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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,849 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,567 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,505 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,941,284 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,137,194 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,875,317 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,783,562 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,577 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,199 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,698 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,509 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,652,746 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,832 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,644 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,450 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,270 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,820 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,747 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 — 2,052,858 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,559,823 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,099 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,497,328 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,193 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,866 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 — 1,010,591 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,372 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,380 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,142 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,739 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,652 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,896 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,619 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,766 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,036 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,606 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,979 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,265 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,305 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,344,186 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,329 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,769 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 755,144 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 266,117 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,330 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 — 592,183 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,576 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 — 300,947 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,793 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,679 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,374 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 — 27,917 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,158 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,270 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,952,761 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,667 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,012 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 — 38,649 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 881,617 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,682 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,413 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,750 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,210 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,225 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,653 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,820,801 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,489 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,452 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 — 481,720 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 746,068 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.35 avg rating — 80 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 — 1,796,509 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 — 91,816 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 — 367,927 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,350 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,857 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,102 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,580 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 — 131,407 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,358 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 — 110,351 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,174 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,523 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,588 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,527 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,504 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,513 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 104,994 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,131,210 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,539 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,847 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,931 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. :)