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The Squire's Tale (The Squire's Tales, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 9,623 ratings
score: 33,
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Redeeming Love
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 363,735 ratings
score: 33,
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Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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4.23 avg rating — 788 ratings
score: 33,
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Misfit in Love
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S.K. Ali (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
score: 33,
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The Mind Spins
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Geza Tatrallyay (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 33,
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The Rain Before it Falls
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 7,462 ratings
score: 33,
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De wereld een dansfeest
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3.54 avg rating — 177 ratings
score: 32,
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Wings (Wings, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 83,107 ratings
score: 32,
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Anne Boleyn
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3.96 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
score: 32,
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One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
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Miranda Paul (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 2,051 ratings
score: 32,
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Saints and Misfits
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S.K. Ali (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 8,333 ratings
score: 32,
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Combustible Punch
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Paul Michael Peters (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 32,
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The Rotters' Club
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 15,577 ratings
score: 32,
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Deirdre en de zonen van Usnach
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3.80 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 31,
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Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 3,141 ratings
score: 31,
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Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake, #3)
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Kerrelyn Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14,039 ratings
score: 31,
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 11,400 ratings
score: 31,
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A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)
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3.85 avg rating — 51,071 ratings
score: 31,
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The Serpent (Spirits of the Norse, #1)
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Kate Robbins (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 31,
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The Closed Circle
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 6,881 ratings
score: 31,
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Camera Obscura
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Hildebrand (Pseudonym)
3.19 avg rating — 885 ratings
score: 30,
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Gallows Hill
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3.75 avg rating — 3,295 ratings
score: 30,
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The Suffolk Trilogy: Knight's Acre / The Homecoming / The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #1-3)
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4.39 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 30,
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Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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4.17 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
score: 30,
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Claiming the Duchess (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #0.5)
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Sherry Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
score: 30,
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| 1722 |
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Long-Lost Love (Calderone Family Romance #4)
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Victoria Grant (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 30,
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Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 9,055 ratings
score: 30,
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Stranger with My Face
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3.90 avg rating — 10,134 ratings
score: 29,
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The House at Old Vine (House, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 961 ratings
score: 29,
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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
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3.82 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 29,
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
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Ann Braden (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 15,913 ratings
score: 29,
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Designing Love (Calderone Family Romance #3)
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Victoria Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 29,
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Small World (The Campus Trilogy, #2)
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3.88 avg rating — 6,359 ratings
score: 29,
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The Sacrifice
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3.71 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 28,
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Liszt's Kiss
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Susanne Dunlap (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 367 ratings
score: 28,
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The Concubine
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3.97 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
score: 28,
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The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge
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4.57 avg rating — 756 ratings
score: 28,
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Beneath a Marble Sky
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John Shors (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 15,334 ratings
score: 28,
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The Fourth Circle of Hell
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Gary Rappard (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 28,
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Nice Work (The Campus Trilogy, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 5,948 ratings
score: 28,
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A Worn Path
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3.68 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
score: 27,
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De doem van de maïs
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3.99 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
score: 27,
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Tilly's Rescue
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 27,
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Trick Play (Fake Boyfriend, #2)
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Eden Finley (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 19,096 ratings
score: 27,
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Write to Love (Calderone Family Romance #2)
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Victoria Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 27,
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The British Museum Is Falling Down
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3.64 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
score: 27,
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
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3.40 avg rating — 708 ratings
score: 26,
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De jongste pop: Verhalen van Puerto Rico
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4.01 avg rating — 570 ratings
score: 26,
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Honey Paw and Lightfoot
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3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 26,
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Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
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Christina Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 51,027 ratings
score: 26,
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Stranded in Love (Calderone Family Romance #1)
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Victoria Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 26,
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Author, Author
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3.65 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
score: 26,
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The Story of an Hour
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4.06 avg rating — 26,275 ratings
score: 25,
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Kleuren van verschrikking
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3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 25,
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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
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4.08 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Twentieth Wife (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #1)
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Indu Sundaresan (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 16,674 ratings
score: 25,
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A Better Part of Valor (Valorie Dawes Thrillers Book 3)
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Gary Corbin (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 25,
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Out of the Shelter
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3.78 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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4.37 avg rating — 50,699 ratings
score: 24,
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The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America
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3.96 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Complete Wreck
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 16,642 ratings
score: 24,
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A Better Part of Valor
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Gary Corbin (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 24,
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The Colour
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3.86 avg rating — 6,471 ratings
score: 24,
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The Poverty of Communism
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Nicholas Eberstadt (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 23,
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The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 18,273 ratings
score: 23,
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Dragonfly in Amber
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 380,771 ratings
score: 23,
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Yara and the Yellow-Headed Parrots (Yara's Rainforest, #3)
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Yossi Lapid (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 23,
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The Road Home
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3.88 avg rating — 10,516 ratings
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Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
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3.72 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 22,
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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4.48 avg rating — 22,858 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,286 ratings
score: 22,
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No Cure for Love
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Victoria Grant (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 22,
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Lily
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3.81 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
score: 22,
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Push
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Sapphire (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 58,517 ratings
score: 21,
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The Real Drug Abusers
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Fred Leavitt (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 21,
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Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 47,147 ratings
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Strangled by Simile (Chalkboard Outlines, #3)
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4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Trespass
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3.58 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
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DEAD[ish] (DEAD[ish] #1)
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Naomi Kramer (Goodreads Author)
3.01 avg rating — 4,084 ratings
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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4.13 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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The Christmas Murder Game
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3.36 avg rating — 26,252 ratings
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Pumpkins
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Kevin Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Sacred Country
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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May Bird Among the Stars (May Bird, #2)
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Jodi Lynn Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
score: 19,
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The Boy & The Bindi
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Vivek Shraya (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 727 ratings
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| 1785 |
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You Say Goodbye
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Keith Steinbaum (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 87 ratings
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| 1785 |
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Evangelista's Fan & Other Stories
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3.70 avg rating — 154 ratings
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| 1789 |
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May Bird, Warrior Princess (May Bird, #3)
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Jodi Lynn Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
score: 18,
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| 1789 |
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Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
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4.15 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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Mackenzi Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 144,750 ratings
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| 1789 |
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Landscape of a Marriage
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Gail Ward Olmsted (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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| 1789 |
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Annie Dunne (Dunne Family #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
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May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird, #1)
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Jodi Lynn Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 7,984 ratings
score: 17,
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The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
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4.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife
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Karma Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 24,003 ratings
score: 17,
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A Reluctant Attraction (Handymen, #3)
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Rosanna Leo (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 17,
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The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
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3.98 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
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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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