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Bel Canto
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Cloud Atlas
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Amadeus
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Doctor Faustus
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Corelli’s Mandolin
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An Equal Music
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
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Music & Silence
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The Song of the Lark
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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Cry to Heaven
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3.89 avg rating — 21,655 ratings
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The Lost Stradivarius
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3.53 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Amsterdam
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3.47 avg rating — 59,764 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 225,914 ratings
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Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 42,265 ratings
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The Piano
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3.93 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
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The Piano Tuner
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Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 16,164 ratings
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Der Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 212,830 ratings
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The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 14,185 ratings
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Devil's Trill (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #1)
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Gerald Elias (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Paganini's Ghost (Castiglione and Guastafeste, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Orfeo
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3.66 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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Clara
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3.69 avg rating — 308 ratings
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La's Orchestra Saves the World
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 6,942 ratings
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Dancer
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Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
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The Unconsoled
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 18,127 ratings
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Bertha Garlan
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3.73 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Margreete's Harbor
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Eleanor Morse (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Blue Notes (Blue Notes, #1)
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Shira Anthony (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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The Rainaldi Quartet (Castiglione and Guastafeste, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Sputnik Sweetheart
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3.83 avg rating — 179,500 ratings
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Kreisleriana
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3.33 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Children Act
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 83,912 ratings
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Inez: A Literary Epic Where Dual Love Stories Echo from Prehistory to Infinity
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3.25 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Death and the Maiden
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3.97 avg rating — 6,640 ratings
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The Conductor
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3.85 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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A Traitor to Memory (Inspector Lynley, #11)
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Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 12,590 ratings
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The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 8,401 ratings
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Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 10,473 ratings
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Voices (Inspector Erlendur, #5)
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3.87 avg rating — 15,347 ratings
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Liszt's Dante Symphony
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Rich DiSilvio (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The First Book of Classical Horror Stories
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D.F. Lewis (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Student Conductor
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3.70 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Music From Standing Waves
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Johanna Craven (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Ghost Variations
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Jessica Duchen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 78 ratings
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His Secret Little Wife: A Novel
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Fredrica Wagman (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Mildred Pierce
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3.93 avg rating — 10,706 ratings
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Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
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3.39 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
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The Violinist of Venice
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
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The Piano Teacher
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3.36 avg rating — 23,860 ratings
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The Ensemble
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Aja Gabel (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 10,672 ratings
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Danse Macabre (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #2)
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Gerald Elias (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Courage Consort
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3.23 avg rating — 313 ratings
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It All Started with a Trombone: The Hornman Memoirs
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Tenor of Love: A Novel
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3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Real Men Don't Rehearse: Adventures in the Secret World of Professional Orchestras
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4.05 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
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3.40 avg rating — 489 ratings
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The Choir
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3.81 avg rating — 2,739 ratings
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Marrying Mozart
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Stephanie Cowell (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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Consuelo
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4.08 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
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The Time of Our Singing
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Save Me the Waltz
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3.52 avg rating — 4,550 ratings
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Illuminations
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Mary Sharratt (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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Vivaldi's Virgins
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Barbara Quick (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
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Madame Sousatzka
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3.64 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Music of a Life
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3.91 avg rating — 2,162 ratings
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Liszt's Kiss
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Susanne Dunlap (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 369 ratings
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M. Butterfly
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3.93 avg rating — 14,994 ratings
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The Loser
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Trilby
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Gerontius: A novel
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3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Violin
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Mozart's Journey to Prague
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Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)
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Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries
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4.09 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Fish Can Sing
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The Double-Bass
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Der Klavierstimmer
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Vivaldi and the Number 3
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Ron Butlin (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Disturbance of the Inner Ear
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Blue Bells of Scotland (Blue Bells Trilogy, #1)
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Laura Vosika (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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The Melody Thief (Blue Notes, #2)
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Shira Anthony (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Гранатовый браслет: сборник
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The Keeper of Secrets (Horowitz Chronicles, #1)
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Julie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 3,436 ratings
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Tears and Trombones
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Nanci Lee Woody (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Das Streichquartett.
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Les Épis mûrs
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A Small Country about to Vanish
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Victoria Avilan (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 405 ratings
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The Yellow Birds
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And After the Fire
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Lauren Belfer (Goodreads Author)
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
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La mirada del hijo
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Echo
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Cooking for Her Eyes: Transcription of a Sonata
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A Song Begins (Warrender Saga Book 1)
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The Able Queen: Memoirs of a Hump Pilot Lost in the Himalayas
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haha - the list was made by 'bettie' yet I have only just voted on it!
Have made some adjustments to the description box. I inherited this list at some point.:O)
My vote for "Gerontius" is shown as being 4 out of 5, but I think if I had found it on the first page, it would have been No 1. A wonderful book, especially for those who love Elgar's music.
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