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The best novels set in the 1950s (1950-1959)
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 626,513 ratings
score: 798,
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Circle of Friends
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4.07 avg rating — 67,930 ratings
score: 583,
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Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 154,927 ratings
score: 494,
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,178,401 ratings
score: 493,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 928,404 ratings
score: 486,
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Swerve: Little Bastards 2
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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4 people voted
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 705,322 ratings
score: 395,
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 37,300 ratings
score: 395,
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4 people voted
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It
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,239,895 ratings
score: 385,
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4 people voted
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Margreete's Harbor
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Eleanor Morse (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 995 ratings
score: 300,
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The Secrets of Greystone House
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Marcus Attwater (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 349,651 ratings
score: 295,
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The Cider House Rules
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 193,760 ratings
score: 293,
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The Good Dream
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Donna VanLiere (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 6,638 ratings
score: 288,
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The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 8,481 ratings
score: 287,
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 228,230 ratings
score: 284,
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The Bookshop
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3.28 avg rating — 26,266 ratings
score: 283,
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 193,115 ratings
score: 278,
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 248,885 ratings
score: 277,
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The Little Bastards
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3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 200,
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A Penny A Day
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4.36 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 334,029 ratings
score: 199,
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The Perfume Collector
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Kathleen Tessaro (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42,050 ratings
score: 198,
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A Boy's Own Story (The Edmund Trilogy, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 9,180 ratings
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The Betrayal
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4.04 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Bonjour tristesse
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3.74 avg rating — 69,637 ratings
score: 197,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,832,238 ratings
score: 196,
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Saturday's Child
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4.28 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 192,
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The Huntress
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 204,557 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 449,396 ratings
score: 190,
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
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3.97 avg rating — 8,294 ratings
score: 188,
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Meet Me in Monaco
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Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 11,908 ratings
score: 186,
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Cape May
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Chip Cheek (Goodreads Author)
2.97 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
score: 186,
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 13,231 ratings
score: 185,
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The Stationery Shop of Tehran
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Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 114,875 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Natives and Strangers
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Summer the Wind Whispered My Name
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Don Locke (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 100,
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The Summer Wives
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Beatriz Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 48,415 ratings
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Hushabye: The Mystics, the Music, and the Mob
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Zig Zag Girl (The Brighton Mysteries #1)
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Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 16,544 ratings
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The Invitation
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 21,643 ratings
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Blackwattle Creek (Charlie Berlin, #2)
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Geoffrey McGeachin (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 491 ratings
score: 99,
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Safe at Home
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3.93 avg rating — 216 ratings
score: 99,
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On Swift Horses
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Shannon Pufahl (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
score: 99,
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Tourmaline
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3.16 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Apothecary (The Apothecary, #1)
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Maile Meloy (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 15,140 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Trouble with You
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3.81 avg rating — 896 ratings
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With a Vengeance
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Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 40,438 ratings
score: 99,
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The L-Shaped Room (Jane Graham, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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Melanie Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 37,008 ratings
score: 98,
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The Invitation
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 21,643 ratings
score: 98,
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 122,297 ratings
score: 98,
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Out of the Easy
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 70,726 ratings
score: 98,
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Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3)
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Natalie Jenner (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
score: 98,
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En skugga blott
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3.44 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
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3.93 avg rating — 779 ratings
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The Secrets We Kept
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Lara Prescott (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 76,737 ratings
score: 97,
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The Last Days of New Paris
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 7,529 ratings
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In Lazzaretto
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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3.79 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
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3.71 avg rating — 17,762 ratings
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Serpent's Delight
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4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 423,689 ratings
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The Librarian
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3.37 avg rating — 6,508 ratings
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The Dollhouse
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Fiona Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 48,331 ratings
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife
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Karma Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 24,003 ratings
score: 93,
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The Women in Black
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3.56 avg rating — 12,280 ratings
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The Delinquents
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3.68 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Absolute Beginners
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3.60 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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Searching for Grace Kelly
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3.67 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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