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Kurangaituku
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Whiti Hereaka (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 423 ratings
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gHost Road
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T.H. Cini (Goodreads Author)
3.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Perfect Agreement
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3.48 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Tanglewreck
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The Apprentice's Masterpiece: A Story of Medieval Spain
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3.79 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Typhoon (Dustrunners, #1)
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MCM (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Knights of the Hill Country
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Intrinsical (The Yara Silva Trilogy, #1)
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Lani Woodland (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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Seers of Light (Light, #1)
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Jennifer DeLucy (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Drawing Blood
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Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 10,987 ratings
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Under the Skin
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3.75 avg rating — 28,984 ratings
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Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 5,921 ratings
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Season of Migration to the North
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3.72 avg rating — 32,746 ratings
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The Witches' Sleep (The Witches' Sleep, #1)
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Kaitlyn Deann (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Falcon's Angel (Cardiff, #1)
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Danita Minnis (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Prelude to Christopher
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3.81 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Scrag - Up the Hill Backwards
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Jesamine James (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Black Eagle Inn
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Christoph Fischer (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Fatal Breach (Rocky Meadow Mysteries, #2)
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Linda Rawlins (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Together We Can Bury It
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Kathy Fish (Goodreads Author)
4.87 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Cartel Wars (Mike McBride, #4)
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Firespell and Hexbound (The Dark Elite #1-2)
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Chloe Neill (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 565 ratings
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An Otter on the Aga: And Other True Tales from an Animal Sanctuary
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4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Queen's Necklace
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Teresa Edgerton (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Trouble with Romance (Cupid, #2)
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Tamara Philip (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Market Forces
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3.62 avg rating — 7,782 ratings
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The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 603 ratings
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The Sky Is Falling (The Guests of War Trilogy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 3,887 ratings
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The Diary of Pelly D
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3.62 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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4.20 avg rating — 92,273 ratings
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Solo's Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Dawning Ascent (The Pearson Prophecy, #1)
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Jen L. Grey (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Freezing
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Tarrah Anders (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Black Lily (The Arestea Chronicles, #1)
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Mandy Burkhead (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Project ELE (ELE, #1)
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Rebecca Gober (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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The Air We Breathe
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Christa Parrish (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Vampire Hunter's Daughter: Complete Collection (The Vampire Hunter's Daughter, #1-6)
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Jennifer Malone Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,571 ratings
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Bad Unicorn (Bad Unicorn, #1)
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Platte F. Clark (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
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Promised Land
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4.56 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Fairy Tales Written By Rabbits
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Mary A. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Where Butterflies Dream (Exit Unicorns, #5)
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Cindy Brandner (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 336 ratings
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A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4)
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Sabaa Tahir (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 78,990 ratings
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The Color Red (Detective Ivy Bourque, #1)
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A.M. Potter (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Here We Are
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3.44 avg rating — 4,362 ratings
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What Love Means to You People
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3.96 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Chaos King (Wall and the Wing, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Second Chances
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Maria Savva (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Daughter of the Flames (Ruan, #1)
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Zoë Marriott (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,339 ratings
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The Barbarians are Coming
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3.38 avg rating — 276 ratings
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A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist
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4.01 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Legacy of Kings (The Magister Trilogy, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 2,934 ratings
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In the Winter Dark
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3.46 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Action, Figure
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4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood (Bruno and Boots)
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4.04 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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The Trouble with Playing Cupid (Cupid, #1)
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Tamara Philip (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Magic City
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3.93 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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Dogsbody
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4.10 avg rating — 7,314 ratings
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Jennie
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4.28 avg rating — 2,200 ratings
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From Anna
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The Hourglass Door (Hourglass Door, #1)
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Lisa Mangum (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 10,357 ratings
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Cuckoo Song
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3.96 avg rating — 9,138 ratings
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Callanish
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4.21 avg rating — 262 ratings
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This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test, #1)
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 15,122 ratings
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Dominion (Life After, #3)
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Julie Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Wallbanger (Cocktail, #1)
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Alice Clayton (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 211,519 ratings
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Birth of the Firebringer (Firebringer, #1)
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Stones For Bread
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Christa Parrish (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 688 ratings
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Helpless (Belial's Disciples, #1)
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A.J. Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Fell (The Sight, #2)
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David Clement-Davies (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 6,320 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Hot Winter Nights (Wild Hearts, #6)
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Woman's War
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Blame It On Chocolate
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Jennifer Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Seafarer's Secret
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Carol Ann Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Wilderness
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Lance Weller (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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The Magic Three of Solatia
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Ice in My Veins
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Kelli Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 285 ratings
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A Time to Tell
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Maria Savva (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
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Imperial Purple
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3.93 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Mademoiselle Butterfly 1
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Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions
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Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
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3.41 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Loving And Giving
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3.69 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Man Hunt (Man Hunt #1)
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K. Edwin Fritz (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)
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Kady Cross (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 21,844 ratings
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Go Jump in the Pool! (Bruno & Boots, #2)
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Late Nights on Air
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Where I'd Like to Be
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Frances O'Roark Dowell (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Logan (Life After, #2.5)
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Julie Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Into the Darkest Corner
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Elizabeth Haynes (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 71,382 ratings
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Blossom Like the Rose
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Still Life
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Christa Parrish (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Immortal Matchmakers, Inc. (Immortal Matchmakers, #1)
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Mimi Jean Pamfiloff (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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The Bonus (Zeta Cartel, #1)
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A.J. Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 776 ratings
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The Roar (The Roar, #1)
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Emma Clayton (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,930 ratings
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Wild Hearts on the Edge (Wild Hearts, #4)
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A New Kind of Monster: The Secret Life and Chilling Crimes of Colonel Russell Williams
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How does "The Host" qualify as a lesser known book? It was an instant best seller and continues to dominate the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list. Seriously.
