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Just Listen
by
Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 250,153 ratings
score: 540,
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| 1501 |
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Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 306,116 ratings
score: 540,
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| 1501 |
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Truly Madly Guilty
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 314,376 ratings
score: 540,
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| 1501 |
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Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
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4.25 avg rating — 489 ratings
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| 1501 |
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 121,681 ratings
score: 540,
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| 1506 |
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Wicked Betrayal (New England Witch Chronicles, #3)
by
Chelsea Luna (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 596 ratings
score: 539,
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| 1506 |
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 234,513 ratings
score: 539,
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| 1508 |
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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
by
James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 351,164 ratings
score: 538,
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| 1509 |
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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4.17 avg rating — 782,543 ratings
score: 537,
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| 1509 |
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In the Land of Boxes
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Kim Hebert (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 175 ratings
score: 537,
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| 1511 |
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Blood Song (Blood Singer, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 6,795 ratings
score: 536,
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| 1511 |
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Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 162,002 ratings
score: 536,
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| 1511 |
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Roses Are Red (Alex Cross, #6)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 74,350 ratings
score: 536,
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| 1514 |
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Awaken (Awaken, #1)
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Katie Kacvinsky (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 15,006 ratings
score: 535,
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| 1514 |
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Let the Right One In
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4.04 avg rating — 119,200 ratings
score: 535,
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| 1514 |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 848,221 ratings
score: 535,
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| 1517 |
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P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 395,254 ratings
score: 534,
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| 1517 |
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Familiar Scars
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Christy Leigh Stewart (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 534,
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| 1517 |
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Forget-Her-Nots
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Amy Brecount White (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
score: 534,
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| 1517 |
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Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy, #1)
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Danielle L. Jensen (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 31,230 ratings
score: 534,
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| 1517 |
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Dead Souls
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3.98 avg rating — 94,397 ratings
score: 534,
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| 1522 |
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A Long Way Down
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3.44 avg rating — 90,972 ratings
score: 533,
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| 1522 |
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Conjured (New England Witch Chronicles, #2)
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Chelsea Luna (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 671 ratings
score: 533,
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| 1522 |
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Howl and Other Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 118,130 ratings
score: 533,
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| 1522 |
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Never Let You Go
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Chevy Stevens (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 38,127 ratings
score: 533,
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| 1522 |
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The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,032,667 ratings
score: 533,
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| 1527 |
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She’s Come Undone
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Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 359,467 ratings
score: 532,
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| 1527 |
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Healing Hearts
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Taryn Kincaid (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 532,
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| 1527 |
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The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)
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J.D. Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 75,954 ratings
score: 532,
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| 1527 |
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The Ultimate Religion
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Gillian Dance (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 335 ratings
score: 532,
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| 1527 |
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The Balance of Time (Time Chain #2)
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Steven Decker (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 991 ratings
score: 532,
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| 1532 |
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
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Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 42,589 ratings
score: 531,
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| 1532 |
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The Owl Killers
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,362 ratings
score: 531,
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| 1532 |
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Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5)
by
Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 105,316 ratings
score: 531,
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| 1532 |
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Handle with Care
by
Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 136,881 ratings
score: 531,
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| 1532 |
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The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 62,468 ratings
score: 531,
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| 1537 |
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All Dreamers Go to America
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4.23 avg rating — 439 ratings
score: 530,
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| 1537 |
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Th1rt3en (Eddie Flynn, #4)
by
Steve Cavanagh (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 105,016 ratings
score: 530,
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| 1539 |
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Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6)
by
Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 137,638 ratings
score: 529,
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| 1539 |
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,269,878 ratings
score: 529,
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| 1539 |
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Black Ice
by
Stephen Tesher (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 529,
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| 1542 |
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For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)
by
Diana Peterfreund (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 19,117 ratings
score: 528,
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| 1543 |
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Book of a Thousand Days
by
Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 56,205 ratings
score: 527,
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| 1544 |
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Genesis
by
Bernard Beckett (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 13,586 ratings
score: 526,
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| 1544 |
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P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2)
by
Jenny Han (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 417,687 ratings
