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Johnny Tremain
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3.70 avg rating — 50,817 ratings
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The Sandman (Joona Linna, #4)
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Lars Kepler (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 32,351 ratings
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 32,159 ratings
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Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 30,080 ratings
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Taste of Torment (Deep In Your Veins, #3)
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Suzanne Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 9,651 ratings
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Betrayal in Death (In Death, #12)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 35,847 ratings
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The Enemy Within
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Sheila L. Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Dicey's Song (Tillerman Family, #2)
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Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads Author)
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Chrono Crusade, Vol. 6 (Chrono Crusade, #6)
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4.27 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Underground
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4.20 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Playing with the Grown-ups
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3.22 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Ghost Ocean
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3.29 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Desert Crop
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4.06 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration, #1)
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Lia Habel (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 10,590 ratings
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The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 149,943 ratings
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Goddess Tithe (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #5.5)
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Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Emperor Mage (The Immortals, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 65,521 ratings
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The Changeling Sea
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4.09 avg rating — 5,958 ratings
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 67,125 ratings
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 14,879 ratings
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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4.73 avg rating — 300,879 ratings
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The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 57,072 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 42,137 ratings
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Hidden Pictures
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Jason Rekulak (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 536,916 ratings
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The Perfect Stranger
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Megan Miranda (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 69,282 ratings
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 259,548 ratings
score: 147,
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Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 38,517 ratings
score: 147,
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove, #3)
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 46,554 ratings
score: 146,
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The Rivers Run Dry (Raleigh Harmon Mysteries, #2)
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Sibella Giorello (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 784 ratings
score: 146,
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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3.83 avg rating — 6,122 ratings
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Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)
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Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 152,659 ratings
score: 146,
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Green Darkness
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3.97 avg rating — 6,959 ratings
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Day of the Locust
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3.70 avg rating — 23,927 ratings
score: 146,
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Fallen Grace
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3.69 avg rating — 2,358 ratings
score: 146,
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A Kiss in Time
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Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 19,564 ratings
score: 146,
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Frédéric
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4.20 avg rating — 21,960 ratings
score: 146,
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I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
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3.70 avg rating — 21,218 ratings
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Satan's Stone (Demon Kissed, #4)
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H.M. Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
score: 146,
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Ivory and Bone (Ivory and Bone, #1)
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Julie Eshbaugh (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
score: 146,
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Amadeus
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4.15 avg rating — 18,860 ratings
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The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
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3.96 avg rating — 54,252 ratings
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Island Beneath the Sea
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 45,931 ratings
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1)
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Theodora Goss (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 28,640 ratings
score: 146,
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 37,920 ratings
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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 61,541 ratings
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Of Bees and Mist
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Erick Setiawan (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 7,829 ratings
score: 145,
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The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose
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3.77 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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Waifs and Strays
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
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Cemetery Moon (Moonlit Wings, #1)
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Beth Gualda (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
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4.12 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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Lash (Broken Angel, #1)
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L.G. Castillo (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
score: 145,
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Toads and Diamonds
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Heather Tomlinson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
score: 145,
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 42,593 ratings
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Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 56,852 ratings
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Motherless Brooklyn
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3.86 avg rating — 42,332 ratings
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Edie: American Girl
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4.09 avg rating — 7,302 ratings
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Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 14,403 ratings
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There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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3.88 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Mosque
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4.13 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Highland Blessings (Highlands #1)
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Jennifer Hudson Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Falling Under (Falling Under, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 16,561 ratings
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The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (The Hollows, #2)
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 67,872 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast
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4.36 avg rating — 3,733 ratings
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Bright Young Things (Bright Young Things, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 13,224 ratings
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Grandfather's Journey
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4.15 avg rating — 16,956 ratings
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Betwixt
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2.57 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Wildthorn
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3.65 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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Shattered (Slated, #3)
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Teri Terry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 15,199 ratings
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Deadly Little Secret (Touch, #1)
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Laurie Faria Stolarz (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 22,919 ratings
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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4.04 avg rating — 92,416 ratings
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Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum, #16)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 86,690 ratings
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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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Angeline Boulley (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 192,594 ratings
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Sister
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Rosamund Lupton (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 55,260 ratings
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Falling
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T.J. Newman (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 96,247 ratings
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Coma
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Robin Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 53,073 ratings
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Dark Fire (Dark, #6)
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Christine Feehan (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 24,148 ratings
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Evening
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Susan Minot (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 4,967 ratings
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Austerlitz
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3.98 avg rating — 26,122 ratings
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Cleavage
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Theanna Bischoff (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Petals in the Ashes (Sign of the Sugared Plum, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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Forbidden Embrace (Embrace, #2)
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Charlotte Blackwell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Deathwish (Cal Leandros, #4)
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Rob Thurman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 6,042 ratings
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Twelfth Grade Kills (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, #5)
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Heather Brewer (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 16,975 ratings
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With All My Soul (Soul Screamers, #7)
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Rachel Vincent (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,160 ratings
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Colonization (Paradise Reclaimed, #1)
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Aubrie Dionne (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Die for Her (Revenants #2.5)
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Amy Plum (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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The Club Dumas
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3.81 avg rating — 44,227 ratings
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King John
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3.35 avg rating — 7,855 ratings
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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
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S.A. Chakraborty (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 149,749 ratings
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Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)
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Linda Castillo (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 30,833 ratings
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Starflight (Starflight, #1)
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Melissa Landers (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 13,496 ratings
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Afterworlds (Afterworlds, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 20,762 ratings
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Bite Me If You Can (Argeneau, #6)
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Lynsay Sands (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 22,045 ratings
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Grendel
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3.69 avg rating — 41,949 ratings
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Thorn Queen (Dark Swan, #2)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 21,739 ratings
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Valefar Vol. 1
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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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