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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,081,092 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,179,914 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,336,797 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,959,681 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,207,299 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,898,583 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,799,216 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,722,279 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 336,678 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,131,298 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 570,425 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,729,001 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,035,262 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 827,276 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 567,746 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,056,983 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,626,695 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,401,364 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 — 2,064,410 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,594,538 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 392,992 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,511,374 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 325,924 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 852,956 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 — 1,014,355 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 221,136 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 728,301 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 664,835 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 282,568 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 958,939 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 564,404 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,185 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 433,115 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,706 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,867 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,932,414 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,874,500 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 389,271 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,362,412 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 288,303 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 273,839 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 761,909 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 276,258 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 513,105 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 — 595,122 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,725 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,234 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 303,397 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 265,041 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,321 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,399 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 — 27,973 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,303 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,843 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,976,288 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 102,278 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,316 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 — 38,701 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 885,874 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 280,456 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 330,202 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,083,368 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,035,205 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 210,381 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 436,873 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,851,830 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 517,326 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,147,662 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 — 483,641 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 750,628 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 — 1,807,578 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 — 92,734 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 — 369,748 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,503 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 169,019 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,576 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,607 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 — 131,970 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,277,754 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,656 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 111,388 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 334,727 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,600 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,697 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,163 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,078,162 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,656 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 99,599 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,138,102 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 295,565 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 841,774 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 586,030 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. :)