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Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1)
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 197,
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The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1)
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 193,
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Miael: Family
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Grea Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Graeme Simsion (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 590,459 ratings
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Girl at Dawn: mother, daughter, and an American
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Rhapsody
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Mitchell James Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Invasion of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #2)
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Erika Johansen (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 56,392 ratings
score: 99,
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Girl at Dawn 黎明女: 黎明女
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Into the Unbounded Night
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Mitchell James Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 99,
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The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)
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Erika Johansen (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 98,604 ratings
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By Fire, By Water
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Mitchell James Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
score: 98,
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The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)
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Erika Johansen (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 42,098 ratings
score: 97,
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 551,442 ratings
score: 96,
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 353,494 ratings
score: 95,
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,602,967 ratings
score: 94,
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Vox
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Christina Dalcher (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 90,378 ratings
score: 93,
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Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
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A.J. Pearce (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 56,747 ratings
score: 92,
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,191,940 ratings
score: 91,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,827,884 ratings
score: 90,
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 803,348 ratings
score: 89,
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Landline
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 171,355 ratings
score: 88,
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Attachments
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 208,393 ratings
score: 87,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,354,989 ratings
score: 86,
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,265,977 ratings
score: 85,
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 283,249 ratings
score: 84,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,782,016 ratings
score: 83,
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The Puppet Masters
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3.89 avg rating — 34,000 ratings
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The Door Into Summer
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4.02 avg rating — 28,452 ratings
score: 81,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,406,959 ratings
score: 80,
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,727,871 ratings
score: 79,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,427,003 ratings
score: 78,
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Legacy of the Force: Betrayal (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 8,971 ratings
score: 77,
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The King in the Window
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3.61 avg rating — 947 ratings
score: 76,
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
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John Burrows (Adapter)
4.18 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
score: 75,
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The Game (Mary Russell, #7)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,281 ratings
score: 74,
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Locked Rooms (Mary Russell, #8)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 16,223 ratings
score: 73,
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The God of the Hive (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #10)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 14,398 ratings
score: 72,
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The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette (Young Royals, #6)
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Carolyn Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
score: 71,
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The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
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Trenton Lee Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 173,793 ratings
score: 70,
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Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Peter and the Starcatchers, #2)
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Dave Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 36,415 ratings
score: 69,
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 441,227 ratings
score: 68,
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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 134,546 ratings
score: 67,
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Dormia (Dormia, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Star Wars: Allegiance
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,537 ratings
score: 65,
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,992,130 ratings
score: 64,
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 225,434 ratings
score: 63,
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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4.12 avg rating — 301,264 ratings
score: 62,
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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4.16 avg rating — 218,258 ratings
score: 61,
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Becoming Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette, #1)
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Juliet Grey (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 6,756 ratings
score: 60,
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Threads and Flames
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3.96 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 24,106 ratings
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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 39,560 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 273,036 ratings
score: 56,
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The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
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3.98 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Garment of Shadows (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #12)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 10,449 ratings
score: 54,
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce, #4)
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Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 38,216 ratings
score: 53,
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Seriously... I'm Kidding
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3.67 avg rating — 110,404 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 560,642 ratings
score: 51,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,105,296 ratings
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Star Wars: Death Troopers
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3.72 avg rating — 14,129 ratings
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The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 15,468 ratings
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Mud, Sweat and Tears
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4.16 avg rating — 12,683 ratings
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John Carter: A Princess of Mars
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Roger Langridge (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Cybele's Secret (Wildwood, #2)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 13,462 ratings
score: 45,
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 32,229 ratings
score: 44,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,378,080 ratings
score: 43,
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The Road
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score: 42,
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Mrs Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 350,776 ratings
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The Light of Paris
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Eleanor Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 9,180 ratings
score: 40,
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