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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,014,018 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,151,350 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,296,176 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,870,233 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,874,075 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,783,664 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,727,979 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,698,579 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 330,323 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,095,544 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,790 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,375,046 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,023,889 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 808,963 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 561,167 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,048,012 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,593,446 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,358,598 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 — 2,011,190 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,443,718 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 384,564 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,439,968 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 317,308 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 828,485 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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4.09 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 996,204 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,182 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 720,123 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 656,965 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 278,351 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 935,973 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 553,347 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,253 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,707 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,374 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,200 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,841,230 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,856,139 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 377,499 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,282,277 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,543 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,747 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 728,722 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 238,598 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 505,040 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 — 579,899 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,149 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,796 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,703 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 258,077 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,329 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,210 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,722 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,397 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,283 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,868,866 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,637 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,048 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,430 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 864,490 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,371 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,360 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,047,757 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,022,151 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,093 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,893 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,707,351 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 513,332 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,110,184 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 474,344 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,453 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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4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,758,148 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 — 88,239 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 — 360,727 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,828 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,092 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,352 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,424 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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4.14 avg rating — 128,904 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,257,437 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,425 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 106,777 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 321,477 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,387 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,096 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,632 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,032,863 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,053 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 98,122 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,107,397 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,585 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 823,587 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,528 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. :)