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I second that.Also "The Little Prince." Very well known, in fact.
The Giver and Beauty are also both very popular
Eh Percy Jackson has a hollywood movie,
Someone remove The Giver and the Pearcy Jackson one. They're definately well-know, the former being required reading for middle schoolers in many school districts
Sarah wrote: "Someone remove The Giver and the Pearcy Jackson one. They're definately well-know, the former being required reading for middle schoolers in many school districts"I'll delete both the Percy Jackson's (if it has a movie, it's known) and The Giver.
Edit: That's done, and I also deleted Never Let Me Go, since that has a movie too.
I Capture the Castle and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall have movies too....but even they aren't known...
Removed a few books that weren't at all lesser-known.
I don't think you can say that "A Fine Balance" is lesser known - a critically aclaimed best seller that was on Oprah's list. No Oprah book should qualify as lesser known. I saw Andromeda Strain here too - a New York Times Best Seller. But worst of all, The Lovely Bones ...
The Host definitely should not be on here, it instantly went on best seller lists. And The Lovely Bones is really well known too, especially now that the movie is out.
I don't think anything by Pratchett had be considered "little known" -- We Free Men has almost 12,000 ratings!
I think this is one of the highest quality most appropriate lists I've seen.
Daughter of the Flames should totally qualify! I would show it to the world if I had the resources. I. LOVE. That. Book. >w<
I removed The Host and The Lovely Bones. I don't think any book with more than 100k reviews can be considered "lesser known". Personally I would cap it at 50k reviews, but since I haven't read the ones that would be excluded by that rule, I'll leave them.
Interview with John Greene (Author of The Fault In Our Stars) in Goodreads All Sorts!: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9...
There are so many lesser known books that deserve a lot more popularity and credit than they have... I went through my own list for this Listopia and only added lesser known books that I had given four or five stars. The books I added have not been read by a lot of GR members, as all books added have a low number of ratings.To name just a few of my votes: The Rape of Tamar by Dan Jacobson, The God Boy by Ian Cross, Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill by Tasma, Prelude To Christopher by Eleanor Dark and In The Winter Dark by Tim Winton. And that's just my top five... :-)
Mandi wrote: "I removed The Host and The Lovely Bones. I don't think any book with more than 100k reviews can be considered "lesser known". Personally I would cap it at 50k reviews, but since I haven't read the ..."I also noticed (very) popular books like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villete and Wives and Daughters. Those classics shouldn't be on this list either, in my opinion, as they can hardly be called 'lesser known'. But then again, that might just be a matter of opinion... :-0
I don't think Pride and Prejudice or To Kill a Mockingbird belong on this list. Both have over 1 million ratings. Otherwise, a fantastic list!!!
Booklovinglady wrote: "Mandi wrote: "I removed The Host and The Lovely Bones. I don't think any book with more than 100k reviews can be considered "lesser known". Personally I would cap it at 50k reviews, but since I hav..."It varies according to the country. In Brazil, i.e., Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are the only Brontë sisters novels known by more than 10 people.
Booklovinglady wrote: "Mandi wrote: "I removed The Host and The Lovely Bones. I don't think any book with more than 100k reviews can be considered "lesser known". Personally I would cap it at 50k reviews, but since I hav..."It varies according to the country. In Brazil, i.e., Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are the only Brontë sisters novels known by more than 10 people.
Carrie wrote: "It varies according to the country. ..."I know, as I'm Dutch, and here it is a different matter altogether as well. But as the differences by country can be huge, I thought I'd better have a look at number of readers mentioned on GR ...
To Kill a Mockingbird has to be the most popular Lesser Known Book of all time lol...
How can To Kill a Mockingbird be a lesser known book when it has 3,275,202 ratings?
Throne of Glass is on here? People will NOT shut up about that series. It's EVERYWHERE! Same with Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles. Both series are far from "lesser known."
Cant say I believe in this list any more. There are far too many well knowen books on here.
Rachel wrote: "Cant say I believe in this list any more. There are far too many well knowen books on here."I agree. The Bone People (#79), to name just one, won the Booker, for Pete's sake. But I guess as the voters come from different countries, it is different to all what is 'lesser known'.
Usually lists like this set a limit for how many ratings a book can have. Books with more than that number of ratings are removed from the list. What do you think would be a good limit? I think any book with more than 100,00 ratings is way too well known I'd suggest a limit of 50,000 but if there's a consensus on setting a different limit I'm good with that. Also how do you feel about books that have been turned in to movies. Should they all be removed or only the ones with more then a certain number of ratings?
Checked for duplicates and removed the books mentioned earlier in this thread and books with more than a million rations.
Removed books with over one million ratings and some spam.
Agatha Christie and Stephen King do not belong on this list ! Personally I have added books by some very gifted writers: Nickolas Butler who writes about the Midwest and Ron Rash who writes about Appalachia.
Anyone can add books to this list.
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