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Summoned to Darkness
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3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Telling
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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Odd John and Sirius
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3.95 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Golden Enemy
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3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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And Then There Were None
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4.27 avg rating — 1,567,821 ratings
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A Beautiful Mess (Beautiful Mess, #1)
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T.K. Leigh (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 12,152 ratings
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Planet Boy: stories from the Vinyl Cafe radio show
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Wild Girl
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,253 ratings
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#Seen (#NorthStar #1)
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Taylor Hart (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
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3.63 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Far Out
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Khaled Talib (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 70 ratings
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
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Louisa Young (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 6,393 ratings
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The Blindfold
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3.74 avg rating — 4,441 ratings
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Quiver
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3.54 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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When You Go Away
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Jessica Barksdale Inclán (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 84,
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The Blood That Bonds (II AM Trilogy, #1)
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Christopher Buecheler (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
score: 84,
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Hareluya II Boy (vol 1)
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Christkindl's Gift (Culdee Creek Christmas #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Runaway Princess
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Hester Browne (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
score: 84,
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The Voyage Begun
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Dark Mirror (The Bridei Chronicles, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,744 ratings
score: 84,
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Rethinking Andrew Wyeth
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David Cateforis (Editor)
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 84,
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,367 ratings
score: 84,
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Somebody's Angel (Rescue Me Saga, #4)
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Kallypso Masters (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
score: 84,
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Elfin (The Elfin, #1)
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Quinn Loftis (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
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A Night to Forget (A Night to Forget, #1)
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Jessica Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
score: 84,
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Heroes of the Valley
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 5,679 ratings
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#Lost (#NorthStar #0.5)
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Taylor Hart (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 84,
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Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
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3.73 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
score: 84,
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The Perfect Season
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Stephen Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Godspeed
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Nickolas Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
score: 84,
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The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
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3.46 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
score: 83,
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The Devil Does Exist, Volume 1
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4.04 avg rating — 3,298 ratings
score: 83,
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Her Daughter's Eyes
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Jessica Barksdale Inclán (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 581 ratings
score: 83,
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Secrets of the Sands (Children of the Desert, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 490 ratings
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China Court: The Hours of a Country House
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3.98 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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이드 1 [Id - The Greatest Fusion Fantasy 1]
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4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 83,
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Cajun Hearts: Dreams Come True in the Bayous
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Kathleen Y'Barbo (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 83,
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The Winged Watchman
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4.28 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
score: 83,
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Ghosts Who Went to School
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4.03 avg rating — 205 ratings
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To See a Fine Lady
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4.05 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
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3.51 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1)
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C.M. Stunich (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 7,285 ratings
score: 83,
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Lionboy (Lionboy Trilogy, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
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#Caged (#NorthStar #3)
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4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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All The Things I Never Said
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Jennie Louise (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 83,
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Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
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4.03 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Five Dolls in a House
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4.24 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Blue Ramun, Vol 1
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4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 82,
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Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey into Autism
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3.82 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Tara
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4.38 avg rating — 2,639 ratings
score: 82,
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Double Vision
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3.55 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
score: 82,
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Scented Gardens for the Blind
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3.94 avg rating — 327 ratings
score: 82,
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The Boys Start the War (Boy/Girl Battle, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
score: 82,
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Blood and Snow (Blood and Snow #1)
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RaShelle Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 5,541 ratings
score: 82,
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Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
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3.85 avg rating — 5,499 ratings
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The Whim of the Dragon (The Secret Country, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 718 ratings
score: 82,
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 652,948 ratings
score: 82,
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A Puppy Named Gih
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Golden Fleece
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4.28 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Vinyl Cafe: A Christmas Collection
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4.68 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Avoiding Responsibility (Avoiding, #2)
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K.A. Linde (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 23,758 ratings
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Stray (Touchstone, #1)
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Andrea K. Höst (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
score: 82,
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Nobody Said It Would Be Easy
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3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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On, Off (Carmine Delmonico, #1)
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3.57 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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Joseph W. Taylor: Born To Bird
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Ann Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Oystercatchers
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3.66 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Catch Me Kiss Me
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4.38 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
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4.36 avg rating — 6,861 ratings
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Killing Rocks (The Bloodhound Files, #3)
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D.D. Barant (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
score: 81,
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Four Letters of Love
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Niall Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 5,119 ratings
score: 81,
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Fairy Bad Day
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Amanda Ashby (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
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Ten Plagues
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3.68 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Wistril Compleat
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Frank Tuttle (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Freedom & Necessity
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Steven Brust (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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The Shoes Fit for a King
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)
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Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,040 ratings
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 563,058 ratings
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A Cup of Dust (Pearl Spence, #1)
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Susie Finkbeiner (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,769 ratings
score: 81,
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Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 168,975 ratings
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The Prom Goer's Interstellar Excursion
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3.71 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Let It Go (Red and Lance, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Savour the Moment (Bride Quartet, #3)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 61,238 ratings
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Sleep Writer (Sleep Writer Book 1)
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Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The World Made Straight
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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A Time to Mend
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Angela Elwell Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Dying Bites (The Bloodhound Files, #1)
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D.D. Barant (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6,775 ratings
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The Traveling Vampire Show
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3.82 avg rating — 9,439 ratings
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Before the Midnight Bells (Once Upon A Romance, #1)
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Jessica Woodard (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 661 ratings
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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
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Francesca Lia Block (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 7,365 ratings
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Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
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Grace Draven (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 67,369 ratings
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Beyond the Weir Bridge
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Cranford & Selected Short Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 742 ratings
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A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great Depression (Pearl Spence #2)
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Susie Finkbeiner (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 737 ratings
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Poison's Kiss (Poison's Kiss, #1)
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Breeana Shields (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
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Awake The Series
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Ashleigh Giannoccaro (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Snuggle Bunny
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4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
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4.13 avg rating — 2,920 ratings
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Rise of the Sidekicks
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Charity Tober (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Nightingale's Castle
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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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