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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,265,221 ratings
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 470,414 ratings
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The Polymorph
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4.28 avg rating — 15,083 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,201,885 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 233,665 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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3.85 avg rating — 857,147 ratings
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The Folded Sky (White Space, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 882 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 590,322 ratings
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Exordia
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3.71 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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The Deep Sky
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3.69 avg rating — 12,250 ratings
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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 36,288 ratings
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Shroud
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4.19 avg rating — 8,813 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 268,175 ratings
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Ghost Station
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3.56 avg rating — 11,807 ratings
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Some Desperate Glory
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4.05 avg rating — 19,274 ratings
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Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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The Scourge Between Stars
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3.56 avg rating — 5,331 ratings
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A Little Life
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4.28 avg rating — 931,922 ratings
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Translation State
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4.05 avg rating — 17,072 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 367,049 ratings
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These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,313 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,599,428 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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4.07 avg rating — 202,692 ratings
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War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5)
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4.13 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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4.25 avg rating — 51,970 ratings
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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
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4.29 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
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The Line of Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 31,916 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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4.06 avg rating — 445,800 ratings
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Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 33,793 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,039,428 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 183,943 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,044 ratings
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The Stardust Grail
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3.65 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 8,475 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 175,236 ratings
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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3.70 avg rating — 249,858 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,452,350 ratings
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Service Model
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4.03 avg rating — 19,378 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 213,037 ratings
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Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 82,401 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 99,937 ratings
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Normal People
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3.81 avg rating — 1,873,801 ratings
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Gone Girl
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4.15 avg rating — 3,453,835 ratings
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Tenth of December
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3.98 avg rating — 82,144 ratings
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Atonement
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3.95 avg rating — 564,182 ratings
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 384,032 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 856,287 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 230,968 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 301,894 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,582 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 287,834 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,611 ratings
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A Death in the Family (My Struggle 1)
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4.10 avg rating — 50,080 ratings
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Fingersmith
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4.02 avg rating — 118,846 ratings
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The Argonauts
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4.02 avg rating — 56,479 ratings
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 23,125 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,482 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 53,916 ratings
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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3.94 avg rating — 156,499 ratings
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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4.25 avg rating — 125,791 ratings
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Coraline
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4.13 avg rating — 783,662 ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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4.46 avg rating — 21,998 ratings
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Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 160,400 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,568 ratings
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The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 112,636 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
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3.98 avg rating — 61,934 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 241,703 ratings
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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3.83 avg rating — 24,280 ratings
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The Plot Against America
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3.82 avg rating — 69,378 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 144,915 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,505 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 318,624 ratings
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Harvest
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3.58 avg rating — 9,550 ratings
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Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4)
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3.78 avg rating — 6,558 ratings
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Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
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4.50 avg rating — 118,874 ratings
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
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3.74 avg rating — 25,373 ratings
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Small Island
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4.02 avg rating — 37,949 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.38 avg rating — 13,791 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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4.01 avg rating — 46,639 ratings
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The Corrections
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3.85 avg rating — 198,674 ratings
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
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3.88 avg rating — 16,083 ratings
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 124,919 ratings
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
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4.08 avg rating — 24,713 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 13,454 ratings
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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4.39 avg rating — 17,145 ratings
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Rapture
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4.05 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
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3.96 avg rating — 63,638 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 283,658 ratings
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Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
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3.65 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
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3.97 avg rating — 11,896 ratings
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Outline
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3.67 avg rating — 70,591 ratings
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Austerlitz
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3.98 avg rating — 26,923 ratings
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Visitation
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3.47 avg rating — 7,567 ratings
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
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4.13 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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4.21 avg rating — 8,341 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.98 avg rating — 66,969 ratings
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Levels of Life
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3.90 avg rating — 14,183 ratings
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Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 27,117 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 82,935 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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4.19 avg rating — 15,780 ratings
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I personally would like to see a list of books that defined a year range (whether it be "of all time", "19th century", "20th century", "since 1999" etc), allowed all genres (as long as the fulfilled a high literary quality), and then restrict as follows, ONLY:
- page length greater than 150
- fictional novel
- published in English (translations allowed)
[Short story collections may or may not be allowed in the list.] NOTE: Personally, I would also disallow children's books or YA from that list (I don't need to see "Harry Potter" once again)