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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,064,977 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,175 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,041 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,207 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,133,269 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,035 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,742 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,275 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,120 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,226 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,438 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,648,555 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,656 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,440 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,353 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,153 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,417 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,240 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 — 2,052,185 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,557,950 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,000 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,484 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,084 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,532 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 — 1,010,423 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,341 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,267 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,047 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,693 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,417 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,736 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,585 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,620 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,990 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,589 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,912,960 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,043 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,177 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,145 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,271 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,708 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,745 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,569 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,207 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 — 592,015 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 — 35,106 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,834 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,707 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,657 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,370 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 — 27,913 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,128 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,240 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,499 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,625 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,003 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 — 881,400 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,619 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,352 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,367 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,008 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,167 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,546 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,127 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,436 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,003 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 — 481,616 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,853 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 — 1,795,894 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 — 91,753 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 — 367,835 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,341 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,840 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,078 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 — 131,378 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,095 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 — 110,291 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 330,999 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,450 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,579 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,478 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,067,972 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,508 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,873 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,834 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,450 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,612 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,692 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. :)