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A eclectic mix of middle grade, YA, and adult
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,770,336 ratings
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Macbeth
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Animal Farm
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The Little Prince
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Night
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
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3.79 avg rating — 117,916 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 463,649 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,251 ratings
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On Chesil Beach
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 100,432 ratings
score: 178,
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A Christmas Carol
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Beside the Sea
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3.84 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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Homemade Love
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4.48 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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We the Animals
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3.73 avg rating — 26,181 ratings
score: 99,
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Now or Never
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3.96 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
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3.68 avg rating — 355,193 ratings
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Some Soul to Keep
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4.52 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
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Lot
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3.75 avg rating — 10,234 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 303,062 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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3.98 avg rating — 76,472 ratings
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The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
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3.46 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
score: 98,
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Tin Man
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3.97 avg rating — 51,548 ratings
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The Wicked Heart
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3.60 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
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Three Men in a Boat
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3.83 avg rating — 78,777 ratings
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Small Beauty
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4.05 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
score: 96,
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The Crow
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4.31 avg rating — 17,787 ratings
score: 96,
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 351,819 ratings
score: 96,
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The Guest Cat
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3.55 avg rating — 34,642 ratings
score: 96,
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Fated Blades (Kinsmen, #3)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 11,528 ratings
score: 96,
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There Are Things I Know
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Karen B. Golightly (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 95,
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Weekend
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3.65 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,576,111 ratings
score: 95,
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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4.16 avg rating — 182,240 ratings
score: 95,
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Westlake Soul
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Rio Youers (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 545 ratings
score: 94,
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 570,549 ratings
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The Serpent and the Swan
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Ashland Pym (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 94,
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The Wreck of the Titan
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3.29 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
score: 94,
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 84,065 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Voices
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 93,
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Passing Strange
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3.89 avg rating — 2,984 ratings
score: 93,
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
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3.98 avg rating — 21,220 ratings
score: 93,
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Home
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3.83 avg rating — 27,477 ratings
score: 92,
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Drama
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Raina Telgemeier (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 158,540 ratings
score: 92,
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Bonjour tristesse
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3.74 avg rating — 68,782 ratings
score: 92,
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The Dog Who Dared to Dream
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3.74 avg rating — 3,653 ratings
score: 92,
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Family
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4.43 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
score: 91,
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A Star Is Born
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3.91 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 91,
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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3.70 avg rating — 59,731 ratings
score: 91,
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People From My Neighbourhood
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3.50 avg rating — 12,382 ratings
score: 91,
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Memories of Summer
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Ruth White (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 821 ratings
score: 90,
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Rage in Pain Roz, The R.I.P. Series Book 2
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Kris Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 90,
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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3.68 avg rating — 50,167 ratings
score: 90,
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Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
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Nino Cipri (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 12,185 ratings
score: 89,
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Let It Go (Red and Lance, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Railway Children
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4.02 avg rating — 63,153 ratings
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The Bookshop
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3.28 avg rating — 26,157 ratings
score: 89,
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Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)
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Nino Cipri (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,954 ratings
score: 88,
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Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive"
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3.87 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Children of Dynmouth
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3.99 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
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3.44 avg rating — 7,028 ratings
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The Test
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Sylvain Neuvel (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 23,168 ratings
score: 87,
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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Jack Martin (Pseudonym)
3.66 avg rating — 388 ratings
score: 87,
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The Third Policeman
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3.97 avg rating — 22,413 ratings
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The Dig
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3.67 avg rating — 7,390 ratings
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Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3)
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S.L. Huang (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 2,374 ratings
score: 86,
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The Dance (Final Friends, #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 2,744 ratings
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
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3.65 avg rating — 6,212 ratings
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Ellen Foster
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3.79 avg rating — 31,863 ratings
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The Return of Hyman Kaplan
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4.05 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Portrait
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3.47 avg rating — 1,984 ratings
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The Cat of Yule Cottage
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4.05 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
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3.88 avg rating — 61,450 ratings
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The Education of Hyman Kaplan
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4.10 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Ghost Notes
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Art Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
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4.17 avg rating — 3,121 ratings
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Road to Nowhere
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3.83 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Cider with Rosie
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3.91 avg rating — 14,968 ratings
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Fantastic Mr Fox
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4.08 avg rating — 144,914 ratings
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Girls Like Us
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Gail Giles (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,972 ratings
score: 82,
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The Midnight Club
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3.52 avg rating — 14,181 ratings
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Cry, The Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
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3.93 avg rating — 78,818 ratings
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The Embassy of Cambodia
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3.70 avg rating — 5,744 ratings
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The Other Boy
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4.18 avg rating — 2,664 ratings
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The Big Book of Death
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4.19 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Girl
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3.53 avg rating — 8,205 ratings
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The Thirteenth Rose (Charlie D Mystery, 4)
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3.47 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 17,726 ratings
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Spark
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3.09 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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The Colour of Milk
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Nell Leyshon (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 10,676 ratings
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One Fine Day You're Gonna Die (Charlie D Mystery, 2)
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3.43 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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3.47 avg rating — 6,276 ratings
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The Spy
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3.38 avg rating — 43,967 ratings
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Push
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Sapphire (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 58,401 ratings
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The Shadow Killer (Charlie D Mystery, 3)
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3.57 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Sweet Bean Paste
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4.06 avg rating — 68,806 ratings
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Imani All Mine
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Love You to Death (Charlie D Mystery, 1)
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3.37 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Out Backward
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3.48 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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