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The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 74,828 ratings
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)
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Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 29,195 ratings
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K is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone, #11)
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3.98 avg rating — 45,160 ratings
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Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus, #6)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 13,903 ratings
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The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
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The Girls in the Garden
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Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 107,459 ratings
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Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #13)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 67,720 ratings
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Entice (Need, #3)
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Carrie Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 31,902 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 239,346 ratings
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Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
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Natasha Ngan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 58,479 ratings
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Artemis
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 315,179 ratings
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The Beach
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3.99 avg rating — 95,778 ratings
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Dept. of Speculation
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Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 58,575 ratings
score: 254,
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A Woman of No Importance
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Les Fleurs du Mal
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Ordinary Grace
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William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 188,517 ratings
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 30,498 ratings
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Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth, #4)
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4.03 avg rating — 83,803 ratings
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Lovely War
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Julie Berry (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 67,842 ratings
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Silk & Steel (Silk and Steel, #1)
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Ariana Nash (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 6,195 ratings
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Close to Home (DI Adam Fawley, #1)
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Cara Hunter (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 48,048 ratings
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Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 30,211 ratings
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The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 142,416 ratings
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The Passenger
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Lisa Lutz (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 45,559 ratings
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Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 31,581 ratings
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Layla
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 588,941 ratings
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Migrations
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Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 95,412 ratings
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The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren, #3)
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Lisa Gardner (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 51,036 ratings
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 202,901 ratings
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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4.24 avg rating — 187,353 ratings
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The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 226,450 ratings
score: 253,
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Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
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4.28 avg rating — 470 ratings
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There's Someone Inside Your House
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Stephanie Perkins (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 45,223 ratings
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Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 308,674 ratings
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Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 41,889 ratings
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J is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone, #10)
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4.03 avg rating — 56,493 ratings
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The Hiding Place
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C.J. Tudor (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 38,723 ratings
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The Litigators
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 82,917 ratings
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The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 31,309 ratings
score: 252,
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The Corrections
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3.84 avg rating — 195,849 ratings
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The Immortalists
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Chloe Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 218,150 ratings
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Kurintor Nyusi
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Aaron-Michael Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 69,820 ratings
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Notes on an Execution
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Danya Kukafka (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 136,641 ratings
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Two Graves (Pendergast, #12)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 26,708 ratings
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Blaze
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
3.77 avg rating — 55,044 ratings
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62: A Model Kit
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4.11 avg rating — 2,910 ratings
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Flesh and Spirit (Lighthouse, #1)
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Carol Berg (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 3,464 ratings
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 74,292 ratings
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My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1)
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Diana Rowland (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 13,656 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,169,413 ratings
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The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 27,938 ratings
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The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh, #5)
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3.95 avg rating — 20,186 ratings
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Best Day Ever (Family Secrets, #1)
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Kaira Rouda (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 20,294 ratings
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 30,612 ratings
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The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12)
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4.44 avg rating — 174,766 ratings
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Inca Gold (Dirk Pitt, #12)
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4.01 avg rating — 28,978 ratings
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Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #3)
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Jenny Han (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 284,156 ratings
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Killers of a Certain Age (Killers of a Certain Age, #1)
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Deanna Raybourn (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 115,938 ratings
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The Little Black Fish
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Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin, #2)
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Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 18,775 ratings
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Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam
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Norene Moskalski (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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Iced (Fever, #6)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 47,497 ratings
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
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Matthew Quick (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 48,479 ratings
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Equus
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The Young Elites (The Young Elites, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 142,164 ratings
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The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #4)
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Grown
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Tiffany D. Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 39,493 ratings
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This Ain't No Hearts and Flowers Love Story Pt1
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Brooklyn Darkchild (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 799,727 ratings
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Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms, #1)
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Morgan Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 62,918 ratings
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The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 94,985 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 193,074 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 101,566 ratings
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Angle of Repose
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
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Kim Michele Richardson (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 257,287 ratings
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Victoria
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Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 30,350 ratings
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Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 53,293 ratings
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Hide (Detective D.D. Warren, #2)
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Lisa Gardner (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 49,831 ratings
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The Innocent
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 44,990 ratings
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Dark Light (Dark Light, #1)
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S.L. Jennings (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 9,343 ratings
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One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
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Faking It (Dempseys, #2)
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Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 19,575 ratings
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Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 199,156 ratings
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Lips of a Mastodon
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Ted Bernal Guevara (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)
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Jay Kristoff (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 112,255 ratings
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Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 112,849 ratings
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Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 37,120 ratings
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The Demigod Files
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 122,166 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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