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The best novels I had the pleasure of discovering in 2008.
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,601,725 ratings
score: 297,
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,477,171 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,766 ratings
score: 200,
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The Garden of Last Days
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3.52 avg rating — 5,253 ratings
score: 198,
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The Abstinence Teacher
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3.26 avg rating — 17,593 ratings
score: 197,
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 455,372 ratings
score: 190,
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 378,600 ratings
score: 188,
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Hey Nostradamus!
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Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 19,380 ratings
score: 100,
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The Anubis Gates
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3.90 avg rating — 17,552 ratings
score: 100,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,305,153 ratings
score: 99,
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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4.14 avg rating — 309,716 ratings
score: 98,
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 32,035 ratings
score: 98,
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Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 32,365 ratings
score: 97,
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 589,510 ratings
score: 97,
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The House of Sleep
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
score: 96,
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Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
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4.37 avg rating — 26,934 ratings
score: 96,
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Company of Liars
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,464 ratings
score: 95,
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,204 ratings
score: 92,
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Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 33,226 ratings
score: 91,
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19 books ·
6 voters ·
list created December 17th, 2008
by Aaron (Typographical Era) (votes) .
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