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Magic for Beginners
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3.80 avg rating — 10,163 ratings
score: 269,
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My Summer in St. Ives
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4.46 avg rating — 431 ratings
score: 269,
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The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 18,089 ratings
score: 268,
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Primal Fear (Vail/Stampler, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 9,979 ratings
score: 268,
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| 305 |
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The Everlasting Man
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4.16 avg rating — 10,521 ratings
score: 267,
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| 306 |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,966,072 ratings
score: 266,
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| 307 |
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Six Days of the Condor
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James Grady (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 19,398 ratings
score: 265,
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| 308 |
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The Client
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 460,106 ratings
score: 263,
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| 308 |
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The Westing Game
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3.99 avg rating — 231,896 ratings
score: 263,
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| 310 |
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Nobody's Boy
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4.40 avg rating — 22,820 ratings
score: 261,
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| 310 |
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Still Missing
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Chevy Stevens (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 103,000 ratings
score: 261,
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3 people voted
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| 312 |
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The Husband's Secret
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 717,930 ratings
score: 260,
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| 313 |
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Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
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4.04 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
score: 259,
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| 313 |
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Dragons in the Clouds
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David Blair (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 259,
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| 315 |
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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1 (Chrestomanci, #1-2)
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4.23 avg rating — 15,315 ratings
score: 257,
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| 315 |
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How to Ditch Your Fairy
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3.35 avg rating — 4,423 ratings
score: 257,
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| 317 |
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The Truth About Forever
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 225,942 ratings
score: 256,
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| 318 |
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 228,229 ratings
score: 255,
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| 319 |
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The Silent Wife
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3.29 avg rating — 118,253 ratings
score: 254,
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| 320 |
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The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 147,850 ratings
score: 253,
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| 321 |
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Under the Dome
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 320,031 ratings
score: 252,
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| 322 |
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Freckles (Limberlost, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 12,268 ratings
score: 251,
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| 322 |
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 626,504 ratings
score: 251,
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| 324 |
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My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #1)
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Janette Rallison (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 12,975 ratings
score: 250,
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| 325 |
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Leaving Paradise (Leaving Paradise, #1)
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Simone Elkeles (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 44,081 ratings
score: 248,
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| 325 |
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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
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3.85 avg rating — 8,022 ratings
score: 248,
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| 327 |
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The King's Pleasure
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3.91 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
score: 247,
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| 328 |
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Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 55,889 ratings
score: 246,
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4 people voted
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| 329 |
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The Beacon at Alexandria
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4.28 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
score: 245,
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| 329 |
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Lips of a Mastodon
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Ted Bernal Guevara (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
score: 245,
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| 331 |
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Too Many Curses
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A. Lee Martinez (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
score: 244,
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3 people voted
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| 331 |
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Mystic River
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 162,523 ratings
score: 244,
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| 333 |
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The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 175,971 ratings
score: 242,
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| 334 |
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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4.09 avg rating — 14,000 ratings
score: 241,
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| 335 |
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The Woods
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 109,661 ratings
score: 240,
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3 people voted
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| 336 |
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Promise (Soul Savers, #1)
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Kristie Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 8,447 ratings
score: 237,
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| 336 |
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What I Loved
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4.10 avg rating — 21,985 ratings
score: 237,
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| 336 |
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 585,108 ratings
score: 237,
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| 336 |
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The Lute Player
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3.82 avg rating — 645 ratings
score: 237,
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| 340 |
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Peeled
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3.62 avg rating — 4,775 ratings
score: 236,
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| 341 |
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Tell No One
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 185,666 ratings
score: 235,
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| 342 |
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
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3.92 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
score: 234,
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| 343 |
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 758,862 ratings
score: 233,
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| 343 |
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No Country for Old Men
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4.17 avg rating — 238,138 ratings
score: 233,
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| 345 |
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The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
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Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 174,379 ratings
score: 232,
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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 154,902 ratings
score: 230,
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| 347 |
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Undone (Will Trent, #3)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 81,414 ratings
score: 229,
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| 347 |
