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ALA American Library Association Recommended Reads 2024 (from the August 2023-2024 journal)
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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Kate Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 39,210 ratings
score: 236,
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 438,676 ratings
score: 100,
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Exit West
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3.74 avg rating — 149,364 ratings
score: 99,
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We Are the Ants
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Shaun David Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 53,435 ratings
score: 98,
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
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score: 97,
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Washington Black
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3.95 avg rating — 71,815 ratings
score: 96,
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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4.35 avg rating — 6,383 ratings
score: 95,
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On Such a Full Sea
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3.49 avg rating — 11,793 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Yellow House
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3.89 avg rating — 25,180 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Stolen (Stolen, #1)
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Lucy Christopher (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 86,567 ratings
score: 92,
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,819 ratings
score: 91,
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The Water Dancer
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4.06 avg rating — 117,828 ratings
score: 90,
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 96,000 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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3.75 avg rating — 172,224 ratings
score: 88,
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Luster
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Raven Leilani (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 109,423 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 34,996 ratings
score: 86,
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 257,593 ratings
score: 85,
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 135,141 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Butterfly Yellow
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Thanhhà Lại (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 3,530 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Last Stop on Market Street
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Matt de la Peña (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 18,374 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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4.25 avg rating — 22,632 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 50,657 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 10,050 ratings
score: 79,
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Run Me to Earth
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3.68 avg rating — 3,557 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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All the Wind in the World
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Samantha Mabry (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
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4.64 avg rating — 21,529 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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I, Claudia
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Mary McCoy (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 898 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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4.59 avg rating — 9,913 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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We Are Okay
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Nina LaCour (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 99,724 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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David Treuer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 6,517 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
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Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 91,686 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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4.21 avg rating — 3,170 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 100,762 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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The Great Believers
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Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 166,190 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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4.34 avg rating — 4,945 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Clap When You Land
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 108,687 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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Radiant Fugitives
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3.65 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
score: 65,
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Sisters in Arms
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Kaia Alderson (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 7,743 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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Who Is Maud Dixon?
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Alexandra Andrews (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 40,597 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
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4.08 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
score: 62,
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Himawari House
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4.36 avg rating — 7,163 ratings
score: 61,
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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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Angeline Boulley (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 192,922 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 12,098 ratings
score: 59,
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Illegal
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4.21 avg rating — 10,014 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 260,002 ratings
score: 57,
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1 person voted
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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
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Jon Dunn (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 561 ratings
score: 56,
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Infinite Country
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Patricia Engel (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 49,609 ratings
score: 55,
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1 person voted
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Lawn Boy
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Jonathan Evison (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 9,882 ratings
score: 54,
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1 person voted
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The Lying Life of Adults
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3.67 avg rating — 83,990 ratings
score: 53,
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1 person voted
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The Promise
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3.85 avg rating — 48,903 ratings
score: 52,
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 167,311 ratings
score: 51,
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The Book of Otto and Liam
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Paul Griner (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 50,
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1 person voted
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Matrix
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Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 65,895 ratings
score: 49,
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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,355,900 ratings
score: 48,
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 23,697 ratings
score: 47,
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The Sweetness of Water
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Nathan Harris (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 59,320 ratings
score: 46,
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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4.51 avg rating — 40,857 ratings
score: 45,
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
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4.19 avg rating — 45,371 ratings
score: 44,
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 130,885 ratings
score: 43,
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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4.56 avg rating — 10,887 ratings
score: 42,
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And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
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Margaret Kimball (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 2,832 ratings
score: 41,
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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
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Tom Lin (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 5,043 ratings
score: 40,
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Too Bright to See
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4.11 avg rating — 5,935 ratings
score: 39,
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Be Not Far from Me
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Mindy McGinnis (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 10,703 ratings
score: 38,
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A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
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4.17 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
score: 37,
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The Starless Sea
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 230,518 ratings
score: 35,
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Things We Lost to the Water
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3.75 avg rating — 11,529 ratings
score: 34,
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Hamnet
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 323,571 ratings
score: 33,
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 37,864 ratings
score: 32,
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The Five Wounds
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4.13 avg rating — 19,543 ratings
score: 31,
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
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4.18 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
score: 30,
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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4.56 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
score: 29,
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 28,913 ratings
score: 28,
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Normal People
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Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,806,164 ratings
score: 27,
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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4.17 avg rating — 1,439,816 ratings
score: 26,
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