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Pieces of a Rainbow
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Maria Savva (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Beyond the Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #2)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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Taken by the Others (H&W Investigations, #2)
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Jess Haines (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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Woman Scorned (Man Hunt, #2)
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K. Edwin Fritz (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Against All Odds
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Ju Ephraime (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Zucchini Warriors (Macdonald Hall, #5)
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)
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Kalila
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3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Dark Side of Nowhere
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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Nightingale's Nest
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Nikki Loftin (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
score: 93,
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The Stonor Eagles
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4.19 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Warfare (Life After, #2)
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Julie Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 954 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 353,398 ratings
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The Sea-Hawk
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4.08 avg rating — 3,754 ratings
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Serendipity (Inevitable, #1)
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Janet Nissenson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
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Watch Over Me
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Christa Parrish (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Cowboy Heat (Hell Yeah!, #1)
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Sable Hunter (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
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Tunnels (Tunnels, #1)
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Roderick Gordon (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 19,300 ratings
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Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Surviving Sixteen, #3)
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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About the Size of the Universe
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4.18 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Enemies Closer
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Tom Batt (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Oxygen
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3.36 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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Trevor's Song
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Susan Helene Gottfried (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 92,
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The Magic Toyshop
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3.79 avg rating — 13,495 ratings
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After the First Death
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3.66 avg rating — 3,948 ratings
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The Heart Reader of Franklin High
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4.10 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Deceived by the Others (H&W Investigations, #3)
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Jess Haines (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
score: 92,
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Where I Belong (Where I Belong, 1)
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Gwendolyn Heasley (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 6,519 ratings
score: 92,
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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3.77 avg rating — 5,431 ratings
score: 92,
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Leon And Esther
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 92,
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Springs Of Japanese Wisdom
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 92,
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Silk
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3.85 avg rating — 71,952 ratings
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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3.79 avg rating — 23,537 ratings
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The Iron Tree (The Crowthistle Chronicles, #1)
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying
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4.12 avg rating — 328 ratings
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In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
score: 92,
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Lady: My Life as a Bitch
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2.99 avg rating — 891 ratings
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The Color of Distance
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4.27 avg rating — 918 ratings
score: 92,
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Huntress (Life After, #1)
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Julie Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
score: 92,
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Moonspeaker (House of Moons Chronicles, #1)
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3.54 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Home Another Way
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Christa Parrish (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
score: 92,
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Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1)
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Quinn Loftis (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 40,031 ratings
score: 92,
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Ingo
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3.95 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
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Gunpowder Soup
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Wild Hearts Forever (Wild Hearts, #3)
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 92,
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Heat and Light
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3.78 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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Sheltered Waters
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Amber Faucher (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Music in the Dark
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4.11 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Vanishing Pumpkin
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3.84 avg rating — 523 ratings
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The Devil in Music (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #4)
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4.19 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
score: 91,
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By These Ten Bones
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3.75 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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The Marrow of Tradition
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3.92 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
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Pompeii: City on Fire (Lost Cities, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Big Time
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3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 91,
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Haven (The Fall of Haven #1)
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Justin Kemppainen (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
score: 91,
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Death of a River Guide
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3.92 avg rating — 2,842 ratings
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Corporate America
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Jack Dougherty (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 440 ratings
score: 91,
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Flower of Heaven
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Julien Ayotte (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 224 ratings
score: 91,
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The Cocaine Chase (Mike McBride, #2)
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 91,
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Arsene Lupin
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Edgar Jepson (Novelization)
3.83 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
score: 91,
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Bone
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3.58 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
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Pump Six and Other Stories
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 8,750 ratings
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Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
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3.62 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
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I, Coriander
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3.83 avg rating — 8,328 ratings
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Pastures of the Blue Crane
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4.16 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Entwined
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3.87 avg rating — 37,944 ratings
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Innocent Killers: A Fascinating Journey Through the Worlds of the Hyena, the Jackal, and the Wild Dog
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4.11 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Illusionary
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LeAnn Mason (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Jackaroo (Tales of the Kingdom, #1)
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Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,033 ratings
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Shatter Me (The Jaded Series, #1)
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Alex Grayson (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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Vinyl Cafe Odd Jobs
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4.58 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Checkmate (Neighbor from Hell, #3)
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R.L. Mathewson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 49,684 ratings
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Claws
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Mike Grinti (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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Wild Hearts on Fire (Wild Hearts, #2)
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Beautiful and Damned
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3.73 avg rating — 64,224 ratings
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Darke Homecoming (Darke Paranormal Investigations, #3)
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Rosanna Leo (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Cove
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 12,432 ratings
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The Old Woman and the Willy Nilly Man
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Jill Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Broken Vessel (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #2)
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Breathing into Stone
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Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Shadow of Colossus (Seven Wonders, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Call Me Ruth
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3.66 avg rating — 83 ratings
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A Question of Power
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3.69 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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The 27th Kingdom
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3.73 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Struggle of Me
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4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Elements of a Broken Mind (Clear Angel Chronicles, #1)
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Heidi Angell (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Car 006 Responding (Mike McBride, #1)
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Kira (Shadow of the Dragon, #1)
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 166,312 ratings
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Milena: & Other Social Reforms
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The Diary of a Goose Girl
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Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)
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Memory Board
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4.17 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Monkey Island
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3.60 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Civilization And The Limpet
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To The Falls (The Falls Trilogy, #1)
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Heather Renee (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Last Guardian of Everness (The War of the Dreaming, #1)
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Strings (Hard Rock Harlots, #1)
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Kendall Grey (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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Home from the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories
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Jan 08, 2009 01:42PM
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.
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