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Around the Year in 52 Books is a Goodreads group that creates a user-generated reading challenge each year. This listopia is dedicated to one of our 2022 prompts. Please do not vote on these lists unless you are participating in our reading challenge!
Prompt: A book published at least 10 years ago
Please DO NOT include any books that were published after 2012.
Prompt: A book published at least 10 years ago
Please DO NOT include any books that were published after 2012.
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,714,186 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,708,387 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,095,864 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,444,548 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,142,066 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,836,812 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,219,265 ratings
score: 847,
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,701,890 ratings
score: 827,
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 264,968 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,370,095 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,988,286 ratings
score: 774,
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8 people voted
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 795,558 ratings
score: 765,
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,186,962 ratings
score: 755,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,343,016 ratings
score: 737,
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,344,990 ratings
score: 733,
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 744,811 ratings
score: 682,
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 775,050 ratings
score: 673,
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Still Alice
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 358,316 ratings
score: 662,
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8 people voted
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,083,098 ratings
score: 644,
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,922,495 ratings
score: 634,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,411,585 ratings
score: 623,
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 505,922 ratings
score: 621,
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,775,504 ratings
score: 616,
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,566,260 ratings
score: 611,
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 773,827 ratings
score: 607,
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11/22/63
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 631,922 ratings
score: 570,
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6 people voted
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 351,782 ratings
score: 569,
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6 people voted
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,850,348 ratings
score: 554,
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 324,218 ratings
score: 552,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,289,051 ratings
score: 540,
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 180,111 ratings
score: 530,
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What Alice Forgot
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 508,925 ratings
score: 528,
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6 people voted
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 817,322 ratings
score: 517,
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6 people voted
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Garth Stein (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 550,119 ratings
score: 512,
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6 people voted
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 557,996 ratings
score: 504,
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6 people voted
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 880,017 ratings
score: 499,
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 764,319 ratings
score: 472,
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6 people voted
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Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 217,174 ratings
score: 460,
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5 people voted
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,095,875 ratings
score: 442,
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6 people voted
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.19 avg rating — 304,292 ratings
score: 440,
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5 people voted
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 918,516 ratings
score: 439,
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5 people voted
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 833,724 ratings
score: 437,
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5 people voted
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 383,475 ratings
score: 436,
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5 people voted
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.80 avg rating — 198,027 ratings
score: 436,
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5 people voted
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,731,086 ratings
score: 433,
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6 people voted
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 704,673 ratings
score: 429,
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6 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 — 708,369 ratings
score: 411,
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5 people voted
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 349,270 ratings
score: 407,
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5 people voted
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A Little Princess
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4.23 avg rating — 322,347 ratings
score: 407,
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 369,410 ratings
score: 401,
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Passing
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3.92 avg rating — 78,568 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 934,396 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 84,946 ratings
score: 355,
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4 people voted
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,017,863 ratings
score: 352,
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4 people voted
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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 871,669 ratings
score: 348,
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4 people voted
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,101,980 ratings
score: 346,
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,091,632 ratings
score: 343,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,598,113 ratings
score: 339,
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 512,454 ratings
score: 337,
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,388 ratings
score: 334,
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Daughter of Fortune
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 139,297 ratings
score: 325,
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4 people voted
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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30)
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4.30 avg rating — 119,359 ratings
score: 321,
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 819,446 ratings
score: 316,
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,335,820 ratings
score: 313,
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The Kitchen House
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Kathleen Grissom (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 299,295 ratings
score: 312,
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 57,469 ratings
score: 279,
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The Language of Flowers
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Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 231,564 ratings
score: 278,
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3 people voted
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 837,072 ratings
score: 277,
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The Summer Book
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54,674 ratings
score: 274,
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,065,861 ratings
score: 272,
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The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 15,144 ratings
score: 268,
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Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 478,544 ratings
score: 268,
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Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
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4.50 avg rating — 117,731 ratings
score: 263,
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 778,246 ratings
score: 262,
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 478,512 ratings
score: 259,
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
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4.19 avg rating — 31,839 ratings
score: 255,
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Cold Mountain
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3.89 avg rating — 249,034 ratings
score: 254,
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 161,304 ratings
score: 253,
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 93,778 ratings
score: 252,
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 942,146 ratings
score: 251,
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Under the Dome
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 320,910 ratings
score: 251,
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The Giving Tree
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4.38 avg rating — 1,221,983 ratings
score: 251,
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 466,486 ratings
score: 251,
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,154,815 ratings
score: 248,
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The Bridges of Madison County
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3.71 avg rating — 105,520 ratings
score: 248,
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And the Mountains Echoed
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4.08 avg rating — 399,860 ratings
score: 247,
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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3.99 avg rating — 118,175 ratings
score: 246,
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Bitten (Otherworld, #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 105,476 ratings
score: 245,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 294,874 ratings
score: 240,
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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 134,313 ratings
score: 238,
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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3.94 avg rating — 145,840 ratings
score: 236,
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,280,904 ratings
score: 234,
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,730 ratings
score: 233,
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Thief of Time (Discworld, #26; Death, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 77,026 ratings
score: 221,
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 62,110 ratings
score: 210,
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The Painted Veil
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3.97 avg rating — 51,070 ratings
score: 198,
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The Forty Rules of Love
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 200,669 ratings
score: 198,
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Farthing (Small Change, #1)
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 5,633 ratings
score: 197,
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The Children of Húrin
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4.05 avg rating — 92,088 ratings
score: 195,
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
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4.36 avg rating — 81,192 ratings
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
