Jim Warren, Achilleos, Luis Royo, Nene Thomas, Boris Vallejo Julie Bell, Christoph Vacher, Don Paresi, Susan Seddon Boulet, Joseph Michael Linsner, Amy Brown, John Jude Palencar and pictures of my family
I saw this list and got excited because I have a background in design and I have certainly judged and/or bought books based on their covers...That said, this list is pretty crappy.
I'm not declaring myself a "pro" or anything of the sort, but out of just the first 100 on this list, there were only 7 that I felt were good book covers.
Ah well.
thank you for the invite too peruse thru the art works!
I'm seeing books here that are voted on because of how popular they are. They don't belong because the covers are truly nothing special. A good example of this is Twilight. The cover is not outstanding. And it's really not a cover I'd expect o see on a list like this. There are other that also have so-so covers. #654 doesn't even have a cover showing.
I love the cover to CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL - I've read the book as well and the cover does the book justice...and vice versa.
The artist who did the cover and other illustrations on "The Little Black Fish" read the story three times, we very carefully selected each scene according to the importance of that particular event and how we wanted to emphasize and communicate to the young readers. The hero of this book, the little black fish, is not even on the cover, because of the very special and dynamic way this book ends, how the final message is conveyed and how it will impact the readers...
David wrote: "Damn. People on this site have taste for SHIT. You people probably have Thomas Kinkade paintings on your walls. "
LOL! I tend to agree with you about Thomas Kincade.
LOL! I tend to agree with you about Thomas Kincade.
This list needs to be scrapped and started over. A lot of the covers do not belong.
did people just vote for their favorite or the most popular books? There are a lot better books out there in the way of cover art.
buryuntime wrote: "did people just vote for their favorite or the most popular books? There are a lot better books out there in the way of cover art."Yes, it does seem that people voted for their favorite books regardless of the cover art. That is why this list is bogus and needs to be scrapped.
The top ten books in this list do not have anything special in terms of cover art. If any staff is reading this, please scrap this list.
stephenie meyer has the simplest covers
shame on you fangirls
shame on you fangirls
OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me.
Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me. "
AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it already!
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I'm sorry you feel this list is boring. For those of us who actually want the list to be correct, most of the books on this list don't belong on this list. This list has nothing to do with cover art, but the popularity of the books on the list. Basically, it's a fan wank.
JSWolf wrote: "Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me. "
AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it already!
"
I'm sor..."
Finally someone who understands, unfortunately I believe it may be impossible to reason with a twitard.
i admit i luv twilight and i voted for them. but the reason i actually started the series was because of the awesome covers!!!!!!!!
Lizzie wrote: "i admit i luv twilight and i voted for them. but the reason i actually started the series was because of the awesome covers!!!!!!!!"
I am totally impressed with the covers also! I actually bought Twilight due to the neverending quiz. I have a BA in Fine Art and I am influenced by book covers. My mother use to give me a very hard time about it. She liked to say I had silly decorator mentality, etc
Lizzie, we just have to ignore those who don't have the good taste we do! ;-)
I am totally impressed with the covers also! I actually bought Twilight due to the neverending quiz. I have a BA in Fine Art and I am influenced by book covers. My mother use to give me a very hard time about it. She liked to say I had silly decorator mentality, etc
Lizzie, we just have to ignore those who don't have the good taste we do! ;-)
Lizzie and Canary...You both now you voted for the Twilight series because you liked the books and not the covers. The covers are nothing special. This list is an abomination overall and those who voted for the nothing special covers (like those of the Twilight series) have ruined what could have been a rather nice list.
Could agree more JSWolf. It's one thing to like covers, but a book you like with covers you like doesn't make them the best covers. You don't even need to have read a book to vote for it in this quiz. Sorry, but the bland covers of Twilight being the best there is? I'm not buying it, just another example of a rabid fanbase destroying another list.
Travis, I agree 100%. What we need is a librarian to remove this list so it can be restarted and more librarians to police this list so the bland covers are not allowed to be voted on.
I think "Where the wild things are" has the best book cover hands down. I would encourage all who may have overlooked this classic to band together against travis's "abominations". If we act now the vampires need not yet win
The best idea is to delete this abomination of a list and start over and have a librarian monitor the list and any books that do not fit get removed before they get added.
JSWolf wrote: "Lizzie and Canary...You both now you voted for the Twilight series because you liked the books and not the covers. The covers are nothing special. This list is an abomination overall and those wh..."
Oh come on now. You know very well that this is all subjective. Who are you to say what I can and can't like? As it happens, I don't like the Twilight covers either, and I don't feel the need to bash those that do. Sure, some of the votes must be because of the popularity, so what. Big whoop I say.
Kody wrote: "JSWolf wrote: "Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me. "
AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it alr..."
What do you think of the cover of Fawcetta...I'm an artist and I have to say...that is good illustration art...not just photographs of people...
I like book covers that you know people worked hard to produce it. When I see covers that are more photogrpahy than art...that sucks...to me illustration art is the best...because you know it was drawn up...
I do think photography on a covert can be good. But come on, the best covert art is not a pair of hands holding an apple.
I don't understand why so many people are obsessed by a series of books that is basically nothing more than "The Babysitters' Club" with added sparkly vampires. The covers are also very underwhelming.
I was going to start complaining about the awful picks here, but then I realized: it actually is a popularity contest! Should anyone really be surprised that some of the books most commonly read are those most commonly chosen?Which isn't to say that the covers of the Twilight books aren't boring as hell. But you can't expect the Book of Kells to make this list, or old editions of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, or the new Penguin edition of The Three Musketeers, or even the famous cover to The Great Gatsby, because many, many, many more people have read Twilight (alas).
The Hunger Games, The Twilight series, The Giver (awesome beard), The City of EMber, The Last Olympian, Uglies, and Graceling have the best cover art that I have read.
Adam has no idea what good cover art is.
that he has read, hes still young dude. he doesnt read books about drugs and high school afairs. hes only 14 man. i love the books he posted but i think hunger games and catching fire really catch my attention.
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