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Reads for Library Lovers Month (February)
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The Personal Librarian
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 216,206 ratings
score: 100,
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The Paris Library
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Janet Skeslien Charles (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 141,989 ratings
score: 99,
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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,323,858 ratings
score: 98,
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The Woman in the Library
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Sulari Gentill (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 84,279 ratings
score: 97,
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 123,413 ratings
score: 96,
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The Demon's Librarian
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Lilith Saintcrow (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
score: 95,
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Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
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William Ottens (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
score: 94,
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Megan Rosenbloom (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,510 ratings
score: 93,
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The Library of Lost and Found
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Phaedra Patrick (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 33,702 ratings
score: 92,
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Hogwarts Library: The Illustrated Collection
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4.35 avg rating — 9,702 ratings
score: 91,
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The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 99,418 ratings
score: 90,
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
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Chris Grabenstein (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 60,781 ratings
score: 89,
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 545,512 ratings
score: 88,
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The Giver of Stars
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 491,122 ratings
score: 87,
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
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Kim Michele Richardson (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 255,740 ratings
score: 86,
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The Library at the Edge of the World (Finfarran Peninsula, #1)
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 10,176 ratings
score: 85,
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
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Fiona Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 78,866 ratings
score: 84,
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Unshelved (Unshelved, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
score: 83,
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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 31,762 ratings
score: 82,
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Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 12,434 ratings
score: 81,
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
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Annie Spence (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 11,086 ratings
score: 80,
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The Book of Lost Names
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Kristin Harmel (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 275,290 ratings
score: 79,
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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Molly Guptill Manning (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,451 ratings
score: 78,
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The War Librarian
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Addison Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 3,820 ratings
score: 77,
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The Librarian Spy
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Madeline Martin (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28,355 ratings
score: 76,
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The Borrower
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Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 16,288 ratings
score: 75,
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Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 11,626 ratings
score: 74,
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Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 8,486 ratings
score: 73,
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The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
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Kim Michele Richardson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 82,309 ratings
score: 72,
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Murder in the Paperback Parlor (Book Retreat Mysteries #2)
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Ellery Adams (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
score: 71,
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The Librarian of Burned Books
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Brianna Labuskes (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 21,249 ratings
score: 70,
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The Little Wartime Library
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Kate Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 11,199 ratings
score: 69,
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
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4.24 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
score: 68,
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Murder at the Library of Congress (Capital Crimes, #16)
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3.58 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
score: 67,
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
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Eva Jurczyk (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 12,127 ratings
score: 66,
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The Silver Bough
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3.49 avg rating — 975 ratings
score: 65,
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Murder by Definition (42nd Street Library, #4)
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Con Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 64,
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Dewey Decimated (The Haunted Library Mysteries, #6)
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3.94 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
score: 63,
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The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1)
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C.J. Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 23,754 ratings
score: 62,
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The Library Book
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 121,625 ratings
score: 61,
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The Littlest Library
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Poppy Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 11,544 ratings
score: 60,
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The Cartographers
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Peng Shepherd (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 79,024 ratings
score: 59,
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1 person voted
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Three Can Keep a Secret (Greer Hogan Mystery, #3)
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M.E. Hilliard (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 545 ratings
score: 58,
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Going Zero
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Anthony McCarten (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 15,909 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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Light to the Hills
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Bonnie Blaylock (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 12,568 ratings
score: 56,
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1 person voted
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A Murder for the Books (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #1)
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Victoria Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 5,196 ratings
score: 55,
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