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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 354,055 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,748,586 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,422,251 ratings
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 616,601 ratings
score: 294,
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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4.05 avg rating — 600,229 ratings
score: 293,
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 305,345 ratings
score: 285,
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The Taming of the Shrew
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3.74 avg rating — 179,979 ratings
score: 282,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,303,704 ratings
score: 269,
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The Bronze Bow
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4.02 avg rating — 27,877 ratings
score: 194,
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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4.14 avg rating — 20,386 ratings
score: 193,
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,123,240 ratings
score: 191,
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The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 28,166 ratings
score: 187,
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Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 15,904 ratings
score: 184,
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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3.76 avg rating — 77,437 ratings
score: 173,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,007,662 ratings
score: 171,
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 157,556 ratings
score: 170,
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,488,088 ratings
score: 164,
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The Screwtape Letters
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4.27 avg rating — 514,449 ratings
score: 154,
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Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning
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4.31 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
score: 146,
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The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets
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3.95 avg rating — 318 ratings
score: 145,
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Julius Caesar
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3.71 avg rating — 218,244 ratings
score: 137,
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 505,589 ratings
score: 132,
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,181,008 ratings
score: 130,
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Mere Christianity
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4.37 avg rating — 454,223 ratings
score: 124,
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,285,999 ratings
score: 100,
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
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3.89 avg rating — 11,593 ratings
score: 97,
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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
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3.53 avg rating — 8,844 ratings
score: 93,
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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4.13 avg rating — 438,603 ratings
score: 89,
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An Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
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3.64 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
score: 86,
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Words Aptly Spoken: British Literature
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 85,
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Words Aptly Spoken: Children's Literature
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 84,
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Words Aptly Spoken: American Literature
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4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 83,
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 344,251 ratings
score: 82,
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The Selected Canterbury Tales
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3.76 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
score: 81,
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 181,215 ratings
score: 79,
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Gulliver’s Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 297,552 ratings
score: 77,
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 85,513 ratings
score: 72,
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 606,000 ratings
score: 71,
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 329,751 ratings
score: 70,
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Favorite Father Brown Stories
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3.64 avg rating — 768 ratings
score: 69,
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A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 44,263 ratings
score: 68,
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 106,007 ratings
score: 67,
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Gorgias
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3.93 avg rating — 14,578 ratings
score: 64,
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
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Carol Strickland (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,485 ratings
score: 63,
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State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe (Volume 13)
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Gene Edward Veith Jr. (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 276 ratings
score: 62,
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The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence
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3.93 avg rating — 191 ratings
score: 61,
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Classical Music for Dummies
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3.96 avg rating — 646 ratings
score: 60,
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How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
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4.18 avg rating — 14,360 ratings
score: 59,
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The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World
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4.18 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
score: 57,
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Meno
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3.92 avg rating — 10,260 ratings
score: 56,
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The Patriot's History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American
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4.04 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 55,
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Tales from Shakespeare
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3.94 avg rating — 6,858 ratings
score: 54,
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,011,756 ratings
score: 53,
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,041,320 ratings
score: 52,
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Henry VIII
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3.49 avg rating — 9,739 ratings
score: 51,
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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
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4.12 avg rating — 320 ratings
score: 48,
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Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature, Christian History Literature Book on Reading Pagan Classics, Biblical Books
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4.20 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Aenid
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3.87 avg rating — 142,494 ratings
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Theogony / Works and Days
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3.76 avg rating — 16,297 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 236,036 ratings
score: 42,
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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4.11 avg rating — 11,831 ratings
score: 41,
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Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
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4.14 avg rating — 11,401 ratings
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