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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 23,627 ratings
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The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross, #9)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 61,743 ratings
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Master of Crows (Master of Crows, #1)
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Grace Draven (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 20,664 ratings
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
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3.99 avg rating — 8,760 ratings
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The Last Widow (Will Trent, #9)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 68,917 ratings
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The Final Solution
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3.35 avg rating — 19,129 ratings
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Seven Deadly Wonders (Jack West Jr, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 30,358 ratings
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Under the Whispering Door
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T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 310,337 ratings
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La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (Marcus Goldman, #1)
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Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen, #3)
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Joanne Fluke (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 27,407 ratings
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Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
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4.03 avg rating — 89,971 ratings
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Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia
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3.61 avg rating — 15,994 ratings
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The Fever Code (The Maze Runner, #5)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 80,766 ratings
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The Poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 140,025 ratings
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Cirkus
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Patti Frazee (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 162,
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Iconic Reflections
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Jeffrey Stoker (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Last Light of the Sun
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 9,764 ratings
score: 162,
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The Sky Always Hears Me: And the Hills Don't Mind
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3.71 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Beauty and the Werewolf (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #6)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 7,999 ratings
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The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
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Katherine Addison (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 53,263 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 465,436 ratings
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 104,871 ratings
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Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2)
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The Quincunx
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Peer Gynt
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3.71 avg rating — 9,161 ratings
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Long Way Down
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4.25 avg rating — 134,503 ratings
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Eleven on Top (Stephanie Plum, #11)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 115,329 ratings
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The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)
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Peter May (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 44,123 ratings
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The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 105,934 ratings
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The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)
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4.21 avg rating — 54,884 ratings
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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,065,184 ratings
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Pretty Things
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Janelle Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 87,589 ratings
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Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 157,550 ratings
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Counting by 7s
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Holly Goldberg Sloan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 86,522 ratings
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Awaken, My Love
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Robin Schone (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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The Ghost Soldiers: Poems
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4.14 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Wide Eyed
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3.98 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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3.97 avg rating — 57,216 ratings
score: 161,
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Salamander
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Thomas Wharton (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 854 ratings
score: 161,
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The Woman in Black
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3.75 avg rating — 79,378 ratings
score: 161,
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Krampus: The Yule Lord
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Brom (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 15,217 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 469,403 ratings
score: 161,
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A Promise of Fire (Kingmaker Chronicles, #1)
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Amanda Bouchet (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 55,076 ratings
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The Ice Twins
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S.K. Tremayne (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 40,327 ratings
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The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 109,379 ratings
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The Memory Police
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3.70 avg rating — 130,346 ratings
score: 161,
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The Summer Before the War
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Helen Simonson (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 44,388 ratings
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They Came to Baghdad
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3.83 avg rating — 24,557 ratings
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Triple Deception (Remmich/Miller, #4)
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Karl Braungart (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 63,729 ratings
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Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)
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4.48 avg rating — 172,082 ratings
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The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 277,166 ratings
score: 161,
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Playing Nice
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J.P. Delaney (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 56,176 ratings
score: 161,
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Altar of Eden
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 20,276 ratings
score: 161,
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The Essex Serpent
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3.52 avg rating — 67,950 ratings
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The End of October
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 19,805 ratings
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The Game (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #7)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,247 ratings
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Warcross (Warcross, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 121,583 ratings
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
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4.07 avg rating — 26,118 ratings
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Communions With Christ
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Sharon Roni Ellis (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Darklight (Wondrous Strange, #2)
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Lesley Livingston (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 10,064 ratings
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Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld, #11)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 18,816 ratings
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Goddess Boot Camp (Oh. My. Gods., #2)
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Tera Lynn Childs (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 11,400 ratings
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The Gathering (Darkness Rising, #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 65,221 ratings
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A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (Lucy Campion Mysteries, #1)
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Susanna Calkins (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
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The Thing With Feathers
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Anne Sweazy-Kulju (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 788,106 ratings
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Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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3.86 avg rating — 87,827 ratings
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Unfinished Tales
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4.02 avg rating — 43,635 ratings
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Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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3.93 avg rating — 48,006 ratings
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Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (Fablehaven, #4)
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Brandon Mull (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 94,380 ratings
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Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
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3.86 avg rating — 64,198 ratings
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The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
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Alexis Henderson (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 44,433 ratings
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Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations #1)
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B.B. Alston (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 35,416 ratings
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Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 173,463 ratings
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Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)
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4.16 avg rating — 13,155 ratings
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The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 192,426 ratings
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Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)
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3.92 avg rating — 40,671 ratings
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
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Anthony Marra (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 18,138 ratings
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The Butcher of the Forest
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Premee Mohamed (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 8,627 ratings
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Ophelia
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3.71 avg rating — 12,212 ratings
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The Becoming (Anna Strong Chronicles, #1)
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3.54 avg rating — 6,114 ratings
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Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 51,552 ratings
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The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)
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R.S. Belcher (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 3,931 ratings
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Plus One
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Elizabeth Fama (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 3,390 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 179,371 ratings
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Spinning Silver
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 147,983 ratings
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An Unkindness of Magicians (The Unseen World, #1)
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Kat Howard (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 11,680 ratings
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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
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Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 110,322 ratings
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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Saga, Volume 1
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7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club, #7)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 71,349 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
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Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)
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The Chemist
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3.76 avg rating — 99,938 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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