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(Fiction) Books that have a riddle to be solved as the core theme.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 13,032 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,399,286 ratings
score: 193,
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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4.67 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,184,521 ratings
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Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
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4.17 avg rating — 24,549 ratings
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Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
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4.10 avg rating — 17,748 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,113,504 ratings
score: 97,
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The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy
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3.92 avg rating — 5,102 ratings
score: 94,
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The Adventures of Hatim Tai: A Romance
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 93,
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The Dark Tower Series: Books 1-7
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 12,661 ratings
score: 92,
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The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 76,789 ratings
score: 91,
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Unbound (Magic Ex Libris, #3)
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Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 3,584 ratings
score: 90,
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Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
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3.93 avg rating — 93,162 ratings
score: 89,
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 194,699 ratings
score: 88,
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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4.17 avg rating — 7,520 ratings
score: 87,
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The Pearls of Lutra (Redwall, #9)
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4.04 avg rating — 22,523 ratings
score: 86,
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, #1)
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score: 85,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,493,038 ratings
score: 84,
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,278,825 ratings
score: 83,
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The Westing Game
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3.99 avg rating — 232,040 ratings
score: 82,
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Niccolò Rising (The House of Niccolò, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 4,628 ratings
score: 81,
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Winterhouse (Winterhouse, #1)
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Ben Guterson (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 12,353 ratings
score: 80,
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The Quincunx
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4.02 avg rating — 8,129 ratings
score: 79,
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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3.44 avg rating — 11,101 ratings
score: 78,
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 216,959 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 434,110 ratings
score: 76,
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The Merchant of Venice
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3.78 avg rating — 200,500 ratings
score: 75,
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 602,098 ratings
score: 74,
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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4.44 avg rating — 33,490 ratings
score: 73,
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 961,607 ratings
score: 72,
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Riddle of the Seventh Stone
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Monideepa Sahu (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 71,
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Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #5)
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3.19 avg rating — 15,059 ratings
score: 70,
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,673 ratings
score: 69,
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The Lost Book of the Grail
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Charlie Lovett (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
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3.96 avg rating — 54,217 ratings
score: 67,
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Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 31,175 ratings
score: 66,
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Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle (Gabriel Finley #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
score: 65,
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The Riddles of Epsilon
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Christine Morton-Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
score: 64,
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The Riddle (The Books of Pellinor, #2)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 22,174 ratings
score: 63,
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The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, #1)
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Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4,874 ratings
score: 62,
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The Bird and the Blade
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Megan Bannen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 4,415 ratings
score: 61,
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The Riddle of the Wren
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
score: 60,
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Anahita's Woven Riddle
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3.81 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
score: 59,
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The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazing Puzzles
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4.12 avg rating — 234 ratings
score: 58,
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Harlequin's Riddle
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Rachel Nightingale (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 57,
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Liar Game, Volume 1 (Liar Game, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
score: 56,
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Vikram and Vetal
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Meera Nair (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 55,
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The Great Throne of King Vikramaditya
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Modern Illustrator Classics (Illustrator)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 54,
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,673 ratings
score: 53,
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The Rigveda
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3.92 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes: An Introduction to Wisdom Literature
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3.90 avg rating — 254 ratings
score: 51,
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The Greek Anthology: And Other Ancient Greek Epigrams
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Peter Jay (Editor)
4.26 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 50,
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Cupid and Psyche
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3.88 avg rating — 18,010 ratings
score: 49,
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Symphosius The Aenigmata: An Introduction, Text and Commentary (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs)
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 48,
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The Exeter Book Riddles
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3.88 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Piers Plowman
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3.45 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Poetry. Riddles by Dr. Swift and his friends. Trifles, passing between Swift and Sheridan. Poems composed at Market-Hill. ... memory. Espistolary correspondence. Letters
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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll, Poetry - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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3.63 avg rating — 990 ratings
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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3.99 avg rating — 70,131 ratings
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The Poems Of Richard Wilbur
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3.99 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Three Kingdoms: Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev's Collection
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4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 60,185 ratings
score: 39,
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
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4.07 avg rating — 20,897 ratings
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To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
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4.18 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Deltora Quest (Deltora Quest, #1-8)
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Emily Rodda (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 5,948 ratings
score: 36,
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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4.23 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Septimus Heap Box Set: Magyk and Flyte (Septimus Heap, #1-2)
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4.27 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
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Yaksha Prashna
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
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Gwyneth Lewis (Translator)
4.15 avg rating — 230 ratings
score: 31,
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The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 40,085 ratings
score: 30,
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Turandot
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4.21 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings
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4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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