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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,787,013 ratings
score: 487,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,621,641 ratings
score: 482,
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 962,272 ratings
score: 386,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,233,199 ratings
score: 385,
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Gone with the Wind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,270,871 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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Never Cry Wolf
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4.21 avg rating — 26,341 ratings
score: 292,
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 762,585 ratings
score: 290,
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Anna Karenina
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4.11 avg rating — 965,943 ratings
score: 282,
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 266,121 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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A Passage To India
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3.68 avg rating — 87,689 ratings
score: 190,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 4,006,237 ratings
score: 190,
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
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4.07 avg rating — 5,461 ratings
score: 100,
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Afternoon of an Autocrat
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4.09 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Jasper Jones
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Craig Silvey (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 44,131 ratings
score: 100,
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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,676,565 ratings
score: 100,
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.88 avg rating — 262,423 ratings
score: 99,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.98 avg rating — 118,721 ratings
score: 99,
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The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 100,073 ratings
score: 98,
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Twilight (Twilight, #1)
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3.68 avg rating — 7,500,913 ratings
score: 96,
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The Fourteenth Goldfish
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Jennifer L. Holm (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 25,015 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Undead and Unwed (Undead, #1)
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MaryJanice Davidson (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 58,232 ratings
score: 95,
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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 565,881 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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I, Claudius: from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
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4.24 avg rating — 75,282 ratings
score: 93,
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