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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)
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Hank Green (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 127,664 ratings
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A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
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Hank Green (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 55,080 ratings
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,169,216 ratings
score: 694,
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And Then There Were None
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4.28 avg rating — 1,560,890 ratings
score: 680,
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 291,214 ratings
score: 494,
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 477,428 ratings
score: 489,
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 939,619 ratings
score: 485,
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,820,044 ratings
score: 484,
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 115,594 ratings
score: 483,
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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4.48 avg rating — 107,449 ratings
score: 476,
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A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 118,909 ratings
score: 399,
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4 people voted
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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Casey McQuiston (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,189,704 ratings
score: 393,
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4 people voted
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,261,268 ratings
score: 385,
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Turtles All the Way Down
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 630,865 ratings
score: 379,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,169 ratings
score: 292,
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3 people voted
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,424,572 ratings
score: 289,
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,615,013 ratings
score: 287,
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,911,067 ratings
score: 286,
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3 people voted
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,747,165 ratings
score: 275,
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 684,355 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 164,734 ratings
score: 199,
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Less (Arthur Less, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 220,327 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 193,523 ratings
score: 198,
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,479 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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The Poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 139,502 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 17,918 ratings
score: 196,
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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 133,614 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 1,116,154 ratings
score: 196,
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Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 175,854 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 992,680 ratings
score: 192,
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The Complete Persepolis
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4.40 avg rating — 201,163 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,823,647 ratings
score: 185,
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2 people voted
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The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 101,241 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,144,161 ratings
score: 180,
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2 people voted
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Cat's Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,604 ratings
score: 175,
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2 people voted
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 315,314 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 279,222 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Hopscotch
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4.20 avg rating — 47,808 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
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Hafsah Faizal (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 106,572 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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After the Flood
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Kassandra Montag (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16,770 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 62,530 ratings
score: 99,
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
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4.22 avg rating — 3,248 ratings
score: 99,
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The Emperor's Soul
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 124,480 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Tunnel
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4.02 avg rating — 90,357 ratings
score: 99,
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The Cat Who Went to Heaven
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3.74 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
score: 98,
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,793,781 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,696,238 ratings
score: 98,
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 172,127 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire Ass
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Chuck Tingle (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 97,
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 69,860 ratings
score: 97,
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Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 21,775 ratings
score: 97,
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This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
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4.14 avg rating — 16,259 ratings
score: 97,
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
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Andrew Yang (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 9,728 ratings
score: 96,
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
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3.89 avg rating — 15,576 ratings
score: 96,
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Dom Casmurro
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4.33 avg rating — 36,788 ratings
score: 95,
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The Animators
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Kayla Rae Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 12,419 ratings
score: 95,
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 86,275 ratings
score: 95,
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On a Sunbeam
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4.30 avg rating — 33,731 ratings
score: 95,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,251 ratings
score: 94,
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 44,603 ratings
score: 94,
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A Kingdom for a Stage (For a Muse of Fire, #2)
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Heidi Heilig (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 443 ratings
score: 94,
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 354,676 ratings
score: 94,
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 3,360,419 ratings
score: 91,
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Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
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Joseph Fink (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 43,232 ratings
score: 91,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,074,413 ratings
score: 89,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,334,740 ratings
score: 88,
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Let Them Eat Chaos
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4.32 avg rating — 2,218 ratings
score: 88,
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,341,062 ratings
score: 87,
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 38,012 ratings
score: 87,
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,382 ratings
score: 85,
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Contact
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4.15 avg rating — 150,668 ratings
score: 85,
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The Tao of Pooh
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4.01 avg rating — 128,729 ratings
score: 84,
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,831 ratings
score: 83,
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 156,440 ratings
score: 82,
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,121 ratings
score: 81,
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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