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Rock with Me (With Me in Seattle, #4)
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Kristen Proby (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 35,178 ratings
score: 229,
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| 349 |
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Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 67,748 ratings
score: 228,
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The Day of the Jackal
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4.27 avg rating — 143,905 ratings
score: 227,
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| 351 |
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The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)
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Pseudonymous Bosch (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 56,811 ratings
score: 226,
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The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 927,021 ratings
score: 224,
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| 353 |
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D'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants
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4.39 avg rating — 4,658 ratings
score: 223,
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| 354 |
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The Firm
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 636,421 ratings
score: 222,
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| 355 |
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Fortune's Fool (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #3)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 9,489 ratings
score: 220,
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| 356 |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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4.16 avg rating — 217,801 ratings
score: 218,
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| 357 |
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 386,424 ratings
score: 217,
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| 357 |
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All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 75,381 ratings
score: 217,
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| 359 |
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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4.37 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
score: 215,
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| 360 |
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Shelter
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3.91 avg rating — 345 ratings
score: 213,
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Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 112,807 ratings
score: 213,
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| 362 |
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Shatterglass (The Circle Opens, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 23,777 ratings
score: 212,
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| 363 |
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English Passengers
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4.07 avg rating — 7,524 ratings
score: 207,
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| 363 |
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The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 252,363 ratings
score: 207,
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| 365 |
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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4.06 avg rating — 10,171 ratings
score: 206,
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| 366 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 510,434 ratings
score: 201,
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| 367 |
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Knock Three Times!
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3.77 avg rating — 232 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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La setta degli assassini (Le Guerre del Mondo Emerso, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 6,879 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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Rapture (Rapture Trilogy, #1)
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Phillip W. Simpson (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 345 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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The Gatherer (Chronicles of Irindia #1)
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D. John Watson (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales
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Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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The Fig Orchard
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Layla Fiske (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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Something Witchy This Way Comes (Something Witchy, #1)
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Veronica Blade (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 635 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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The Day Immanuel Kant was Late: Philosophical Fables, Pious Tales, and Other Stories
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J. Mulrooney (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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| 367 |
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Equal Parts
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Emma Winters (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
score: 200,
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| 367 |
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Winter Break (Summer Tour Series, #2)
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Diane Matlick (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Ballet Boy
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4.53 avg rating — 73 ratings
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| 367 |
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Exit Unicorns
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Cindy Brandner (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Wingmen
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4.39 avg rating — 371 ratings
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| 367 |
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Final Life (The Final Life, #1)
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Rose Garcia (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 426 ratings
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| 367 |
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Sacrifice (The Evensong Enchantments #1)
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Helyn Dunn (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 61 ratings
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| 382 |
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Idlewild (Idlewild, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,861 ratings
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What Happened to Cass McBride?
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Gail Giles (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,414 ratings
score: 199,
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scorpio rising
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3.65 avg rating — 175 ratings
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| 382 |
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The Emperor's Edge (The Emperor's Edge, #1)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 15,878 ratings
score: 199,
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| 382 |
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A Perfect Husband (Sami Saxton, #1)
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Douglas Wickard (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 240 ratings
score: 199,
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| 382 |
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The Thing With Feathers
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Anne Sweazy-Kulju (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 199,
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| 382 |
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The Fear and the Solace (The Kyrennei, #2)
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Arie Farnam (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Soul and the Seed (The Kyrennei, #1)
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Arie Farnam (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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| 382 |
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Crushed (Rushed, #2)
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Gina Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
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Steve S. Saroff (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The River King
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 11,308 ratings
score: 198,
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When Memory Dies
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4.24 avg rating — 260 ratings
score: 198,
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| 393 |
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Permanent Obscurity: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death
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Richard Pérez (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 167 ratings
score: 198,
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Warrior Girl: A Novel of Joan of Arc
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3.76 avg rating — 220 ratings
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From Man to Man (Wroge Elements, #0.5)
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D.E.M. Emrys (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 198,
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Space Danger! The Deadly Planet of DEATH!
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Doug Strider (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Wormwood
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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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