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The Last Oracle (Sigma Force, #5)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 34,956 ratings
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The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2)
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Steve Berry (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 43,573 ratings
score: 142,
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The Final Girl Support Group
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Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 175,728 ratings
score: 142,
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The Perfect Girlfriend
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Hairpin Bridge
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Taylor Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 18,570 ratings
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| 5006 |
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Leaving Poppy
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3.73 avg rating — 633 ratings
score: 141,
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Poison
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4.02 avg rating — 6,517 ratings
score: 141,
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Gravity (The Taking, #1)
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Melissa West (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 8,360 ratings
score: 141,
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The Meowmorphosis
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2.94 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
score: 141,
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 58,160 ratings
score: 141,
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Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
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Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 117,305 ratings
score: 141,
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Saint Anything
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 65,785 ratings
score: 141,
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A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0.1)
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Samantha Shannon (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 53,057 ratings
score: 141,
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| 5014 |
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The White Raven
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3.85 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
score: 140,
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| 5014 |
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One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2)
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Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 108,187 ratings
score: 140,
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| 5014 |
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Secret of the Crystal (Secret of the Crystal, #1)
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Brian K. Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 140,
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Elegy (Watersong, #4)
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Amanda Hocking (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,698 ratings
score: 140,
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 234,061 ratings
score: 140,
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Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)
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Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 31,079 ratings
score: 140,
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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4.16 avg rating — 216,596 ratings
score: 140,
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The Moon in the Mango Tree
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Pamela Binnings Ewen (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 654 ratings
score: 140,
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Meddling Kids
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Edgar Cantero (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 36,146 ratings
score: 140,
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The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 7,468 ratings
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The 7th Canon
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 27,143 ratings
score: 140,
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They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #5)
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3.78 avg rating — 44,673 ratings
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The Troubled Man (Kurt Wallander, #10)
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3.98 avg rating — 18,798 ratings
score: 140,
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Ordeal by Innocence
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3.83 avg rating — 31,418 ratings
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Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
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3.84 avg rating — 47,579 ratings
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Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 252,636 ratings
score: 140,
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Perfect Agreement
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3.48 avg rating — 90 ratings
score: 139,
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Anastasia's Secret
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Susanne Dunlap (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
score: 139,
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The Expats (Kate Moore, #1)
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Chris Pavone (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 39,129 ratings
score: 139,
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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3.83 avg rating — 22,218 ratings
score: 139,
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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 28,831 ratings
score: 139,
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Ahsoka
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E.K. Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 43,871 ratings
score: 139,
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The Great Zoo of China
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3.78 avg rating — 16,739 ratings
score: 139,
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Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty Norville, #3)
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Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 18,556 ratings
score: 139,
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| 5038 |
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Where the River Ends
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Charles Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 11,732 ratings
score: 138,
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 3 (BTVS Collection, #3)
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Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 419 ratings
score: 138,
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Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
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4.50 avg rating — 3,856 ratings
score: 138,
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Blue Aspen
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Tenaya Jayne (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 138,
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,478 ratings
score: 138,
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Taking on the Dead (Famished #1)
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Annie Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 2,864 ratings
score: 138,
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Talented (Talented Saga, #1)
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Sophie Davis (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 5,809 ratings
score: 138,
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The Lost Days (Emily the Strange, #1)
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Rob Reger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 7,504 ratings
score: 138,
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A Crown of Wishes (The Star-Touched Queen, #2)
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Roshani Chokshi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 8,999 ratings
score: 138,
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Secrets: in a corrupted society
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Dennis K. Hausker (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 138,
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A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs, #8)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 27,071 ratings
score: 138,
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Micro
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3.53 avg rating — 40,665 ratings
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Animal Mystic
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score: 137,
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| 5050 |
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Dustcovers: The Collected Sandman Covers, 1989-1996
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Dave McKean (Illustrator)
4.54 avg rating — 6,998 ratings
score: 137,
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Death in Spring
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3.75 avg rating — 3,810 ratings
score: 137,
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Fierce September (Juno, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 391 ratings
score: 137,
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The Land of Laughs
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3.88 avg rating — 6,722 ratings
score: 137,
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Lady and the Tramp (Disney Classics Collection Storybook)
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Jamie Simons (Adaptor)
4.46 avg rating — 4,257 ratings
score: 137,
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The Restorer (Graveyard Queen #1)
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Amanda Stevens (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 17,225 ratings
score: 137,
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Mr. Fox
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 11,499 ratings
score: 137,
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A Lost Lady
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3.72 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
score: 137,
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Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 16,185 ratings
score: 137,
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The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 76,866 ratings
score: 137,
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Soul of the Fire (Sword of Truth, #5)
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3.88 avg rating — 69,308 ratings
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Bath Haus
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P.J. Vernon (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 17,599 ratings
score: 137,
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The Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1)
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Alex Berenson (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 17,899 ratings
score: 137,
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To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
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Julia Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 292,093 ratings
score: 137,
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| 5065 |
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Pitch Dark
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2)
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Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 94,321 ratings
score: 136,
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The Fate of Katherine Carr
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3.20 avg rating — 841 ratings
score: 136,
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The Life Tree (Tree Collection #1)
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Nicholas A. McGirr (Goodreads Author)
2.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 136,
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Eliza and Her Monsters
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Francesca Zappia (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 65,138 ratings
score: 136,
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Necessary People
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Anna Pitoniak (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 12,593 ratings
score: 136,
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The King Of Arugula
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 5071 |
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JOURNAL: Delight Lined Journal
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| 5071 |
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The Last Will of Moira Leahy
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Therese Walsh (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
score: 135,
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| 5071 |
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The Poison Diaries (The Poison Diaries, #1)
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Maryrose Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 3,924 ratings
score: 135,
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| 5071 |
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Sanctuary (Moonlit Wings, #3)
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Beth Gualda (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 5071 |
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Sin Undone (Demonica, #5)
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Larissa Ione (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 28,802 ratings
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The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1)
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Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 28,768 ratings
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Necropolis (Power of Five, #4)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 13,373 ratings
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Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1)
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Simone Elkeles (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 263,041 ratings
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Mechanica (Mechanica, #1)
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Betsy Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 4,809 ratings
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Mister Pip
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3.68 avg rating — 23,911 ratings
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Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 77,364 ratings
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The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
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| 5084 |
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Fables
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4.02 avg rating — 15,327 ratings
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| 5084 |
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Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire, #1)
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Lynn Austin (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 17,710 ratings
score: 134,
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Fire by Night (Refiner's Fire, #2)
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Lynn Austin (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 9,951 ratings
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Witchling (Otherworld / Sisters of the Moon, #1)
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Yasmine Galenorn (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 14,411 ratings
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Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 69,164 ratings
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Disgrace
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3.86 avg rating — 115,339 ratings
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The Pale Blue Eye
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3.80 avg rating — 10,250 ratings
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Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39,184 ratings
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The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh, #13)
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Tapping the Dream Tree (Newford, #9)
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Infinite Days (Vampire Queen, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 9,634 ratings
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Wildefire (Wildefire #1)
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Karsten Knight (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 8,455 ratings
score: 133,
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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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