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My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 41,318 ratings
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Ladybugs and Fireflies
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Cheryl Alldredge (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonien, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 23,861 ratings
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The Pickwick Papers
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3.85 avg rating — 31,715 ratings
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Czerwone i czarne
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3.86 avg rating — 82,081 ratings
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Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 18,254 ratings
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Follow Me
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3.19 avg rating — 493 ratings
score: 108,
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The Stream: Discovery
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BJ (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Wings of the Wicked (Angelfire, #2)
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Courtney Allison Moulton (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 14,686 ratings
score: 108,
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| 5307 |
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Grey (Fifty Shades as Told by Christian, #1)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 200,379 ratings
score: 108,
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The Mushroom Man
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3.20 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 107,
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One Day in December
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Josie Silver (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 347,327 ratings
score: 107,
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Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 38,589 ratings
score: 107,
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Ymir's Tears: (An M/M Contemporary Fantasy Romance) (Loki Book 1)
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Julie Mannino (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 107,
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The Hours
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Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 147,670 ratings
score: 106,
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The Red Necklace
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3.79 avg rating — 8,250 ratings
score: 106,
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DISHONORED
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J.R. Reardon (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 106,
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Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin #12)
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4.29 avg rating — 17,617 ratings
score: 106,
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Janitors (Janitors, #1)
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Tyler Whitesides (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 8,588 ratings
score: 106,
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 202,550 ratings
score: 106,
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Turbo Twenty-Three (Stephanie Plum, #23)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 57,775 ratings
score: 106,
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The Dark Mirror (The Bridei Chronicles, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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score: 105,
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Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44,921 ratings
score: 105,
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The Haunted (The Hollow, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 15,374 ratings
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Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy
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3.71 avg rating — 1,813 ratings
score: 104,
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The Queen in Hell Close
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3.54 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 104,
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Fred & Edie
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3.64 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Book of Hallowe'en
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3.44 avg rating — 448 ratings
score: 104,
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Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 27,030 ratings
score: 104,
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The Sculptress
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3.92 avg rating — 11,689 ratings
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Piecemeal June
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Jordan Krall (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 103,
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Something Rich and Strange
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3.83 avg rating — 854 ratings
score: 103,
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The Truth About Alice
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Jennifer Mathieu (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 15,440 ratings
score: 103,
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Ravensong (Green Creek, #2)
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T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 48,838 ratings
score: 103,
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Tempting Danger (World of the Lupi, #1)
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Eileen Wilks (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 12,754 ratings
score: 103,
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| 5336 |
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The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, #1)
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4,873 ratings
score: 102,
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Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
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3.79 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
score: 102,
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Fire World (The Last Dragon Chronicles, #6)
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4.08 avg rating — 6,018 ratings
score: 102,
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The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 15,247 ratings
score: 102,
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| 5340 |
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Cate of the Lost Colony
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3.63 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
score: 101,
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Immaculate
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Katelyn Detweiler (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
score: 101,
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Roots Grow Backwards: Visions in Midwestern Poetry & Photographs
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Jamie S. Smith (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus: Book I
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Michael Bialys (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Broad Street
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3.47 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Courage in Patience
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Beth Fehlbaum (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Drama Unfolds
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Andrea M. Kulman (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Mother Garden: Stories
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Robin Romm (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Reach
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Nate Kenyon (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Deadly Exchange
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Geoffrey M. Gluckman (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
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3.99 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Walden
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3.42 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Confidential Communications
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J.R. Reardon (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Barbeque'N With Bobby: Righteous, Down-Home Barbeque Recipes by Bobby Seale
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4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Headline News
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Shamielle Alston (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Messed Up
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Janet Nichols Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 588 ratings
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A Gift of Ice (The Jimmy Fincher Saga, #2)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Raw Redemption
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Lacresha Hayes (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Pria Bersetelan Coklat
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3.95 avg rating — 123,030 ratings
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Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters (American Readers Series)
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Jessica Treat (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery
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Enrique Joven (Goodreads Author)
3.05 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Pajo
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Karl L. Kruger (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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O Romance de Genji: Primeira Época (Book 1)
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4.21 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Full Circle
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Kirsten Beyer (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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Into the Sunset
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Donald Capone (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Brothers Lionheart
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4.35 avg rating — 41,300 ratings
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King Dork (King Dork, #1)
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Frank Portman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
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Collected Poems
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4.21 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Horrific Confection
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Juliet Cook (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Shelf Monkey
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Corey Redekop (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Cruddy
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4.16 avg rating — 6,564 ratings
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Jackaroo (Tales of the Kingdom, #1)
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Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,035 ratings
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Daniel Plainway
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4.30 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Nightwood
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3.60 avg rating — 14,455 ratings
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As Meat Loves Salt
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3.93 avg rating — 6,185 ratings
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Exit Here.
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3.89 avg rating — 5,546 ratings
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The Sewerside Chronicles
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Cures for Heartbreak
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Margo Rabb (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 679 ratings
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Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
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3.84 avg rating — 18,260 ratings
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Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)
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Marisa de los Santos (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 38,355 ratings
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Aunt Rae's Remedies
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LaRae Olsen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Love & City Dreaming
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Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children
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Jen Storer (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Paradis: Clef en main
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3.53 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
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3.71 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
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3.71 avg rating — 13,918 ratings
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Becoming Human (Harmony of Worlds, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Boy2Girl
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3.41 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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Bunny Bunny:: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story
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Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep, #1)
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Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 8,941 ratings
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Layla and Majnun
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Code Name: Silence
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Kirstin van Dyke (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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number9dream
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3.87 avg rating — 26,356 ratings
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Watch the Hour
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J.R. Lindermuth (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Splintered
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Andrea Howarth-Salazar (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage #3)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 22,679 ratings
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The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (The Elric Saga, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 12,634 ratings
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A Girl's Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That Love Stuff
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4.34 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 41,218 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!
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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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