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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,529 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,435 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,323 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,882 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,135,757 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,875 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,783,292 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,462 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,172 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,528 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,482 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,651,244 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,760 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,578 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,424 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,221 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,676 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,559 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 — 2,052,629 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,559,122 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,055 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,497,044 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,155 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,761 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 — 1,010,527 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,361 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,333 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,115 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,726 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,565 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,845 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,598 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,724 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,019 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,599 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,605 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,197 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,261 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,776 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,305 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,739 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 755,015 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,919 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,282 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 — 592,123 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,572 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,108 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 300,899 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,757 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,672 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,372 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 — 27,916 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,149 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,258 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,952,328 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,659 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,009 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 — 38,648 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 881,540 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,663 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,393 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,617 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,142 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,200 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,610 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,820,199 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,466 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,296 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 — 481,693 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,982 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 — 1,796,291 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 — 91,797 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 — 367,884 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,348 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,849 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,093 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,579 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 — 131,394 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,249 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,629 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,327 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,107 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,502 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,587 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,513 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,307 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 — 104,954 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,131,092 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,517 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,761 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,842 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. :)