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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,033,281 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,158,397 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,307,166 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,895,221 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,971,149 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,815,288 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,746,621 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,705,430 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 331,893 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,104,316 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 566,882 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,478,009 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,026,884 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 814,151 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 562,887 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,050,591 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,602,819 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,369,942 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 — 2,025,230 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,477,876 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 386,626 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,460,859 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 319,625 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 834,941 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 — 1,000,970 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,887 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 722,048 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 658,926 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 279,368 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 944,085 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 555,937 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,954 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 424,613 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 497,165 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,775 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,867,348 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,861,481 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 380,473 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,298,343 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 284,844 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 270,000 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 738,118 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.58 avg rating — 246,207 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 507,026 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 — 584,170 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,278 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,886 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 296,489 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 259,934 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,739 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,247 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,766 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,923 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,898 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,898,197 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 99,723 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,381 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 — 38,484 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 870,791 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 277,246 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 327,292 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,057,919 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,025,691 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,983 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 428,853 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,749,888 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 514,400 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,119,670 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 — 476,839 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 733,499 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 — 1,771,789 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 — 89,437 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 — 363,324 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,966 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,346 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,898 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,475 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 — 129,634 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,262,973 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,478 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 107,896 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 324,451 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127,253 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,222 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 285,546 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,044,634 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,208 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 100,037 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,115,740 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 291,859 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 827,917 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 571,825 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. :)