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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 408,590 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 550,503 ratings
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The Sheltering Sky
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3.89 avg rating — 30,355 ratings
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The Lover
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3.71 avg rating — 70,123 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 147,978 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
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4.05 avg rating — 125,730 ratings
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Women in Love
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3.66 avg rating — 33,289 ratings
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Bonjour tristesse
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3.74 avg rating — 69,811 ratings
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Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
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4.43 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Painted Veil
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3.97 avg rating — 50,923 ratings
score: 189,
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The Birth of Venus
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3.81 avg rating — 99,703 ratings
score: 187,
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 291,688 ratings
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The Woman in the Dunes
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3.88 avg rating — 38,276 ratings
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The Bad Girl
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4.14 avg rating — 48,359 ratings
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Birthday Letters
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3.89 avg rating — 10,338 ratings
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Immortality
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4.14 avg rating — 42,413 ratings
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Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights
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Jessica Kerwin Jenkins (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 838 ratings
score: 100,
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The Apothecary's Daughter
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Charlotte Betts (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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The Ten Thousand Things
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3.80 avg rating — 1,883 ratings
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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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Alicia Drake (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
score: 99,
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The Spice Merchant's Wife
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Charlotte Betts (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
score: 99,
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The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
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4.10 avg rating — 333 ratings
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In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 9,252 ratings
score: 98,
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Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them
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Betsy Prioleau (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 244 ratings
score: 97,
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
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Karen Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
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Caramelo
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3.93 avg rating — 13,048 ratings
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Against Nature
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3.80 avg rating — 14,972 ratings
score: 96,
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The Discovery of Chocolate
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James Runcie (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 749 ratings
score: 96,
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Cinnamon and Gunpowder
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Eli Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 8,534 ratings
score: 96,
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Palimpsest
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 5,235 ratings
score: 96,
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Raw Silk
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3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 316,274 ratings
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The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)
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Elizabeth Knox (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
score: 95,
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The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
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Tony Perrottet (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 459 ratings
score: 94,
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The Sultan's Wife
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3.84 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
score: 94,
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The Waves
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4.14 avg rating — 52,086 ratings
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Duras: A Biography
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3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Byerley Turk: The True Story of the First Thoroughbred
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Jeremy James (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 93,
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 320,023 ratings
score: 93,
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The Sea Wall
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3.77 avg rating — 4,641 ratings
score: 92,
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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3.47 avg rating — 6,326 ratings
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The Tea Planter's Daughter
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Janet MacLeod Trotter (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,528 ratings
score: 92,
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The Decadent Handbook: For the Modern Libertine
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Rowan Pelling (Editor)
3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 91,
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The Tea Planter's Bride (India Tea #2)
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Janet MacLeod Trotter (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 5,266 ratings
score: 91,
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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3.80 avg rating — 25,879 ratings
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Anu: The Nomad Years
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Shabnam Vasisht (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 90,
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A Natural History of Love
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
score: 89,
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Anu: The Raj Years
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Shabnam Vasisht (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite
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3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 7,875 ratings
score: 87,
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Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume
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Barbara Herman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 260 ratings
score: 86,
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The Kingdom of This World
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3.78 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Les Fleurs du Mal
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4.19 avg rating — 78,862 ratings
score: 82,
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
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3.52 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
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Betsy Prioleau (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 828 ratings
score: 77,
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Little Birds
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3.69 avg rating — 13,625 ratings
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Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac
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3.73 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
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3.60 avg rating — 893 ratings
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Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride
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Alyssa Harad (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 412 ratings
score: 70,
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Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion
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4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Lime Twig
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3.84 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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