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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,064,760 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,087 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,327,929 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,939,926 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,132,288 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,873,678 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,532 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,200 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,106 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,112 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,417 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,647,429 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,032,616 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,398 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,330 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,121 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,323 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,101 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 — 2,052,006 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,557,432 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 390,970 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,291 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,058 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,465 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 — 1,010,365 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,330 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,243 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,022 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,676 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,354 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,694 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,578 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,594 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,976 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,588 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,912,698 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,870,993 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,126 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,342,884 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,262 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,695 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,646 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,435 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,180 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 — 591,976 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,566 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,105 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,813 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,684 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,652 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,368 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,913 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,119 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,230 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,185 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,617 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,998 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 — 881,348 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,602 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,342 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,277 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,030,977 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,156 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,507 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,818,712 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,421 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,138,865 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 — 481,599 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,781 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 — 1,795,747 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 — 91,736 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 — 367,817 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,341 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 — 133,071 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 — 131,369 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,036 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 — 110,267 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 330,953 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,430 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,574 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,465 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,067,839 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,505 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,839 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,753 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,424 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,541 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,623 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. :)