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Not the Booker 2019 Longlist - Part One
All nominated books from The Guardian's "Not the Booker" prize 2019. Note, this list will initially be split in two due to the 100 book limit.
Part Two
The Longlist on The Guardian
Part Two
The Longlist on The Guardian
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Flames
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4.05 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
score: 295,
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The Woman at Number 19
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J.A. Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 3,010 ratings
score: 291,
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Big Sky (Jackson Brodie, #5)
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3.92 avg rating — 35,099 ratings
score: 194,
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Night Boat to Tangier
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3.62 avg rating — 21,373 ratings
score: 185,
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Lost Property
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3.27 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 184,
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 337,026 ratings
score: 181,
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
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Sara Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 18,703 ratings
score: 164,
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Your Fault
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4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 162,
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Boy Swallows Universe
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4.34 avg rating — 95,482 ratings
score: 158,
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A Thousand Ships
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Natalie Haynes (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 86,792 ratings
score: 129,
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Leonard and Hungry Paul
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Ronan Hession (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 16,693 ratings
score: 128,
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Memories of the Future
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3.69 avg rating — 3,589 ratings
score: 121,
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The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
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Daniel James (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 312 ratings
score: 117,
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Things in Jars
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Jess Kidd (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 24,974 ratings
score: 110,
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Silence Is My Mother Tongue
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3.80 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
score: 100,
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The Dollmaker
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3.37 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
score: 99,
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A Perfect Explanation
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Eleanor Anstruther (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 620 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Glass House
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Bead Collector: A novel
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3.33 avg rating — 134 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 296,269 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Whisper Network
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Chandler Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 81,388 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Body Lies
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 4,171 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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You Will Be Safe Here
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Damian Barr (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Remembered
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Yvonne Battle-Felton (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 927 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Call Me Star Girl
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Louise Beech (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 680 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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November Road
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Lou Berney (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 13,861 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Diary of a Somebody
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3.82 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Sissy
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3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Skin
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Liam Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Lonely Hearts Crime Club
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Tanya Bullock (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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The Closer I Get
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Paul Burston (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 662 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Cygnet
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Season Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 521 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Don't Think a Single Thought
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3.53 avg rating — 205 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Attend
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3.76 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Little
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4.02 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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Queenie
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Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 155,321 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Good Samaritans (Detective Sergeant Pace, #1)
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Will Carver (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,964 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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This Stolen Life
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4.28 avg rating — 135 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The Night Tiger
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Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 65,741 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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The Ice House (The Honours #2)
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Tim Clare (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 162 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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What She Saw
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Wendy Clarke (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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The Flower Girls
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Alice Clark-Platts (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 5,468 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Middle England
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 15,601 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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The Binding
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Bridget Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 85,956 ratings
score: 65,
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Dignity
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4.20 avg rating — 251 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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Utopia
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 61,
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Begotten Not Made
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Conal Creedon (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Humans, Being
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Gareth Davies (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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Last Ones Left Alive
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3.52 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
score: 57,
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Fire Girl, Forest Boy
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3.91 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 56,
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1 person voted
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Red Snow (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #2)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,321 ratings
score: 55,
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Puffin Boy
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 54,
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Rosie and Ruby
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Patricia Dixon (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
score: 53,
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Slack-Tide
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3.36 avg rating — 273 ratings
score: 52,
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the everrumble
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4.42 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 51,
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Juliet the Maniac
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Juliet Escoria (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
score: 50,
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Girl, Woman, Other
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4.26 avg rating — 258,883 ratings
score: 49,
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An Honest Man
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Ben Fergusson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
score: 48,
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Little Boy
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3.65 avg rating — 509 ratings
score: 47,
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Night for Day
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3.27 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 46,
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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
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4.15 avg rating — 20,298 ratings
score: 45,
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The Hunting Party
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 346,272 ratings
score: 44,
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Stubborn Archivist
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3.69 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
score: 43,
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The Other Half of Augusta Hope
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Joanna Glen (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 14,844 ratings
score: 42,
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Little Darlings
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Melanie Golding (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 15,637 ratings
score: 41,
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J SS Bach
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Martin Goodman (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 40,
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When All Is Said
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Anne Griffin (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 44,486 ratings
score: 39,
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The Porpoise
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3.36 avg rating — 6,151 ratings
score: 38,
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Late in the Day
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3.39 avg rating — 7,817 ratings
score: 37,
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The Parisian
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Isabella Hammad (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 5,736 ratings
score: 36,
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Water Shall Refuse Them
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3.44 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
score: 35,
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Haverscroft
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S.A. Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 302 ratings
score: 34,
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Time's Tide
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Adrian Harvey (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 33,
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Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again.
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Karen Havelin (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 764 ratings
score: 32,
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Snegurochka
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4.13 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 30,
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Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
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4.32 avg rating — 22,266 ratings
score: 29,
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The Lingering
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S.J.I. Holliday (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
score: 27,
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Bindlestiff
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3.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Stoker's Wilde (1)
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Steven Hopstaken (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 454 ratings
score: 25,
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Europe at Dawn (The Fractured Europe Sequence #4)
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4.08 avg rating — 618 ratings
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The Unmaking of Ellie Rook
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Sandra Ireland (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 281 ratings
score: 22,
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 30,412 ratings
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The Snakes
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3.26 avg rating — 5,368 ratings
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The Wild Wind
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3.82 avg rating — 83 ratings
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We Are Made of Earth
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Panos Karnezis (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Disturbance
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3.86 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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Zed
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3.11 avg rating — 983 ratings
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For the Good Times
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3.99 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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The Study Circle
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4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Ottoman Secret
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3.82 avg rating — 1,855 ratings
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Unsheltered
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Barbara Kingsolver (Author, Narrator)
3.67 avg rating — 78,179 ratings
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What Lies Buried
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Margaret Kirk (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson
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Helen Kitson (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Sleepwalker (Aidan Waits Thriller, #3)
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Joseph Knox (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
score: 7,
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Fallible Justice (Wilde Investigations, #1)
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Laura Laakso (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Red Gene
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Barbara Lamplugh (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Wall
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3.58 avg rating — 19,562 ratings
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Victory
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3.70 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Atlas of Reds and Blues
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Devi S. Laskar (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
score: 2,
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
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Andrea Lawlor (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 14,926 ratings
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