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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,411 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,391 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,259 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,754 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,135,276 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,729 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,783,186 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,417 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,157 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,469 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,474 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,650,767 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,740 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,544 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,417 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,206 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,633 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,493 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 — 2,052,557 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,897 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,044 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,931 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,140 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,709 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 — 1,010,499 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,359 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,318 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,098 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,714 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,537 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,816 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,592 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,700 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,017 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,598 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,469 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,165 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,245 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,657 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,302 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,731 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,957 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,836 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,271 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 — 592,104 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,571 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 — 300,887 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,750 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,671 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 — 27,915 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,147 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,255 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,952,165 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,651 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,007 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 — 881,504 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,657 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,386 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,553 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,109 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,196 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,595 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,994 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,463 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,237 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 — 481,675 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,954 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 — 1,796,217 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 — 91,783 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 — 367,873 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,346 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,848 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,090 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 — 131,391 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,215 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 — 110,320 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,084 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,494 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,586 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,500 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,248 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 — 104,939 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,131,036 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,499 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,725 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,804 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. :)