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A book published in the month of your birthday: August.
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  A book published in the month of your birthday: August.
This list is for books published in any year in your birth month. Please use this list for all books you are considering reading, as well as books you would recommend for this prompt! If you use the "Search" feature to add books (instead of choosing from "My Books"), that will eliminate multiple versions of the same book being added to the list. When you add the book, you can add a comment (in the box provided next to "why you added this book") if you wish.
All the other months:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
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| 101 | Bottle Grove by 
Daniel Handler (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.08 avg rating — 866 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 88,
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| 101 | Jesus Politics: How to Win Back the Soul of America by 
          
                 4.48 avg rating — 893 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 88,
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| 103 | Live Free or Die: America (And the World) on the Brink - Vivamus Vel Libero Perit Americae by 
          
                 4.16 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 87,
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| 104 | The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President by 
          
                 4.32 avg rating — 186 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 86,
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| 105 | Turning Darkness Into Light (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #6) by 
Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.17 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 85,
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| 105 | Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality by 
Tom Gilson (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.56 avg rating — 71 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 85,
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| 107 | The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir by 
          
                 3.64 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 84,
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| 107 | Donald and the Fake News by 
Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 84,
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| 109 | I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by 
          
                 3.68 avg rating — 21,877 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 83,
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| 109 | Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrat's Defense of the Indefensible by 
          
                 4.16 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 83,
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| 111 | Snow, Glass, Apples by 
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.05 avg rating — 14,928 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 82,
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| 111 | The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by 
          
                 4.10 avg rating — 749 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 82,
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| 113 | Swipe Right for Murder by 
Derek Milman (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.55 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 81,
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| 113 | Ride, Sally, Ride by 
Douglas Wilson (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.23 avg rating — 988 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 81,
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| 115 | Finding Lady Enderly by 
Joanna Davidson Politano (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.11 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 80,
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| 115 | How Sweet the Sound: The Power and Promise of 30 Beloved Hymns by 
Laura L.  Smith (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.20 avg rating — 83 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 80,
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| 117 | Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by 
          
                 4.32 avg rating — 9,389 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 79,
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| 117 | Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by 
          
                 4.10 avg rating — 5,859 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 79,
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| 119 | The Truth Lies Here by 
Lindsey Klingele (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.60 avg rating — 813 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 78,
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| 119 | Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency by 
          
                 4.50 avg rating — 86 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 78,
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| 121 | Geoffrey P. Ward's Guide to Villainy (Villainy Consultant, #1) by 
M.A. Nichols (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 77,
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| 122 | Sasquatch, Love, and Other Imaginary Things by 
Betsy Aldredge (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.45 avg rating — 310 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 76,
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| 123 | The Van Gogh Deception by 
Deron R. Hicks (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.13 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 74,
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| 124 | Hunted by 
Darcy Coates (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.01 avg rating — 27,502 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 73,
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| 125 | The Warehouse by 
Rob Hart (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.84 avg rating — 14,444 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 72,
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| 126 | The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by 
Timothy C. Winegard (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.66 avg rating — 4,408 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 71,
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| 127 | The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars, #1) by 
John Birmingham (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 3,381 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 69,
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| 128 | The Good Thieves by 
          
                 4.08 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 68,
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| 129 | We Are the Ghosts by 
Vicky Skinner (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.81 avg rating — 189 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 67,
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| 130 | Singapore Sapphire (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #1) by 
A.M.   Stuart (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.03 avg rating — 3,538 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 66,
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| 131 | Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1) by 
Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.11 avg rating — 191,837 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 64,
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| 132 | The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by 
Saad Z. Hossain (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.04 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 63,
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| 133 | City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1) by 
Victoria Schwab (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.88 avg rating — 75,970 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 62,
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| 134 | A Ladder to the Sky by 
John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.20 avg rating — 40,677 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 61,
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| 135 | Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by 
          
                 4.38 avg rating — 10,095 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 60,
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| 136 | Thornhill by 
          
                 3.80 avg rating — 13,870 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 54,
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| 137 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by 
          
                 4.45 avg rating — 2,702,657 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 51,
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          52 voters ·
          list created November 16th, 2019
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