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Where has the last decade gone? If you’re still reeling with the fact that it’s 2020 (and who isn’t?), join us in #20BacklistIn2020 Challenge! Take a look at your TBR list and make the pledge to read 20 of those outstanding books this year. If you’re looking for some inspiration for what to put on your list, here’s a peek at what we’re planning on reading this year.
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The Good Girl
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Mary Kubica (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 274,249 ratings
score: 161,
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The Orphan's Tale
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Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 92,818 ratings
score: 100,
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The Dollhouse
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Fiona Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 48,289 ratings
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Lie to Me
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J.T. Ellison (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 35,745 ratings
score: 99,
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Rage
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4.17 avg rating — 25,866 ratings
score: 99,
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A Flaw in the Blood
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3.35 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
score: 98,
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The Marriage Lie
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Kimberly Belle (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 80,292 ratings
score: 97,
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The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump
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3.10 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
score: 97,
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
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Phaedra Patrick (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 56,410 ratings
score: 96,
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Beautiful Exiles
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Meg Waite Clayton (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 10,460 ratings
score: 96,
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
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Amy Meyerson (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 33,660 ratings
score: 95,
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The Woman of a Thousand Names
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3.90 avg rating — 555 ratings
score: 95,
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Virgin River (Virgin River, #1)
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Robyn Carr (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 79,222 ratings
score: 94,
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The Accomplice
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Joseph Kanon (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,305 ratings
score: 94,
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The Cottages on Silver Beach (Haven Point, #8)
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RaeAnne Thayne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 3,672 ratings
score: 93,
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Murder in the Lincoln White House (Lincoln's White House Mystery Book 1)
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3.90 avg rating — 679 ratings
score: 93,
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Secrets of the Tulip Sisters
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Susan Mallery (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
score: 92,
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Martyr (John Shakespeare, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
score: 92,
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Cooper's Charm (Summer Resort, #1)
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Lori Foster (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 3,536 ratings
score: 91,
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Hemingway's Girl
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Erika Robuck (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 5,779 ratings
score: 91,
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The Weight of Silence
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Heather Gudenkauf (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 49,427 ratings
score: 90,
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A Divided Loyalty (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #22)
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Charles Todd (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5,375 ratings
score: 90,
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The Cactus
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Sarah Haywood (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 75,097 ratings
score: 89,
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Murder in the Oval Library (Lincoln's White House Mystery, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 329 ratings
score: 89,
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The Beach House (Beach House, #1)
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Mary Alice Monroe (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 30,279 ratings
score: 88,
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The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire
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Susan Jaques (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 88,
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Welcome to Moonlight Harbor (Moonlight Harbor, #1)
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Sheila Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,021 ratings
score: 87,
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A Good Neighborhood
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Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 58,083 ratings
score: 87,
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Before I Let You Go
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Kelly Rimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 36,435 ratings
score: 86,
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Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
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3.25 avg rating — 559 ratings
score: 86,
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Haunted (Harrison Investigation, #1)
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Heather Graham (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 7,451 ratings
score: 85,
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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Sarah Churchwell (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 2,269 ratings
score: 85,
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The Darkest Warrior (Lords of the Underworld, #14)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 6,238 ratings
score: 84,
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The It Girls: A Novel
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3.01 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
score: 84,
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Unbridled
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4.10 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
score: 83,
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The Other Mrs.
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Mary Kubica (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 152,852 ratings
score: 83,
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Best Day Ever (Family Secrets, #1)
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Kaira Rouda (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 20,271 ratings
score: 82,
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Katheryn Howard: the Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,001 ratings
score: 82,
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The One
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John Marrs (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 295,288 ratings
score: 81,
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Mrs. Hemingway
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Naomi Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 10,046 ratings
score: 81,
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Call Me Zelda
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Erika Robuck (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 4,720 ratings
score: 80,
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 58,368 ratings
score: 79,
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The Witches of St. Petersburg
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3.32 avg rating — 4,197 ratings
score: 78,
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The Lost Diary of Venice
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Margaux Deroux (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 916 ratings
score: 77,
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The King at the Edge of the World
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Arthur Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 2,510 ratings
score: 76,
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The First Actress
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C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,651 ratings
score: 75,
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A Witch in Time
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Constance Sayers (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 14,811 ratings
score: 74,
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Murder at the Capitol (Lincoln's White House Mystery, #3)
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4.21 avg rating — 265 ratings
score: 73,
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The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen
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3.46 avg rating — 8,337 ratings
score: 72,
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The Queen's Fortune
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Allison Pataki (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 9,286 ratings
score: 71,
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The Borgia Confessions
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 919 ratings
score: 70,
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And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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Stephanie Marie Thornton (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,677 ratings
score: 69,
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Cartier's Hope
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M.J. Rose (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
score: 68,
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The Tubman Command: A Novel
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Elizabeth Cobbs (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
score: 67,
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The Red Daughter
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3.36 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
score: 66,
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A Cruel Deception (Bess Crawford, #11)
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Charles Todd (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
score: 65,
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The Queene's Cure (Elizabeth I, #4)
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3.86 avg rating — 537 ratings
score: 64,
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The Island of Sea Women
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 159,645 ratings
score: 62,
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The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
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Susan Holloway Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
score: 61,
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Love and Ruin
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 26,506 ratings
score: 60,
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A Well-Behaved Woman
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Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 21,749 ratings
score: 59,
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City of God: A Novel of the Borgias
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3.57 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Rome's Fallen Eagle (Vespasian, #4)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
score: 57,
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False God of Rome (Vespasian, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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The Hamilton Affair
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Elizabeth Cobbs (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 14,096 ratings
score: 55,
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The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 303,606 ratings
score: 54,
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The Winter Siege
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3.97 avg rating — 4,125 ratings
score: 53,
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The Traitor's Wife
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Allison Pataki (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 13,965 ratings
score: 52,
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Rome's Executioner (Vespasian, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
score: 51,
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Tribune of Rome (Vespasian, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,186 ratings
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Leonardo's Swans
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Karen Essex (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 6,273 ratings
score: 49,
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A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Roma Sub Rosa, #11)
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3.98 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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The Scarlet Contessa
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Jeanne Kalogridis (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
score: 47,
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I, Mona Lisa
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Jeanne Kalogridis (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 8,615 ratings
score: 46,
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Mademoiselle Chanel
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C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 12,555 ratings
score: 45,
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