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Saving Face and Other Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Just Breathe Anthology
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Michelle Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 72,
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Magic: Science of the Future
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Casting Lacey
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Elle Spencer (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 3,933 ratings
score: 72,
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LARPers (Milligan Creek Book 7)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Wake
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3.86 avg rating — 5,560 ratings
score: 72,
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| 1407 |
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City of Ruin (Legends of the Red Sun, #2)
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Mark Charan Newton (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 589 ratings
score: 71,
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The Sandcastle
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3.83 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
score: 71,
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Drifters Volume 1
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3.78 avg rating — 597 ratings
score: 71,
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Her Daughter's Dream (Marta's Legacy, #2)
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 23,065 ratings
score: 71,
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Wolfskin (Saga of the Light Isles, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 7,419 ratings
score: 71,
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Hauntings: Is There Anybody There?
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3.68 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 71,
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Mercy (Mercy, #1)
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Lucian Bane (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,232 ratings
score: 71,
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The Secret Life of It Girls
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Dakota Lane (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 71,
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Dangerous Minds (Knight and Moon, Bk 2)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 18,093 ratings
score: 71,
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Storm on the Sun
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 71,
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
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Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 58,343 ratings
score: 71,
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LARPers (Milligan Creek #7)
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Kevin Miller (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 71,
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Burning Bright
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 3,493 ratings
score: 71,
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Rule Britannia
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3.59 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
score: 70,
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Lights Out Volume 1
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Myung-Jin Lee (Illustrator)
3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 70,
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Slated (Slated, #1)
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Teri Terry (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 33,040 ratings
score: 70,
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The Town House (House, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 1,519 ratings
score: 70,
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Masters at Arms & Nobody's Angel (Rescue Me Saga, #0.5-1)
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Kallypso Masters (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
score: 70,
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The Day of St. Anthony's Fire
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4.21 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 70,
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| 1420 |
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Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)
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Tasha Suri (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,294 ratings
score: 70,
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| 1420 |
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The Girl of Magic and Dreams
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Charity Tober (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 70,
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The Hearts of Men
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Nickolas Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,626 ratings
score: 70,
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| 1429 |
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Coo-ee; Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies
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Harriet Anne Patchett-Martin (editor)
2.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 69,
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A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 105,632 ratings
score: 69,
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Here Was a Man
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3.52 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 69,
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
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3.75 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
score: 69,
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Wrong to Need You (Forbidden Hearts, #2)
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Alisha Rai (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 3,918 ratings
score: 69,
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Love Always Disappoints - Sometimes: A Destiny Disrupted
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 69,
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House of Glass
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3.81 avg rating — 1,586 ratings
score: 69,
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One Night Out Stealing
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3.56 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 68,
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| 1436 |
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Almost Perfect (Carolina Trilogy, #1)
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Patricia Rice (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 598 ratings
score: 68,
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The Chronicles of Burntown (#1)
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Peter von Harten (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 68,
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Emma Hamilton
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3.68 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 68,
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Earth 2788: The Earth Girl Short Stories
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 68,
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Frog, the Horse That Knew No Master
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4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings
score: 68,
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Just for Show
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Jae (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 4,957 ratings
score: 68,
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The Eve's End
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Stephanie M. Matthews (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 68,
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Eve Green
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3.70 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
score: 68,
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| 1445 |
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Once Were Warriors
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3.99 avg rating — 3,784 ratings
score: 67,
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| 1445 |
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Watch Over Me (Mercenary/Goddard Project, #9; Goddard Project, #4)
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Lucy Monroe (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 504 ratings
score: 67,
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Leota's Garden
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 24,867 ratings
score: 67,
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Afternoon of an Autocrat
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4.08 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 67,
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Earth and Fire (Earth Girl #0.5)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 67,
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When We Collide
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A.L. Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 9,055 ratings
score: 67,
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Golden Sovereign
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3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 67,
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Close Up (Burning Cove #4)
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Amanda Quick (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
score: 67,
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Two Girls And An Oven: How twelve weeks of cookies saved my life
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Deanna Martinez-Bey (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 67,
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A Little in Love
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4.09 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
score: 67,
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| 1455 |
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (Once were warriors trilogy, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 486 ratings
score: 66,
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L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
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Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 805 ratings
score: 66,
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The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3)
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4.23 avg rating — 256 ratings
score: 66,
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Scavenger Alliance
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 230 ratings
score: 66,
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The street sparrows
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4.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 66,
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The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
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S.A. Chakraborty (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 71,841 ratings
score: 66,
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Darke Music (Darke Paranormal Investigations #2)
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Rosanna Leo (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 66,
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The Silver Dark Sea
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4.19 avg rating — 998 ratings
score: 66,
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| 1463 |
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Jake's Long Shadow
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3.90 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Floating Island (The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 2,215 ratings
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Cell
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 234,841 ratings
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Hester Roon
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4.18 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Perilous (Hive Mind #0.5)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 240 ratings
score: 65,
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Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers
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Alfred Hitchcock (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 65,
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Wrapped Up in You
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Talia Hibbert (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 7,210 ratings
score: 65,
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I Meant to Tell You
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Fran Hawthorne (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Corrag
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4.31 avg rating — 8,037 ratings
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| 1472 |
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Hero (Woodcutter Sisters, #2; Books of Arilland, #2)
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Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 4,404 ratings
score: 64,
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Her Mother's Hope (Marta's Legacy, #1)
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 34,220 ratings
score: 64,
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I Met a Gypsy
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3.76 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 64,
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Reaper (End Game, #1)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 64,
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The Man Who Could Call Down Owls
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3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 64,
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The Pleasures of the Damned
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4.35 avg rating — 6,889 ratings
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Dio in the Dark
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Rizwan Asad (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 64,
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| 1472 |
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This Dark Road to Mercy
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Wiley Cash (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 9,645 ratings
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| 1480 |
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Mutuwhenua
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3.93 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 63,
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Five, Tome 1
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Shiori Furukawa (artist)
3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
score: 63,
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| 1480 |
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Blue Dahlia (In the Garden, #1)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 75,641 ratings
score: 63,
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Charlotte
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3.97 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Defender (Hive Mind #2)
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Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 523 ratings
score: 63,
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The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
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Isaac Asimov (Editor)
3.72 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 63,
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Tell it Slant
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4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Immortal North Two
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Tom Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Above the Waterfall
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 6,339 ratings
score: 63,
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| 1489 |
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Potiki
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3.88 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
score: 62,
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| 1489 |
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Witch Hunter, Volume 1 (Witch Hunter #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 431 ratings
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| 1489 |
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The Awkward Love Song of Abigail Archer
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Monica Sanz (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 84 ratings
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| 1489 |
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Esther
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3.99 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain
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4.05 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Archive of the Forgotten (Hell's Library #2)
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A.J. Hackwith (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 7,552 ratings
score: 62,
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| 1489 |
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Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
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William M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 62,
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| 1489 |
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The Promise
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Ann Weisgarber (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 6,674 ratings
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| 1497 |
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Cousins
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4.21 avg rating — 821 ratings
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![恋だの愛だの 1 [Koi Dano Ai Dano 1]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1363661954i/14740600._SY75_.jpg)
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恋だの愛だの 1 [Koi Dano Ai Dano 1]
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4.17 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Phantom (The Last Vampire, #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 3,777 ratings
score: 61,
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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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