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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,103,756 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,188,490 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,348,447 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,986,207 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 10,305,458 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,939,718 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,824,105 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,728,662 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 338,603 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,140,984 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 572,069 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,855,532 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,593 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 832,741 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 569,681 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,059,518 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,636,921 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,414,473 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 — 2,081,530 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,645,181 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 395,569 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,534,025 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 328,734 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 861,028 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 — 1,020,007 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 222,217 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 731,304 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 667,266 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,804 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 965,200 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 568,064 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,960 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 436,928 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,608 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 25,157 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,957,171 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,879,704 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 392,262 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,386,228 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 289,787 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 275,442 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 773,405 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 291,903 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 515,909 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 — 599,669 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,929 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,375 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 306,824 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 266,997 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 171,203 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 — 28,051 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 220,136 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,732 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,013,676 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 103,218 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,753 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 — 892,650 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,679 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 331,521 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,093,523 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,040,674 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 211,976 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 440,063 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,894,782 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 518,648 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,159,308 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 — 486,534 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 758,155 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 — 1,821,479 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 — 94,042 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 — 372,498 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 — 169,287 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 134,343 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 — 132,788 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,283,882 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 — 112,962 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 340,534 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,084 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,888 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 289,151 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,092,629 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,722 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 102,776 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,147,899 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 297,032 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 848,444 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 592,569 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. :)