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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #1)
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 55,694 ratings
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Memoir of a Mad Scientist
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
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Ann Weisgarber (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,403 ratings
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Dogside Story
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The Legend of Sun Knight, Vol. 1 (The Legend of Sun Knight - Manhua, #1)
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Evil Thirst (The Last Vampire, #5)
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Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
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Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
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Partners in Crime
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Alisha Rai (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 7,993 ratings
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The Girl Who Lived Twice (Millennium, #6)
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Winter in the Forest (Seasons in the Forest #2)
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Christine Copeland (Goodreads Author)
4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Silence
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Susan Allott (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
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Baby No-Eyes
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3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Creatures of Forever (The Last Vampire, #6)
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3.94 avg rating — 3,217 ratings
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The Claw
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3.19 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Galactic Odyssey
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3.82 avg rating — 174 ratings
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32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
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Eric Ripert (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 7,518 ratings
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Fallen Princeborn: Chosen
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Jean Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Sealwoman's Gift
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4.14 avg rating — 6,949 ratings
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Tu
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3.96 avg rating — 545 ratings
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The Juliet Club
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3.76 avg rating — 4,091 ratings
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Red Dice (The Last Vampire, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
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Checkmate
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3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Great Lakes Triangle
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3.44 avg rating — 39 ratings
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| 1521 |
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The Neighbors
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Hannah Mary McKinnon (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 7,615 ratings
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Always Gray in Winter
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Mark J. Engels (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy, #3)
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4.35 avg rating — 6,780 ratings
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The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia
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3.69 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1
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4.13 avg rating — 7,754 ratings
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Black Blood (The Last Vampire, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 5,277 ratings
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White Hell of Pity
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3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine
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4.23 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus, #2)
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Dusti Bowling (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 8,540 ratings
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| 1529 |
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Immortal North
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Tom Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Birdcage Walk
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3.68 avg rating — 5,769 ratings
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Robin: Lady of Legend
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R.M. ArceJaeger (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,732 ratings
score: 56,
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The Last Vampire (The Last Vampire, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 9,594 ratings
score: 56,
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Rupert Hatton's Tale
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3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Magic String
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
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Joanna Goodman (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 56,480 ratings
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Darke Passion (Darke Paranormal Investigations, #1)
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Rosanna Leo (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 56,
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The Electric Hotel
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Dominic Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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| 1544 |
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Radiance (Riley Bloom, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 16,445 ratings
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Her Own Special Island
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3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Parables of Peanuts
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3.83 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
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Dusti Bowling (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 36,087 ratings
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In Light of Recent Events
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Amy Klinger (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
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3.70 avg rating — 10,395 ratings
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Jackson's Track : Memoir of a Dreamtime Place
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4.11 avg rating — 194 ratings
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A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23
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4.51 avg rating — 15,396 ratings
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Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Escape to Honor (Honour)
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Larry Harris (Illustrator)
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 54,
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Hate to Want You (Forbidden Hearts, #1)
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Alisha Rai (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
score: 54,
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Bounty
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Darryl Greer (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Little Faith
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Nickolas Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 5,538 ratings
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| 1557 |
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The Sunken Road
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3.35 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Strange Case of Finley Jayne (Steampunk Chronicles, #0.5)
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Kady Cross (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 7,852 ratings
score: 53,
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The Day of the Butterfly
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3.65 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Cindy Lou
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
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Nikita Gill (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 8,156 ratings
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I Hate Nate (Vancouver Vice, #6)
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Melanie Ting (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Risen
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Ron Rash (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 4,666 ratings
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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
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3.43 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Strange Places (Finding Tayna, #1)
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Jefferson Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 132 ratings
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A Calf for Venus
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The Great Orm of Loch Ness
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If They Come for Us
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4.23 avg rating — 8,180 ratings
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FULL: Overcoming our Eating Disorders to Fully Live
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The Glass-Blowers
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3.71 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
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The Singing Whakapapa
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3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 1,177,348 ratings
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Winter Harvest
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3.97 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Deals with the Devil
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Loren D. Estleman (Editor/Contributor)
3.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Paper Bag Princess
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Mother of Valor
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Gary Corbin (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The shooting party
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Orchid (Tales of the Black Sabbath, #1)
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Shane K.P. O'Neill (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Wild (Winston Brothers, #4)
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Lori Foster (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
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Destined (Wings, #4)
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Scent of Cloves
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Little Boxes of Bewilderment: Suspense Comedies
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4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
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Soraya Chemaly (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 10,725 ratings
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Blacktelligence Rules
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Andrew Komarnyckyj (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Beneath the Bonfire
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Nickolas Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog
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4.13 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Illusions (Wings, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 33,187 ratings
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The House at Sunset (House, #3)
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Happy Easter
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3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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Julia Serano (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 8,871 ratings
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Camel from Kyzylkum
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Lara Gelya (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The House on the Strand
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De vlotreis
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Yu Yu Hakusho, Vol. 1 (Yu Yu Hakusho, #1)
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Fear No Evil?: Shining God's Light on the Forces of Darkness
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Eleanor the Queen
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The Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum: With Lovable, Furry Old Grover (Pictureback
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First Comes Like (Modern Love, #3)
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Alisha Rai (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 8,845 ratings
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Crossroads: GENMOS: The Genetically Modified Species, Book 2
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Stephen M. Coghlan (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Music & Silence
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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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