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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,117 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,248 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,110 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,374 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,133,908 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,244 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,900 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,323 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,132 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,309 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,452 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,649,297 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,688 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,476 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,381 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,162 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,484 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,325 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 — 2,052,310 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,277 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,010 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,650 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,104 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,600 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 — 1,010,448 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,351 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,286 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,059 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,699 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,469 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,756 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,588 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 430,653 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,999 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,590 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,913,118 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,080 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,201 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,331 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,284 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,717 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,812 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,656 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,233 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 — 592,038 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,567 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 — 300,849 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,727 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,659 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,371 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 — 27,914 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,129 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,243 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,723 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,635 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,004 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 — 881,437 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,634 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,361 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,442 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,045 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,173 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,560 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,465 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,449 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,085 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 — 481,638 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,891 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 — 1,796,011 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 — 91,762 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 — 367,850 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,343 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,841 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,078 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 — 131,380 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,141 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 — 110,296 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,025 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,463 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,579 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,487 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,065 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 — 104,889 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,899 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,467 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,645 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,727 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. :)