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Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 46,148 ratings
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
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The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #3)
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Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 108,458 ratings
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Mossflower (Redwall, #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 71,962 ratings
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Heavy
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Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 44,134 ratings
score: 117,
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| 7907 |
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In Defense of Elitism
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3.77 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Scold's Bridle
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3.91 avg rating — 10,095 ratings
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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
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Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 2,759,635 ratings
score: 116,
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Dinner with Friends
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3.78 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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| 7911 |
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A Place Called Freedom
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 45,228 ratings
score: 115,
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Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)
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Sylvia Day (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 547,944 ratings
score: 115,
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Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson, #8)
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Darynda Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 25,615 ratings
score: 115,
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The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 22,755 ratings
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The Winners (Beartown, #3)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 154,072 ratings
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The Devil of Nanking
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3.92 avg rating — 12,120 ratings
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The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (Cat Who... #10)
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3.99 avg rating — 8,991 ratings
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| 7918 |
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The Cure for Modern Life
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Lisa Tucker (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
score: 114,
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The Good Thief
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Hannah Tinti (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 12,918 ratings
score: 114,
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March
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 77,097 ratings
score: 114,
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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 210,750 ratings
score: 114,
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The Princess and the Goblin
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4.03 avg rating — 40,591 ratings
score: 114,
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The Survivors
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Jane Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 107,305 ratings
score: 114,
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| 7924 |
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The Prestige
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3.92 avg rating — 24,328 ratings
score: 113,
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
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Dave Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 78,102 ratings
score: 113,
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
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Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 62,287 ratings
score: 113,
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Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)
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Jaymin Eve (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 42,807 ratings
score: 113,
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When the Moon Was Ours
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Anna-Marie McLemore (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 11,153 ratings
score: 113,
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| 7929 |
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The Chosen One
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3.85 avg rating — 15,648 ratings
score: 112,
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Amethyst Eyes
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Debbie Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 112,
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The Night Strangers
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Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 18,215 ratings
score: 112,
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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
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Akasha Gloria Hull (Editor)
4.40 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
score: 112,
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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score: 112,
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The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 25,976 ratings
score: 112,
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Winter Counts
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 22,859 ratings
score: 112,
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Strangers
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 47,292 ratings
score: 112,
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Letter to My Daughter
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4.09 avg rating — 34,273 ratings
score: 112,
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The Need
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Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 17,165 ratings
score: 112,
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The Changeling
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3.64 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
score: 112,
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| 7940 |
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 101,732 ratings
score: 111,
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The Prague Cemetery
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3.51 avg rating — 29,780 ratings
score: 111,
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The House at Tyneford
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Natasha Solomons (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 20,397 ratings
score: 111,
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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4.06 avg rating — 89,972 ratings
score: 111,
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Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1)
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Spencer Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 25,465 ratings
score: 111,
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2 people voted
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| 7940 |
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My Husband's Wife
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Jane Corry (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 49,924 ratings
score: 111,
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| 7946 |
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Breed
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3.17 avg rating — 4,347 ratings
score: 110,
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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4.02 avg rating — 46,068 ratings
score: 110,
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Voyeur (Voyeur, #1)
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Fiona Cole (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 31,263 ratings
score: 110,
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| 7949 |
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The Inheritance of Loss
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3.46 avg rating — 54,836 ratings
score: 109,
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The Stories (The Best of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1)
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4.38 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 109,
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The Quickening
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Michelle Hoover (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
score: 109,
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Tinkers
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3.41 avg rating — 38,262 ratings
score: 109,
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,585 ratings
score: 109,
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Burned (House of Night, #7)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 164,008 ratings
score: 109,
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The Curse of Tenth Grave (Charley Davidson, #10)
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Darynda Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 19,776 ratings
score: 109,
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| 7956 |
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Sophie’s World
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3.97 avg rating — 277,975 ratings
score: 108,
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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 42,249 ratings
score: 108,
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The Crimson Crown (Seven Realms, #4)
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Cinda Williams Chima (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 46,505 ratings
score: 108,
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The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)
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Harlan Coben (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 111,431 ratings
score: 108,
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Pretty Things
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Janelle Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 87,578 ratings
score: 108,
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Kory Stamper (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 9,119 ratings
score: 108,
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| 7962 |
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The Redemption of Caralynne Hayman
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Carole Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 321 ratings
score: 107,
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| 7962 |
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Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #10)
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Joanne Fluke (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 16,880 ratings
score: 107,
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The Lords of Discipline
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4.34 avg rating — 29,831 ratings
score: 106,
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The Welsh Girl
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3.45 avg rating — 4,774 ratings
score: 106,
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Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3)
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3.98 avg rating — 12,437 ratings
score: 106,
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The Deepest Grave (Fiona Griffiths, #6)
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Harry Bingham (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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Finale (Hush, Hush, #4)
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 185,555 ratings
score: 106,
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| 7969 |
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Joshua: A Parable for Today
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4.01 avg rating — 4,951 ratings
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Mila 18
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4.32 avg rating — 26,431 ratings
score: 105,
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Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 90,990 ratings
score: 105,
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The Last House Guest
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Megan Miranda (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 152,199 ratings
score: 105,
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The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 26,388 ratings
score: 105,
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| 7974 |
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Stitches: A Memoir
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4.06 avg rating — 27,822 ratings
score: 104,
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The Doctor's Wife
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Elizabeth Brundage (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 9,402 ratings
score: 104,
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Becalmed
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Normandie Fischer (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 524 ratings
score: 104,
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Any Duchess Will Do (Spindle Cove, #4)
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Tessa Dare (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 29,080 ratings
score: 104,
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A Grave Talent (Kate Martinelli, #1)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 7,952 ratings
score: 104,
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The Problem with Forever
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 65,016 ratings
score: 104,
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Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
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Laura Thalassa (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 123,548 ratings
score: 104,
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All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 30,947 ratings
score: 104,
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| 7982 |
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Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners, #3)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 20,650 ratings
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| 7983 |
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Perfect (Paradise, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 25,328 ratings
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| 7983 |
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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 29,917 ratings
score: 102,
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| 7985 |
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The Caveman's Valentine
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George Dawes Green (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 911 ratings
score: 101,
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| 7985 |
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Nausea
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3.93 avg rating — 136,339 ratings
score: 101,
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| 7987 |
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Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
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Stephanie Klein (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 3,378 ratings
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| 7987 |
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The Fight For Golden Dawn
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Jessie Terwilliger (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Bellini Madonna
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2.63 avg rating — 188 ratings
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| 7987 |
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Imaginary Friends
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3.61 avg rating — 517 ratings
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| 7987 |
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The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus: Book I
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Michael Bialys (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
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| 7987 |
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Confidential Communications
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J.R. Reardon (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 85 ratings
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| 7987 |
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Sound + Noise
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Curtis Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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La Cucaracha
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| 7987 |
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Get to the Table
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Shamielle Alston (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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| 7987 |
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Must've Done Something Good
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Cheryl Cory (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 342 ratings
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| 7987 |
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The Enemy Within
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Sheila L. Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 100,
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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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