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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,149 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,257 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,125 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,410 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,134,056 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,292 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,937 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,337 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,133 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,322 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,453 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,649,438 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,696 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,483 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,381 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,164 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,490 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,341 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 — 2,052,333 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,346 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,015 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,676 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,107 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,608 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 — 1,010,453 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,351 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,287 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,062 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,699 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,481 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,760 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,588 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,656 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,000 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,590 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,148 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,091 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,206 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,358 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,287 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,718 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,827 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,673 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,234 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 — 592,044 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,567 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,109 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,854 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,727 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,661 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,371 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,914 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,135 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,244 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,762 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,635 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,004 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 — 38,647 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 881,446 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,636 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,366 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,455 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,054 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,173 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,561 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,524 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,450 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,101 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 — 481,641 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,901 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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4.10 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,796,034 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 — 91,764 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 — 367,853 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,343 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,842 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,080 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,577 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 — 131,383 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,144 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,628 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,300 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,028 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,464 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,582 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,490 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,090 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,509 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,896 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,913 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,468 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,653 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,734 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. :)