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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,376 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,374 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,236 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,707 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,135,143 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,663 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,783,143 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,406 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,156 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,451 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,474 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,650,605 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,732 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,537 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,409 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,202 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,616 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,471 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 — 2,052,516 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,820 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,040 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,894 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,133 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,699 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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4.06 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,010,491 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,357 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,312 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,092 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,713 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,529 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,808 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,591 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,697 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,013 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,596 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,431 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,154 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,241 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,616 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,301 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,729 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,938 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,816 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,265 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 — 592,097 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,571 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,108 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,882 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,747 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,669 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,371 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,915 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,145 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,254 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,952,110 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,649 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,007 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 — 38,648 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 881,494 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,657 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,383 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,543 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,102 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,194 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,590 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,919 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,463 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,230 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 — 481,670 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,947 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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4.10 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,796,196 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 — 91,781 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 — 367,872 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,346 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,849 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,089 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,577 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 — 131,391 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,207 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,629 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,317 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,076 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,489 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,586 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,499 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,230 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,510 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,936 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,131,021 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,496 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,717 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,792 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. :)