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The Blue Helmet
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3.38 avg rating — 302 ratings
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I Woke Up in Love This Morning
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Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 79,
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Death Blows (The Bloodhound Files, #2)
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D.D. Barant (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
score: 79,
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Waking the Moon
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3.82 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
score: 79,
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Lord Nelson Tavern
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3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 79,
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Gang King 1
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 79,
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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 118,941 ratings
score: 79,
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Fallen Angel (Only in Tokyo Mystery, #2)
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Jonelle Patrick (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 79,
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All the Paths of Shadow (Paths of Shadow, #1)
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Frank Tuttle (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
score: 79,
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King's Shield (Inda, #3)
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Sherwood Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,475 ratings
score: 79,
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The Daylight Gate
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3.41 avg rating — 6,730 ratings
score: 79,
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Walk into My Parlour
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 79,
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Earth Girl (Earth Girl, #1)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
score: 79,
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HIS Desire (HIS, #1)
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Sheila Kell (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,820 ratings
score: 79,
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Pirate Curse (The Wave Walkers, #1)
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Kai Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,348 ratings
score: 79,
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The Mincing Mockingbird: Guide to Troubled Birds
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4.24 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
score: 79,
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Patient Heal Thyself
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3.89 avg rating — 274 ratings
score: 79,
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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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4.41 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
score: 79,
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Miranda Nights
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Gail Ward Olmsted (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 79,
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The Silence in the Garden
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3.68 avg rating — 420 ratings
score: 79,
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We All Fall Down
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3.80 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
score: 78,
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
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Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Thief's Gamble (The Tales of Einarinn, #1)
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Juliet E. McKenna (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Book of Ti'ana (Myst, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 4,054 ratings
score: 78,
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Settlers of the Marsh
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3.47 avg rating — 352 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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A Novel Idea
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Aimee Friedman (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Nightshade (Only In Tokyo Mystery #1)
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Jonelle Patrick (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Master of Crows (Master of Crows, #1)
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Grace Draven (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 20,652 ratings
score: 78,
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The Mermaid's Child
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
2.95 avg rating — 865 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Requiem for Idols
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3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Mack (The King, #4)
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Mimi Jean Pamfiloff (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Playing Patience (Blow Hole Boys, #1)
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Tabatha Vargo (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 10,644 ratings
score: 78,
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Smudge's Mark
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Claudia Osmond (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 78,
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The Shadow of Oz
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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 78,
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Seal Morning
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3.90 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 78,
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
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3.93 avg rating — 2,533 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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LOVE The Beat Goes On
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Lynda Filler (Goodreads Author)
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score: 78,
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Into the Savage Country
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Shannon Burke (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 543 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Under the Poppy (Under the Poppy, #1)
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Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 580 ratings
score: 77,
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So Yesterday
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 11,385 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Leaves of Fortune
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Linda Barlow (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 116 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Judith
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3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Fist of the Blue Sky, Vol. 1 (Fist of the Blue Sky #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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An Echo in the Darkness (Mark of the Lion, #2)
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 62,247 ratings
score: 77,
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The Written (Emaneska, #1)
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Ben Galley (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
score: 77,
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Domestic Life in England
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Someone to Kiss My Scars
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Brooke Skipstone (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 77,
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Amazing ghosts & other mysteries
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 77,
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Fish Have No Feet
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3.90 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
score: 77,
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Arctic Inferno
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Geza Tatrallyay (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 77,
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Love and Summer
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3.59 avg rating — 4,410 ratings
score: 77,
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The Last Man Alive
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4.05 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories
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Susan Davis (editor)
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Heaven in Your Hand
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4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Shadowcry (Wintercraft, #1)
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Jenna Burtenshaw (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Rise in Pride Roz: The R.I.P. Series Book 3
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Kris Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos
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2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Harvesting the Heart
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 60,249 ratings
score: 76,
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Bay of Blood
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A.M. Potter (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 76,
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A Place Called Winter
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4.12 avg rating — 10,527 ratings
score: 76,
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Can't Get There from Here
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Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 3,120 ratings
score: 75,
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Thinner Than Thou
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3.19 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 75,
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The Passage
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Five Star Stories, Vol. 1
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3.95 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 75,
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Out of This Nettle
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3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Rage in Pain Roz, The R.I.P. Series Book 2
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Kris Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 75,
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Atlantis Rising
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3.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Sword in the Stars (Once & Future, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 2,927 ratings
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The Adamson Family
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Lee Allen Howard (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 75,
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Les Marches de l'Amérique
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Lance Weller (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 75,
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The Whirlpool
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Brian Quirt (Adapted by)
3.52 avg rating — 370 ratings
score: 74,
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Empress (Godspeaker Trilogy #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 6,246 ratings
score: 74,
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A Fringe of Leaves
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3.66 avg rating — 924 ratings
score: 74,
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Zig*Zag, Volume 1
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3.56 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 74,
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The Chronicles Of Burntown (#2)
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Peter von Harten (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 74,
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The Brittle Glass
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3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Rest in Peace Roz, Book 1 in The R.I.P. Series
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Kris Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 74,
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In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents
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4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Hurts to Love You (Forbidden Hearts, #3)
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Alisha Rai (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 3,135 ratings
score: 74,
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GENMOS: Conclusions
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Stephen M. Coghlan (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 74,
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One Foot in Eden
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
score: 74,
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Burning Up
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3.57 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
score: 73,
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| 1383 |
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Personal Demons (Megan Chase, #1)
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Stacia Kane (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
score: 73,
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Requiem for a Nun
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3.55 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
score: 73,
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Beach Stars - tome 4 (4)
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4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Kilt by Love
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Jennifer Conner (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 73,
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Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 16,234 ratings
score: 73,
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Hereditary (Beatrice Harrow, #1)
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Jane Washington (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,992 ratings
score: 73,
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The Hunger
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 157 ratings
score: 73,
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Astrology the Space Age Science
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3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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She of the Mountains
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Vivek Shraya (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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Full Circle: The Love of a Lifetime (Complete series)
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Buffy Eau Claire (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Last Ballad
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Wiley Cash (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 8,338 ratings
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The Ransom of Mercy Carter
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3.83 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
score: 72,
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Unholy Magic (Downside Ghosts, #2)
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Stacia Kane (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 10,509 ratings
score: 72,
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Capricornia
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3.75 avg rating — 671 ratings
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アイリス・ゼロ 1 [Iris Zero 1]
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4.01 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Captive
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Lisa Kumar (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Seer of Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #5)
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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.
Anyone can add books to this list.
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