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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,103,797 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,188,538 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,348,505 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,986,342 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 10,306,021 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,939,919 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,824,256 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,728,671 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 338,620 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,141,024 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 572,081 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,856,143 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,604 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 832,773 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 569,690 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,059,535 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,636,983 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,414,537 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 — 2,081,602 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,645,439 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 395,589 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,534,136 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 328,752 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 861,068 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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4.03 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,020,023 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 222,219 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 731,312 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 667,278 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,809 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 965,222 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 568,077 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,968 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 436,941 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,613 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 25,159 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,957,314 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,879,723 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 392,276 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,386,348 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 289,792 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 275,451 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 773,485 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 292,004 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 515,925 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 — 599,688 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,927 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,377 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 306,841 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 267,005 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 171,205 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,451 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 28,052 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 220,143 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,740 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,013,880 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 103,226 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,756 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.97 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,730 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 892,679 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,689 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 331,531 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,093,575 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,040,607 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 211,984 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 440,077 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,894,998 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 518,659 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,159,348 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 — 486,541 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 758,201 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.36 avg rating — 81 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 — 1,821,549 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 — 94,050 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 — 372,510 ratings
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Envy
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4.22 avg rating — 25,808 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.85 avg rating — 169,290 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 134,346 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,645 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 — 132,796 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,283,870 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,690 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.09 avg rating — 112,972 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 340,572 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,092 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,890 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 289,156 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,092,716 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,721 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 102,818 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,147,914 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 297,042 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 848,476 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 592,595 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. :)