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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,065,084 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,173,236 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,328,101 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,940,355 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,133,808 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,874,214 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,782,867 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,717,309 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,130 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,123,292 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,450 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,649,191 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,032,682 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 823,468 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,379 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,160 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,619,474 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,391,304 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 — 2,052,279 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,558,232 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,011 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,496,618 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,101 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 847,584 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 — 1,010,442 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,350 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,279 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 — 281,696 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 954,455 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 561,751 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 — 430,644 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,994 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 — 1,913,094 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,071 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,202 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,343,312 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,282 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,715 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 754,801 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 265,639 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,224 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 — 592,037 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,568 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 — 300,846 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 263,724 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,658 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 — 219,128 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,242 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,951,679 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,632 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 — 881,430 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,633 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,358 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,076,426 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,035 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,170 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 434,557 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,819,394 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,445 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,139,075 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 — 481,637 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 745,880 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 — 1,795,989 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 — 367,846 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 — 131,379 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,273,138 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 — 110,295 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,021 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,462 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 — 287,484 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,054 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 — 104,887 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,130,887 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,466 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 836,638 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 581,719 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. :)