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The Blue Castle
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To Catch a Pirate
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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The Seer and the Sword
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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
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Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
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Book of a Thousand Days
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
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The Storyteller's Daughter
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Airborn (Matt Cruse, #1)
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Kenneth Oppel (Goodreads Author)
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Song of the Sparrow
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Lisa Ann Sandell (Goodreads Author)
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The Hollow Kingdom (The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, #1)
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Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)
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Keturah and Lord Death
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Homeless Bird
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A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
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Tom's Midnight Garden
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Witch Child (Witch Child, #1)
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,516 ratings
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Journey to the River Sea
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The Awakening: Fate in Motion
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Suzanne Boisvert (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Pirates!
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 16,892 ratings
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Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
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Paul Cude (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 40,340 ratings
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Take My Heart
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J.J. Sorel (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Ophelia
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3.71 avg rating — 12,204 ratings
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A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
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Laura Whitcomb (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 20,336 ratings
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The Mountain's Morning Song
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William Graney (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Scars and Voices: And Other Stories
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4.60 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Cleopatra's Daughter
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 30,641 ratings
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Mistress Suffragette
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Diana Forbes (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 4,571 ratings
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Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1)
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Sherwood Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 8,595 ratings
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The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 23,826 ratings
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Bentwhistle The Dragon in A Chilling Revelation (Book 2)
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Paul Cude (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Green Rider (Green Rider, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 40,436 ratings
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A Little Princess
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4.23 avg rating — 321,859 ratings
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 74,285 ratings
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 422,439 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes (DCYE, #1)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 609 ratings
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May Day (American Sulla, #1)
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Thom Stark (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Arrangement in Black and White
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Fred Misurella (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 610 ratings
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The Great Good Thing (The Sylvie Cycle, #1)
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Alaska and Back: with Dave and Dorothy
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Circle of Five (Pha Yul, #1)
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Jan Raymond (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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4.03 avg rating — 127,929 ratings
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 36,697 ratings
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The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 42,865 ratings
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Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon
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3.74 avg rating — 13,580 ratings
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The Silver Kiss
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3.71 avg rating — 18,757 ratings
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Unscrupulous (The Manhattanites, #1)
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Avery Aster (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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Villette
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3.78 avg rating — 79,198 ratings
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The Scopas Factor
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Vincent Panettiere (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 543 ratings
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A Drowned Maiden's Hair
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3.98 avg rating — 4,750 ratings
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Hawksong (The Kiesha'ra, #1)
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 23,019 ratings
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Love, Lex (The Undergrad Years, #1)
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Avery Aster (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Evoke
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4.43 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Savage Surrogate (Washington McBride, #3)
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 940,734 ratings
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The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
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Hattie Big Sky (Hattie Series)
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Kirby Larson (Goodreads Author)
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Yours Truly, Taddy (The Undergrad Years, #2; Invitation to Eden, #1)
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Avery Aster (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 847 ratings
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A Trip to the Stars
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A Girl of the Limberlost
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Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, #1)
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The Call to Serve (The Serve, #1)
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Cece Whittaker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Princess Gives It Away
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Dab10 (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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The Princess and the Hound (The Hound Saga #1)
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 999,652 ratings
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,796 ratings
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Plague of Angels (The Descended, #1)
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John Patrick Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
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The Mark of Cain (The Cain Chronicles #1)
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A.D. Seeley (Goodreads Author)
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City of Masks (Stravaganza, #1)
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Kerri's War (The King Trilogy, #3)
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Stephen Douglass (Goodreads Author)
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Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
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The Bridge To Caracas (The King Trilogy, #1)
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Stephen Douglass (Goodreads Author)
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Hood (King Raven, #1)
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Deadly Secrets (The Greek Isles Series, #2)
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Angel Sefer (Goodreads Author)
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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The Bone People
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The Raging Quiet
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Indiscretion
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An Earthly Knight
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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Wild Magic (Immortals, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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Wood, Talc and Mr. J
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Chris Rose (Goodreads Author)
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The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1)
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Girl, 15, Charming but Insane (Jess Jordan, #1)
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Little, Big
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin #12)
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Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
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The Little White Horse
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The Observations
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Miki Falls, Volume 1: Spring
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Cut to the Quick (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #1)
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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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