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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,030 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,201 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,070 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,274 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,133,504 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,118 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,791 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,288 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,123 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,251 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,444 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,648,810 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,667 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,455 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,363 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,155 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,446 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,271 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 — 2,052,230 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,071 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,001 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,540 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,089 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,558 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 — 1,010,433 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,344 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,274 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,050 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,696 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,431 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,746 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,588 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,629 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,991 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,589 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,024 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,052 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,189 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,222 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,274 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,710 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,760 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,613 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,213 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 — 592,026 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,567 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,107 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,839 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,714 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,658 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 — 27,914 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,127 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,241 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,575 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,627 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,005 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 — 38,647 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 881,414 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,627 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,354 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,400 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,018 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,166 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,554 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,261 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,440 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,041 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 — 481,624 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,864 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 — 1,795,946 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 — 91,756 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 — 367,843 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,342 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,840 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,077 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 — 131,379 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,115 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,628 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,297 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,009 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,456 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,579 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,480 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,006 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,508 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,876 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,856 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,457 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,621 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,703 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. :)