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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 One
Part One
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Lanny
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4.05 avg rating — 30,188 ratings
score: 259,
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Once Upon a River
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 99,554 ratings
score: 248,
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Doggerland
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3.70 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
score: 243,
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The Doll Factory
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Elizabeth Macneal (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 26,013 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Lost Children Archive
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3.80 avg rating — 25,300 ratings
score: 192,
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The Carer
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Deborah Moggach (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 6,321 ratings
score: 185,
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2 people voted
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Throw Me to the Wolves
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3.81 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 184,
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Oh When the Saints
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 184,
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Pilgrim Tale
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Tim Murgatroyd (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 178,
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The Offing
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Benjamin Myers (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 23,108 ratings
score: 175,
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Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 16,806 ratings
score: 146,
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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4.01 avg rating — 395,297 ratings
score: 135,
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Frankissstein: A Love Story
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3.53 avg rating — 14,174 ratings
score: 131,
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She Lies in Wait (DCI Jonah Sheens, #1)
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Gytha Lodge (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,378 ratings
score: 100,
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The Disappeared
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Amy Lord (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 370 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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My House Is Falling Down
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Mary Loudon (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 192 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Asylum
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Marcus Low (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 97,
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Mr Todd's Reckoning
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4.07 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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You Die Next (Starke & Bell, #2)
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Stephanie Marland (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 290 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Peat Dead (Inspector Angus Blue Book 1)
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Allan Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 713 ratings
score: 92,
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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
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Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 71,022 ratings
score: 91,
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Machines like Me
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 34,674 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Chain
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3.78 avg rating — 156,178 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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The Scholar (Cormac Reilly, #2)
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Dervla McTiernan (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 29,140 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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The Wave
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Virginia Moffatt (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 273 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Nina X
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Ewan Morrison (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Black Car Burning
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3.60 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Virtuoso
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Yelena Moskovich (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 594 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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As the Women Lay Dreaming
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3.89 avg rating — 334 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Animals Eat Each Other
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Elle Nash (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 2,308 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Chinese Spring
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Christopher New (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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The Heavens
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Sandra Newman (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 5,670 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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An Orchestra of Minorities
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Chigozie Obioma (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 6,266 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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My Coney Island Baby
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Billy O'Callaghan (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
score: 73,
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Shadowplay
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3.86 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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A River in the Trees
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3.69 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The Death of Baseball
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Orlando Ortega-Medina (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 11,990 ratings
score: 69,
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The Redeemed ( The West Country Trilogy, #3)
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Tim Pears (Contributor)
4.26 avg rating — 540 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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Nobody's Wife
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Laura Pearson (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Plastic Emotions
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3.35 avg rating — 119 ratings
score: 66,
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The Farm
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Joanne Ramos (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 40,835 ratings
score: 64,
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From the Wreck
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Jane Rawson (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
score: 63,
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Something Like Breathing
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3.71 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,825,275 ratings
score: 61,
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1 person voted
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Patron Saints of Nothing
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4.21 avg rating — 19,901 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Black Prince
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Anthony Burgess (Adapter)
3.98 avg rating — 121 ratings
score: 59,
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1 person voted
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Homing
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Johanna Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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A Woman Is No Man
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Etaf Rum (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 173,593 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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Mothlight
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3.46 avg rating — 113 ratings
score: 56,
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The Island of Sea Women
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 164,142 ratings
score: 55,
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1 person voted
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Winter Road
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Adrian Selby (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 835 ratings
score: 54,
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1 person voted
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The Old Drift
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Namwali Serpell (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 7,527 ratings
score: 53,
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1 person voted
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 81,757 ratings
score: 51,
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1 person voted
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Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind
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Deirdre Shanahan (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 50,
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1 person voted
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Crocodile
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4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 49,
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Blood & Sugar
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Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 6,922 ratings
score: 48,
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Bitter Leaves
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Tabatha Stirling (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 45,
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Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
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Tasha Suri (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 13,549 ratings
score: 44,
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1 person voted
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Seven Deadly Swords
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 43,
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The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 4,537 ratings
score: 42,
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The Boy in the Photo
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Nicole Trope (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 20,842 ratings
score: 41,
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Muscle
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Alan Trotter (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 40,
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The Weighing of the Heart
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Paul Tudor Owen (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 39,
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The Far Field
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3.87 avg rating — 11,137 ratings
score: 38,
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Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
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Chuck Wendig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 29,863 ratings
score: 36,
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Finer Things
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David Wharton (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 35,
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Paris, 7 A.M.
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Liza Wieland (Goodreads Author)
3.04 avg rating — 618 ratings
score: 34,
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Plume
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3.27 avg rating — 503 ratings
score: 33,
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Natural Complexions
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D. Harlan Wilson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 32,
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The Hiding Game
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Naomi Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 847 ratings
score: 30,
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The Iron Bird
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Robert Woodshaw (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 29,
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Breakfast in Bogota
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Helen Irene Young (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 28,
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