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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,064,793 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,099 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,327,936 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,939,956 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,132,435 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,873,729 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,568 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,211 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,108 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,129 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,420 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,647,608 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,032,618 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,402 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,333 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,126 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,337 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,113 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 — 2,052,028 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,557,510 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 390,973 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,321 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,062 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,481 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 — 1,010,372 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,330 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,244 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,028 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,680 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,360 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,699 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,578 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,599 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,978 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,588 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,912,733 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,870,999 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,133 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,342,925 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,263 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,696 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,662 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,453 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,183 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 — 591,983 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,566 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,105 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,813 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,690 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,653 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,369 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,096 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 — 219,119 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,230 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,251 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,617 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,002 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 — 881,358 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,606 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,342 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,288 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,030,981 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,157 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,509 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,818,782 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,421 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,138,890 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 — 481,601 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,787 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 — 1,795,763 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 — 91,738 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 — 367,820 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 — 133,073 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 — 131,370 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,045 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 — 110,274 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 330,956 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,433 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,576 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,467 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,067,859 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,505 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,844 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,768 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,429 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,549 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,635 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. :)