score: 526,
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| 1544 |
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Sphere
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3.83 avg rating — 196,199 ratings
score: 526,
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| 1547 |
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I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
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3.42 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
score: 525,
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| 1547 |
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World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
by
Susan Ee (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 107,840 ratings
score: 525,
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 477,026 ratings
score: 525,
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| 1547 |
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Nine Perfect Strangers
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 473,944 ratings
score: 525,
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| 1551 |
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 124,326 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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Hunted (House of Night, #5)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 190,151 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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Black Beauty
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 295,690 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by
Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 163,063 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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The Imperfectionists
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 50,255 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 228,072 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1551 |
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Colorado Takedown (The McAllister Brothers, #1)
by
Cricket Rohman (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 678 ratings
score: 524,
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| 1558 |
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An Abundance of Katherines
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 547,215 ratings
score: 523,
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| 1558 |
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The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper (The Star Writers Trilogy, #1)
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Mary K. Savarese (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 514 ratings
score: 523,
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| 1560 |
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Hereafter (Hereafter, #1)
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Tara Hudson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 17,063 ratings
score: 522,
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| 1560 |
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The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1)
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Aimee Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 58,945 ratings
score: 522,
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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 159,764 ratings
score: 522,
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| 1560 |
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 194,733 ratings
score: 522,
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| 1564 |
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,652 ratings
score: 521,
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Master & Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 62,629 ratings
score: 521,
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Ethan Frome
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3.46 avg rating — 135,978 ratings
score: 521,
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3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, #3)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 101,609 ratings
score: 521,
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| 1568 |
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Nicholas (The Lords of Satyr, #1)
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Elizabeth Amber (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,853 ratings
score: 520,
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| 1568 |
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The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)
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Melanie Dickerson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 24,975 ratings
score: 520,
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| 1568 |
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Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 32,796 ratings
score: 520,
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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 257,615 ratings
score: 520,
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Not a Happy Family
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Shari Lapena (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 207,963 ratings
score: 520,
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| 1573 |
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The Girls
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3.51 avg rating — 240,154 ratings
score: 519,
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| 1574 |
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Evanescent
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Gabriella Lepore (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 331 ratings
score: 518,
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| 1574 |
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Jesus’ Son
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4.13 avg rating — 39,692 ratings
score: 518,
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| 1576 |
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Fire Study (Study, #3)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 65,428 ratings
score: 517,
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| 1576 |
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 378,803 ratings
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Amazonia
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 35,128 ratings
score: 517,
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| 1576 |
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The Shining Girls
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Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 53,781 ratings
score: 517,
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| 1580 |
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 228,742 ratings
score: 516,
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| 1580 |
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 743,218 ratings
score: 516,
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| 1580 |
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Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 183,017 ratings
score: 516,
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| 1583 |
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My Name Is Asher Lev
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4.24 avg rating — 43,128 ratings
score: 515,
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| 1583 |
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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 482,909 ratings
score: 515,
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| 1585 |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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3.55 avg rating — 14,262 ratings
score: 514,
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| 1585 |
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Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 339,556 ratings
score: 514,
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| 1587 |
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Strange Flesh
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2.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 513,
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| 1587 |
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Live for Me
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Emma Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 513,
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| 1587 |
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The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2)
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 71,326 ratings
score: 513,
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| 1590 |
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Broken (Will Trent, #4)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 80,203 ratings
score: 512,
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| 1590 |
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The Ice Limit - La barrière de glace (Ice Limit #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22,288 ratings
score: 512,
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| 1590 |
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Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
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Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 52,890 ratings
score: 512,
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| 1593 |
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 343,239 ratings
score: 511,
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| 1593 |
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Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 132,170 ratings
score: 511,
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| 1595 |
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Walk Two Moons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 172,731 ratings
score: 510,
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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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