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This is a list of books that are so good you will forget you are trapped at home during a global pandemic. All the books are well-written, may have serious themes, but won't make you sad enough to cry. (Translation: Beach reads for people who need more than just "fluff" but also don't want to cry themselves to sleep.)
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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4.23 avg rating — 1,390,201 ratings
score: 485,
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 311 ratings
score: 394,
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4 people voted
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Mad Love (DCYE, #3)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 215 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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Lynessa James (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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Nothing to See Here
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Kevin Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 218,133 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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My Family and Other Animals
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4.17 avg rating — 62,448 ratings
score: 285,
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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3.87 avg rating — 595,099 ratings
score: 280,
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3 people voted
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Henry the Queen’s Corgi
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4.13 avg rating — 601 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 191,722 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Alfie in the Snow
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4.15 avg rating — 552 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 315,903 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,092,008 ratings
score: 181,
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The Feasting Season
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3.62 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Dalai Lama's Cat (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #1)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,902 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover
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Teresa O'Kane (Goodreads Author)
4.69 avg rating — 172 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Reluctant Fortune-Teller
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Keziah Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 754 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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Alex Morritt (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off (Mudflap #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Women Who Wouldn't Leave
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Victoria Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Secrets to Happiness
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3.14 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #2)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 4,082 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Mudflap
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4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains
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Sarah Clutton (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 795 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Rules of Civility
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 265,620 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #3)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 2,706 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Leave Me
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Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 19,020 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Four Paws of Spiritual Success
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Best Friends Forever
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Jennifer Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 66,272 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Queen'S Corgi: On Purpose
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 819 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Something in the Water
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Catherine Steadman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 227,489 ratings
score: 95,
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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 — 1,802,376 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 58,908 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Telegraph Days
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3.63 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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City of Girls
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 315,860 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Alfie the Doorstep Cat (Alfie, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 3,131 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 57,112 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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My Lovely Wife
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Samantha Downing (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 162,088 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
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4.19 avg rating — 408 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Stuart Turton (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 465,748 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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In the Woods
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 433,010 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Missing Sister
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Dinah Jefferies (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 4,957 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Wife Between Us
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Greer Hendricks (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 438,819 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,963,191 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock
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Jane Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 13,816 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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A Simple Favor
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3.28 avg rating — 71,848 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 161,507 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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The Governess (Royal Outsiders, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Today Will Be Different
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3.16 avg rating — 70,791 ratings
score: 87,
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 994,506 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
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Clare McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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By Sorrow's River (The Berrybender Narratives, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Before the Crown
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3.89 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
score: 86,
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My Not So Perfect Life
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 132,049 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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New York
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Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 43,537 ratings
score: 85,
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Lara The Runaway Cat: One Cat’s Journey to Discover Home Is Where the Heart Is
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3.87 avg rating — 247 ratings
score: 85,
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The Duchess (Royal Outsiders, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
score: 84,
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Body
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3.88 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
score: 82,
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