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Timeless Classics for Reading Challengers
What current books do you think will be classics in 50 or 100 or 200 years? Vote on books written since 2000 that our grandchildren or great-great-grandchildren may love to read.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,820,170 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,921,812 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,034,168 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,607 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,976,127 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 770,904 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,615,221 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,847,034 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,586,688 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,251,008 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,010,086 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,098,943 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 824,356 ratings
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Requiem for a Dream
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4.11 avg rating — 63,484 ratings
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The Zombie Room
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3.91 avg rating — 37,963 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.16 avg rating — 614,616 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,948,932 ratings
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 175,759 ratings
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The Elephant Tree
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3.88 avg rating — 37,699 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,472 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 352,220 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,275,063 ratings
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The Wasp Factory
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3.75 avg rating — 105,685 ratings
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,075,391 ratings
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,149 ratings
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The Goldfinch
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3.96 avg rating — 1,018,329 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,716,845 ratings
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Lunar Park
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3.65 avg rating — 30,462 ratings
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Invisible Monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 149,940 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,696,345 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,424,725 ratings
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 17,559 ratings
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,176,852 ratings
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 622,071 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 992,725 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 787,346 ratings
score: 877,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,497 ratings
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 596,183 ratings
score: 857,
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Pachinko
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4.34 avg rating — 593,303 ratings
score: 857,
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Factotum
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3.92 avg rating — 74,800 ratings
score: 813,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,747,348 ratings
score: 791,
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,058,887 ratings
score: 776,
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 765,184 ratings
score: 775,
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8 people voted
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 791,557 ratings
score: 741,
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 404,627 ratings
score: 678,
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 702,970 ratings
score: 676,
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Kafka on the Shore
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4.12 avg rating — 533,827 ratings
score: 668,
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Saga, Volume 1
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4.16 avg rating — 356,209 ratings
score: 660,
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,224,686 ratings
score: 619,
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,218 ratings
score: 574,
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6 people voted
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 167,737 ratings
score: 566,
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6 people voted
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Still Alice
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 357,237 ratings
score: 553,
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6 people voted
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 658,852 ratings
score: 543,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,395,782 ratings
score: 536,
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,771,817 ratings
score: 529,
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6 people voted
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,825,866 ratings
score: 479,
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5 people voted
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 644,052 ratings
score: 477,
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5 people voted
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 247,419 ratings
score: 474,
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5 people voted
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 283,313 ratings
score: 463,
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5 people voted
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 161,882 ratings
score: 458,
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5 people voted
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 258,447 ratings
score: 456,
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5 people voted
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 323,068 ratings
score: 448,
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5 people voted
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 312,135 ratings
score: 444,
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5 people voted
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Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 559,593 ratings
score: 388,
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4 people voted
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Winter's Bone
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3.86 avg rating — 38,316 ratings
score: 387,
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4 people voted
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 916,637 ratings
score: 384,
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4 people voted
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,187 ratings
score: 383,
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4 people voted
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 390,665 ratings
score: 378,
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4 people voted
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Hell's Angels
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3.98 avg rating — 53,936 ratings
score: 372,
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4 people voted
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Survivor
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 122,960 ratings
score: 371,
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4 people voted
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 967,914 ratings
score: 365,
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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3.95 avg rating — 334,788 ratings
score: 359,
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4 people voted
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My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 165,134 ratings
score: 292,
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3 people voted
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Mudbound
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Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 69,912 ratings
score: 290,
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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 637,013 ratings
score: 290,
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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
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3.83 avg rating — 8,023 ratings
score: 285,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,497 ratings
score: 283,
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The Rum Diary
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3.85 avg rating — 65,035 ratings
score: 283,
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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
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Martha Hall Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 334,677 ratings
score: 281,
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The Rules of Attraction
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3.72 avg rating — 50,865 ratings
score: 279,
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The Great Alone
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,103,165 ratings
score: 278,
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 285,488 ratings
score: 278,
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Less Than Zero
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3.60 avg rating — 96,029 ratings
score: 278,
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A Scanner Darkly
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4.03 avg rating — 108,729 ratings
score: 277,
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The Informers
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3.40 avg rating — 19,793 ratings
score: 274,
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Small Great Things
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 427,886 ratings
score: 273,
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Brooklyn
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3.74 avg rating — 153,956 ratings
score: 272,
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Nobody Move
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3.35 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
score: 272,
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The Cement Garden
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 34,771 ratings
score: 270,
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A Monster Calls
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4.35 avg rating — 285,630 ratings
score: 269,
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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3.86 avg rating — 85,063 ratings
score: 269,
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Delta of Venus
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3.61 avg rating — 24,924 ratings
score: 269,
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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4.04 avg rating — 535,890 ratings
score: 269,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 373,953 ratings
score: 267,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,486,973 ratings
score: 264,
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You Will Know Me
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Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 44,860 ratings
score: 263,
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Filth
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3.82 avg rating — 31,627 ratings
score: 258,
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 121,938 ratings
score: 194,
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 372,751 ratings
score: 194,
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NYPD Red: A maniac killer targets Hollywood’s biggest stars
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 41,309 ratings
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Mar 17, 2018 07:37AM
The Time Traveler's Wife is twice on the list :-)
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Agnieszka wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife is twice on the list :-)"Fixed
The Harry Potter Boxed set was removed because it does not meet the criteria. Several of the books were published before 2000.
Quite a few of these books were written well *before* 2000!
The Brothers Karamazov was written more than 100 years before 2000!
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