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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 443,580 ratings
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The Casual Vacancy
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3.31 avg rating — 336,124 ratings
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 206,461 ratings
score: 279,
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,683 ratings
score: 279,
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Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 172,695 ratings
score: 279,
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The Passengers
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John Marrs (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 64,330 ratings
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Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 22,363 ratings
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Portrait of a Thief
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Grace D. Li (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 31,591 ratings
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Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
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3.87 avg rating — 67,535 ratings
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The Realm of Possibility
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 15,848 ratings
score: 278,
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The Enchanted
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Rene Denfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 21,066 ratings
score: 278,
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Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
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Amanda Lamb (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 6,650 ratings
score: 278,
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Invisible Girl
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Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 181,337 ratings
score: 278,
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Gravity
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Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 17,272 ratings
score: 278,
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| 2815 |
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The Witch of Portobello
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 84,096 ratings
score: 277,
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Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)
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Shannon Messenger (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 16,290 ratings
score: 277,
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Tell Me Your Dreams
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3.99 avg rating — 55,180 ratings
score: 277,
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Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 57,890 ratings
score: 277,
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Subterranean
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 27,451 ratings
score: 277,
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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3.69 avg rating — 151,398 ratings
score: 277,
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The Grim Reaper
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William Hanna (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 277,
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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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4.18 avg rating — 91,873 ratings
score: 277,
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Never Have I Ever
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Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 57,372 ratings
score: 277,
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Nimona
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4.18 avg rating — 183,822 ratings
score: 277,
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| 2825 |
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Leather Maiden
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Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
score: 276,
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| 2825 |
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A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)
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Charles Finch (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 17,304 ratings
score: 276,
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Disney's The Lion King
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4.51 avg rating — 23,182 ratings
score: 276,
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 60,282 ratings
score: 276,
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A Beautiful Dark (A Beautiful Dark, #1)
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Jocelyn Davies (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 17,929 ratings
score: 276,
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Layman's Handbook, A journey to SELF
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Aidan Mc Nally (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 276,
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 149,600 ratings
score: 276,
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L'DOR V'DOR: From Generation to Generation
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Mark M. Bello (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 276,
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Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 57,251 ratings
score: 276,
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Total Control
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 48,634 ratings
score: 276,
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Borne (Borne, #1)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 40,572 ratings
score: 276,
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The Three Witches and The Master
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 18,026 ratings
score: 276,
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| 2837 |
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The Sibyl in Her Grave (Hilary Tamar, #4)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,272 ratings
score: 275,
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| 2837 |
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Man Ray: Masters of Photography Series
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Man Ray (Photographs)
4.25 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 275,
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The Principles of Uncertainty
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4.05 avg rating — 9,953 ratings
score: 275,
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 142,821 ratings
score: 275,
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Demon Girl (Rae Wilder, #1)
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Penelope Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 6,666 ratings
score: 275,
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Don't Look Back
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 35,124 ratings
score: 275,
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
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Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 185,367 ratings
score: 275,
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The Mothers
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 127,580 ratings
score: 275,
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The Last Lecture
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4.26 avg rating — 361,004 ratings
score: 275,
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At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #10)
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3.71 avg rating — 45,341 ratings
score: 275,
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Der Insasse
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Sebastian Fitzek (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 28,106 ratings
score: 275,
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Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
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Adrienne Young (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 113,554 ratings
score: 275,
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Where the Lost Wander
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Amy Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 75,771 ratings
score: 275,
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Col Dee
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3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings
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| 2850 |
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The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 85,819 ratings
score: 274,
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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Amy Stewart (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 11,004 ratings
score: 274,
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 55,742 ratings
score: 274,
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Ancestors & Angels
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Jane L. Cranmer (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 274,
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 219,982 ratings
score: 274,
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Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)
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Sally Green (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 56,846 ratings
score: 274,
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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3.61 avg rating — 540,901 ratings
score: 274,
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Attachments
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 208,017 ratings
score: 274,
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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
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4.03 avg rating — 21,179 ratings
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Broken Harbor
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 108,759 ratings
score: 274,
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The Pillars of Creation (Sword of Truth, #7)
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3.71 avg rating — 60,922 ratings
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The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 62,677 ratings
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The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
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Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 36,134 ratings
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Pop Goes the Weasel (Helen Grace, #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 27,203 ratings
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Hour Game (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #2)
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 54,767 ratings
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The Night Manager
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3.84 avg rating — 22,773 ratings
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| 2867 |
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Spy Glass (Glass, #3)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,059 ratings
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Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 46,148 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 210,309 ratings
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
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Mike Mullin (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 26,475 ratings
score: 273,
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Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)
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Laura Thalassa (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 186,924 ratings
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The Magnolia Inn
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4.05 avg rating — 21,593 ratings
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Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
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4.32 avg rating — 71,168 ratings
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Pack's Posse (Simon Pack, #8)
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John M. Vermillion (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Neverworld Wake
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Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 25,193 ratings
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Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 45,410 ratings
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A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 87,955 ratings
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Second Skin
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3.87 avg rating — 513 ratings
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The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles, #1)
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3.54 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,496 ratings
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The Burning Sky (The Elemental Trilogy, #1)
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Sherry Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 20,811 ratings
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The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 178,725 ratings
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Little Darlings
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Melanie Golding (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 15,703 ratings
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The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 68,766 ratings
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The Seagull
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3.91 avg rating — 37,350 ratings
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March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 18,601 ratings
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The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)
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Allen Eskens (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 191,651 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,459,027 ratings
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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4.22 avg rating — 1,125,329 ratings
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Dyed Souls
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4.31 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 155,204 ratings
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 131,800 ratings
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Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 34,323 ratings
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M. Butterfly
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3.93 avg rating — 14,935 ratings
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Cold Granite (Logan McRae, #1)
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Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 177,646 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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