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Coral & Bone
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Tiffany Daune (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 509 ratings
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My Eyes Are Black Holes
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Logan Ryan Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 299,
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| 2603 |
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Daimon (Covenant, #0.5)
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,740 ratings
score: 298,
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Open Heart (Farsighted, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Awakening (The Keeper, #1)
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O.L. Ramos (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 485 ratings
score: 298,
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| 2603 |
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Libellus de Numeros (Magicae Mathematica, #1)
by
Jim West (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 121 ratings
score: 298,
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Ghosts of Perigord (Perigord #2)
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Marc Lindsay (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 298,
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| 2603 |
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The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 182,481 ratings
score: 298,
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| 2603 |
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جاسوس من أجل لا أحد: ستة عشر عامًا في المخابرات
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Basel Saneeb (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 298,
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Galileo
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3.66 avg rating — 18,475 ratings
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Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
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Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 79,305 ratings
score: 298,
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Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 61,080 ratings
score: 298,
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| 2603 |
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The Other People
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C.J. Tudor (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 35,133 ratings
score: 298,
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| 2614 |
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Foop!
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Chris Genoa (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 783 ratings
score: 297,
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By Love or By Sea
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3.58 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Strangers on a Train
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3.72 avg rating — 37,456 ratings
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Above
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Leah Bobet (Goodreads Author)
3.12 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
score: 297,
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Revenge (The Keeper, #2)
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O.L. Ramos (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 297,
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The Weaver of Odds (Vivian Amberville, #1)
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Louise Blackwick (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 297,
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Intensity
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 92,180 ratings
score: 297,
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The Hive
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Gregg Olsen (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 21,938 ratings
score: 297,
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Reason Reigns
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Ilyn Ross (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 70,319 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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Subversia
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Duke Haney (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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My Name Is Memory
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3.72 avg rating — 34,453 ratings
score: 296,
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Rebirth (The Keeper, #3)
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O.L. Ramos (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 140 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence, #1)
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K.D. Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 12,600 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
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Claudia Clark (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 5,861 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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The Dark Days Club (Lady Helen, #1)
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Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 20,238 ratings
score: 296,
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The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 63,927 ratings
score: 296,
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| 2622 |
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Code to Zero
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 28,105 ratings
score: 296,
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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4.04 avg rating — 9,396 ratings
score: 295,
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The Last Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #1)
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Liv Constantine (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 455,251 ratings
score: 295,
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The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
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K.D. Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 8,105 ratings
score: 295,
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Snap
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Belinda Bauer (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 29,227 ratings
score: 295,
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First into the Fray (Harry Heron #1.5)
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Patrick G. Cox (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 282 ratings
score: 295,
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)
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3.79 avg rating — 42,053 ratings
score: 295,
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Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
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4.21 avg rating — 85,016 ratings
score: 294,
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The Plucker
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Brom (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 2,535 ratings
score: 294,
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The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 133,984 ratings
score: 294,
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Of Breakable Things
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A. Lynden Rolland (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 272 ratings
score: 294,
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Revelations (Ruin, #2)
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Lucian Bane (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 416 ratings
score: 294,
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Life Between Seconds
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Douglas Weissman (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 307 ratings
score: 294,
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The Girl Before
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J.P. Delaney (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 166,002 ratings
score: 294,
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Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
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3.95 avg rating — 60,235 ratings
score: 294,
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| 2646 |
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Enchanted (Woodcutter Sisters, #1; Books of Arilland, #1)
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Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 16,824 ratings
score: 293,
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Esperanza Rising
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4.04 avg rating — 112,372 ratings
score: 293,
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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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4.27 avg rating — 6,664 ratings
score: 293,
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Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
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3.81 avg rating — 30,618 ratings
score: 293,
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Out of the Dust
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3.77 avg rating — 79,041 ratings
score: 293,
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| 2646 |
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The Inmate
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Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 950,170 ratings
score: 293,
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Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 77,472 ratings
score: 293,
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| 2653 |
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Bet Me
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Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 94,965 ratings
score: 292,
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| 2653 |
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A Walk Across the Sun
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Corban Addison (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 19,389 ratings
score: 292,
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Chinese Whispers
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 2653 |
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The Lacuna
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3.82 avg rating — 73,631 ratings
score: 292,
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Austenland (Austenland, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 90,680 ratings
score: 292,
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Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
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Jennifer Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 313,679 ratings
score: 292,
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| 2659 |
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Undressed (The Manhattanites, #2)
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Avery Aster (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
score: 291,
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In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 101,917 ratings
score: 291,
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When the Children Fight Back: The AI war (Children of the Eye Book 3)
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Barry Kirwan (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 291,
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| 2659 |
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The Night Tiger
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Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 65,963 ratings
score: 291,
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| 2659 |
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Sins of the Maker
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Daniel Cuervonegro (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 257 ratings
score: 291,
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| 2664 |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Helen Simonson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 144,792 ratings
score: 290,
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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
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4.34 avg rating — 130,408 ratings
score: 290,
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When God Was a Rabbit
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3.79 avg rating — 50,426 ratings
score: 290,
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Leticia (Leticia #1)
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Lindsay Anne Kendal (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 290,
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Dom Wars: Rounds 1, 2, 3 (Dom Wars, #1-3)
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Lucian Bane (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 843 ratings
score: 290,
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The Marvels
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3.99 avg rating — 20,867 ratings
score: 290,
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I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 12,334 ratings
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
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3.73 avg rating — 27,127 ratings
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From Brexit to Brazil
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John Richard Spencer (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Her Every Fear
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Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 37,236 ratings
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Stalker (Joona Linna, #5)
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Lars Kepler (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 27,865 ratings
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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,349,776 ratings
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Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 115,447 ratings
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Ben's Dream
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3.75 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma
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3.53 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 112,887 ratings
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Dom Wars: Round 4, 5, 6 (Dom Wars, #4-6)
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Lucian Bane (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 75,874 ratings
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Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)
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4.14 avg rating — 162,116 ratings
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 58,331 ratings
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Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 25,174 ratings
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The Cheerleaders
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3.74 avg rating — 54,950 ratings
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One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 279,097 ratings
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Muffy: or A Transmigration of Selves
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S.T. Gulik (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Sleeping Beauty
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4.33 avg rating — 4,026 ratings
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Starfish (Rifters, #1)
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Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 10,204 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,933 ratings
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The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #2)
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Michelle Hodkin (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 102,260 ratings
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Duma Key
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 134,852 ratings
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Something in the Water
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Catherine Steadman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 227,955 ratings
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 166,356 ratings
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The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 73,634 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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