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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,081,110 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,179,924 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,336,807 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,959,711 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,207,382 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,898,627 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,799,234 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,722,284 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 336,680 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,131,306 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 570,426 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,729,077 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,035,263 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 827,282 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 567,749 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,056,986 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,626,703 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,401,378 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 — 2,064,415 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,594,573 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 392,994 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,511,389 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 325,929 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 852,960 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 — 1,014,358 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 221,139 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 728,303 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 664,837 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 282,569 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 958,947 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 564,406 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,185 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 433,115 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,706 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,867 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,932,436 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,874,503 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 389,273 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,362,430 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 288,306 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 273,841 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 761,916 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 276,266 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 513,106 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 — 595,123 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,725 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,235 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 303,400 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 265,045 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,321 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,399 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 — 27,973 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,303 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,845 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,976,310 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 102,278 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,316 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.97 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,701 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 885,876 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 280,457 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 330,204 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,083,373 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,035,212 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 210,382 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 436,875 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,851,852 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 517,326 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,147,669 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 — 483,643 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 750,634 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.36 avg rating — 81 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 — 1,807,587 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 — 92,735 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 — 369,749 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,503 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 169,019 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,579 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,607 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 — 131,971 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,277,762 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,656 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 111,388 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 334,734 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,600 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,697 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,164 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,078,174 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,657 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 99,602 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,138,112 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 295,568 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 841,778 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 586,030 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. :)