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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 — 2,819,949 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,921,611 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,033,904 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,526 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,975,972 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 770,869 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,614,853 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 — 1,846,989 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,586,417 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,250,843 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,009,989 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,098,630 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 824,233 ratings
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Requiem for a Dream
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4.11 avg rating — 63,482 ratings
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The Zombie Room
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3.91 avg rating — 37,909 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 — 614,586 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,948,271 ratings
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 175,754 ratings
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The Elephant Tree
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3.88 avg rating — 37,647 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,429 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 352,180 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,274,973 ratings
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The Wasp Factory
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3.75 avg rating — 105,678 ratings
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,075,307 ratings
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,105 ratings
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The Goldfinch
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3.96 avg rating — 1,018,259 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,716,564 ratings
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Lunar Park
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3.65 avg rating — 30,461 ratings
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Invisible Monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 149,931 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,696,190 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,424,472 ratings
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 17,557 ratings
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,176,718 ratings
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 621,965 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 — 992,647 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 787,281 ratings
score: 877,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,461 ratings
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 596,104 ratings
score: 857,
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Pachinko
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4.34 avg rating — 593,205 ratings
score: 857,
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Factotum
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3.92 avg rating — 74,797 ratings
score: 813,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,746,999 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 — 1,058,808 ratings
score: 776,
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 765,124 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 — 791,505 ratings
score: 741,
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 404,594 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 — 702,912 ratings
score: 676,
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Kafka on the Shore
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4.12 avg rating — 533,774 ratings
score: 668,
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Saga, Volume 1
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4.16 avg rating — 356,182 ratings
score: 660,
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,224,451 ratings
score: 619,
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,202 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 — 167,728 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 — 357,227 ratings
score: 553,
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6 people voted
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 658,833 ratings
score: 543,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,395,548 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 — 1,771,721 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 — 1,825,792 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 — 643,972 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 — 247,393 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 — 283,297 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 — 161,875 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 — 258,428 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 — 323,035 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 — 312,118 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 — 559,490 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 — 38,314 ratings
score: 387,
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 916,387 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 — 329,173 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 — 390,627 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 — 53,933 ratings
score: 372,
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Survivor
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 122,957 ratings
score: 371,
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 967,683 ratings
score: 365,
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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3.95 avg rating — 334,763 ratings
score: 359,
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My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 165,110 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 — 69,909 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 — 636,865 ratings
score: 290,
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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
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3.83 avg rating — 8,019 ratings
score: 285,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,461 ratings
score: 283,
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The Rum Diary
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3.85 avg rating — 65,030 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 — 334,645 ratings
score: 281,
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The Rules of Attraction
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3.72 avg rating — 50,862 ratings
score: 279,
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The Great Alone
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,102,788 ratings
score: 278,
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 285,433 ratings
score: 278,
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Less Than Zero
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3.60 avg rating — 96,015 ratings
score: 278,
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A Scanner Darkly
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4.03 avg rating — 108,724 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 — 427,841 ratings
score: 273,
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Brooklyn
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3.74 avg rating — 153,928 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 — 34,770 ratings
score: 270,
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A Monster Calls
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4.35 avg rating — 285,606 ratings
score: 269,
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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3.86 avg rating — 85,059 ratings
score: 269,
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Delta of Venus
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3.61 avg rating — 24,921 ratings
score: 269,
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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4.04 avg rating — 535,820 ratings
score: 269,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 373,895 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 — 2,486,843 ratings
score: 264,
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You Will Know Me
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Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 44,859 ratings
score: 263,
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Filth
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3.82 avg rating — 31,626 ratings
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 121,931 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 372,736 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 — 41,307 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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