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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,014,285 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,151,445 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,296,305 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,870,566 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,875,751 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,784,163 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,728,297 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,698,650 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 330,347 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,095,646 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,803 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,376,929 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,023,944 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 809,002 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 561,189 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,048,068 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,593,580 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,358,711 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 — 2,011,374 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,444,266 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 384,591 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,440,282 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 317,324 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 828,573 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 — 996,259 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,195 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 720,142 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 656,993 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 278,356 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 936,153 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 553,369 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,259 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,746 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,382 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,204 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,841,507 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,856,195 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 377,516 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,282,443 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,556 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,766 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 728,893 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 238,671 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 505,054 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 — 579,921 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 — 34,798 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,722 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 258,100 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,332 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,208 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 — 27,720 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,399 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,290 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,869,333 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,647 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 — 864,603 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,379 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,371 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,047,895 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,022,189 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,103 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,920 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,708,217 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 513,345 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,110,317 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 — 474,382 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,534 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 — 1,758,385 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 — 88,249 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 — 360,744 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,829 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,094 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,360 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,425 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 — 128,918 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,257,536 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 — 106,788 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 321,507 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,397 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,098 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,645 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,033,005 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,055 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 98,143 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,107,505 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,608 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 823,649 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,603 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. :)