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From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 62,691 ratings
score: 476,
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Cinnamon and Gunpowder
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Eli Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 8,534 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1702 |
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 878,620 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1702 |
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,278,983 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1702 |
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All's Well That Ends Well
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3.60 avg rating — 19,794 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1702 |
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2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 122,927 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1702 |
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War Storm (Red Queen, #4)
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Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 199,595 ratings
score: 475,
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| 1708 |
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Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 267,944 ratings
score: 474,
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| 1708 |
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Faithful Place
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,915 ratings
score: 474,
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| 1708 |
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Stalker Stalked
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Lee Matthew Goldberg (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 474,
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| 1708 |
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8)
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4.01 avg rating — 58,295 ratings
score: 474,
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| 1708 |
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A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce #3)
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Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 46,472 ratings
score: 474,
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| 1713 |
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Perpetual Night
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Georgina Morales (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 473,
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| 1714 |
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Gone (Gone, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 209,236 ratings
score: 472,
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| 1714 |
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The Woman in the Window
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3.94 avg rating — 872,664 ratings
score: 472,
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| 1714 |
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The Sun Down Motel
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 184,397 ratings
score: 472,
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| 1717 |
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Time's Edge (Time's Edge, #1)
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J.M. Dattilo (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 471,
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5 people voted
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| 1717 |
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The Thirst (Harry Hole, #11)
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Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 45,712 ratings
score: 471,
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| 1717 |
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The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,031,648 ratings
score: 471,
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| 1720 |
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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 92,442 ratings
score: 470,
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| 1720 |
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The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force, #6)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 31,357 ratings
score: 470,
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| 1720 |
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The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 107,925 ratings
score: 470,
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| 1720 |
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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)
by
Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 105,784 ratings
score: 470,
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| 1720 |
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Gilded Crown (Midas #2)
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 470,
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| 1725 |
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Evensong
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3.37 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1725 |
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 215,276 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1725 |
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Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1)
by
Xiran Jay Zhao (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 106,557 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1725 |
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Hunting Prince Dracula (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #2)
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Kerri Maniscalco (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 84,588 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1725 |
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LOOP
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William Kely McClung (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 939 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1725 |
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Gilded Lies (Midas #1)
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 469,
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| 1731 |
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Spell Bound (Hex Hall, #3)
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Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 62,408 ratings
score: 468,
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| 1731 |
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Night of the Rat
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4.25 avg rating — 5,124 ratings
score: 468,
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| 1733 |
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Un Lun Dun
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 19,377 ratings
score: 466,
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| 1733 |
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 48,558 ratings
score: 466,
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| 1733 |
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This Side of Paradise
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3.63 avg rating — 79,248 ratings
score: 466,
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| 1736 |
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The Eight (The Eight, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 45,740 ratings
score: 465,
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| 1736 |
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The Perfect Mother
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3.53 avg rating — 62,392 ratings
score: 465,
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The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 93,030 ratings
score: 465,
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| 1736 |
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 163,153 ratings
score: 465,
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| 1740 |
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Spider-Touched (Ghostland World, #2)
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Jory Strong (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 561 ratings
score: 464,
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| 1740 |
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The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 56,165 ratings
score: 464,
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| 1740 |
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The Stone Key (The Obernewtyn Chronicles, #5)
by
Isobelle Carmody (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 4,552 ratings
score: 464,
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| 1740 |
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The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1)
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Robert Bryndza (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 87,700 ratings
score: 464,
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From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
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3.91 avg rating — 38,287 ratings
score: 464,
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| 1740 |
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 647,756 ratings
score: 464,
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,092,115 ratings
score: 464,
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
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4.19 avg rating — 45,998 ratings
score: 464,
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The Seal Cove Theoretical Society
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S.W. Clemens (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 489 ratings
score: 464,
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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4.16 avg rating — 809,137 ratings
score: 464,
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| 1750 |
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Unscrupulous (The Manhattanites, #1)
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Avery Aster (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
score: 463,
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| 1750 |
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Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 193,585 ratings
score: 463,
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 327,563 ratings
score: 463,
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,202 ratings
score: 463,
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| 1750 |
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Visions in Death (In Death, #19)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 30,599 ratings
score: 463,
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| 1755 |
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The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 263,208 ratings
score: 462,
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The Flame Alphabet
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Ben Marcus (Goodreads Author)
2.89 avg rating — 5,409 ratings
score: 462,
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 77,056 ratings
score: 462,
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And the Mountains Echoed
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 399,027 ratings
score: 462,
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The Accidental Tourist
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 108,274 ratings
score: 462,
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A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 81,999 ratings
score: 462,
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| 1761 |
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Friend Request
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Laura Marshall (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 49,971 ratings
score: 461,
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| 1762 |
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer
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Michael Rubens (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
score: 460,
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The Mirror and the Maelstrom (The Seraphinium, #4)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 460,
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 253,631 ratings
score: 460,
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Undone (Will Trent, #3)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 81,572 ratings
score: 460,
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Someone We Know
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Shari Lapena (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 153,094 ratings
score: 460,
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| 1767 |
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Liar
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3.28 avg rating — 8,873 ratings
score: 459,
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| 1767 |
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Vanish (Firelight, #2)
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Sophie Jordan (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 34,615 ratings
score: 459,
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 120,743 ratings
score: 459,
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The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9)
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Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 45,223 ratings
score: 459,
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Bay of Devils
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Grahame Shannon (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings
score: 459,
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The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
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Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 108,136 ratings
score: 459,
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| 1773 |
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The Pool and the Pedestal (The Seraphinium, #2)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 458,
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| 1774 |
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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,664,950 ratings
score: 457,
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| 1774 |
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Full Moon Saturday Night
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Mark Barkawitz (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 457,
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Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 208,359 ratings
score: 457,
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The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 308,979 ratings
score: 457,
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Double Identity
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4.01 avg rating — 16,947 ratings
score: 456,
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| 1778 |
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Rose Under Fire
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 23,945 ratings
score: 456,
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The Well House
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M.S. Matassa (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 340 ratings
score: 456,
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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 56,324 ratings
score: 456,
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Verity
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 3,633,610 ratings
score: 456,
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| 1783 |
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Rapunzel
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Paul O. Zelinsky (retold by)
4.18 avg rating — 17,353 ratings
score: 455,
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| 1783 |
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Champion (Legend, #3)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 231,352 ratings
score: 455,
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| 1783 |
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Matchmaking for Beginners
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Maddie Dawson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 55,734 ratings
score: 455,
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Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
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4.27 avg rating — 199,747 ratings
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| 1783 |
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The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 96,662 ratings
score: 455,
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| 1783 |
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Primed For Revenge
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Carolyn M. Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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| 1783 |
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When the children come (Children of the Eye, #1)
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Barry Kirwan (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 392 ratings
score: 455,
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| 1783 |
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Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 38,058 ratings
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| 1791 |
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 214,951 ratings
score: 454,
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| 1791 |
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The Kiss Thief
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L.J. Shen (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 119,570 ratings
score: 454,
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| 1791 |
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The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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4.14 avg rating — 404,769 ratings
score: 454,
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| 1791 |
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Tippy the Knight
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 69 ratings
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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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