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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,055,265 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,168,721 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,322,301 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,927,255 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,085,115 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,858,161 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,772,729 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,713,930 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 334,152 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,117,500 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,689 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,598,583 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,832 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 821,202 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 565,343 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,053,827 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,614,616 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,385,017 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 2,044,299 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,534,970 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 389,632 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,486,140 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 322,769 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 843,836 ratings
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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol
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4.14 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.05 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,007,623 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,953 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,953 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,821 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,033 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 951,585 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 560,021 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,107 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 428,896 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,504 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,351 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,900,561 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,868,562 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 385,230 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,330,140 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,567 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,893 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 750,154 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 259,313 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 510,015 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 589,837 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,491 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,048 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 299,605 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 262,673 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,351 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,351 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,864 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,746 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,829 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,936,316 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 101,164 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,850 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,582 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 878,317 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,816 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,734 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,071,575 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,029,509 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,477 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 433,022 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,797,789 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,803 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,133,580 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.07 avg rating — 480,219 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 742,492 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.39 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Hannah: The Soldier Diaries (Part 1)
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4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Season of the Dead
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4.08 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,788,762 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 91,135 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 366,541 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,219 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,663 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 132,741 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,555 ratings
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The Sounding
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4.13 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 130,913 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,270,059 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,565 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,582 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 328,936 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,660 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,507 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,948 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,061,251 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,426 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 103,539 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,126,535 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,665 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 833,871 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 578,633 ratings
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I originally bought the hardcover version and put it down because I couldn't make heads or tails of its odd writing style (crazy metaphors, strikethroughs, repetition) frankly, I thought the author was trying too hard to show us how "deep" she was.
Later though I was give the audio version. WOW, it made all the difference. As soon as I heard Kate Simses narrate the book it was like a lightbulb clicked on in my head. "...oh, THAT'S how it's supposed to be read. DUH." Hearing the strange writing style read aloud the way the author had intended, was extremely charming. Turns out, it's one of my favorite novels. Who knew. :)