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To Kill a Mockingbird
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1984
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Lord of the Flies
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The Great Gatsby
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Animal Farm
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,769,722 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,749,430 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,818,729 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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Dracula
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,455,512 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,120 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,646 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,165,020 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 637,007 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,274,071 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 818,946 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 220,099 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,486,036 ratings
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 624,685 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,672,555 ratings
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Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 247,266 ratings
score: 545,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,822,077 ratings
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,083,022 ratings
score: 530,
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Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
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4.07 avg rating — 78,619 ratings
score: 530,
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 164,850 ratings
score: 485,
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Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 14,371 ratings
score: 472,
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 331,838 ratings
score: 470,
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Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
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Harriet the Spy
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3.95 avg rating — 100,463 ratings
score: 455,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,346,418 ratings
score: 449,
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,222 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,136,592 ratings
score: 449,
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The Road
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score: 444,
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,397,292 ratings
score: 428,
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 279,692 ratings
score: 416,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,099,726 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 223,605 ratings
score: 381,
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The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,816,680 ratings
score: 381,
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,782 ratings
score: 378,
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 245,724 ratings
score: 377,
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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 199,185 ratings
score: 372,
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The Pendulum has Swung too far
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 372,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,370,693 ratings
score: 371,
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,250,024 ratings
score: 370,
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,247,624 ratings
score: 365,
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The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 71,572 ratings
score: 361,
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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4.12 avg rating — 297,043 ratings
score: 359,
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Prelude to Foundation
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4.16 avg rating — 94,602 ratings
score: 357,
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 379,767 ratings
score: 353,
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Holy Bible: New International Version
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4.63 avg rating — 94,943 ratings
score: 351,
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,150 ratings
score: 350,
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,096,673 ratings
score: 347,
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,766 ratings
score: 343,
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The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, #1)
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score: 343,
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 998,208 ratings
score: 342,
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The White Dragon (The Dragonriders of Pern, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 50,146 ratings
score: 341,
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Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 398,451 ratings
score: 340,
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Accelerando
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 22,048 ratings
score: 338,
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 740,856 ratings
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The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 141,594 ratings
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Field of Dishonor (Honor Harrington, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 22,066 ratings
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On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 48,521 ratings
score: 334,
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Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 61,554 ratings
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Lexicon
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Max Barry (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 39,876 ratings
score: 327,
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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Black Beauty
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,583,996 ratings
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The Humans
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 152,876 ratings
score: 321,
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Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 220,977 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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Things Grak Hates
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Peter J. Story (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 135 ratings
score: 300,
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Journey To Osm
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Sybrina Durant (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Hunting Annabelle
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Wendy Heard (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
score: 299,
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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3.71 avg rating — 23,962 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,575,875 ratings
score: 290,
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Mrs Durham's Girl: And the Stories That She Told
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All the Birds in the Sky
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3.59 avg rating — 48,360 ratings
score: 288,
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Jennie
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4.28 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
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Alexandra Bracken (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 204,586 ratings
score: 287,
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 298,927 ratings
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The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 148,235 ratings
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Replay
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4.15 avg rating — 43,529 ratings
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 70,741 ratings
score: 280,
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The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 23,009 ratings
score: 280,
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 27,258 ratings
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The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 96,347 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,980,329 ratings
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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
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The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 37,760 ratings
score: 276,
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All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4)
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4.08 avg rating — 21,722 ratings
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Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
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Dmitry Glukhovsky (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 73,158 ratings
score: 274,
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Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
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Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 57,055 ratings
score: 273,
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Sphere
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3.83 avg rating — 195,703 ratings
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