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Contest
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3.99 avg rating — 17,237 ratings
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 72,848 ratings
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Plague (Gone, #4)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 59,796 ratings
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Last Orders
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3.67 avg rating — 14,839 ratings
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
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4.03 avg rating — 14,545 ratings
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The Sealed Letter
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 6,804 ratings
score: 216,
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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4.18 avg rating — 22,240 ratings
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There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
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4.07 avg rating — 35,358 ratings
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
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3.98 avg rating — 22,061 ratings
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Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1)
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Raven Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 322,786 ratings
score: 216,
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Never Saw Me Coming
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Vera Kurian (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 37,481 ratings
score: 216,
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| 5712 |
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Happy Ever After (Bride Quartet, #4)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 63,025 ratings
score: 215,
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The Lover
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3.71 avg rating — 70,194 ratings
score: 215,
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Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
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4.34 avg rating — 37,285 ratings
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Once Upon a River
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 98,805 ratings
score: 215,
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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 134,040 ratings
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| 5717 |
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O Pioneers!
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3.90 avg rating — 57,848 ratings
score: 214,
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Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles, #4)
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Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 75,669 ratings
score: 214,
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Katherine
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4.21 avg rating — 35,380 ratings
score: 214,
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Twisted
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 37,414 ratings
score: 214,
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The Brothers Lionheart
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4.35 avg rating — 41,306 ratings
score: 214,
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Catch .22
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Diane L. Kowalyshyn (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 214,
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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4.33 avg rating — 30,250 ratings
score: 214,
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Impossible (Impossible, #1)
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Nancy Werlin (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 18,216 ratings
score: 214,
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The Keeper of Lost Things
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Ruth Hogan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 162,985 ratings
score: 213,
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 219,599 ratings
score: 213,
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Twelve Angry Men
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4.07 avg rating — 36,604 ratings
score: 213,
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Cosmic Banditos
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4.06 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
score: 213,
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Henry VI, Part 1
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3.54 avg rating — 9,581 ratings
score: 213,
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Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 24,017 ratings
score: 213,
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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Patricia Hruby Powell (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 4,545 ratings
score: 213,
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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4.34 avg rating — 43,427 ratings
score: 213,
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Spare
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3.84 avg rating — 420,572 ratings
score: 213,
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor)
4.27 avg rating — 215,209 ratings
score: 213,
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On Love
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 34,477 ratings
score: 212,
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The Hungry Tide
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3.99 avg rating — 19,749 ratings
score: 212,
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Minding Frankie
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3.87 avg rating — 28,518 ratings
score: 212,
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Under Milk Wood
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4.02 avg rating — 10,577 ratings
score: 212,
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Antigone
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3.77 avg rating — 29,661 ratings
score: 212,
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The Missing Piece
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Antoine Bello (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
score: 212,
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Harriet the Spy
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3.95 avg rating — 100,527 ratings
score: 212,
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Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4)
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4.28 avg rating — 23,330 ratings
score: 212,
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The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 148,523 ratings
score: 212,
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The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
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4.28 avg rating — 319,247 ratings
score: 212,
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Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11)
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Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 34,247 ratings
score: 212,
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The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 60,136 ratings
score: 212,
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The Elephant Man
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4.10 avg rating — 11,369 ratings
score: 212,
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 28,392 ratings
score: 212,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 210,354 ratings
score: 212,
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The Pale Blue Eye
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3.80 avg rating — 10,250 ratings
score: 211,
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The Absolutist
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 22,907 ratings
score: 211,
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The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 93,140 ratings
score: 211,
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
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4.36 avg rating — 19,989 ratings
score: 211,
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Savages (Savages #2)
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Don Winslow (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 20,436 ratings
score: 211,
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The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
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Danielle L. Jensen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 214,204 ratings
score: 211,
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Blue Lightning (Shetland, #4)
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Ann Cleeves (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 22,482 ratings
score: 211,
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Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley, #6)
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Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 15,363 ratings
score: 211,
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22 Britannia Road
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Amanda Hodgkinson (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 12,019 ratings
score: 210,
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My Idea of Fun
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3.53 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
score: 210,
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Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 30,787 ratings
score: 210,
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Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 18,254 ratings
score: 210,
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Kindred in Death (In Death, #29)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 27,271 ratings
score: 210,
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 178,334 ratings
score: 210,
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Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
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4.50 avg rating — 117,465 ratings
score: 210,
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The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #12)
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 57,328 ratings
score: 210,
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The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 118,786 ratings
score: 209,
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All the Birds in the Sky
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Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 48,466 ratings
score: 209,
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Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 49,535 ratings
score: 209,
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The Mockingbirds (The Mockingbirds, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 6,221 ratings
score: 208,
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The Hand That First Held Mine
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 29,807 ratings
score: 208,
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Matchmaking for Beginners
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Maddie Dawson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 55,739 ratings
score: 208,
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Immortal in Death (In Death, #3)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 60,890 ratings
score: 208,
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Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 306,188 ratings
score: 208,
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Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard, #2)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 17,923 ratings
score: 208,
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Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)
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Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 63,977 ratings
score: 208,
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The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles, #1)
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Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 42,475 ratings
score: 208,
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Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
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3.97 avg rating — 152,263 ratings
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| 5778 |
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The Flanders Panel
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3.78 avg rating — 27,040 ratings
score: 207,
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They Called Me Wyatt
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Natasha Tynes (Goodreads Author)
1.66 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
score: 207,
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Hate Notes
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Vi Keeland (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 81,808 ratings
score: 207,
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Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 71,367 ratings
score: 207,
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The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood, #1)
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Melissa Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 101,153 ratings
score: 207,
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The Apothecary's Daughter
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Julie Klassen (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 27,063 ratings
score: 206,
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City of Girls
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 316,317 ratings
score: 206,
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Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book
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Andrea Beaty (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 12,803 ratings
score: 206,
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,685 ratings
score: 206,
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City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 28,614 ratings
score: 206,
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The Zig Zag Girl (The Brighton Mysteries, #1)
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Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 16,572 ratings
score: 206,
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Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 25,018 ratings
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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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4.10 avg rating — 87,798 ratings
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Nine Lives
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Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 46,710 ratings
score: 206,
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| 5792 |
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The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
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Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 275,621 ratings
score: 205,
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| 5792 |
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Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 111,846 ratings
score: 205,
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Rework
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3.98 avg rating — 174,187 ratings
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The Mary Shelley Club
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Goldy Moldavsky (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 16,656 ratings
score: 205,
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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Mira Jacob (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 26,360 ratings
score: 205,
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The Appeal
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 61,905 ratings
score: 205,
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Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier were all big hits with our BBC Book Club. One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus and Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross were also favorites with excellent discussions.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte is a great one for book clubs. She's the little known Bronte sister, compared to her far more famous siblings. Comparing her work to that of her sisters brought about quite a discussion in our group.
