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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,464 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,417 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,289 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,821 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,135,513 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,810 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,783,244 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,444 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,166 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,497 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,479 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,651,022 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,750 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,552 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,417 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,211 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,656 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,522 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 — 2,052,588 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,559,015 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,050 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,970 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,152 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,727 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 — 1,010,507 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,362 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,326 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,106 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,718 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,545 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,829 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,592 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,711 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,019 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,598 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,548 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,190 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,248 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,714 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,306 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,734 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,989 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,876 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,277 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 — 592,120 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,572 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 — 300,894 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,756 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,672 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,372 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 — 219,150 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,257 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,952,249 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,657 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,008 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 — 881,519 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,661 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,388 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,586 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,128 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,197 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,601 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,820,095 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,465 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,269 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 — 481,686 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,969 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 — 1,796,250 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 — 91,791 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 — 367,877 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 — 133,091 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,578 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 — 131,393 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,237 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 — 110,324 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,095 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,497 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,587 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,507 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,275 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,509 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,948 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,131,060 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,507 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,745 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,825 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. :)