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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,014,042 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,151,357 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,296,184 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,870,250 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,874,142 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,783,694 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,727,998 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,698,581 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 330,324 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,095,551 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,792 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,375,176 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,023,893 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 808,964 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 561,167 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,048,015 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,593,456 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,358,600 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 — 2,011,214 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,443,764 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 384,565 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,439,997 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 317,311 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 828,487 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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4.09 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 996,206 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,182 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 720,125 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 656,967 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 278,351 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 935,980 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 553,350 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,254 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,710 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,377 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,200 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,841,243 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,856,143 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 377,500 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,282,286 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,543 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,749 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 728,734 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 238,605 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 505,040 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 — 579,901 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,149 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,796 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,703 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 258,078 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,329 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,210 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,722 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,397 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,284 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,868,897 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,638 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,048 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,430 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 864,496 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,372 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,362 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,047,764 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,022,156 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,095 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,897 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,707,405 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 513,334 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,110,187 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 474,346 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,459 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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4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,758,157 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 — 88,240 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 — 360,729 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,828 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,092 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,352 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,424 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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4.14 avg rating — 128,905 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,257,445 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,425 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 106,780 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 321,480 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,386 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,096 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,634 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,032,871 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,053 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 98,122 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,107,412 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,586 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 823,591 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,529 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. :)