Home Repair by Liz Rosenberg and Open House by Elizabeth Berg were tops for my book club group. Excellent discussions ensued. We realized we all like books that make us laugh and cry. Laurie Colwin is up soon, and so is the Guernsey Literary Potato Pie book.
Cat-- your choices sound great! Recommend you also consider Dan Chaon's new novel after Home Repair and Open House when you are ready for something a bit darker. He's a great writer. Can't go wrong with jane Austen.
Had a great book discussion of HOME REPAIR with the author in Philly. So inspiring I had to pass it along. We all agreed it's good to have a book that makes you want to write, too, and has enough characters you can love. I love the book about friendship Ann Patchett (sp?) wrote and think it would make a great discussion book. Also, to me Dostoevsky scares too many people away and should not. There is so much there to talk about!
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
A very good list, all my favs in one place :)
I've just discovered this list. Is there anyway to search this very extensive list? I would love to be able to look at it in alphabetical order. Or is it solely based on votes. There is no way to go through so many pages and vote with any kind of rationality! Just wondering.
This is just a random list of books that are featured in PEOPLE magazine! this is the worst list ever! No one put any thought into it at all.
A great book to add to this list is The Sixth Extinction by d. leonard freeston. Couldn't put it down!
"Addressing Spirits" by Carla Foft would be a good choice for a book club. It's by a new author, so it has some really different perspectives. It's short, so the club can finish it quickly and get down to discussing it faster. Carla Foft discusses Spirits' Rights on her website and it has started some lively discussions. The book is fun and has received great reviews.
Finished "Rare & Endangered Species" by Richard Bausch 1994. Every short story in this collection is top-drawer and insightful into the human condition. The characters and their thoughts/actions ring true and signify life's lessons. Writing this great should not go out of style
There are so many books that I want to read! Time to prioritize!
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. Lots of issues...great book!
Darbi wrote: "This is just a random list of books that are featured in PEOPLE magazine! this is the worst list ever! No one put any thought into it at all."Maybe your taste is different. It fits into my interests quite well.
Leanne wrote: "Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. Lots of issues...great book!"Her bks were big about 12 yrs ago here. I liked them. Poisonwood had to be restarted due to the negative pic of missionaries, but there have been many like that and there is improvment these days.
Issues in Animal Dreams? Been a long time.
The Sparrow The first book our Book Club ever read; outstanding writing and moral issues that beg great discussion.
This book will give a lot of things to argue about: a living universe, quit a strange way of time traveling and a lot of controversies related to cultural, politic, social, and finace phenomena.
Why are That Girl Started Her Own Country and The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club in the top 55 on this list?! I think someone is padding their votes to get them high on this list.I use this list as a reference for our book club and this isn't the platform for authors' self promotion. Argh!
Hi everyone,I have created a new group called Goodreads All Sorts and I'd love for people to join it or just even just give it a look. It's a group that discusses anything and everything. There will be monthly group reads, movies, and music. There is a folder for everything you could think of. I'd really like if people could spread the word because I'd love for the group to be a success. Here is the link to the group:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9...
Thanks very much,
Jack :-)
Deb wrote: "Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver"LOVE that book!
Unless I have missed it I do not see Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Once you read this you will be sold on this author....
Darbi wrote: "This is just a random list of books that are featured in PEOPLE magazine! this is the worst list ever! No one put any thought into it at all."Where is your list?
Darbi wrote: "This is just a random list of books that are featured in PEOPLE magazine! this is the worst list ever! No one put any thought into it at all."Where is your list?
to darbi many people make up this earth please respect others we would all be happy to see your recommendations betty
"Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver" is surely in my all time fav list!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Excellent book club list, many of which I have read.
Excellent book club list.
Everyone has their own criteria for what is best for book clubs, but here were mine:- Really well written
- Provide good talking points, maybe even controversy
- Less than 500 pages
- Not YA (unless its a teenage group)
- Not super bestsellers (I disqualified any book with >1 million ratings)
- Not typical school assignments (underrated classics are fine)
Currently, #1359 is Kindle Paperwhite User's Guide!!! And 7 people have voted for it!!!
Great book ideas from this list, but The Secret History by Donna Tartt at #361? Really??
Babar and Dr. Seuss are the "best" books for the kindergarden book club.
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