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Some authors don't hit it big with their debut. But this means that their early books, before their talent was recognized, have become highly sought-after. This list is a compilation of some notable ones. I will try to keep entires to this list to ones with less than 35,000 votes.
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Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
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3.57 avg rating — 32,478 ratings
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The Gremlins
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Goodbye, Columbus
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3.86 avg rating — 21,531 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Regress
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3.86 avg rating — 10,643 ratings
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Love and Freindship
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3.52 avg rating — 9,415 ratings
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Poor Folk
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3.77 avg rating — 37,622 ratings
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Burmese Days
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3.87 avg rating — 31,651 ratings
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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3.94 avg rating — 6,952 ratings
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A Happy Death
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3.81 avg rating — 24,332 ratings
score: 156,
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A Song for Lya
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3.99 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
score: 154,
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With Shuddering Fall
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3.11 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Night and Day
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3.76 avg rating — 9,983 ratings
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Crome Yellow
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3.42 avg rating — 8,824 ratings
score: 129,
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The Pocket Book of Boners: An Omnibus of School Boy Howlers and Unconscious Humor
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Dr. Seuss (Illustrator)
3.97 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 125,
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
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3.56 avg rating — 5,959 ratings
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
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3.90 avg rating — 9,463 ratings
score: 105,
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The Orchard Keeper
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3.51 avg rating — 12,686 ratings
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The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
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4.14 avg rating — 4,601 ratings
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Desperate Remedies
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3.78 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Desperadoes
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3.62 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Wilkins' Tooth
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3.60 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
score: 99,
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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3.47 avg rating — 6,300 ratings
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A Clergyman's Daughter
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3.54 avg rating — 11,418 ratings
score: 98,
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The Loving Spirit
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3.82 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
score: 98,
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The Dragon in the Sea
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3.54 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
score: 97,
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The Virgin Blue
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 34,202 ratings
score: 97,
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LaRose
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3.91 avg rating — 24,458 ratings
score: 96,
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Fludd
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3.57 avg rating — 5,561 ratings
score: 96,
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Stir-Fry
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
score: 95,
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Mary
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3.71 avg rating — 8,749 ratings
score: 94,
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My Lover's Lover
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 6,409 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Female of the Species
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 813 ratings
score: 93,
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Américana
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3.40 avg rating — 6,390 ratings
score: 92,
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Tim
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3.86 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
score: 92,
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Nothing But the Night
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3.22 avg rating — 3,810 ratings
score: 91,
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Basil
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3.70 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
score: 91,
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Chamber Music
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3.45 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
score: 90,
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Stephen Hero
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3.77 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
score: 89,
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Solar Lottery
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3.50 avg rating — 5,164 ratings
score: 88,
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The World Jones Made
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3.65 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
score: 87,
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The Man Who Japed
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3.59 avg rating — 3,192 ratings
score: 86,
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The Cosmic Puppets
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3.48 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
score: 85,
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Eye in the Sky
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3.75 avg rating — 6,718 ratings
score: 84,
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Rocket Ship Galileo
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3.73 avg rating — 8,283 ratings
score: 83,
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Beyond This Horizon
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3.68 avg rating — 5,170 ratings
score: 82,
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Space Cadet
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3.85 avg rating — 9,314 ratings
score: 81,
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Red Planet
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3.83 avg rating — 10,876 ratings
score: 80,
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Sixth Column
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3.66 avg rating — 5,746 ratings
score: 79,
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Against the Fall of Night
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3.96 avg rating — 4,967 ratings
score: 78,
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Prelude to Space
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3.59 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
score: 77,
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The Sands of Mars
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3.76 avg rating — 4,965 ratings
score: 76,
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Człowiek z Marsa
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3.33 avg rating — 366 ratings
score: 75,
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Dying of the Light
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3.56 avg rating — 7,681 ratings
score: 72,
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Nightflyers
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3.49 avg rating — 10,300 ratings
score: 71,
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The Deep
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3.46 avg rating — 745 ratings
score: 70,
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Beasts
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3.55 avg rating — 646 ratings
score: 69,
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Engine Summer
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score: 68,
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The Wind from Nowhere
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3.24 avg rating — 944 ratings
score: 67,
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan Trilogy #1-3)
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score: 66,
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The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 15,823 ratings
score: 65,
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Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
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4.13 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
score: 64,
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The Green Odyssey
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3.53 avg rating — 721 ratings
score: 63,
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Flesh
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3.32 avg rating — 601 ratings
score: 62,
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A Woman a Day
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3.15 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 61,
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The Lovers
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3.56 avg rating — 902 ratings
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The Wonderful Visit
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3.75 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Operation Ares
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2.73 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Immortality, Inc.
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3.76 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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The Man in the Water
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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Shooting Party
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3.91 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
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Platonov
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3.68 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Ivanov (Plays for Performance Series)
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3.81 avg rating — 3,237 ratings
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Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen
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3.26 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Skating Rink
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3.68 avg rating — 5,482 ratings
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
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3.90 avg rating — 7,515 ratings
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Soldiers' Pay
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3.42 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Mosquitoes
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3.11 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
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Watch and Ward
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3.20 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Roderick Hudson
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3.70 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Under the Black Ensign
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3.44 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Buckskin Brigades
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3.94 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Antic Hay
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3.41 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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The Town and the City
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3.92 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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盗賊 [Tōzoku]
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A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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Odds On
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John Lange (Pseudonym)
3.59 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
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Scratch One
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3.66 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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The Voyage Out
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3.75 avg rating — 12,065 ratings
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The Poorhouse Fair
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3.25 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Letting Go
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3.73 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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Slave Ship
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3.11 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Squeeze Play
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3.48 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Invention of Solitude
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Another Roadside Attraction
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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3.63 avg rating — 29,476 ratings
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The Beautifull Cassandra (Penguin Little Black Classics, #33)
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3.35 avg rating — 4,671 ratings
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The Narrative of John Smith
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The Cossacks
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3.80 avg rating — 10,059 ratings
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