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Unputdownables
These books are some of those books which you ought to read in one sitting.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,141,737 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,668,380 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,714,800 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,486,536 ratings
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,355,599 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,033,277 ratings
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,166,507 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,381,354 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,097,862 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,585,805 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,732,836 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,715,924 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,371,778 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,395,084 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 974,467 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,049,091 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 768,566 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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M.K. Asante (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 3,066 ratings
score: 882,
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Deception Point
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 693,534 ratings
score: 863,
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,695,834 ratings
score: 846,
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’Salem’s Lot
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 641,353 ratings
score: 818,
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,223,876 ratings
score: 752,
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,819,466 ratings
score: 751,
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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 643,217 ratings
score: 742,
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,626,827 ratings
score: 737,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,822,947 ratings
score: 712,
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,819,863 ratings
score: 677,
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7 people voted
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,661,308 ratings
score: 670,
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And Then There Were None
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4.28 avg rating — 1,560,428 ratings
score: 665,
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8 people voted
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,340,853 ratings
score: 664,
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Digital Fortress
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 659,463 ratings
score: 656,
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,463,240 ratings
score: 650,
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,309,002 ratings
score: 552,
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6 people voted
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,402,001 ratings
score: 549,
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6 people voted
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,247,778 ratings
score: 544,
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Veronika Decides to Die
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 238,547 ratings
score: 487,
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5 people voted
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The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,816,989 ratings
score: 479,
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5 people voted
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Calico Jack in your Garden
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 465,
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5 people voted
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 821,743 ratings
score: 463,
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5 people voted
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 967,196 ratings
score: 461,
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5 people voted
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Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 460,
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5 people voted
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,750,062 ratings
score: 459,
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5 people voted
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Absolute Power
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 112,618 ratings
score: 452,
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5 people voted
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,445,143 ratings
score: 443,
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5 people voted
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,613,950 ratings
score: 443,
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5 people voted
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 385,997 ratings
score: 409,
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5 people voted
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Finding Out A Novel
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Sheryn MacMunn (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 895 ratings
score: 398,
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4 people voted
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Silence Of The Lambs
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4.25 avg rating — 580,506 ratings
score: 390,
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4 people voted
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 637,187 ratings
score: 390,
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5 people voted
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Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
score: 385,
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4 people voted
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Howson's Choice
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4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 384,
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4 people voted
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,075,127 ratings
score: 383,
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4 people voted
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Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 382,
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4 people voted
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,230 ratings
score: 381,
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4 people voted
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Mysteria: A book of spooky and fantastic tales
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4.65 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 380,
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4 people voted
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The Key to Rebecca
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 42,348 ratings
score: 376,
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4 people voted
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Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 904,695 ratings
score: 376,
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4 people voted
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The Journal of Dora Damage
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3.56 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
score: 372,
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4 people voted
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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3.66 avg rating — 104,511 ratings
score: 367,
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,175,722 ratings
score: 367,
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 455,661 ratings
score: 367,
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5 people voted
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Dogshit Saved My Life
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 367,
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4 people voted
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 363,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,770,482 ratings
score: 356,
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4 people voted
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Nobody Asked Me, But ....
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 350,
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4 people voted
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Misery
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 822,471 ratings
score: 344,
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 474,884 ratings
score: 318,
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 192,953 ratings
score: 312,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,282,440 ratings
score: 295,
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3 people voted
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 233,636 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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Bobby's Girl
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 481,988 ratings
score: 288,
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Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 58,640 ratings
score: 287,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,559 ratings
score: 287,
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Zorro's Last Stand
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Mark Shearman (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 286,
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 658,785 ratings
score: 285,
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Gunfight At The Old Leake Canal
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 285,
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3 people voted
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 431,428 ratings
score: 284,
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 283,
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Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 964,848 ratings
score: 282,
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2 States: The Story of My Marriage
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3.44 avg rating — 97,973 ratings
score: 280,
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The Starbirth Assignment: Shifter (Starbirth, #1)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 278,
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 342,324 ratings
score: 277,
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The Shifter Dimension (Starbirth, #2)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 275,
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Gunpowder Soup
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 274,
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Shadow Team GB (Starbirth, #3)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 106 ratings
score: 271,
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The Prince of Tides
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4.26 avg rating — 214,553 ratings
score: 270,
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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,842,196 ratings
score: 263,
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The Shadow of the Wind
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4.30 avg rating — 702,755 ratings
score: 262,
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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 787,150 ratings
score: 260,
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 441,179 ratings
score: 254,
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,267,474 ratings
score: 252,
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 744,407 ratings
score: 250,
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 719,956 ratings
score: 250,
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
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4.03 avg rating — 192,735 ratings
score: 250,
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The Goldfinch
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3.96 avg rating — 1,018,054 ratings
score: 240,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,152 ratings
score: 235,
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X (Kinsey Millhone, #24)
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3.92 avg rating — 37,357 ratings
score: 234,
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Full Dark, No Stars
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 116,297 ratings
score: 230,
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My Brother Michael
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4.03 avg rating — 6,538 ratings
score: 228,
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Unless it is a very tiny book, like 100 pages I could NOT possibly read it in one sitting! I read very slow in order to savor most times. To me an unputdownable book is one that has so much suspense that I simply must know what happens next. I seem to remember The Key to Rebecca being like that.
Some of my unputdownables are due to their length but others are due to the way that their plot accelerates and draws you in. While I do like the ones that I've voted for, these are NOT necessarily my favorite books. Some longer books are eminently interrupt-able and yet are great for savoring.
Some of the ones here tend to be fast food for the soul rather than more nourishing fare.
There were a couple here that I considered too good to read in a single sitting. To Kill a Mockingbird was one. There should be time to think and digest in order to appreciate it properly. Lots of the suspense titles, and for sure, Dame Agatha...excellent for this!
Donna wrote: "There were a couple here that I considered too good to read in a single sitting. To Kill a Mockingbird was one. There should be time to think and digest in order to appreciate it properly. Lots of ..."I agree but it would be impossible for me to read 95% of these in one sitting! Why would a person do that unless the book is very short?
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