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[ATY 2023] Unusually Large Animal
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 2023 prompts. Please do not vote on these lists unless you are participating in our reading challenge!
Prompt: A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
Prompt: A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
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American Hippo (River of Teeth, #1-2)
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Sarah Gailey (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,587 ratings
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| 86 |
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Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)
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| 86 |
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Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 14,934 ratings
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| 86 |
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Children of Blood and Bone: Goldener Zorn (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
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Tomi Adeyemi (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 247,139 ratings
score: 99,
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| 105 |
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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 195,776 ratings
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| 105 |
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Lord Loss (The Demonata, #1)
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Darren Shan (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 24,840 ratings
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| 105 |
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Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur
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3.56 avg rating — 276 ratings
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| 105 |
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Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles, #5)
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4.31 avg rating — 50,412 ratings
score: 98,
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| 105 |
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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 65,572 ratings
score: 98,
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| 105 |
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Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)
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Lina Rather (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,843 ratings
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| 105 |
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 547 ratings
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| 105 |
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Congo
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3.63 avg rating — 177,287 ratings
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| 105 |
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Grasshopper Jungle
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3.64 avg rating — 18,817 ratings
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| 105 |
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,910,619 ratings
score: 98,
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| 105 |
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 71,327 ratings
score: 98,
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| 116 |
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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 242,678 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Murder at Haven's Rock (Haven's Rock #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 8,734 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings
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| 116 |
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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 55,721 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Wolf Island (Demonata, #8)
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Darren Shan (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 10,425 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Clifford's Halloween
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4.17 avg rating — 13,218 ratings
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| 116 |
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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles, #2)
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4.21 avg rating — 51,341 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 139,166 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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The Neverglades: Volume One
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David Farrow (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 324 ratings
score: 97,
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| 116 |
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 605,985 ratings
score: 97,
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| 126 |
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 77,881 ratings
score: 96,
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| 126 |
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The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
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Sharma Shields (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
score: 96,
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| 126 |
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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Thomas Halliday (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
score: 96,
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| 126 |
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Small Favors
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Erin A. Craig (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 22,597 ratings
score: 96,
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| 126 |
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The Book of Dragons
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3.84 avg rating — 3,836 ratings
score: 96,
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| 131 |
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 166,142 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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| 131 |
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The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker, Vol. 1 (light novel) (Volume 1) (The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (light novel), 1)
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4.19 avg rating — 568 ratings
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1 person voted
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| 131 |
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The Bear
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Claire Cameron (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 8,255 ratings
score: 95,
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| 131 |
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The Cliffs of Night
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Beatrice Brandon (Pseudonym)
4.14 avg rating — 94 ratings
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| 135 |
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The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker, Vol. 2 (light novel)
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4.30 avg rating — 400 ratings
score: 94,
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| 135 |
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Far-Seer (Quintaglio Ascension, #1)
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Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
score: 94,
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| 135 |
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The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
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3.87 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
score: 94,
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| 138 |
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Shambling Towards Hiroshima
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3.63 avg rating — 810 ratings
score: 93,
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| 138 |
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The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker, Vol. 3 (light novel) (Volume 3) (The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (light novel), 3)
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4.35 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 93,
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| 138 |
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Fuzzy Nation
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 31,877 ratings
score: 93,
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| 138 |
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Relic (Pendergast, #1)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 114,293 ratings
score: 93,
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| 142 |
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Earthworm Gods
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Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,532 ratings
score: 92,
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| 142 |
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Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 1
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4.16 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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| 144 |
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MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror (MEG, 1)
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3.77 avg rating — 25,136 ratings
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| 144 |
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Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir! (Light Novel), Vol. 1
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3.90 avg rating — 368 ratings
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| 146 |
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Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett, #24)
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4.33 avg rating — 25,110 ratings
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| 147 |
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Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5)
by
Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 76,874 ratings
score: 85,
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| 148 |
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Garfield at Large: His First Book (Garfield, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 6,849 ratings
score: 84,
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| 149 |
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
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4.19 avg rating — 19,590 ratings
score: 83,
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| 150 |
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Cowardly Clyde
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4.26 avg rating — 992 ratings
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| 151 |
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Palindrome
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4.09 avg rating — 5,408 ratings
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| 152 |
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Altar of Eden
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 20,249 ratings
score: 80,
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| 153 |
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Seduced (Hannah Smith, #4)
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Randy Wayne White (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
score: 79,
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| 154 |
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Night Vision (Doc Ford Mystery #18)
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Randy Wayne White (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
score: 78,
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| 155 |
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Honk the Moose
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3.81 avg rating — 145 ratings
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| 156 |
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Flying Giants of Long Ago (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science Book)
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| 157 |
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The Curse of the Giant Hogweed (Peter Shandy, #5)
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3.40 avg rating — 772 ratings
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| 158 |
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The Big Beast Book: Dinosaurs and How They Got That Way
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 159 |
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Going the Moose Way Home
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 160 |
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Uncle Elephant
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score: 69,
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| 161 |
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Santa's Moose
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3.69 avg rating — 143 ratings
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| 162 |
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Wonder's of Draft Horses
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| 163 |
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The Walls of Windy Troy: A Biography of Heinrich Schliemann
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3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 164 |
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My Dog and I
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| 165 |
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No Sign of Murder (Stuart Winter, #1)
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Alan Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 135 ratings
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| 166 |
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Buck Fever (A Blanco County Mystery #1)
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Ben Rehder (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
score: 63,
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| 167 |
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Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 11,624 ratings
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| 168 |
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Dry Bones (Walt Longmire, #11)
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4.24 avg rating — 13,988 ratings
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| 169 |
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One Last Lie (Mike Bowditch, #11)
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Paul Doiron (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 4,628 ratings
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| 170 |
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Big Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale
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3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
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| 171 |
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Big Max in the Mystery of the Missing Moose (An I Can Read Book)
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3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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| 172 |
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How I Captured a Dinosaur
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3.12 avg rating — 50 ratings
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| 173 |
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Pigs Have Wings (Blandings Castle, #8)
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4.25 avg rating — 4,827 ratings
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| 174 |
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Flat Crazy: A Blanco County, Texas, Novel
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Ben Rehder (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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| 175 |
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No Cats Allowed (Cat in the Stacks #7)
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4.16 avg rating — 3,740 ratings
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| 176 |
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The 600 Pound Gorilla (Jimmy Flannery Mysteries, #2)
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3.77 avg rating — 75 ratings
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| 177 |
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The Python Project (Rex Carver, #3)
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3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings
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| 178 |
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The Biggest Bear
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4.04 avg rating — 4,873 ratings
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| 179 |
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Bombship
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 180 |
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Big Bird's Color Game
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Tom Cooke (Illustrator)
3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings
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| 181 |
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Bonny's Big Day
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4.40 avg rating — 538 ratings
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| 182 |
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Working for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files, #15.5)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 11,556 ratings
score: 42,
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| 183 |
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Prehistoric Monsters
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| 184 |
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Not a Monster of a Chance (A Scumble River Mystery, #2.5)
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Denise Swanson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 196 ratings
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